10/10/2014
Mentre è ormai noto come evangelici oltranzisti e cattolici fondamentalisti fomentarono e alimentarono la lunga stagione di panico satanico che a partire dagli anni ’80 sconvolse gli Stati Uniti con veri e propri casi di isteria collettiva, successivamente, anche e soprattutto a seguito dell’azione dei media, diffusasi alla Gran Bretagna e all’Europa continentale, difficilmente si sarebbe potuto immaginare quanto rivela un nuovo studio condotto da Richard Jenkins, professore di sociologia presso la University of Sheffeild.
Nel libro di Jenkins ” Black Magic and Bogeymen”, nato da conversazioni con ufficiali dei servizi segreti militari, tra cui il capitano Colin Wallace, -ex militare britannico ed esperto in guerra psicologica, nonché a capo delle “black operations” dell’esercito nell’Irlanda del Nord-, quest’ultimo ammette che il ramo dei servizi segreti militari specializzato in operazioni psicologiche (psych-ops), alimentò deliberatamente il panico satanico tra gli anni ’72 -’74 al fine di ingenerare nella pubblica opinione la convinzione che i movimenti paramilitari con le loro azioni e campagne omicidiarie, avessero scatenato le forze del male nella società nordirlandese, già fortemente superstiziosa.
Lo ha raccontato ieri in un articolo che riportiamo di seguito, Henry McDonald corrispondente per l’Irlanda del The Guardian.
A margine del testo una libera traduzione a cura favisonlus.
Satanic panic: how British agents stoked supernatural fears in Troubles
Stories about black masses leaked to press in effort to link paramilitary attacks to the paranormal, study reveals
British military intelligence agents in Northern Ireland used fears about demonic possessions, black masses and witchcraft as part of a psychological war against emerging armed groups in the Troubles in the 1970s, a study says.
Prof Richard Jenkins, from Sheffield University, spoke to military intelligence officers, including the head of the army’s “black operations” in Northern Ireland, Captain Colin Wallace.
Wallace told Jenkins that they deliberately stoked up a satanic panic from 1972 to 1974, even placing black candles and upside-down crucifixes in derelict buildings in some of Belfast’s war zones.
Then, army press officers leaked stories to newspapers about black masses and satanic rituals taking place from republican Ardoyne in north Belfast to the loyalist-dominated east of the city.
In Jenkins’s book, Black Magic and Bogeymen, Wallace admitted that the “psych-ops” branch of military intelligence exploited public fear of satanism stoked by films such as The Exorcist and The Devil Rides Out.
Wallace told Jenkins that by whipping up devil-worshipping paranoia, they created the idea that the emerging paramilitary movements and the murder campaigns they were engaged in had unleashed evil forces across Northern Irish society.
Wallace said his Information Policy group, based at military headquarters in Thiepval barracks, Lisburn, hit upon the idea of summoning the devil as a way to discredit paramilitary organisations.
“It was quite clear that the church, both the Roman Catholic church and the Protestant church, even for the paramilitaries, held a fair degree of influence,” Wallace said. “So we were looking for something that would be regarded with abhorrence really by the two communities, and at the same time would be something that paramilitaries couldn’t justify, and also would be in many ways seen as a reason why some of the outrages were taking place.
“That sort of degree of activity was lowering the value of human life. And so eventually it came to the point where we looked at witchcraft … Ireland was very superstitious and all we had to do was bring it up to date.”
Wallace said the manufactured hysteria was also useful in keeping younger children in at night and away from buildings that the military and police might have used for undercover surveillance.
Jenkins, a professor of sociology, said Wallace’s own religious upbringing and cultural background were behind the ideas.
“I think that Wallace and the Information Policy unit had two main objectives. First, it was to encourage a devout population to think that the Troubles had opened a door to ‘dark forces’ and to have them blame the paramilitaries by implication. The logic being: the ungodly paramilitaries caused the violence, the violence has encouraged all kinds of horrible things, ergo the devil, Satan and all that, although I don’t think that was ever going to fly.
“Second, there was the bonus of keeping people, especially teenagers and kids, off the streets at night.”
