To gain any understanding of life in the 'civilized' world, one must also gain the understanding of the use of psychological conditioning to produce willing participants in what (to any conscious animal with its instincts intact) should be instantly apprehended as a debasement, crippling, and enslavement of what were once free and self-sufficient human beings. This problem has obsessed 'rulers' since the beginning of time--'How do i get the masses to do all my dirty work for me, take all the risk, make me rich, and take the blame for all my crimes?'. In the early stages (as the term 'psychological WARFARE' implies) most of the activity was focused on warriors, spies and the priestcraft (all very specialized and socially segregated cadres). At some point the ruler's question above was definitively answered and, in fact, far exceeded. By now, not only has the programming extended to every facet of human society, but the victims of programming go further, to the point that they actually thank the rulers for programming and enslaving them, and defend their abusers at the cost of their own lives, health, youth, intelligence, and morality. As with any complex topic, it is necessary to begin with very simple examples of this process, with which most people have some cursory familiarity. let's start with an example from ancient times.
1. Berzerkers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berserker
"Berserkers (or berserks) were Norse warriors who are primarily reported in the Old Norse literature to have fought in a nearly uncontrollable, trance-like fury, a characteristic which later gave rise to the English word berserk. Berserkers are attested to in numerous Old Norse sources. Most historians believe that berserkers worked themselves into a rage before battle, while the idea that they consumed drugged foods has also been suggested.[1]"
"King Harald Fairhair's use of berserkers as "shock troops" broadened his sphere of influence. Other Scandinavian kings used berserkers as part of their army of hirdmen and sometimes ranked them as equivalent to a royal bodyguard. It may be that some of those warriors only adopted the organization or rituals of berserk männerbünde, or used the name as a deterrent or claim of their ferocity."
"The actual fit of madness the berserker experienced was referred to as berserkergang ("going berserk"). This condition has been described as follows:
Some scholars believe certain examples of berserker rage to have been induced voluntarily by the consumption of drugs such as the hallucinogenic mushroom Amanita muscaria[1] or massive amounts of alcohol.[15] While such practices would fit in with ritual usages, other explanations for the berserker's madness have been put forward, including self-induced hysteria, epilepsy, mental illness, or genetics.[16]
Jonathan Shay makes an explicit connection between the berserker rage of soldiers and the hyperarousal of post-traumatic stress disorder.[17] In Achilles in Vietnam he writes:
1. segregation of the group by distinctive dress, ritualistic practice, and distinct function within the overall military structure.
2. The use and preparation of specialized drugs
3. Ritual/Programming element, and subsequent psychological fallout.
. . .
2. Hashashin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassins
"The origins of the Assassins can be traced back to just before the First Crusade, around 1080. There has been much difficulty finding out much information about the origins of the Assassins because most early sources are written by enemies of the order, are based on legends, or both. Most sources dealing with the order's inner workings were destroyed with the capture of Alamut, the Assassins' headquarters, by the Mongols in 1256. However, it is possible to trace the beginnings of the cult back to its first Grandmaster, Hassan-i Sabbah (1050s–1124).
After creating the Order, Sabbah searched for a location that would be fit for a sturdy headquarters and decided on the fortress at Alamut in what is now northwestern Iran. It is still disputed whether Sabbah built the fortress himself or if it was already built at the time of his arrival. In either case, Sabbah adapted the fortress to suit his needs not only for defense from hostile forces, but also for indoctrination of his followers. After laying claim to the fortress at Alamut, Sabbah began expanding his influence outwards to nearby towns and districts, using his agents to gain political favour and to intimidate the local populations.
