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The Suicide Bomber : PICTURA – 18+
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AN EXTRACT FROM A DISCUSSION
SUICIDE BOMBERS
(CI) (CIII) (CV)
Welcome
We are facing what can only be described as unmitigated atrocity perpetrated via a very particular compelling force, the latter which is understood and commandeered by makers of terrorists. The results are that an extremely serious threat and catastrophically bad outcome is growing in momentum. The following conversation ‘Suicide Bomber’ is intended as a supplement to the articles and papers which appear in the Secret Intelligence Service Counter-Terrorism Library.
In presenting this way, it becomes possible in differing degrees of association, to hold the attention of the reader. If you like, the association involves a revealing and a wander within the personalities of the three participants. Thereby disassembling, to an extent, the distance and the formality that can pervade. It is useful to bring together perspectives in a somewhat easy/unstructured way and discuss these through question asking and through examining personal feelings. In addition, while we are engaging in analysis (we are charged with this) it becomes more apparent how certain conclusions are arrived at, agreed upon and dismissed.
Do stay with us as it proceeds and in this, how the presentation changes through time.
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“They, the extremists, could never be what we are. They are a bunch of damned cut-throats, intent on destruction and death, a scar upon history’s course and other than for being that, have no meaning whatsoever.” Stephen Wyndham-Lewis
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(CV) The objective being not to merely describe what a suicide bomber is and how anathema to the values we live by their actions are to us, but to explore issues from; where we are, how we feel, to compare this with how others in society become changed/ empowered, what are the constituent social/interpersonal forces at play that creates the divide.
(CI) Those persons becoming empowered and those responsible for the process is not the same thing as our journey to where we are, not at all.
(CV) I agree, and I know this is covered in the Counter-Terrorism Library material but I thought we might add something of our own feelings regarding who we are, our extent of difference.
(CI) By our own, you mean looking at it from here and saying where or what here is? It’s make-up, our make-up?
(CV) Can I just say all are potential victims of terrorist acts, irrespective of their place in society, our society. There is bestowed a massive responsibility to ensure the safety of the whole of society.
(CIII) I know. What about your place with regard to others though, I mean we aren’t wealthy, we’re pretty poor in comparison to most but this is irrelevant in the sense that the awareness of the dangers and the way these dangers are dealt with sets us apart.
(CV) Why bring up the subject of wealth?
(CIII) Because wealth/success/lifestyle is synonymous with an inherent attribute of the democratic system which is freedom and wherever individuals appear on the scale makes no difference in respect of the threat they are facing. I mentioned us because it’s not a factor, we’re set apart.
(CI) I’m not set apart.
(CIII) OK
(CI) It’s the most important thing of all. I live in the same society that is the one protected. I don’t need to see it the way you describe.
(CIII) What way do you see it then?
(CI) As very specific in my connection to certain things such as who I am part of, my allegiance and its makeup. It’s something that holds a particular history, an ethos. After we had dinner I was thinking how the country I am bound with is very complex but that the only part of that complexity that matters is what I said, my duty and this is very confined. There is not the necessity to examine what I don’t have, how others might appear better off than I am, or whatever. It’s just not relevant.
(CV) Allegiance and morality.
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(CI) It’s a morality that we are imbued with, our nature. Allegiance is really the unbreakable bond and we have as our basic driving force this moral sense of right and wrong living within this bond. We see things in a very specific way, feel in a very specific manner, our actions are dictated accordingly.
(CV) Do you think it’s a civilization issue, basically down to that?
(CI) Yes it is, but there are those contrary and it only takes one to shift into a very different cultural place and which is hostile to us and is compelled to subject us to atrocity. There are those who are born here and become Jihadists. You have to look at the compulsion, the actual process of adherence, the physical and mental changes. The whole journey, because as we’ve said before, if you can isolate the change process you can try and build something into the system that prevents it from ever becoming the case. My knowing the fullness of my own place is very useful in this respect.
(C-V) Describe your own place. Paint a portrait of it, describe the life within.
