This article was written by Adam Dick and originally published at Ron Paul Institute
With reports that President Joe Biden’s administration is planning for imposing a vaccine passport mandate in America, expect to see in the media a deluge of vaccine passport propaganda. What will that propaganda look like? A template illustrating several elements you can expect to see in the propaganda push was provided several weeks ago in a CNN interview.
In the first week of March, host Fareed Zakaria and his guest Arthur Caplan provided at CNN a textbook example of how to present vaccine passport propaganda to the American people. Let’s look at some of the major elements of the propaganda template as demonstrated by Zakaria and Caplan.
1) Include some short expression that the idea of vaccine passports can be troubling, but make sure to only bring this up superficially. This is accomplished in the CNN segment by starting with a clip from a short scene from the movie Casablanca. In the clip, a policeman asks to see a man’s “papers,” the man says he does not have them, and the policeman responds, “in that case we’ll have to ask you to come along.” Not shown is the remainder of the scene in which the accosted man, after presenting apparently expired papers, attempts to flee only to be gunned down. Not showing the full scene demonstrates the care demanded in the propaganda to not allow any depiction of potential dire consequences from imposing vaccine passports.
2) Frame the imposing of a vaccine passport mandate as something that is both inevitable and threatens only minimal, if any, harm. Zakaria accomplishes this task with the first sentence he utters to begin the media segment. Zakaria states: “From Casablanca to today, a demand to produce personal documents can be uncomfortable, but, post-pandemic, it’s something we’ll all likely have to get more and more comfortable with.” Masterfully, Zakaria, in addition to minimizing the problems with passports as just causing discomfort, asserts that even that discomfort with time will disappear, suggesting objecting to vaccine passports is just an irrational or silly reaction.
3) Bring on a guest who, despite his description making him sound like someone who would be looking out for the interests of people concerned about vaccine passports, pretty much says that vaccine passports are the best thing since sliced bread. In the CNN interview the guest performing this role is Arthur Caplan, who Zakaria introduces as a “medical ethicist” and “professor at NYU.” A medical ethicist will surely provide some warning about dangers from vaccine passports, right? Yes, in many cases. But, Caplan is not that sort of medical ethicists. He is the one picked to be interviewed in a media segment designed to promote acceptance of vaccine passports.
4) Reiterate that vaccine passports are inevitable, and that people should support them. Zakaria hits the nail on the head with this, presenting this first question to his guest: “So explain why you think, basically, that this is the future and we should be comfortable with it.”
5) Declare that vaccine passports must be imposed on the American people because of coronavirus. Caplan accomplishes this task in his first words in the media segment. He states: “Well, I’m sure that the future holds vaccine passports for us, partly to protect against the spread of Covid.” Of course, as coronavirus has turned out not to be a major danger to most people, imposing a vaccine passport mandate to counter it makes no more sense than doing it to counter any other of many diseases. But, this is not a topic to be brought up when selling people on vaccine passports. Fearmongering, no matter how ridiculously unjustified, is the name of the game. This is the fraudulent message people are encouraged to act on without much critical thought: Coronavirus is gonna kill us all unless we take the shots and show our papers!
6) Say that mandating vaccine passports is really no big deal because of some other supposedly very similar restriction to which some people are already subjected. Caplan states: “And, you know, it’s not a new idea, we have it for yellow fever; there are about more than a dozen countries that say you can’t come in if you haven’t been vaccinated against yellow fever, and many others require you to show proof of vaccination if you transit through those countries.” Are the yellow fever-related requirements justified? Caplan does not say more than that, because these somewhat similar restrictions exist someplace, the mandating of vaccine passports in America is fine. That’s medical ethicist reasoning? Anyway, the yellow fever stuff, because most Americans have no experience with or knowledge of it, is a fine example for the propaganda. Few watchers of the segment will have any basis for questioning the current practice that is used to justify the new desired mandate. One big difference, though, jumps out on further consideration. Caplan explains that the yellow fever requirements apply for just coming to several countries. In contrast, Zakaria early in the interview says the vaccine passports that will, he claims, inevitably be imposed on Americans will be required for people “to get on an airplane, to go to a concert, or to go back to work.” The vaccine passport mandate is, thus, much more troublesome for most Americans than yellow-fever-related requirements for entry into a few countries that most Americans never visit. But, the point is to quickly present the example as if it provides conclusive support no matter how far that representation is from the truth.