Spending most of his days at Alamut producing religious works and developing doctrines for his Order, Sabbah would never leave his fortress again in his lifetime. He had established a secret society of deadly assassins, which was built on a hierarchical structure. Below Sabbah, the Grand Headmaster of the Order, were those known as "Greater Propagandists", followed by the normal "Propagandists", the Rafiqs ("Companions"), and the Lasiqs ("Adherents"). It was the Lasiqs who were trained to become some of the most feared assassins, or as they were called, "Fida'i" (self-sacrificing agent), in the known world.[6]
It is, however, unknown how Hassan-i-Sabbah was able to get his "Fida'in" to perform with such fervent loyalty. One theory, possibly the best known but also the most criticized, comes from the reports of Marco Polo during his travels to the Orient. He recounts a story he heard, of the "Old Man of the Mountain" (Sabbah) who would drug his young followers with hashish, lead them to a "paradise", and then claim that only he had the means to allow for their return. Perceiving that Sabbah was either a prophet or magician, his disciples, believing that only he could return them to "paradise", were fully committed to his cause and willing to carry out his every request.[7]
"At their peak, many of the assassinations of the day were often attributed to the hashashin. Even though the Crusaders and the other factions employed personal assassins, the fact that the hashashin performed their assassinations in full view of the public, often in broad daylight, gave them the reputation assigned to them.[Wasserman 4]
Psychological warfare, and attacking the enemy's psyche was another often employed tactic of the hashashin, who would sometimes attempt to draw their opponents into submission rather than risk killing them.[14]"
Despite, the quite apologetic aspect of this wikipedia article (no doubt to put distance between the forefather of modern mind-controlled assasins and modern Ismailis/Shiites who are still quite openly involved in terrorism and mind-control with the aid of western powers like the US), open references to 1. the use of psychotropic drugs 2. intense segregation of these specialized agents, and 3. the use of psychological warfare tactics for programming operatives as well as offensive applications are all still present even in such a public source as wikipedia.
3. Hessian mercenaries
Even the most casual student of American history is aware of the importance of Hessian mercenaries in the revolutionary war. Those who study deeper will discover the larger historical context in which this military force emerged. I have included mention of it here, despite some dissimilarities with the above examples, because of the deep web of interconnections between the hessian mercenaries, the teutonic knights, the so called 'Prussian Model' of education (brainwashing and operant conditioning) on which the American public education system is based, and the Rite of Strict Observance (masonic network), and subsequent Nazi mind-control operations. Each of these connections is extensive and profound and could be the subject of a book in itself, but, for the scope of this post, i just want to keep it brief. In the present day, we are facing a world where most military action (i.e. the global War on Terra/Terror) is done by mercenaries not affiliated with traditional nation-states fighting with more or less random and shifting allegiances, and importantly, not accountable to any traditional system of law or military justice. This being the case, it is important to understand how this mode of warfare has operated and arisen. In the 17th and 18th centuries, the state of Hesse was the source of mercenaries that fought all over Europe and eventually North America, providing not only a source of revenue for the state, but also a unifying mechanism for the revolutionary/subversive movements of the prototype phase of what we now call the 'new world order', seeking to unify disparate states through a secret-society network of international alliances. That said, let's bring it back to the topic at hand.
In a society structured around producing mercenaries for revenue and global political intrigues, the creation of loyal soldiers is a psychological and sociological operation at all levels, structuring the very psyche and social order on this template and instilling it in the minds of the population.
http://thehistoryjunkie.com/the-hessians/
Recruitment was meant for all-classes but typically it was the lower classes that would end up serving in the military. This was typical of all armies during the eighteenth century. The proportion of males who served in the Hesse-Cassel military was one out of fifteen.
Recruitment was also forced upon some individuals. School-dropouts, wanderers, and others were often forced into the military.
Capital punishment was also used more often than in traditional European armies. Men were hanged for leaving their post and their families would also be punished for their misconduct. These stiff penalties resulted in the most disciplined army in Europe.
A Hessian soldier was drilled constantly and endlessly conditioned. Men became proud of their military accomplishments and their discipline was displayed on the battlefield quite often. During the Battle of White Plains, Hessians took heavy casualties, but remained calm and continued their march towards the Americans. They marched through grass that was on fire and heavy gunfire. Their discipline led to a victory for the British and the respect of their enemy."
http://www.mountvernon.org/research-collections/digital-encyclopedia/article/hessians/
Again this was frequently ascribed to nurture, with young men hearing from fathers and uncles tales of adventure in far places while omitting the negatives. Moral factors were involved as well. The Hessian countryside was still strongly Calvinist in practice. Children were inculcated at an early age with fundamental concepts of duty and calling. Enhanced by secular indoctrination of loyalty to the ruler, concretized by rigid discipline in field and garrison, they produced soldiers worthy of their hire."