(C-I) How much time do we have? The best way might be to say how I feel, which can be described as; ‘this place is who I am’, – ‘the people who trust me and to whom I hold respect to the absolute.’ In it’s entirety this is what I am. The place is not only the ground, unchanging, but our history and within this, like I said there are those who I serve without forethought.”
(C-III) Tally ho!
(C-V) Internalizing is an interesting process and you see it in action quite often. Do you think?
(C-I) It depends on the context and what is internalized. We’ve spoken a great deal about esprit de corps. My being the qualities of those whom I respect is not the same as someone using the process for exploitation, to attain an end that is psycho-pathological in nature. Coaxing a person to become a suicide bomber is, in its entirety, a malevolent morality. We see it that way from here because that is what it is. If there are overlaps in the mental processes taking place then that’s nothing to do with the content of the overlap.
(C-III) ****, I agree with what you are saying. I have a copy of something you wrote for a different discussion, on leaders. I think it’s relevant here. Can I refer to it?”
(C-I) Please do.
(C-III) I came ‘armed’ because of the topic of suicide bombers and I remembered to bring this:
Leadership; One can say that the feelings that personnel experience for their leader are invariably uncertain because followers may love their leader, they may desire protection and support, but they can also dislike and envy the leader. It is so.
Sigmund Freud’s idea of the functioning of the group (our Unit) stresses the major importance of the leader (Commander).
Groups that are without a leader are highly ephemeral arrangements or they are even led by an invisible symbolic leader. It is the leader that does bind a group, through the position that he or she occupies in the ‘unconscious life’ of the group. For example with regard to the Armed Forces, Freud would posit that members of the ‘Unit’ experience ‘ intense emotional ties’ to the leader who is the Commander) and importantly to each other. The influence of unconscious dynamics within the Unit is illustrated with the example of felt anxiety in a battle situation. If the Unit Commander falls, group members can forsake the very relatedness that brought them together, as well as the task of battle, thus as a result begin to lose control.
It is that the shared emotional experience of Unit members rests upon a shared identification with, and idealization of the leader. Each Unit member identifies with the leader and thus each individual identifies with all other Unit members, who share the same relationship to the leader as themselves. This leads to a definition of ‘Unit’ which has at its core the shared unconscious experience of Unit members.
“Think of it this way, that Units represent a unique type of love bond, in which the sexual element has been replaced by an emotional attachment, one in which sexual energy is redirected into social ties. Thus individuals do sacrifice their uniqueness and individuality, in return for the stability of union and group power. In their relationships to their Commanders, personnel sacrifice their independence for that of protection, order and authority. The Unit is that of an omnipotent leader who embodies the qualities of the feared father whose will and power is of the unquestionable.”
You see this process in operation among the group and the leader’s desire – the end result is that of martyrs. So there is overlap with how you are, but as you say, the content of the process is altogether for a different reason, it’s the opposite end – our antithesis.
(C-V) Perhaps we should consider the nature of the compulsion, what it is. I think it’s an overwhelming urge created by a significant other person and in this, a mental state that fuels a course of action. The mental state becomes overwhelming, – of powerful feelings akin to an induced euphoria. The course of action is a vehicle for the certainty the significant other has induced, in this case that Jihad – killing others and forfeiting one’s life in the process is a road to a perfect state. It sounds ridiculous, I know. You can wonder about the socio economic origin, whether some are more susceptible and why, but there is no set pattern. It’s not a civilization issue either because there are those born and nurtured in our society and who fall into the influence of those eager to plant this, what is the most heinous course of events into minds.
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(C-III) Becoming part of a group and becoming a suicide bomber is not altogether the same thing. There is a bonding issue involved, finding home, a sense of support that is reinforced and so on. But it takes very calculating and purposeful intentions further down the line to foster the idea and it be taken up. Those who urge their cohorts in this direction are very adept, unfortunately and are well aware of the process involved.
