Occasionally I will share important research sources with little analysis, because it’s important to read the original work.
This teaser is a footnote from the academic paper “Conspiracy Theories” from 2008 University of Chicago Law School. Remember David Axelrod is/was (lol) chief strategist for Barack Obama's presidential campaigns and leads UChicago’s Institute of Politics, where Obama just keynoted a seminar on Disinformation. Cass Sunstein has been a key advisor and intellectual mentor to Barak Obama. Clearly, they don’t study disinformation, they architect it.
Cass R. Sunstein & Adrian Vermeule, "Conspiracy Theories" (John M. Olin Program in Law and Economics Working Paper No. 387, 2008).
Footnote: "Alan Krueger, WHAT MAKES A TERRORIST? 75-82 (2007). Krueger believes that low civil liberties cause terrorism but acknowledges that his data are also consistent with the hypothesis that terrorism causes governments to reduce civil liberties. See id. at 148. Of course, the two effects may both occur, in a mutually reinforcing pattern. Following Krueger, we assume that low civil liberties tend to produce terrorism, a hypothesis that is supported by the mechanisms we adduce."
Why would the Biden Administration work so hard to reduce civil liberties in the nation with the most civil liberties as they force the false narrative of "domestic terrorist"?
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Occasionally I will share important research sources with little analysis, because it’s important to read the original work.
This teaser is a footnote from the academic paper “Conspiracy Theories” from 2008 University of Chicago Law School. Remember David Axelrod is/was (lol) chief strategist for Barack Obama's presidential campaigns and leads UChicago’s Institute of Politics, where Obama just keynoted a seminar on Disinformation. Cass Sunstein has been a key advisor and intellectual mentor to Barak Obama. Clearly, they don’t study disinformation, they architect it.
Cass R. Sunstein & Adrian Vermeule, "Conspiracy Theories" (John M. Olin Program in Law and Economics Working Paper No. 387, 2008).
Footnote:
"Alan Krueger, WHAT MAKES A TERRORIST? 75-82 (2007). Krueger believes that low civil liberties cause terrorism but acknowledges that his data are also consistent with the hypothesis that terrorism causes governments to reduce civil liberties. See id. at 148. Of course, the two effects may both occur, in a mutually reinforcing pattern. Following Krueger, we assume that low civil liberties tend to produce terrorism, a hypothesis that is supported by the mechanisms we adduce."
Why would the Biden Administration work so hard to reduce civil liberties in the nation with the most civil liberties as they force the false narrative of "domestic terrorist"?
This paper is a great read. Part 1 discusses how conspiracy theories form and most interestingly Part 2 discusses what governments can and should do about Part 1. https://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1118&context=law_and_economics