7) Dismiss as insignificant people’s concerns about being required, in order to go about their daily activities, to present a vaccine passport and to take a vaccine, or, really, an experimental coronavirus vaccine that is not even a vaccine under the normal meaning of the term. Assert instead that the only danger to freedom could be something theoretical that could be additionally required in the future. Here is how Zakaria puts it in a question to Caplan: “What about the concerns that many people have about privacy, about the privacy of their health data, that, you know, is there a slippery slope here — ‘OK, I’m comfortable telling you whether or not I have Covid, but does that mean it becomes OK to ask about other things?’” Of course, many people are justifiably wary of being pressured to take the shots and then having their mandated vaccine passport used to track them as they go about their daily activities. That is why this media segment and others like it are being presented, after all.
8) Dismiss any concern that vaccine passports can in fact harm freedom. Instead, describe people as benefiting from and gaining freedom by their being mandated to take experimental coronavirus vaccines and present vaccination passports in order to go about their daily activities. Oh yeah, and keep quiet about all the mass surveillance facilitated by a vaccine passport program, the vaccinations-based caste system resulting from the mandate that will make people who do not take the shots suffer, and how the vaccine passport program can be expanded to advance many additional types of control over people. Here is how Caplan puts it: “With a Covid certification, you’re going to gain freedom, you’re going to gain mobility, and I’m going to suggest that you’re probably going to be able to get certain jobs.” Talk about turning things on their head. The mandate really means that people who do not comply will be barred from the mobility they already have and fired from their jobs. Freedom is supported by rejecting the mandate, not by supporting it.
9) Insist that the vaccine passport mandate is fine because it will be applied equally to all people. This is something Zakaria and Caplan spend a long time talking about in the CNN segment. Come on guys, something bad does not become good because it is applied to the maximum number of people, irrespective of their race, sex, or whatever. We are dealing with a mandate here, not giving everyone a serving of his favorite dessert.
10) Declare that a vaccine passport mandate helps encourage people to take the shots. (Unlike the other nine elements of the vaccine passport mandate propaganda template, this one is likely true. Threats can yield compliance. Still, the threats could deter some people from taking the experimental coronavirus vaccine shots. It sure makes you wonder about shots’ supposed safety when an extreme, and unprecedented, act of force is employed to ensure people take the shots.) States Caplan in the interview: “It also gives you an incentive to overcome vaccine hesitancy. Some people are not sure still whether they want to do the vaccine, but if you promise them more mobility, more ability to get a job, more ability to get travel, that’s a very powerful incentive to actually achieve fuller vaccination.” What Caplan is really talking about is coercion. He is saying that people who would otherwise refuse taking the shots will be forced to do so by the vaccine passport mandate severely restricting their activities and even depriving them of the ability to earn an income so long as they do not give in to the demand they take the shots. All this authoritarianism is dressed up in deceptive language. “Vaccine hesitancy” is substituted for “vaccine refusal” to disguise that the vaccine passport mandate is about stopping people from exercising free choice. “Incentive” is substituted for “coercive technique.”
Watch Zakaria and Caplan’s interview here:
https://youtu.be/tPYMgwN-oII
Hopefully, many people will see through the deception and be able to prevent the implementation of the vaccine passport mandate Zakaria, Caplan, and others are promoting in the media.
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Brandon, how soon do you think this will start getting pushed upon us for day to day activities?
Ultimately, no matter what fear campaign they propose on us; they still need our consent. They can push this propaganda and many sheep will not only comply, but assist in the genocide by turning in their families and neighbors – as history has proven on numerous occasions, when authorities acted against the health and welfare of the population.
We need to refuse, en masse, clog the courts, flood the internet with our videos, refuse the fines, take serious control of your money/income/survival.
Always remember, they need your consent to do this.
What is your freedom worth? What is your family worth? What is your health/life worth?
Great summary of how the predictive programming propaganda is manufactured and used. Unfortunately, the psychological warfare of separating people and locking them in perpetual limbo and house arrest for the last year means that very few people, even highly educated ones, have retained the clarity of mind to see through plans or the will to resist them. The behavior breakdown phase has been mostly successful, and now the behavior modification conditioning phase has begun. We are to be controlled, tracked, traced, and coerced, and now the majority of people not only accept it, they will enthusiastically support it and advocate for it. For “safety.”