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(C-V) I agree. For a person to move along the road to where there is the absolute conviction that what they are going to do is the right thing. All of the factors have been planted. Like you say, it’s heinous at the extreme of extremes. I mean to not be concerned about hurting and killing others and to hold a conviction that overrides this. In addition, that suicide has merit too. Bizarre, but it’s a factor we have to examine because it constitutes a real threat.
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(C-III) Some would say our dealing at this level, looking at the process involved and at negating/eliminating it is fine, but it has to be in conjunction with requisite action. There has to be vigilance, this is considerable because as we’ve seen, you don’t see it coming. If there is a will there is a way, and what an indictment of the nature of this . . .humanity. . .more inhumanity, I think. They don’t make a secret of their intentions.
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(C-I) Believing something to be true is what the human mind facilitates, the conjuring of images and feelings, descriptions via convoluted use of language, that conjure what is quite literally out of this world, yet there is this certainty that it’s all true – because it applies to the person or persons concerned.
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(C-III) I would add that the language – the pictures and their meanings make what is out of this world and is visualized in earthly terms as an embrace of sorts. This way the irrational becomes rational, the embrace real.
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(C-I) It’s all true and the act of ridding of the objects of hatred – those who these clever techniques have defined as such. and the person subsequently feels there is a necessary reason to attack them.
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(C-V) Do you think suicide has to involve unique structural, brain characteristics? I ask because I have notes on MRI scans of people feeling hatred toward others but what does this tell us? That there is an underlying neural event? There is for whatever is felt and therefore it’s not helpful in analyzing the actual compulsion to kill others and oneself and as far as we are concerned, developing a strategy for preventing it.
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(C-I) Some would point to a uniquely abnormal state being the case, a severe mental illness, others would throw in the word evil – but that’s not sufficiently useful.
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(C-III) You have to remember there is a process of nurturing, and those who procure, entice, instruct – the implanters and reinforcers of the compulsion are not usually the ones carrying out the act, nor are those who provide the means. The point being that the word evil possibly can be applied, but better a form of calculatingly malevolent intent that becomes sown/ impregnated into the conscious state and built on. So where are we? It’s good to throw ideas around.
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(C-V) I was just thinking about the use of propaganda and how it creates the presence, or the living stage for what is to follow. You can create a whole world with propaganda, even one filled with nonsense as you know and enable those who are influenced to live inside it and never step out. If you keep it all alive by feeding it, there will be those who can be manipulated quite easily via the use of ques, often emotional.
(C-I) Let’s work on this because those we are up against, the militants, the Islamic State are adept in the art of Psyop, I’m referring to psychological planned activities, with foreign – meaning us though not confined to us, but anyone hostile, friendly or neutral audience in order to influence their attitudes and behavior in a favorable direction for achieving their political and military goals. As I said, they are very adept at this.
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(C-III) It’s interesting to see how, with the advent of the Internet’s power and versatility it has been commandeered quite literally for this purpose. It’s the ideal vehicle, unfortunately for tens of thousands of Jihadist websites carrying influential material.
And you know, it becomes very clear what their objectives are. I mention this because they don’t make them a secret as we’ve said. Whereas the citizen is invariably not aware to the extent they should be. You can’t blame people if they choose to ignore certain signs which are so far removed from their everyday world.
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(C-I) The propaganda is intended to disturb the everyday world, they propagand shock and awe, – beheadings, killing of any and all who are not the same. This must have import however much someone tries to ignore it.
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(C-III) Mass communication, shock and awe and its consistency – how can a citizen defend against it? I don’t think they can. I think there is a fear response but it’s displaced by something else because if the fear shows then the terrorists have been successful.
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(C-V) I agree, but only partially. Success in their psychological endeavor being consciously thwarted is not the reason for being in a state of ignorance. I will add that complacency or what appears as so, is not the case for those who become sympathizers and support the terrorists. This is what we need to look at because it’s happening, as you are well aware. Those who you’d sensibly least expect can begin harboring certain perceptions of the world which are at extreme odds with the one they have grown up with. It happened this week but I won’t go into the details.