The years 1972-74 were among the bloodiest of the Troubles and a period when Northern Ireland teetered on the brink of civil war. It was also the era when Ulster loyalist paramilitary groups started carrying out ritualistic-style torture killings of Catholics and political opponents.
One of the most notorious of these was the 1973 murder of nationalist politician Paddy Wilson and his friend Irene Andrews.
Jenkins writes that military intelligence sought to create a “subtle” link in the public’s minds between these true-to-life horrors of the Troubles and something more supernaturally evil as part of its propaganda campaign.
Black Magic and Bogeymen: Fear, Rumour and Popular Belief in the North of Ireland 1972-74 is published by Cork University Press
Fonte: theguardian
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Panico satanico: come gli agenti britannici alimentarono paure soprannaturali nel conflitto nordirlandese
Storie di messe nere trapelarono nello sforzo di collegare gli attacchi dei gruppi paramilitari al paranormale, rivela uno studio
Henry McDonald
Agenti dei servizi segreti militari britannici in Irlanda del Nord utilizzarono la paura di possessioni diaboliche, messe nere e stregoneria come parte di una guerra psicologica contro emergenti gruppi armati nei “disordini nordirlandesi “Troubles del 1970, dice uno studio.
Il Prof Richard Jenkins, dalla Sheffield University, ha parlato con gli ufficiali dei servizi segreti militari, tra cui il capo di “operazioni nere” dell’esercito in Irlanda del Nord, il capitano Colin Wallace.
Wallace ha rivelato a Jenkins che deliberatamente alimentarono il panico satanico dal 1972 al 1974, anche mettendo candele nere e crocifissi rovesciati negli edifici abbandonati in alcune delle zone di guerra di Belfast.
Successivamente, addetti stampa dell’esercito fecero trapelare storie ai giornali su messe nere e riti satanici celebrati dall’Ardoyne repubblicano di North Belfast fino all’est lealista della città.
Nel libro di Jenkins, “Black Magic e Bogeyman” , Wallace ha ammesso che il ramo dei servizi segreti militari “psych-ops” sfruttava la paura pubblica del satanismo alimentato da film come L’Esorcista e The Devil Rides Out.
Wallace ha detto a Jenkins che montando la paranoia sul culto satanico, avevano creato l’idea che i movimenti paramilitari emergenti e le campagne di omicidi in cui erano impegnati avevano scatenato le forze del male nella società nordirlandese.
Wallace ha riferito che il suo gruppo di Politica dell’informazione, con sede presso il comando della caserma Thiepval, Lisburn, ebbe l’idea di evocare il diavolo come un modo per screditare le organizzazioni paramilitari.
“Era chiaro che la chiesa, sia la chiesa cattolica romana che la chiesa protestante, anche per i paramilitari, mantenesse un buon grado di influenza”, ha detto Wallace. “Così stavamo cercando qualcosa che fosse considerato davvero con orrore dalle due comunità, e allo stesso tempo fosse qualcosa che i paramilitari non potessero giustificare, e che fosse anche visto per molti versi come il motivo per cui alcuni degli oltraggi si erano verificati.
The Sunday World riporta una storia di “paura della magia nera”nella sua prima pagina nel 1973
“Il livello di questo tipo di attività stava abbassando il valore della vita umana. E così alla fine si è arrivati al punto in cui abbiamo guardato alla stregoneria … l’Irlanda era molto superstiziosa e tutto ciò che dovevamo fare era aggiungere informazioni.”
Wallace ha detto che l’isteria costruita fu utile anche per tenere di notte i bambini più piccoli lontano da edifici che la polizia militare avrebbe potuto usare per la sorveglianza sotto copertura.
Il Prof Jenkins, ritiene che dietro alle idee c’erano l’educazione culturale e religiosa personale di Wallace.
“Penso che Wallace e l’unità politica d’informazione avessero due obiettivi principali. In primo luogo, favorire nella popolazione il pensiero che i Troubles avevano aperto una porta a ‘forze oscure’ e darne implicitamente la colpa ai paramilitari. E’ logico: i paramilitari empi hanno causato la violenza, la violenza ha incoraggiato tutti i tipi di cose orribili, dunque il diavolo, Satana e tutto il resto”. In secondo luogo, c’era il vantaggio di tenere le persone, soprattutto adolescenti e bambini, fuori dalle strade di notte.”
