-BOMB20-FIELD MANUAL-
I.DISINFORMATION & MANIPULATION
Education:
The basis for the succesful and continued desinformation of the people is education. It systematically forces the people to think in fixed patterns with the teacher and state-chosen texts as their unquestionable source. Most parts of history are being abstracted, falsified or just left out. The basic attitude taught is; things are the way they are... Accept it! The school system doesn't serve to teach the people, but to prepare them to function in and make them conform to current society. The mass of the people are intentionally not being shown how the political or the economic system truly works and many students do not have the privilege of attending institutions of higher learnig.
Media:
On a global level the press is being transformed into the infotainment model.
Through private television stations and a total overload of cuts and commercial breaks, any real effort to bring information or a discussion to the consumer is terminated. The mainstream press has long given up on objective journalism and today critical investigation is limited to small underground newspapers. Even when these underground papers discover a scandal and have incontestable evidence, the press will never print it if endangers the interests of the system. This is because the larger publishing houses are owned by the ruling class and therefore only distribute the propaganda of the established government and advertise the products of industry. The media's main purpose is to keep the people pacified and stagnant, concerned only with their own social surroundings and interests.
Depoliticization:
Most of the people today cannot identify with any of the existing political parties and, in addition to this believe that nothing will change no matter wich candidate they choose to vote for. However, instead of taking action after realising this, people get depressed and give up. This proces is heavily induced by media/social surroundings/education. People are told that they are free to do whatever they want, but in fact they've been subjected, through economic and social pressure, to so many limitations that they've became used to feeling powerless. But this is a feeling, not an actual state of events. People's thoughts then become distracted and they perpetuate this cycle.
History:
A conspicuous characteristic of today's society is the view that occurences such as genocide were accidents of humanity that our modern democratic world is immune to and above. People want to forget about these things and if remembered, they want to think of them as tragic incidents that happened a very long time ago and with wich they have nothing to do. But these people fail to see that it continues to happen today, across the globe, everybody and their own country is involved in it. Politicians don't talk about the arm sales and the slaughter; they only talk about the 'terrorists' when the oppressed decide to make a move in self-defence. The government likes to say that it doesn't negotiate with terrorists and if anyone wants a change it is open to discussion. Having no idea of the social realtiy in the countries where the struggles are occurring, they condemn every act of violence and ignore the violence of the state that is the cause.
The Israelis have driven the Palestinian people from their homeland with a brutality similar to that of the Nazis, and not only with approval but support of the western nations. Even today, the Israeli terror persists. The peace process and the liberal course of the PLO are now considered a step backward by the other Palestinian organisations. The Turkish regime, supported by western states like the US, Germany and others, is brutally massacring the Kurdish population. Are the Turkish people unaware of the atrocities of wich the government is guilty? The west supports this regime through massive arm sales and education/exchange in police/torture techniques. The Kurdish mafia, which is deeply connected to the government, then makes a further profit from the Kurdish refugees, through illegal immigration. There's a similar situation in Spain, where the Basque are struggling against the Spanish, deeply resenting what they feel to be an artificial marriage of two once distinct countries. Iso, in Ireland, where the British refused to acknowledge the part they played by exporting a population wholesale to Northern Ireland to divide a country, and a hundred attempts at reunificationwere systematically and brutally put down.
Many people also believe that the exploitation of the Third World ended along with colonialism. But, besides the psychological damage and the material exploitation of resources, the western countries still move in troops to intervene and secure their interests. Through their pupet-regimes the USA and others continue to exploit Third World countries. The US directly supports terror regimes in Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Urugay, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Mexico, Venezuela and dozens of other nations, by supplying arms, financial help and strategic advice on how to repress legal democratic opposition, and teaching how to torture and kill. Because of greed for profit their domineering nature, the western states support militarymilitary regimes/contrarevolutionaries that work against the people. This clearly displays how the system works. It's a chain reaction of 'necessities' and interests and when everything over, no one wants to accept responsibility, because 'everyone had to do what he had to do.' The western 'democratic' government wants to make it seem as though anyone who wants to can criticise the government, 'join an organisation that opposes the state as long as its mission is peaceful.' That's just another lie. The government will ruthlessly crush any resistance movement that is on the verge of making a real change.