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(C-I) There is an overwhelming sense of malevolent power in the shock and awe, it should rightfully paralyze most but when this does the opposite, make a viewer see the way to doing the same and with impunity so it would seem, this a very severe problem.
It is, so why, when there is the gruesome and abhorrent act of beheading a person preformed to a mass audience, there are those who want to do it? Is it different with the suicide bomber, the latter involving losing one’s life in the process?
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(C-III) There are significant differences; the first is an appeal to instinct the second to that with a concocted certainty of salvation attached. As we said.
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(C-V) When you say an appeal to instinct what do you mean?
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(C-I) I’ll answer that, but I think first we should talk more about the psyops being waged against us. When you see the militant propaganda in action you can understand how its objective touches some people by its intended eroding of their moral and a replacing of it with a high degree of enthusiasm and self confidence. It questions the validity of who the target thinks they are. If you asked a sample group on the high street the question; who are we? Do you think the answers would contrast dramatically with the confident propaganda? In this propaganda are sown seeds of self-doubting, feelings of non worth, exploitation of perceived weaknesses that some take up. It doesn’t stop at that because the propaganda content also is very manipulative in that it fosters feelings of anxiety which those affected have difficulty finding a solution, other than from the source . . . of the propaganda.
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(C-III) Do you think this is the suicide bomber’s rite of passage during the early stages, I mean via an entry into the new group, where those feelings of self doubt that were sown, as you say, become discarded and from then on, it becomes a straight road to martyrdom?
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(C-I) Yes. The problem is created and a solution to it is waiting around the corner. Let me add that the psyops programs overwhelm by construct onslaught. It’s not a subtle process is what I mean.
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(C-III) I’m curious about the question; who are we? – if offered to a random sample, as you just said. Because someone has an issue articulating an answer does not mean they are absent of feeling. “I feel something but can’t express it.” I suppose it depends who you ask.
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(C-I) It’s interesting in the context we are discussing because the ones in the random sample could well be the target for a suicide bomber, but this is not something they carry with them as a preoccupation. Are we saying it should be?
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(C-III) It depends on the nature and extent of that awareness, you can’t have a population of acutely paranoid people, it’s not healthy. Even though there are those planning to execute acts of terror lurking not so far away.
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(C-I) When you say not far away, I don’t just see in close physicality, I mean living next door or wherever, I see what is close, far away and anywhere in between at the same time.
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(C-III) You’re just paranoid.
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(C-I) Yes, I have to be. It’s about the instantaneous/real time means of communication we mentioned already. People are made to feel close even though they physically aren’t. I’ve seen the extent and depth of the comfort that the medium makes and continues making. Also and this is why I mentioned money.
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(C-III) Money?
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(C-I) It’s part of the security package and I don’t mean national security. I’m referring to personal security. Although I have to say there are those peddling their services under the guise of national security/intelligence and ought to be ashamed of themselves, but that’s a different subject. Where was I?
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(C-III) I think you were referring to financing of the activities – what is seen to evolve from the vast sums of money the militants are bestowed with. What does evolve is the whole psyops effort and its content. Because it’s vast, the financing, it carries with it a very particular character.
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(C-V) The demoralized self-doubters think they are becoming part of a multi-national corporation?
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(C-III) They are in point of fact.
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(C-I) And I was just thinking of Churchill’s remark, “What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone?” The problem is that it’s turned back upon us, we point this and it comes back not as merely counter-propaganda, but as though we hadn’t said anything/suggested it in the first place.
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(C-III) I see what you mean but can’t they take all that is valuable to us and after applying it to themselves – send it back in the form of colorful, energetic, ambitious, confident propaganda?
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(C-I) Yes, which is why I mentioned those who are peddling intelligence information for profit. People should be doing something through what is other than profit motive, because it makes the system stronger. Are we moving off target?
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(C-III) Perhaps, though it’s useful to look at ourselves as a whole and ponder over motives. I think you wanted to say something about instinct.
