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[[category:power structure tools]]An [[engineered provocation]] is a situation wherein a ''provocateur'' entity (typically acting on behalf of a country) carefully goads a ''mark'' (typically acting on behalf of another country) into making an overt attack on the provocateur – or into taking action which the provocateur can ''claim'' is an attack – and thereby publicly justify more intensive hostilities against the mark. It is basically an inter-governmental [[frameup]]. | [[category:power structure tools]]An [[engineered provocation]] is a situation wherein a ''provocateur'' entity (typically acting on behalf of a country) carefully goads a ''mark'' (typically acting on behalf of another country) into making an overt attack on the provocateur – or into taking action which the provocateur can ''claim'' is an attack – and thereby publicly justify more intensive hostilities against the mark. It is basically an inter-governmental [[frameup]]. | ||
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| + | [[False flag]] attacks are often used for the same purpose as [[engineered provocation]]; when used for this purpose, a false flag attack is one extreme of the [[engineered provocation]] spectrum in that the mark does not actually have to do anything in order to be blamed for the attack. | ||
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| + | At the other end of the spectrum would be situations where the provocateur deliberately sets up a tempting target and allows lives to be lost in the service of inflaming public opinion, but does not otherwise misinterpret the mark's actions or participate in the attack. Examples of this variety include: | ||
| + | * the [[attack on Pearl Harbor]], which provided the public motivation for the {{USA}} to enter [[World War II]] | ||
| + | * the [[9/11 attacks]], which provided sufficient public motivation for the [[US invasion of Iraq]] and the disastrous [[US occupation of Iraq|occupation]] which followed | ||
===Ethical Proposal=== | ===Ethical Proposal=== | ||
'''From [[User:Woozle|Woozle]]''': | '''From [[User:Woozle|Woozle]]''': | ||
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The engineered provocation of [[9/11]], which itself was the ''inspiration'' for the creation of many significant political and ethical venues on the Internet, will need to be looked at as a special case – especially since many key issues of fact have not yet been resolved. | The engineered provocation of [[9/11]], which itself was the ''inspiration'' for the creation of many significant political and ethical venues on the Internet, will need to be looked at as a special case – especially since many key issues of fact have not yet been resolved. | ||
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Revision as of 00:41, 11 January 2008
Overview
An engineered provocation is a situation wherein a provocateur entity (typically acting on behalf of a country) carefully goads a mark (typically acting on behalf of another country) into making an overt attack on the provocateur – or into taking action which the provocateur can claim is an attack – and thereby publicly justify more intensive hostilities against the mark. It is basically an inter-governmental frameup.
Related Items
False flag attacks are often used for the same purpose as engineered provocation; when used for this purpose, a false flag attack is one extreme of the engineered provocation spectrum in that the mark does not actually have to do anything in order to be blamed for the attack.
At the other end of the spectrum would be situations where the provocateur deliberately sets up a tempting target and allows lives to be lost in the service of inflaming public opinion, but does not otherwise misinterpret the mark's actions or participate in the attack. Examples of this variety include:
- the attack on Pearl Harbor, which provided the public motivation for the United States to enter World War II
- the 9/11 attacks, which provided sufficient public motivation for the US invasion of Iraq and the disastrous occupation which followed
Ethical Proposal
From Woozle:
While this sort of brute-force manipulation of public opinion may have been a necessary evil in the days of slow and expensive telecommunications, it should no longer be needed in an era when the case for war can be presented to the entire country in painstaking detail and a national consensus built by something more closely approaching rational debate.
I propose that acts of engineered provocation prior to the Internet age be regarded as a necessary evil in general – though particular circumstances may override this consideration – but that such acts after the advent of widespread blogging and political discussion be treated more like crimes against humanity.
The engineered provocation of 9/11, which itself was the inspiration for the creation of many significant political and ethical venues on the Internet, will need to be looked at as a special case – especially since many key issues of fact have not yet been resolved.
Links
Filed Links
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