http://www.americanrevolution.org/hessians/hess4.php
"with troops collected as these were, desertion was necessarily common. The military service was dreaded, and in the smaller states a successful run of a few miles would take the deserter beyond the frontier. The people sympathized with him, and would gladly have helped him had they not been restrained by severe punishments. These, however, were not wanting. In Wurtemberg, when the alarm was given, the parish must instantly rise and occupy roads, paths, and bridges for twenty-four hours, or until the fugitive was caught. Should he escape, the place must furnish a substitute as tall as the deserter, and the sons of the principal man of the village were first liable. This order was to be read every month from the pulpit. Whoever helped a deserter lost his civil rights, and was imprisoned with hard labor and flogged in prison. The laws of Hesse-Cassel appear to have been a little less savage. Peasants arresting a deserter received a ducat; but if the fugitive passed through a village without being arrested, the village was liable to pay for him. Every soldier going more than a mile from his garrison was to be furnished with a pass, and all persons meeting him at a greater distance from home were required to demand it (Reglement von der Infanterie, Theil ii. tit. vi.) A characteristic incident occurred in 1783. A Prussian recruiting officer and a Prussian soldier's wife induced an Anspach soldier to desert for the sake of re-enlisting in the Prussian army. They were intercepted by the Anspach authorities. The woman was hanged; the officer was obliged to be present at the execution and was then locked up in a fortress. The deserter seems to have escaped with his life, being a valuable merchantable commodity (Lang, "Geschichte des vorletzten Markgrafen," p. 92.)
Having enlisted his recruits, perhaps under a foreign jurisdiction, the officer, or under-officer, was obliged to get them to his garrison. This would afford, of course, opportunities for escape; and Kapp quotes, from a book printed in Berlin as late as 1805, the precautions to be taken against this danger. The under-officer who is escorting a recruit must wear sword and pistol. He must make the recruit walk in front of him, never let him come too near, and warn him that a single false step may cost him his life. He must avoid large towns, and places where the recruit has previously served, as much as possible. It is also desirable to avoid the place where the recruit was born. They must spend the night at inns where the landlord is known to be well-disposed to recruiting officers, and sure to side with them, and not with their victim. The recruit and the officer must both undress, and their clothes be given to the landlord for safe keeping. Inns where recruits are to spend the night must have a separate room for the purpose; if possible, up-stairs, and with barred windows. A light must be kept burning all night, and the under-officer must give up his weapons to the landlord, lest the recruit should get them away from him and use them against him in the night. In the morning he must get them back, see to the loading and priming, dress himself, and be ready for his journey before the clothes of the recruit are brought to him. The recruit must enter a house, or a room, first; he must come out last. At meals he must sit behind the table, next the wall. If he shows signs of being troublesome, the straps and buttons must be cut from his breeches, and he must hold them up with his hands.
A good dog, trained to the business, will be very useful to an under-officer under such circumstances.
If an under-officer is unfortunately obliged to kill or wound a recruit he must bring a paper from the local magistrate. But no document will excuse the escape of a recruit, an accident which the Prussian military imagination refuses to consider ever necessary."
So, to conclude, let me state that what we see here is an early template of so many aspects of modern society:
1. The psychological and cultural conditioning of people to accept all manner of degradation and dehumanization, even including outright slavery/execution/torture under the guise of duty/honor/courage, and the commodification of human lives under the banner of 'enlightenment' and empire building through armed 'revolutions' around the globe. particularly, this entails the determination of loyalty on a strictly monetary basis at the behest of masters with no national or cultural allegiance whatsoever.
2. the individuals so debased actually consider it a badge of honor and dignity to sell decades of their lives, their entire youth away for such a purpose.
3. the complete segregation of those conscripted from 'free' persons and attendant total negation of any rights, and immersion in a culture and value system carefully designed to produce a brutal, emotionless servant of global agendae.
Let me be clear that, at this point, this same methodology has been slightly modified and presented in ever more subtle forms in modern society, to the point that all segments of the population are subject to some variation of this form of conditioning from earliest childhood education, through 'cultural' conditioning, religion, entertainment (total propaganda couched as a diversion), and even seemingly high-flown 'liberal' education in pseudo-academia. . .all of it involves a profound psychological conditioning for a role within a global plan at the behest of transnational interests that individuals never come in contact with personally and can scarcely conceive of (no more than an average hessian mercenary could conceive of the aims of his superiors among the Landgraves and Chivalric/Masonic orders of the 18th century). As vast as this cultural/historical swath may seem, from the earliest berzerkers eating mushrooms to the modern Blackwater operatives taking dissociatives/steroids/amnesiacs and having PTSD tremors. . .it is only a tiny pebble in the overall mosaic that is present-day PSYWAR operations.