Like in the late 1960s in America, when the African-American movements, civil rights, student rights, and anti-war activists were on the rise and how the whole movement then slowly disintegrated. It did not happen by itself: it was a planned government conspiracy. The work of the then secret FBI program COINTELPRO which was designed to distract and destroy these groups with ant means available. Psychological:infiltration + forged communication to cause mistrust in the movement. Chemical: by bringing cocaïne + heroïne into the movement and transforming the leaders into addicts. Criminalisation: through false charges, frame-ups, and offensive bogus leaflets were locked up or even killed. The US government even had their army move onto indian resrvations with heavy war equipment including tanks and bombers to intimidate protesters there. Over the years the government has mssively extended its control mechanism: the military tactics and techniques against protesters in urban areas are prepared, huge amounts of data are being collected and exchanged between government and corporations. Now mmore then ever they try to suppress any sign of opposition from a strike to anti-war protest, and even the smallest sign of a possible resistance will be answered with drastic measures.
In Germany, they had police informers in the student movements who encouraged members to commit violent actions, supplying them with firearms and bombs. This strategy is widely used to destroy movements. The government commits murders then blames the peaceful protesters to discredit them. The average citizen believes what the government and media tells him and consequently opposes the movement. For example, very few people know that there was a NATO terrorist organisation called GLADIO, conceived as a guerilla force expressly for the purpose of invading the USSR in Europe. It employed guerilla tactics like cutting off supply lines, but of course took preventive actions as well. Since it was mostly loyal anti-Communists, World War II veterans, the ultra-right + neo-nazis who were hired, their intelligence often protected Nazis hiding from persecution. These extremists were trained in and equipped with the latest military technology at a CIA camp in Sardinia. GLADIO is responsible for thousands of provocateur actions, such as beatings, bombings and assassinations across Europe. Through deep connections with the elite ruling class, only few convictions were ever succesful and there was minimal press coverage. GLADIO is still active today in diverse countries.
Most people know, but seem to ignore, how crack cocaine was moved to certain areas in Los Angeles and New York to finance CIA-supported rightwing terrorists in Nicaragua and to further suppress blacks and Mexicans. This could be called planned genocide. Later the government and corporate press attempted to pass it off as 'irrational black paranoia' while the pres itself completely failed in their research and failed and in their research and took government officials as theit source. Why can't a large nation such as the US prevent drug trafficking? Even though they have an almost limitless budget and the most widespread army/police force in the world. The answer to this s the same as the question why they can't prevent drug dealing inside their own prisons? There have been more than enough scandals that show how deeply connected certain American government officials are with their supposed enemy: The drug barons. The arrest of drug dealers are strange and very often seems like completely set-ups, merely to present the public with a scapegoat, This connection is not only seen in isolated cases of corruption but also on a planned level, which can be easily recognised in the relations between countries known for drug trafficking and the supposed democratic target countries.
Prisoners:
The public is shocked and disgusted when it hears stories of political prisoners being tortured and murdered in some Third World nation, but the reality is that some of the most modern andfree western states have as many political prisoners as nations that have an recognised dictatorship. Most of the prisoners have been gaoled only for speakiing out against injustices or symphatising with the guerilla. Political trials are generally a farce: the courts try to de-politicise every political case and degrade the activist to normal criminality or insanity. In many cases the conversations between lawyer and client are being intercepted or the basic rights of the defendant are being denied. Most of them are sentenced to life and subjected to daily psychological and physical torture, isolation and harassment. They are suffering sicknesses because of the conditions of their imprisonment and are dying slow and painful deaths. Other dissindents have not however, been so lucky. Some have been eliminated and their deaths 'in a final bitter miscarriage of justice' have been covered up as suicides. This is of course, not to mention the average prisoner. With the new 'zero tolerance' tactic, the police are arresting, even for minor offenses, and imprisoning them as a deterrent, or at least, that's wat they say. What realyy happens isn't the rehabilitation of the criminal; they are furhter criminalised and hardened by a system that just wishes them out of sight. The government wants this so it can then pass many more restrictions and furhter strengthen its control over people. It has also realised that prisons are big business these days.
