How many in the U.S. are familiar with the name Mohamed Merah?
When the trial-date was set accusing George Zimmerman of murdering Travon Martins, pundits were predicting it would be watched by 200 million people.
It would be the most sensational trial since O.J.
Most homes in the U.S. would be exposed to some coverage of the trial.
The reason I am addressing these two anecdotes, is that it’s seldom one has the opportunity to so clearly visit two seemingly disconnected events with one common sub-narrative.
“Changing cognitive schemas”, is a sub-category of “Complex Trauma” that occurs when a predator uses its advantage in an asymmetric “power-dynamic” to change a narrative.
In the Stockholm syndrome the Predator places the victim in a state of sustained threat which is temporarily removed when the victim submits to the ideas and beliefs imposed by the one in charge.
For some predator`s, there is nothing more gratifying than vanquishing and taking ownership over his victim`s psyche.
If there is a Superpower today that threatens the world, it may not even try to accomplish its end through physical conquest if one can achieve its means by incrementally changing the environment of the victim.
In other words, conquest can be attained by gradually confusing the victim, and then stripping him of all previously-held beliefs.
The notion of world dominance by a super-committee could resemble F.I.F.A., or any large multi-layered enterprise.
There would be a list of fundamental agreements which would be settled by consensus, and each delegate would make a local press-release with fundamental “talking points”.
But that would bear little resemblance to “Truth”. In fact the entire entity of Truth would simply be removed from the map.
One can reference this to the pigs on George Orwell`s the Animal Farm.
Once the farm had been purged of humans, the pigs enjoyed uncontained power and privilege to redefine the meaning of “hunger”, and “equal”.
As Hillary would put it: “they`re only words”.
Such a system would be applied universally, with the representatives given the choice of how to spin it, or implement it, in the appropriate nuanced way. Following the Central Committee Meeting, delegates return to their respective countries and nations with the challenge of setting up local sub-committees to implement the agenda.
In terms of communication between high-ranking party members and the rest of the population, we would all become surfs by virtue of living under the shackles of being “uninformed”.
Communication by political caretakers wouldn’t even have to consider “truth” as a barometer of credibility.
The purpose of communication would be limited to “shape ideas”, and for rulers to “cover their behinds” – Benghazi style.
When “cultural sensitivity” is applied to this model of rule, Orwell would have put it as: “Some cultures are just more sensitive than others”.
This anecdote is not about one nation being attacked; it’s more about one nation being protected (Mohammed), and another being exploited (Trayvon).
On February 26th at about 7 p.m. in the gated Community Retreat at Twin Lakes, Florida, George Zimmerman, a 28-year-old neighborhood watch – captain, called 911 to report “a suspicious person” in the gated community.
According to the Orlando “Sentinel” story, (later confirmed by Sanford police), Zimmerman lost track of Martin. The teenager then reappeared, and when Zimmerman reached for his cell phone, at which point Martin (a trainer in Mixed Marshal Arts), let fly a punch. Zimmerman`s head slammed into the sidewalk, where Martin pinned him to the ground, pummeling his head into the sidewalk.
Pinned to the ground, and in in a choke-hold, Zimmerman removed the gun strapped to his leg, discharging the weapon at point-contact against the body squeezing him in a choke-hold.
A half an hour following the original call Zimmerman reported to the police he had shot Martin in self-defense.
The Prosecution attempted to withhold the report made by Officer Timothy Smith, confirming that Zimmerman had a fractured nose and lacerations at the back of the head.
On March 12th Sanford Police Chief Bill Lee announced that Zimmerman had not been charged because there are were no grounds to disprove his account of the events.
Three days later, on March 15th, half-way across the globe, in Toulouse, France, Mohamed Merah committed two consecutive gun attacks on soldiers, with a similar weapon and modus operandi, in the same part of France.
Some in the Intelligence Community argue that Merah`s name ought to have shown up on a security screen immediately following the killing of the second French soldier on 15 March.