1. Berzerkers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berserker
"Berserkers (or berserks) were Norse warriors who are primarily reported in the Old Norse literature to have fought in a nearly uncontrollable, trance-like fury, a characteristic which later gave rise to the English word berserk. Berserkers are attested to in numerous Old Norse sources. Most historians believe that berserkers worked themselves into a rage before battle, while the idea that they consumed drugged foods has also been suggested.[1]"
"King Harald Fairhair's use of berserkers as "shock troops" broadened his sphere of influence. Other Scandinavian kings used berserkers as part of their army of hirdmen and sometimes ranked them as equivalent to a royal bodyguard. It may be that some of those warriors only adopted the organization or rituals of berserk männerbünde, or used the name as a deterrent or claim of their ferocity."
"The actual fit of madness the berserker experienced was referred to as berserkergang ("going berserk"). This condition has been described as follows:
This fury, which was called berserkergang, occurred not only in the heat of battle, but also during laborious work. Men who were thus seized performed things which otherwise seemed impossible for human power. This condition is said to have begun with shivering, chattering of the teeth, and chill in the body, and then the face swelled and changed its colour. With this was connected a great hot-headedness, which at last gave over into a great rage, under which they howled as wild animals, bit the edge of their shields, and cut down everything they met without discriminating between friend or foe. When this condition ceased, a great dulling of the mind and feebleness followed, which could last for one or several days.[1]Theories about what caused berserker behaviour include ingestion of materials with psychoactive properties, psychological processes, and medical conditions.
Some scholars believe certain examples of berserker rage to have been induced voluntarily by the consumption of drugs such as the hallucinogenic mushroom Amanita muscaria[1] or massive amounts of alcohol.[15] While such practices would fit in with ritual usages, other explanations for the berserker's madness have been put forward, including self-induced hysteria, epilepsy, mental illness, or genetics.[16]
Jonathan Shay makes an explicit connection between the berserker rage of soldiers and the hyperarousal of post-traumatic stress disorder.[17] In Achilles in Vietnam he writes:
If a soldier survives the berserk state, it imparts emotional deadness and vulnerability to explosive rage to his psychology and permanent hyperarousal to his physiology — hallmarks of post-traumatic stress disorder in combat veterans. My clinical experience with Vietnam combat veterans prompts me to place the berserk state at the heart of their most severe psychological and psychophysiological injuries.[18]"At this point, please note the following features, which will be recurring themes throughout my analysis of psychological warfare:
1. segregation of the group by distinctive dress, ritualistic practice, and distinct function within the overall military structure.
2. The use and preparation of specialized drugs
3. Ritual/Programming element, and subsequent psychological fallout.
. . .
2. Hashashin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassins
"The origins of the Assassins can be traced back to just before the First Crusade, around 1080. There has been much difficulty finding out much information about the origins of the Assassins because most early sources are written by enemies of the order, are based on legends, or both. Most sources dealing with the order's inner workings were destroyed with the capture of Alamut, the Assassins' headquarters, by the Mongols in 1256. However, it is possible to trace the beginnings of the cult back to its first Grandmaster, Hassan-i Sabbah (1050s–1124).
After creating the Order, Sabbah searched for a location that would be fit for a sturdy headquarters and decided on the fortress at Alamut in what is now northwestern Iran. It is still disputed whether Sabbah built the fortress himself or if it was already built at the time of his arrival. In either case, Sabbah adapted the fortress to suit his needs not only for defense from hostile forces, but also for indoctrination of his followers. After laying claim to the fortress at Alamut, Sabbah began expanding his influence outwards to nearby towns and districts, using his agents to gain political favour and to intimidate the local populations.