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(C-I) Do you think the driving force, now let me think of a better description, the urge to kill and in this urge the desire to hurt others irrespective, lives within all human beings, some find home doing just that while others shift the urge to other pursuits, until the parameters are moved, then its a killing time?
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(C-III) You’ve obviously simplified it. And it’s not an easy question to answer concisely. The urge to kill can’t be a universal inclination of one intensity. It has to be dynamic. The instinct – thanatos- does manifest as a drive and which you see at play through many mediums and not all people respond alike. Look at the film industry and how violence has become big business. The experience of humiliating, torture, the inflicting of agonizing death has top billing. Some question why it’s there but the answer is obvious.
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(C-I) With regard to a potential suicide bomber, the latent instinct, the unfortunate and essentially human instinct, is provided with a vehicle for its realization – action in the real world. And, I have to ask you the question and it’s kind of important; are you suggesting that we set the precedent / set the ball rolling by providing fantasy killing in films to the extent you just described?
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(C-III) That’s a valid question and it’s forced to play a part and we ought talk about that a little more, but I want to refer to something Bertrand Russel alluded to at the outbreak of WWI. He was puzzled by the war euphoria being exhibited on the streets and by masses of people who prior had never, as far as he was witness, been inclined to go to war. The point is that there were no films of the ‘slasher’ nature then.
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(C-I) So, that gives credence to Freud’s thesis in Civilization and Its Discontents, where he laid out a compelling portrait of the nature of humanity
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(C-III) The instinct being a facet of human nature per se?
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(C-I) Yes.
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(C-III) Hmmm. It’s a disturbing thought, but there are possibilities we can suggest whereby there is a way to circumnavigate the process, the irrevocable desire – the instinct to kill.
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(C-I) Ways to circumnavigate?
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(C-III) Yes. Let me think about this more because I think we’re missing something out.
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(C-V) I would like to add something.
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(C-III) Please do.
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(C-V) Thank you. It is an odd state of affairs when the status of ‘mankind’ as is the assertion of the collective that holds, when the psychology to which we appeal holds for only a partial application to it. Some say it does not, for reasoning known to them but it’s not so clear cut, that is, when the status of acts and the compulsions that presuppose their justification, can only be psycho-pathological in the extreme , which are antithetical to ‘our’ notions of decency … yet elsewhere are felt in their fullness of expression in the opposite polarity. Of course, in our society there are residual effects here and there which come to light but we stop short of utter disregard for life….do we not? Perhaps those who commit atrocity and ensconce in same mind states among others who justify it too really are more than psychologically different. Perhaps they are more human and we…less? Or perhaps we don’t really know the answer, only live in toleration? Whatever, I say we are not the same as many are and the reasons for saying so are not difficult to see, but the etiology of precisely why lives in a domain we are yet to discover and elucidate. Meanwhile the sickest and most cruel acts will continue and be entertainment for those same and the norm for ‘there’ and you know to where I refer.
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(C-I) That’s really good.
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(C-III) But would you call Russell’s observations of war hysteria ‘residual effects, here and there?’ – As you just posited.
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(C-V) No. How many pogroms, you have to ask, how many conflicts? How many to die? All? In considering religious beliefs, in these are bound the notions: sin, love, hatred, persecution…these are mere gestures…..’In order to see these for what they be one must stand aloof and ne’er enter the fraye in thy word nor thy deed’. What I’m getting at is the human mind, it moves toward being ‘transcendent‘, as being ‘connected to the divine‘, it moves toward intolerances of those seen as different in myriad respects. The thoughts that color are those born by the forefathers of doctrines that were so very seductive.
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(C-I) That’s more relevant to the suicide bomber issue than is Russell’s puzzlement, I think. Fantastic expositions, vain opinions, the substance of the seductive belief system.
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(C-III) Now we have the bomber in our sights again, do you think the issue of suicide can’t be articulated at all, that the process of induction/indoctrination into Jihad holds the same elements; some thinking its for them and is, some thinking it’s for them and learning later, some never thinking it’s for them – the fact of non survival, which is unique to the bomber scenario does not hold these facets because there is no seeing beyond the act. But you can’t see beyond the act, to try is nonsensical.