Four days later, on March 19th, Merah entered the Jewish Day-school in Toulouse “Ozar Hatorah”, whereupon he shot to death the principal and 4 children at close range, holding one child up and videoing the killing.
Rabbi Jonathan Sandler, a 30-year-old teacher of religion with joint French and Israeli citizenship, along with his two children, Gabriel and Arieh, aged four and five, were among those killed.
“Did we miss something?” asked the Security Chief in an interview given to Le Monde.
“Here’s a guy with the profile of a Jihadist and they didn’t take any more interest in him”.
Like the Boston Bombers, Mohamed Merah had traveled to Islamic strongholds, where he had spent significant time.
Merah had been in Afghanistan in 2010, and later Pakistan.
No more than a dozen French citizens from south-western France had made that trip to Afghanistan.
A security expert told “Liberation” that Merah’s suspicious trips abroad and his long criminal record back in France, were reason to have kept Merah under constant surveillance.
But having failed to protect the Sandlers, the role of the Prosecutor was for damage-control against further tarnishing Mohammed`s image.
Portraying the half-Jewish Zimmerman as a child-killer provided the Justice Department exactly that opportunity.
Few will ever remember the politically unsavory reality of Mohamed Merah`s Jihad, a threat that continues to brew in our own back-yard.
Exploiting the racial-sensitivities of a Trayvon-infatuated liberal America, conveniently switches the global focus of the Collective Consciousness from the threat of Jihad to an event dismissed the previous week.
The Zimmerman case was closed on March 12th by Sanford Police Chief Bill Lee.
Then, on March 15th Mohammed Merah began his shooting rampage in France, beginning with the execution of two off-duty French soldiers.
Mohamed`s Jihad continued on March 15th in the morning, when he committed the mass-murder at the Day-school in Toulouse.
The episode only ended in a final shootout when Merah and one more French soldier would die in a shoot-out.
On March 19, the U.S. Justice Department announced that it has launched an investigation into Martin’s death.
Later on March 19, Florida Gov. Rick Scott would dismiss Sanford Police Chief Bill Lee, assigning the investigation to State Officials.
When the U.S. Justice Department announced later on March 19th that it had launched an investigation into Travon Martin’s death, no-one took note of a far-reaching sub-narrative which would serve a convenient diversion of the audience`s attention from a far more serious event.
Instead of witnessing the unfolding of Radical Jihad on European (and American) soil, a selection was made to re-ignite the played-out theme of State-manufactured race-relationships.
The real predator Merah, would be replaced by George Zimmerman, the “child-killer”.
But that required certain cosmetic changes:
The State-Prosecutor would only release to the press pictures of Trayvon that were a few years old (when he was fourteen).
And the Judge granted the Prosecution the right to withhold a picture of Trayvon brandishing a gun, while playing with a victim`s Jewelry, where he looked too adult.
Images of Rabbi Sandler shielding his young children, and the deliberate videoed execution of another child, as well as those of the two executed off-duty military personnel in Toulouse, would be replaced as victims by angelic images of Trayvon.
To fulfill this end, Florida Gov. Rick Scott would ask State officials to re-open the investigation on Zimmerman.
By March 22nd, Police Chief Lee would announce he was being forced to step down as Head of the Police Department.
He was now being criticized for his handling of the Trayvon shooting.
Simultaneously, Governor Rick Scott announced that he was appointing State Attorney of the 4th Judicial Circuit Angela Corey as Special Prosecutor for murder charges against Zimmerman.
On March 23rd, President Barack Obama spoke publicly about “Travon`s murder” saying the incident required national “soul-searching.”
One outcome of that “soul-searching experience” would show how the Justice Department could reverse the March 12th dismissal of Zimmerman`s case by the Sanford Police Chief, ignite racial tensions, and shape a new reality on the ground.
Does this suggest that someone highly-embedded in the central politique would be able to manufacture a new “media reality” creating a fiction of Zimmerman as a child-killer, magically deflecting attention away from the tragedy at Toulouse.