Spending most of his days at Alamut producing religious works and developing doctrines for his Order, Sabbah would never leave his fortress again in his lifetime. He had established a secret society of deadly assassins, which was built on a hierarchical structure. Below Sabbah, the Grand Headmaster of the Order, were those known as "Greater Propagandists", followed by the normal "Propagandists", the Rafiqs ("Companions"), and the Lasiqs ("Adherents"). It was the Lasiqs who were trained to become some of the most feared assassins, or as they were called, "Fida'i" (self-sacrificing agent), in the known world.[6]
It is, however, unknown how Hassan-i-Sabbah was able to get his "Fida'in" to perform with such fervent loyalty. One theory, possibly the best known but also the most criticized, comes from the reports of Marco Polo during his travels to the Orient. He recounts a story he heard, of the "Old Man of the Mountain" (Sabbah) who would drug his young followers with hashish, lead them to a "paradise", and then claim that only he had the means to allow for their return. Perceiving that Sabbah was either a prophet or magician, his disciples, believing that only he could return them to "paradise", were fully committed to his cause and willing to carry out his every request.[7]
"At their peak, many of the assassinations of the day were often attributed to the hashashin. Even though the Crusaders and the other factions employed personal assassins, the fact that the hashashin performed their assassinations in full view of the public, often in broad daylight, gave them the reputation assigned to them.[Wasserman 4]
Psychological warfare, and attacking the enemy's psyche was another often employed tactic of the hashashin, who would sometimes attempt to draw their opponents into submission rather than risk killing them.[14]"
Despite, the quite apologetic aspect of this wikipedia article (no doubt to put distance between the forefather of modern mind-controlled assasins and modern Ismailis/Shiites who are still quite openly involved in terrorism and mind-control with the aid of western powers like the US), open references to 1. the use of psychotropic drugs 2. intense segregation of these specialized agents, and 3. the use of psychological warfare tactics for programming operatives as well as offensive applications are all still present even in such a public source as wikipedia.
3. Hessian mercenaries
In a society structured around producing mercenaries for revenue and global political intrigues, the creation of loyal soldiers is a psychological and sociological operation at all levels, structuring the very psyche and social order on this template and instilling it in the minds of the population.
http://thehistoryjunkie.com/the-hessians/
"Recruitment
Recruitment was well-organized in Hesse-Cassel. At seven years of age every male would register for the military. At sixteen years of age each male would appear for examination. The recruiter would then decide if their physical body was able to withstand a military life. After their examination at sixteen they would return every Easter for a re-examination until they were thirty years old. During the recruitment process they would decide if the individual was indispensable to the economy of Hesse-Cassel.Recruitment was meant for all-classes but typically it was the lower classes that would end up serving in the military. This was typical of all armies during the eighteenth century. The proportion of males who served in the Hesse-Cassel military was one out of fifteen.
Recruitment was also forced upon some individuals. School-dropouts, wanderers, and others were often forced into the military.
Discipline and Training of a Hessian Soldier
The Hessian system of discipline was different from the British system in that they made more use of corporal punishment. The most common punishment was 30 lashes and for more serious offenses the soldiers were forced to run through the gauntlet in which they were pummeled by their peers. If the charges were very serious then they would be forced to run the gauntlet many times. The weapon used for these punishments was the dreaded cudgel which the British deemed unfit to punish animals with.Capital punishment was also used more often than in traditional European armies. Men were hanged for leaving their post and their families would also be punished for their misconduct. These stiff penalties resulted in the most disciplined army in Europe.
A Hessian soldier was drilled constantly and endlessly conditioned. Men became proud of their military accomplishments and their discipline was displayed on the battlefield quite often. During the Battle of White Plains, Hessians took heavy casualties, but remained calm and continued their march towards the Americans. They marched through grass that was on fire and heavy gunfire. Their discipline led to a victory for the British and the respect of their enemy."
http://www.mountvernon.org/research-collections/digital-encyclopedia/article/hessians/
"Hiring a foreign army was not unusual in the
eighteenth century. For Hesse-Cassel, soldiers were a major export. By
renting its army to the British, Hesse-Cassel took in an amount equal to
about thirteen years' worth of tax revenue. This allowed the state's
prince, the Landgraf Wilhelm II, to keep taxes low and public spending
high. A man of the Enlightenment, Wilhelm oversaw public works projects,
administered a public welfare system, and encouraged education.
Even so, military needs dominated the country.