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(C-I) But do see beyond it, in a mind made fantasy – are you saying that they really don’t, the chances of continuing on, as they apply in varying degrees to other pursuit, for want of a better word, is really an impossible domain to enter and somewhere within this impossibility resides ‘courage’ – again for want of a better word.
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(C-III) I’ll have to think about that – the impossibility to make a concept that is connected to sense being somehow embraced in the same way that what’s likely to happen tomorrow and the day after is embraced. It’s really very difficult to fathom what it is that constitutes the final goodbye.
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(C-I) That is one facet, but the reality of knowing that one’s action is going to kill and maim many others is not the same stuff, is it?
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(C-III) I agree. They know precisely what the outcome and sheer extent of their actions are going to be.
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(C-I) Going back to what we were saying about instinct and the propensity for violent acts having its root in the instinct to kill which is latent in all human beings – and which we haven’t fully endorsed yet, here is something I jotted down in the mess hall;
‘Perhaps, it is that a principle is such that it resides within social protocol and the instincts that are the chariots of thought and of behavior seek opportunities and when they come out to race (when protocols change) it is this aspect of human character that in fact never changes.’
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(C-III) So you are endorsing it – with qualification obviously.
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(C-I) I said ‘perhaps’.
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(C-III) Clever!
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(C-I) Thank you. I wrote more, what do you think to this; words can be used in any contrive, any conjuration of conjecture and this is all it can ever be and it produces the pictures, the transient lamentations to which all refer. Those who by doing this prod at the limitation which is human life with the intention of somehow transcending it are merely victims of their emotions. These emotions constitute the social agreed-upons which are; prejudice, intolerance and delusion.
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(C-III) That’s succinct too. You know I’m moving toward the view that when we examine an issue in this way, one that is deadly serious to begin with, it becomes worse to us, more deeply felt, more of a threat.
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(C-I) It’s because you see the gravity of it for what it is and react.
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(C-III) I was of a mind and still am that there is a surreptitious killer wandering, now I am more fearful.
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(C-I) Welcome back everyone. I’ve been reading through a transcript of our discussion which is always a good thing to do as you know because of what can be provoked. After I’d spent a while contemplating there were a few issues that came to mind and these were bound up with some of the questions we were asking.
Firstly; we asked whether there is a collective receptivity for this new form of atrocity propaganda which is pointed at us and finds its target via the international mass-information machine. Does it achieve the latter because the very freedom we uphold also encourages similar forms of atrocity to become manifest – as entertainment? Obviously entertainment is not reality, but we were looking at how its content, its representation of reality, is regarded and psycho-pathologically taken up – why it is and how. Further to this, there is the force of intolerance, prejudice, call it what you like, and which also emanates from this machine. I am suggesting that the freedom to choose and to find one’s own way encourages two things; it encourages free thought and speech and it encourages a sense of there being little to no purpose in life for some. Regarding free speech, I was thinking of how in the United States, especially in southern states, what constitutes hate speech is actually broadcast from evangelical radio stations and with the intention of fostering similar syndromes which live at the core of intolerance.
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Secondly; that though we have laws to protect our citizens (as do the Americans too, of course) it does not detract from the latent propensity to violence and which the kind of hate propaganda and violent entertainment – in conjunction with each other which are running run amok through our free society just have to produce what can only connect with Jihadist propaganda’s message and which is; hatred, intolerance and violent acts.
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(C-III) Wow, there’s something to think about. What degree of difference is there between the religious propaganda and that of the Jihadist? Why is there religious hate speech peddled as free speech, is that what you mean?
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(C-I) You have to remember that segregation in the U.S. didn’t disappear until the mid-sixties and across the south in clusters, is still alive in thought and deed – if you think this aids the human being in a mindset that is one of facilitating receptivity to intolerance, to prejudice and to acts of violence, then all forms of hate speech have to be scrutinized.