Gli anni 1972-1974 sono stati tra i più sanguinosi dei Troubles e un periodo in cui l’Irlanda del Nord vacillò sull’orlo della guerra civile. Era anche l’epoca in cui gruppi paramilitari lealisti Ulster iniziarono a praticare torture rituali e uccisioni di cattolici e oppositori politici.
Uno dei più noti di questi fu l’assassinio nel 1973 del politico nazionalista Paddy Wilson e della sua amica Irene Andrews.
Jenkins scrive che l’intelligence militare cercò di creare un “sottile” collegamento nella mente della gente fra quegli orrori reai dei Troubles e qualcosa di malvagio soprannaturale come parte della sua campagna di propaganda.
Black Magic and Bogeymen (Magia Nera e Spauracchi) : Paura, dicerie e credenza popolare in Irlanda del Nord 1972-1974 è pubblicato da Cork University Press
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British security forces spread rumours of black masses and Satanism to smear the IRA and Loyalist violence groups during Troubles, historian reveals
- Agents played on public paranoia sparked by movies like The Exorcist
- And tried to subtly link real life crimes with that of supernatural evil
- Black candles and upside down crucifixes were planted in buildings
Playing on public paranoia ignited by movies like The Exorcist, British military intelligence agents spread rumours of demonic possessions, black masses and witchcraft to scare emerging armed groups in the Troubles in the 1970s, it has been revealed.
The head of the army’s ‘black operations’, in Northern Ireland, Captain Colin Wallace, was said to have stoked satanic panic between 1972-1974, going so far as to place black candles and upside down crucifixes in abandoned buildings in Belfast war zones.
The move was all part of a propaganda spreading plan to link the true-to-life horrors happening at the hands of paramilitary groups with supernatural evil depicted in horror films.
Professor Richard Jenkins, of Sheffield University, has revealed the use of the dark arts as part of a physiological war in his book, Black Magic and Bogeyman: fear, Rumour and Popular Belief in the North of Ireland 1972-1974.
He wrote that intelligence agents leaked stories to newspapers about black masses and satanic rituals taking place from the north of Belfast to the east.
The agents stoked public fears, ignited by films like The Exorcist and The Devil Rides Out.
Mr Wallace told Mr Jenkins by fanning devil-worshipping paranoia among the public, agents made people believe emerging forces and their murderous campaigns were fueled by evil forces, and were possibly interlinked.
Mr Wallace said promoting the idea that the devil was at play was a good way to discredit paramilitary organisations. It also helped keep children inside at night, and away from buildings they were using to conduct surveillance.
He told The Guardian: ‘It was quite clear that the church, both the Roman Catholic church and the Protestant church, even for the paramilitaries, held a fair degree of influence.
‘So we were looking for something that would be regarded with abhorrence really by the two communities, and at the same time would be something that paramilitaries couldn’t justify, and also would be in many ways seen as a reason why some of the outrages were taking place.
‘That sort of degree of activity was lowering the value of human life. And so eventually it came to the point where we looked at witchcraft … Ireland was very superstitious and all we had to do was bring it up to date.’
Jenkins, a professor of sociology, said Mr Wallace’s own religious upbringing and cultural background were behind the ideas.
The bloodiest years of the Troubles were between 1972-1974, when Northern Ireland almost erupted into civil war. And when Ulster loyalist paramilitary groups began ritualistic-style torture killings of Catholics and political opponents.
The best known of these gruesome murders, was the killing of Paddy Wilson and his friend Irene Andrews in 1973.
Fonte: Mail online
NOTA: Leggi anche articolo “THE BRITISH ARMY AND THE PARANORMAL: HOW DEVIL WORSHIP HELPED DEFEAT ULSTER PARAMILITARIES“, qui:
http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-London/2014/10/10/British-Army-Occult-Ulster
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