With the new so called anti terrorism/crime laws for tapping phone callls, monitoring internet usage, surveillance, gun control etc., more and more restrictions are being put in place to limit the freedom of and collect information about the people. It is said that these new restrictions are for the protection of citizens against organised crime and dangerous terrorists. But when you examine most of the cases which the media push, the government is somehow connected to them, either directly or indirectly, or else the case is given really distorted or falsified press coverage. As there is a lack of a real criminal threath, it is more likely that these laws will be abused and used against dissidents and opposition forces. Governments always acted this way, even before they legalised their behaviour. Countries like Germany and the US already have special 'state of emergency' laws, which are already partically active and can suspend constitutions + basic human rights.
II. STRATEGY
Unity:
One of the major weaknesses of the resistance is the lack of unity. Through dozens of separate splinter groups, the movement loses its impact and power. While many of these discrepancies have been imposed by government intelligence acts, some groups have simply failed to understand the real cause of their problems, and have a completely wrong approach as well as motivation. They do not realise that their interest group's cause is just a small symptom of the overall problem and that by co-operating with other leke-minded organisations they gaini important allies and necessary activists. Many of them want their goals limited to attaining equalisation and re-allocation of power. These people do not really oppose the system; they just attempt to undermine it by infiltrating parties or corporations. They want to put reforms through slowly. Some are power hungry and will only be satisfied when they hold a high position in the system. Others want to centralise and achieve improvements just for their own interest group.
Individuality + collectivism:
It's clear that there has to be some sort of organisation, and whether it is only for a very small amount of people or for a larger group, it requires a certain degree of teamwork. Working in an organised group doesn't mean losing identity as it supports the impetus of each of it's members and their ambitions.
Another problem is the proneness to self accusation, depression and stagnation of a considerable number of the activists. Dissapointed and resigned, they preferred to work in isolation. Dismal urban reality, social problems and compromises made them deviate from their own radical course. This sad picture of the old activist doesn't attract new people to the movement and naturally, few want to spend their lives demonstrating every week and writing petitions without any visible results. This is why we need to exclude these attitudes in the new movement and have to repel co-operation with activists who do not share our viewpoint. Compromising groups work against us, and their naivety is as harmful to us as the government is. Everyone must understand that we don't need a reform, we need a revolution.
Social revolution:
We haver to destroy the old-fashioned image that revolution is only possible when the social conditions are at their worst. Although the state makes a lot of mistakes, it will try not to allow the society to drop to a critical level in the wealthy countries as this would only serve to endanger it's own power. The state will avoid confrontations with the people, especially the richer nations. Through greedy politics, however, it is unavoidable that the middle and lower classes suffer. As long as the 'average man on the street' doesn't see any immediate restrictions for himself, he will allow the state to do whatever it wants. Evidently, we must make it clear for all to see that this is an international matter. Everything that happens is closely connected and if they do not act upon their own motivation then soon they will be subjected to the effects of these politics. That's why it's now or never. We don't need to, and it isn't possible to convince a great deal of people, because some have been so brainwashed by the system that motivating them would be impossible. It will be enough to have a smaller but dedicated group of people. So what is being illustrated here is that, it needs to be large enough but it does not have to be a majority by any means. What we must do is use idleness and passivity of the unmoved to our advantage.