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(C-III) They are regarded as terrorist groups too you know, the KKK and the like. But as you say, the same form of hate speech can appear as legitimized.
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(C-I) You also have to look at the fifth columnists that are spreading like wild fire across the Kingdom, and especially here in London. They use the freedom that our society enables and upholds and are abusing it for this very particular agenda, which is Jihad.
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(C-III) That’s very interesting actually because of what you said regarding freedom and some people not having direction, when many avenues are available. They, the Jihadists, are out on the street, engaging in conversions as we’ve observed and the reactions they elicit, such as ‘now I have something to live for’ are highly disturbing.
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(C-I) I agree on that, it is of grave concern.
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(C-V) I’d like to put something in here and it occurred to me while I was watching those on the streets who are preying on the susceptible. Basically, it is that the capacity to invent is what the human brain is adept at doing. Whether the capacity so to do has developed far is not the issue, it is what is held as ‘knowledge’ . Idealization, the mind state consisting of the brain’s ability to create circumstances whereby human beings transcend the world has been the case for millennia. Human beings cannot somehow merely be born and live, they have to be immortal too. They have to be able to thrust their limitation toward where they see little and understand nothing, and then lay claim to have ‘proven’ the conjecture.
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(C-I) I really like that. Human nature won’t let go of its idealization. Human nature won’t let go of its self bestowed status, even given different and competing claims that apply. I’ll say also that humans – people cannot exist collectively together. People spread their own delusions regarding themselves and what their minds make over each other. People kill each other and they very mistakenly assume themselves sanctioned so to do. They are not and they never have been given sanction and this statement is where we are coming from. It is not where the Jihadists and their suicide bombers are coming from.
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(C-III) I get the impression they see themselves as being outside while looking in. That they know something as irrefutable fact that others do not and this prompts them. That’s what you’re saying.
discussion in process, to be continued, please stay with us
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ADDENDUM
(C-I) The following is from my Section : Special Forces in Anti-Terrorism Engagement. It’s a general alert for spotting the suicide bomber. Here it is;
Operational Field Skills. Suicide bombers – How to identify
One of the main objectives of terrorists – is to blend in and become invisible. This is why it is extremely difficult to identify the bomber. Even trained staff can not always distinguish ordinary citizens from criminals. But still, the person who decided to blow themselves up, there are a number of features for which he/she can be identified.
Usually suicide bombers do not blow themselves up in the cities in which they live. Therefore, the main feature of these people – is poor orientation in the city. You can also note that the people who decided to kill themselves, often poorly speak the language of the country in which they are located. Note; under the suspicion of the authorities are always visitors.
To kill themselves and many innocent people – is a task quite difficult. Therefore, is often consumed narcotic drugs, suicide bombers, to decide on this, such a desperate step. If you met a man/woman whose eyes are clouded, do not be afraid to call the police, because with your statement, you can save hundreds of lives.
To identify possible terrorists and their clothes. They often arrange an explosion by means of a so-called suicide bomber’s belt, which is located on the body. Therefore, the bombers wear loose-fitting clothing (often dark colors) that can hide an explosive device. The hands are kept in the abdomen, the right moment to be easily actuate the explosive. Also out from the clothes can be seen wire – this is one of the surest signs of a suicide bomber.
Very often, their heads are covered by a hats and not necessarily with closed scarves or turbans, a terrorist can cover up hair with a baseball cap, and a light scarf. Most suicide bombers are Muslims, and for them headgear is mandatory when entering the street. But this piece of clothing to help terrorists also hide their appearance. They do not want to be identified, so in public places, they can cover the face with the hand, turning away, tilting their head.
Usually bombers behave unnaturally. They often look back, trying to hide from the street cameras. They may be pale, with sunken eyes and a run look. A terrorist can not be cool, even if he/she truly believes in heaven after death and knows what’s right, – in their supposed opinion is the case. Nervousness, apprehension, fear, aggression, anger – these feelings can be read on the faces of suicide bombers. People who go to their deaths, often have mental problems. Therefore, their action may be slightly inadequate.
