It combines stereotyped hook-nosed Jews with the "The Jews Killed Jesus" blood libel plus abuse of a woman: all the components of the most vicious propaganda ever deployed. Then there is this beauty from the Palestinian Authority, which was supposedly engaged in a "peace process" in 2003 when it was published:
The so-called "moderate" Islamofascist country of Qatar (don't these Islamofascists ever put a u after a q?) is little better:
We have a saying in this country: "Payback's a real bear," and "bear" isn't exactly the word we use. Here is a guide for developing and deploying the kind of propaganda whose purpose is to evoke loathing and hatred of enemies. It is based on (1) propaganda cartoons from the Spanish-American War and World Wars and (2) books on psychological warfare and propaganda. Some comic book covers from the Second World War also are instructive; note how the enemy is portrayed with bestial and subhuman features, and in the process of menacing helpless prisoners, women, and/or children. (This is a basic theme that we must use as frequently as possible.)
Fighting Yank 8, June 1944. Japanese with exaggerated Asian features are about to use a red-hot iron to torture a Navy nurse but they are beaten up by a hero with an American flag on his costume.
Fighting Yank 13. Japanese with exaggerated Asian features menace American children with poisonous snakes.
Per Adolf Hitler, "All propaganda has to be popular and has to adapt its spiritual level to the perception of the least intelligent of those towards whom it intends to direct itself." His propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels added the following advice:
"...there was no point in seeking to convert the intellectuals. For intellectuals would never be converted and would anyway always yield to the stronger, 'and this will always be the man in the street.' Arguments must therefore be crude, clear and forcible, and appeal to emotions and instincts, not the intellect. Truth was unimportant and entirely subordinate to tactics and psychology... Hatred and contempt must be directed at particular individuals."
-H. Trevor-Roper (ed), The Goebbels Diaries, p. XX, cited in Regan, Geoffrey. 1987. Great Military Disasters. New York: M. Evans and Company.
Before anyone objects to my citing two of the most evil people who ever lived, note that
(1) the Islamofascists are using Hitler's and Goebbels' methods extensively so Civilization had better use them back
(2) Hitler and Goebbels learned their craft from Anglo-French propagandists of the First World War and possibly the American Yellow Press. The depiction of the enemy as a subhuman or a monster was not a Nazi invention:
Grant Hamilton's "The Spanish Brute: Adds Mutilation to Murder," which was conceivably the model for:
which is in fact the model for the following.
There is plenty more where this came from and it is all placed in the public domain. This is very important because
"To be effective, leaflets must scatter. Bundles of paper which fall intact make little impact on the enemy [or prospective audience, the general public in this case] unless they hit him on the head." (Linebarger, Psychological Warfare)
In this case, a cartoon that is placed in the public domain on the Internet can spread across the world in a few days if people like it enough to post it on their own Web sites and blogs.
The image should, if necessary, be backed up by facts. This one has highly-graphic violence that I am not going to show anyone who does not click on the link but it also has short descriptions and a reference to show that the Palestinians actually did this. This is easily far more vicious-- by intention-- than the one of Ariel Sharon butchering children and it is also factual.
There are plenty of other sites with good material, like this image from ProtestWarrior.com. It shows a hand holding a chain that is attached to a veiled woman's neck and the caption, "Support Islamic property rights against Western imperialism: say no to war!"
Cartoons with embedded factual information and permission-to-copy statements are probably the fastest way of spreading propaganda. All that has to happen is for enough people to like the cartoon enough to post it on their own Web sites and blogs, where it will get even more exposure-- and deployment to even more Web sites and blogs. The only caveat is that, once these dogs of war are loose, they can never be called back because the cartoons are not protected by any copyright or other form of control. On the other hand, I can envision no reason to want to call them back. Islamofascism (NOT Islam as a whole) is the enemy of Civilization.
Downloadable royalty-free leaflets were first used (as far as I know) by Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership around 1999 or 2000, although others might have pioneered the idea. In this case, an attention-catching image can be backed up with substantial factual information and references. Here is one of the International Solidarity Movement's Olive Harvest (in which a terrorist plucks hand grenades from a tree).
Royalty-free leaflets can be devastating if you have (1) people to distribute them and (2) people to distribute them to because, if people like them, they can then run off as many copies as they want. In fact, clever drawings tended to circulate in and between offices with photocopiers before the Internet even existed; this is why the distribution technique is so attractive. I suspect, however, that they do not propagate as rapidly as electronic cartoons.
In summary, we must repay the Islamofascist hate propaganda with truth for falsehood and compound interest. I use computer art software to create my material but we must have cartoonists who are as good as Grant Hamilton (creator of "The Spanish Brute, Adds Mutilation to Murder") and Louis Raemaekers. We must give full rein to our creative talents to create brutal, hard-hitting, and effective images that will expose Islamofascism as the vicious menace to Civilized Humanity that it is.