As someone else said, you don’t need a new normal because of a virus. A new normal is only needed once the old normal is no longer useful to the establishment.
Actually, in the US the plan has been highly unsuccessful. If you look at polling numbers for regular Americans as well as medical professional, between 30% to 50% of the population is in full defiance of the lockdowns and vaccine mandates. The elites are in a panic, which is why they released the vaccines so quickly instead of waiting the 18 months they initially claimed just to start testing. The amount of propaganda attacks an covid skeptics has been extreme; this is because the globalists are losing ground in the US. Their agenda is failing.
We’re both correct to some degree. There is certainly some vaccine/passport resistance in the traditionally red areas like Texas and Florida. However, the globalists probably expected that and don’t much care about it, because they knew they’d easily gain control over the coastal/urban elite areas and their large populations with little resistance, and they’re going to simply steamroll the rest of the country into conforming to the coming rules from those cultural footholds. Think of it like the electoral college – they knew they’d easily “win” lockdowns and passport acceptance/conformity in CA, NY, NJ, DC, and enough of the “middle America” states like IL, MN, WI, MI, PA, and OH to guarantee overall victory.
That being said, you’re right that they certainly rushed the timelines and are probably a bit surprised that places like FL, TX, SD, and GA have resisted so strongly.
No, they didn’t expect it, as it is clear by their recent response and vaccine panic that they expected much less resistance. They’ll never be able to steamroll conservatives states, and even now resistance is growing in blue states where numerous sheriffs are refusing to enforce mandates. This only goes downhill for the globalists in the US. Their only option will be war. Don’t overestimate their control; they are not a smart as some people seem to think.
Even blue states aren’t rolling over. Everyone is cautious and unsure what the right thing to do is, but they are only doing the minimum for visual purposes. Check out any Bay Area downtown on a weekend night – it looks like Vegas. No one cares anymore.
Important point re: PsychoEmotional warfare. Remember that despite all the communications technology and the like, there is and will ever be the elemental and primal components of life and human behavior. The isolation, the prohibition of groups and the erasure of the Face are essential in getting the population alone and scared, thus much easier to manipulate the “reality tunnels” in which they live their mental and emotional life. Taking away a persons ablility to generate income can be and IS life threatening. Nothing more and nothing less than primal blackmail.
Now look at the overwhelming force being used to blacklist, silence and de-platform ANY and ALL voices that even remotely question the narrative. Regardless of ones disposition this is draconian, and would be much more extreme if not for the fact that Americans can be a resistant lot. Far harsher measure are being used in other nations in The West. I was astounded when Parler was being deplatformed and it was the *most* downloaded app in the nation. That says it all.
So yes, now is the behavior mod phase. I have a feeling that resistence will be dealt with harshly. Questioning the narrative makes you a domestic terrorist. Refusal to be injected makes you leper. You get the point. The thing of it is: none of these measures are justified, even by readilly available evidence that exists well within the mainstream. This tells us that the behavioral breakdown phase has had an effect because much of the population is buying it. It does not matter that lockdowns demonstrably do not decrease infection rates, nor does it matter that the majik shots do not even claim to prevent contracting or spreading Sars-Cov-2. But we know all this.
Thank you for your explainations. ?
Vaccine passes set up a digital infrastructure to create a system like Chinese social credit. People will be unpersoned via arbitrary criteria. Vaccines are a rhetorical trick meant to generate acceptance and stifle dissent.
Re par 7:
“OK, I’m comfortable telling you whether or not I have Covid, but does that mean it becomes OK to ask about other things?’”
Another lie included in the question. The gene therapy does NOT stop the transmission of Covid. In other words, the passport does NOT tell you whether someone has Covid or not. The passport tells you NOTHING, except that some poor sod took a gene therapy in a witches coctail of other crap.
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All I can say is, “May the rat bastards who engineered this plan or who in any way encourage this plan, all go to Hell”, but not before first suffering excruciating pain.
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In the meantime, we must hope that God will protect our souls, if not our lives, and prepare for the worst.
What happened to my body my choice?
Just asking for a friend…