When boys turned seven they were registered for military service, and
each year men ages sixteen to thirty had to present themselves to an
official for possible induction. Some men were exempted because their
occupations were considered vital to the state. But others, such as
school dropouts, bankrupts, servants without masters, idlers, and the
unemployed, were deemed "expendable people" and could be forced into
service at any time.
Life in the Hessian Army was harsh. The system
aimed to instill iron discipline and the punishments could be brutal.
Still, morale was generally high. Officers were well-educated, promotion
was by merit, and soldiers took pride in serving their prince and their
people. Furthermore, military service provided economic benefits. The
families of soldiers were exempt from certain taxes, wages were higher
than in farm work, and there was the promise of booty (money earned
through the sale of captured military property) and plunder (property
taken from civilians). Officially plunder was verboten, but officers,
who also had a taste for looted goods, often looked the other way."
http://www.historynet.com/hessians-the-best-armies-money-could-buy.htm
Hesse-Kassel
thus became, in numbers and percentages, the most militarized state in
Europe. Its army stabilized at a strength of 24,000 men: a 1-to-15
soldier-civilian ratio, twice that of Prussia. In contrast to Prussia,
while foreigners could enlist in the Hessian army, it consisted
overwhelmingly of native sons. One household out of four was represented
in its ranks. In Prussia the ratio was 1-to-14. Both travelers and
military inspectors consistently remarked on the size and fitness of the
Hessian regulars, qualities frequently credited to their austere
upbringing on hardscrabble smallholdings. No less remarkable was their
apparent acceptance of military life, despite a term of service totaling
24 years.
Again this was frequently ascribed to nurture, with young men hearing from fathers and uncles tales of adventure in far places while omitting the negatives. Moral factors were involved as well. The Hessian countryside was still strongly Calvinist in practice. Children were inculcated at an early age with fundamental concepts of duty and calling. Enhanced by secular indoctrination of loyalty to the ruler, concretized by rigid discipline in field and garrison, they produced soldiers worthy of their hi
- See more at: http://www.historynet.com/hessians-the-best-armies-money-could-buy.htm#sthash.0jqOHPN1.dpuf
"Hesse-Kassel thus became, in numbers and percentages, the most
militarized state in Europe. Its army stabilized at a strength of 24,000
men: a 1-to-15 soldier-civilian ratio, twice that of Prussia. In
contrast to Prussia, while foreigners could enlist in the Hessian army,
it consisted overwhelmingly of native sons. One household out of four
was represented in its ranks. In Prussia the ratio was 1-to-14. Both
travelers and military inspectors consistently remarked on the size and
fitness of the Hessian regulars, qualities frequently credited to their
austere upbringing on hardscrabble smallholdings. No less remarkable was
their apparent acceptance of military life, despite a term of service
totaling 24 years.Again this was frequently ascribed to nurture, with young men hearing from fathers and uncles tales of adventure in far places while omitting the negatives. Moral factors were involved as well. The Hessian countryside was still strongly Calvinist in practice. Children were inculcated at an early age with fundamental concepts of duty and calling. Enhanced by secular indoctrination of loyalty to the ruler, concretized by rigid discipline in field and garrison, they produced soldiers worthy of their hi
- See more at: http://www.historynet.com/hessians-the-best-armies-money-could-buy.htm#sthash.0jqOHPN1.dpuf
Again this was frequently ascribed to nurture, with young men hearing from fathers and uncles tales of adventure in far places while omitting the negatives. Moral factors were involved as well. The Hessian countryside was still strongly Calvinist in practice. Children were inculcated at an early age with fundamental concepts of duty and calling. Enhanced by secular indoctrination of loyalty to the ruler, concretized by rigid discipline in field and garrison, they produced soldiers worthy of their hire."
