Ben Swann on "Fake News"

[Dill]

(02-02-2017, 01:02 AM)Bilbo Saggins Wrote: In the vein of “history rhymes”:
 
1.  A sworn affidavit from the former head of the Dallas and LA FBI field offices that claims that child trafficking operations are perpetrated by government employees: [url= https://www.scribd.com/doc/277079803/Ted-Gunderson-Affidavit-on-Gang-Stalking-4-26-11]https://www.scribd.com/doc/277079803/Ted-Gunderson-Affidavit-on-Gang-Stalking-4-26-11[/url] (points 4 and 9)

Just want to mention something about one "point" in your pattern.

You are excited about an affidavit from a man who believes a shadow government run by the new world order runs auctions of children to middle easterners and maintains that Satanists peform 4,000 ritual murders a year in NY--a thousand more people than died on 9/11 and 40,000 over ten years!!

I suppose if you string together many such points to get your "pattern," you feel you have done research, and those of us not inclined to pursue the question of child auctions and THOUSANDS of ritual murders in one city are the lazy sort.

But this particular point in your pattern reminds me of those moral panic cases that emerge every few years or so. A child at a day care claims s/he was molested. Police work a group of children into describing satan orgies and sacrifices of children and animals.  Then someone in the community asks--"Wait, has anyone filed a report on missing children, dogs, horses? Where are the victims coming from? Where are the secret tunnels? Why is there no blood, bodies, bones? If children were raped with knives, where are the wounds?" And suddenly the PRIMARY EVIDENCE collapses because it was manipulated testimony or HEARSAY. People are let out of jail. But some accusers never recant. They just believe "the Satanists" have won, manipulated the system, hidden the evidence.

http://www.nytimes.com/1984/04/01/us/los-angeles-pressing-inquiry-into-sexual-abuse-of-children.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-modern-witch-hunt/2015/07/31/057effd8-2f1a-11e5-8353-1215475949f4_story.html?utm_term=.4ce315df21fa
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/06/books/recovered-reputations.html

Wikipedia lists about 17 such moral panics in the US and abroad. One could link them altogether into a PATTERN of "primary evidence" claiming the Satanists are everywhere. But each individual point collapses. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day-care_sex-abuse_hysteria#cite_note-4

The only primary evidence that really emerges is of gullibility--the inability to vet sources, to separate heated imagination from facts.

Fake News lives on this inability to vet, coupled with the ability to add up "proof" into "patterns."