Terrorists are often young, because the participants of such organizations in adulthood already hold important positions and do not go to such actions. If you notice a person whose actions fit the description of a terrorist, always try to get away as far as possible and to report to the police his/her description. Perhaps, with your help will be saved tens or hundreds of people.
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ADDENDUM II
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20/11/2015
Suicide belt electronic detection systems
The new development of the US military reveals a person with a suicide bomber’s belt concealed under clothes at a distance of 100 m. It is noted that it was an experimental system designed to protect US military facilities, but after the recent terrorist attacks in Paris, it can start to be used in ordinary cities.
The detection system of suicide bombers without entering the kill zone – developed by specialists of the US Defense Department for the fight against improvised explosive devices. The first tests of the system took place in Afghanistan back in 2012.
The system includes infrared sensors SSBDS of different range, as well as sensors of radiation in the terahertz range and camcorders. SSBDS shows the black and white image from the infrared sensors, an orange with a frequency of terahertz and customary from the camcorder. Thus, the “suicide belt” is displayed in the form of dark spots and stripes where there should be white or orange zone. In the future the system will be equipped with hyper-spectral sensors, radiation, allowing to detect the characteristic traces of explosives.
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A different version : Anker-R – Suicide belt electronic detection system
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Russian manufacturers have unveiled a device capable of remotely detecting potential suicide bombers – Organization Yutta (demonstrated at the state security expo in Paris).
Paris is hosting the 19th Milipol Worldwide Exhibition of Internal State Security on November 17-20/11/2015. YUTTA is among 13 Russian firms exhibiting products.
“We have a device that can remotely detect a suicide belt called ‘Anker-R.’ This prototype is capable of identifying the suicide belt on a person at a distance of five to six meters [16-19 feet],”
The gadget – a portable flat screen with wireless headphones – hunts down its target via an electromagnetic field emitted by the suicide belt’s explosives.
The device is unable to detect shell-less explosives inside the belts, but the majority of these belts use explosives to provide a maximum destructive capability.
Egyptian visitors to Milipol had expressed interest in the new device.
Security arrangements at the event, a trade show to display weapons, armament and surveillance technologies marketed to governments for population control, were expanded following the 13/11/2015 coordinated terrorist attacks across several Paris venues that killed 129 and injured over 350.
ADDENDUM III
Female suicide bombers motivated by revenge, radicalized by death of loved one – study
Female suicide bombers tend to be motivated by revenge after having lost a loved one, usually a husband, according to a new study on female violence.
Dr. Helen Gavin, a psychology lecturer from the University of Huddersfield. UK., and co-author of a new book on female aggression, informed an audience at the Defence Science and Technology Lab (DSTSL) she had been trying to identify certain “distinct” psychological traits in failed female suicide bombers.
While male bombers tend to be motivated to “avenge” for more ideological or religious reasons, women often sought “revenge” for more directly emotional reasons, she said.
Although “women are just as susceptible to ideological motivation” they tend to “need ‘revenge’ because they have lost a loved one, often a husband.”
Her conclusions bring into relief the ongoing debate over the impact of foreign policy on local populations in place like Iraq.
In 2011, after nearly a decade of fighting, the New York Times was told by the Iraqi Ministry of Planning that 9 percent of the country’s women – 900,000 – were widows. In June that year the Ministry of Women said the actual figure was nearer 1 million.
In 2008, the same newspaper reported that US success in killing Al-Qaeda fighters had often led to their female relatives being radicalized.
The use of women as suicide bombers is also a tactic informed by culture. Women are less likely to be searched at military checkpoints out of respect for their modesty.
In April this year, a study suggested up to 90 percent of young Iraqis consider the US to be their enemy. Similarly high figures were evident in the Palestinian territories.
“For years, many have argued that Muslims and Arabs, like other humans, don’t appreciate being bombed or occupied,” Haroon Moghul, – an academic at the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding.
“Finally, we have a study to confirm this suspicion,” he added.
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