http://www.americanrevolution.org/hessians/hess4.php
"with troops collected as these were, desertion was necessarily common. The military service was dreaded, and in the smaller states a successful run of a few miles would take the deserter beyond the frontier. The people sympathized with him, and would gladly have helped him had they not been restrained by severe punishments. These, however, were not wanting. In Wurtemberg, when the alarm was given, the parish must instantly rise and occupy roads, paths, and bridges for twenty-four hours, or until the fugitive was caught. Should he escape, the place must furnish a substitute as tall as the deserter, and the sons of the principal man of the village were first liable. This order was to be read every month from the pulpit. Whoever helped a deserter lost his civil rights, and was imprisoned with hard labor and flogged in prison. The laws of Hesse-Cassel appear to have been a little less savage. Peasants arresting a deserter received a ducat; but if the fugitive passed through a village without being arrested, the village was liable to pay for him. Every soldier going more than a mile from his garrison was to be furnished with a pass, and all persons meeting him at a greater distance from home were required to demand it (Reglement von der Infanterie, Theil ii. tit. vi.) A characteristic incident occurred in 1783. A Prussian recruiting officer and a Prussian soldier's wife induced an Anspach soldier to desert for the sake of re-enlisting in the Prussian army. They were intercepted by the Anspach authorities. The woman was hanged; the officer was obliged to be present at the execution and was then locked up in a fortress. The deserter seems to have escaped with his life, being a valuable merchantable commodity (Lang, "Geschichte des vorletzten Markgrafen," p. 92.)
Having enlisted his recruits, perhaps under a foreign jurisdiction, the officer, or under-officer, was obliged to get them to his garrison. This would afford, of course, opportunities for escape; and Kapp quotes, from a book printed in Berlin as late as 1805, the precautions to be taken against this danger. The under-officer who is escorting a recruit must wear sword and pistol. He must make the recruit walk in front of him, never let him come too near, and warn him that a single false step may cost him his life. He must avoid large towns, and places where the recruit has previously served, as much as possible. It is also desirable to avoid the place where the recruit was born. They must spend the night at inns where the landlord is known to be well-disposed to recruiting officers, and sure to side with them, and not with their victim. The recruit and the officer must both undress, and their clothes be given to the landlord for safe keeping. Inns where recruits are to spend the night must have a separate room for the purpose; if possible, up-stairs, and with barred windows. A light must be kept burning all night, and the under-officer must give up his weapons to the landlord, lest the recruit should get them away from him and use them against him in the night. In the morning he must get them back, see to the loading and priming, dress himself, and be ready for his journey before the clothes of the recruit are brought to him. The recruit must enter a house, or a room, first; he must come out last. At meals he must sit behind the table, next the wall. If he shows signs of being troublesome, the straps and buttons must be cut from his breeches, and he must hold them up with his hands.
A good dog, trained to the business, will be very useful to an under-officer under such circumstances.
If an under-officer is unfortunately obliged to kill or wound a recruit he must bring a paper from the local magistrate. But no document will excuse the escape of a recruit, an accident which the Prussian military imagination refuses to consider ever necessary."
So, to conclude, let me state that what we see here is an early template of so many aspects of modern society:
1. The psychological and cultural conditioning of people to accept all manner of degradation and dehumanization, even including outright slavery/execution/torture under the guise of duty/honor/courage, and the commodification of human lives under the banner of 'enlightenment' and empire building through armed 'revolutions' around the globe. particularly, this entails the determination of loyalty on a strictly monetary basis at the behest of masters with no national or cultural allegiance whatsoever.
2. the individuals so debased actually consider it a badge of honor and dignity to sell decades of their lives, their entire youth away for such a purpose.
3. the complete segregation of those conscripted from 'free' persons and attendant total negation of any rights, and immersion in a culture and value system carefully designed to produce a brutal, emotionless servant of global agendae.
Let me be clear that, at this point, this same methodology has been slightly modified and presented in ever more subtle forms in modern society, to the point that all segments of the population are subject to some variation of this form of conditioning from earliest childhood education, through 'cultural' conditioning, religion, entertainment (total propaganda couched as a diversion), and even seemingly high-flown 'liberal' education in pseudo-academia. . .all of it involves a profound psychological conditioning for a role within a global plan at the behest of transnational interests that individuals never come in contact with personally and can scarcely conceive of (no more than an average hessian mercenary could conceive of the aims of his superiors among the Landgraves and Chivalric/Masonic orders of the 18th century). As vast as this cultural/historical swath may seem, from the earliest berzerkers eating mushrooms to the modern Blackwater operatives taking dissociatives/steroids/amnesiacs and having PTSD tremors. . .it is only a tiny pebble in the overall mosaic that is present-day PSYWAR operations.