The untouchable state:
This chapter is about estimating the power of the government and the resistance. As mentioned before, the enemy intelligence has various methods of counteracting our activities and is working on extending its control. Besides military superiority, the most important of the enemy's power is the image of the omnipotent state; that no-one should think he can get away with opposing the state and that battling such a superior enemy is suicide anyhow. With the succesful destructioin of the late 1960's movements, the government has spread fear and despair. Today few people have any notioin of how powerful this movement really was and what might have been had it not suffered this tragic end. However, we now know more than ever about the government's technology and its capabilities. What some have called paranoia in the past was only the tip of the iceberg as we currently know it. We have analysed the methods and have developed several efficient counter measures. In addition to this, it is necessary that the different types of paranoia be differentiated. There is good and justified caution, like safety measures and rational discussion of possible threaths, which is productive. The counterproductive type of paranoia leads to fear, mistrust, and stagnation. The same must be said for conspiracy theories, which often only lead to stagnation. It has to be said, also that the level of repression by the government against the late sixties' movements indicated the power and the potential that was behind it.
The resistance can keep up militant opposition. There have been many guerilla actions that had great sympathy with the public such as the attack of the German guerilla RAF on a US army camp, in which they managed to crash the computer centre that co-ordinated the American bombings in Vietnam. Another example, in March, 1968, the Israelis attacked a guerilla centre at Karameh, Jordan, with the 15,000 heavily armed soldiers, on the other side were 300 Palestinian guerillas. The Palestinians suffered great losses but they managed to hold their position with support from the Jordanian army who refused to follow their commands not to intervene, and forced the Israelis into retreat. After this victory, the movement had new impetus and more Palestinians joined than ever before.
Collaboration + adoption for strategies:
Many people tend to condemn succesful strategies because the techniques have been invented and used by hostile forces. This moralisation must end; we have to remain factual and examine what is the best way to achieve our goals and whose support we should have. Our major goal is destabilisation, and this is why we should ally with other foes of the government or interest groups, even if their goals may be somewhat different to our own. We can make use of this exchange of information and up to a point, co-operate with each other. We have to adopt government strategies, military as well intelligence tactics and we have to go into the offensive, carrying out pro-active strikes.
Armed resistance:
Though it's not the most important part of the struggle, it will be unavoidanle and necessary to carry out guerilla warfare. This must happen inside the waestern nations, as they have to experience that every one of their actions will be returned. We must place direc tpressure on where they are most vulnerable, inside their own countries. The Western governments are not as well prepared for an attack and will have to transform all remaining parts of the 'democratic' system into a discernible police state to protect themselves. This create massive psychological tension, fear and insecurity within the civilian population. This forces the weak mass of the people on the side of the government to accept it as their saviour. Then depending on whether a basic organisation exists and has succesfully spread propaganda, there will be a broad opposition to the weak sector and the government. Through a dextrous mixture of propaganda and actions, the escalation will be continued until martial law is declared and a special emergency governing body will take over.
Organization:
Small independent cells have the advantage of preventing infiltration or easy tracing and have no official connection to a legally based organisation. Both popular and unpopular actions can be useful. Popular actions against targets that are hated by a majority in connection to a legally based organisation can attract sympathy and new members. Actions against the population or against single popular persons can be carried out without communication and may serve to eliminate the function of the target person in the power apparatus or for spreading the fear of a incalculable enemy combined with demands. One of the major weak points and reasons for failure of most guerilla actions is hesitation and inconsistency. Many of the guerilla organisations aim at sacrificing their soldiers and hope for the pity or sympathy of the public. However, when actioins are carried out in rapid succession without time for the enemy loses face. Even then, secret agreements can be negotiated. Continuity is the key to succes. Every actions that effectively displays that the resistance is alive... That there is a resistance, encourage others.
Anti-dogmatic + elitism
Dogmatismmust be strongly opposed. Constant comunication and exchange keeps the movement vital and alive. Prevent class thinking and elitism, which supports the staus quo and promotes decay. They must be organisation and rules but they should never predominate or work against us.
III. THE MISSION
Society is a system in which al parts are interrelated? and is not possible to reform only one particular part.