Cartoons: It's Payback Time
by Bill Levinson
Some people object to the use of highly-inflammatory language and pictures to describe Islamofascist behavior. This is something the Islamofascists should have thought about before they deployed the following propaganda cartoon, "Crucified Palestine," and the others that appear below.
It combines stereotyped hook-nosed Jews with the "The Jews Killed Jesus" blood libel plus abuse of a woman: all the components of the most vicious propaganda ever deployed. Then there is this beauty from the Palestinian Authority, which was supposedly engaged in a "peace process" in 2003 when it was published:
The so-called "moderate" Islamofascist country of Qatar (don't these Islamofascists ever put a u after a q?) is little better:
We have a saying in this country: "Payback's a real bear," and "bear" isn't exactly the word we use. Here is a guide for developing and deploying the kind of propaganda whose purpose is to evoke loathing and hatred of enemies. It is based on (1) propaganda cartoons from the Spanish-American War and World Wars and (2) books on psychological warfare and propaganda. Some comic book covers from the Second World War also are instructive; note how the enemy is portrayed with bestial and subhuman features, and in the process of menacing helpless prisoners, women, and/or children. (This is a basic theme that we must use as frequently as possible.)
Fighting Yank 8, June 1944. Japanese with exaggerated Asian features are about to use a red-hot iron to torture a Navy nurse but they are beaten up by a hero with an American flag on his costume.
Fighting Yank 13. Japanese with exaggerated Asian features menace American children with poisonous snakes.
Per Adolf Hitler, "All propaganda has to be popular and has to adapt its spiritual level to the perception of the least intelligent of those towards whom it intends to direct itself." His propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels added the following advice:
Before anyone objects to my citing two of the most evil people who ever lived, note that
(1) the Islamofascists are using Hitler's and Goebbels' methods extensively so Civilization had better use them back
(2) Hitler and Goebbels learned their craft from Anglo-French propagandists of the First World War and possibly the American Yellow Press. The depiction of the enemy as a subhuman or a monster was not a Nazi invention:
Grant Hamilton's "The Spanish Brute: Adds Mutilation to Murder," which was conceivably the model for:
which is in fact the model for the following.
There is plenty more where this came from and it is all placed in the public domain. This is very important because
In this case, a cartoon that is placed in the public domain on the Internet can spread across the world in a few days if people like it enough to post it on their own Web sites and blogs.
The image should, if necessary, be backed up by facts. This one has highly-graphic violence that I am not going to show anyone who does not click on the link but it also has short descriptions and a reference to show that the Palestinians actually did this. This is easily far more vicious-- by intention-- than the one of Ariel Sharon butchering children and it is also factual.
There are plenty of other sites with good material, like this image from ProtestWarrior.com. It shows a hand holding a chain that is attached to a veiled woman's neck and the caption, "Support Islamic property rights against Western imperialism: say no to war!"
Cartoons with embedded factual information and permission-to-copy statements are probably the fastest way of spreading propaganda. All that has to happen is for enough people to like the cartoon enough to post it on their own Web sites and blogs, where it will get even more exposure-- and deployment to even more Web sites and blogs. The only caveat is that, once these dogs of war are loose, they can never be called back because the cartoons are not protected by any copyright or other form of control. On the other hand, I can envision no reason to want to call them back. Islamofascism (NOT Islam as a whole) is the enemy of Civilization.
Downloadable royalty-free leaflets were first used (as far as I know) by Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership around 1999 or 2000, although others might have pioneered the idea. In this case, an attention-catching image can be backed up with substantial factual information and references. Here is one of the International Solidarity Movement's Olive Harvest (in which a terrorist plucks hand grenades from a tree).
Royalty-free leaflets can be devastating if you have (1) people to distribute them and (2) people to distribute them to because, if people like them, they can then run off as many copies as they want. In fact, clever drawings tended to circulate in and between offices with photocopiers before the Internet even existed; this is why the distribution technique is so attractive. I suspect, however, that they do not propagate as rapidly as electronic cartoons.
In summary, we must repay the Islamofascist hate propaganda with truth for falsehood and compound interest. I use computer art software to create my material but we must have cartoonists who are as good as Grant Hamilton (creator of "The Spanish Brute, Adds Mutilation to Murder") and Louis Raemaekers. We must give full rein to our creative talents to create brutal, hard-hitting, and effective images that will expose Islamofascism as the vicious menace to Civilized Humanity that it is.
Posted by Bill Levinson at February 3, 2006 01:58 AM