“All propaganda has to be popular and has to adapt its spiritual level to the perception of the least intelligent of those towards whom it intends to direct itself.” -Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf (”My Struggle”), Vol. I

Arguments must therefore be crude, clear and forcible, and appeal to emotions and instincts, not the intellect. …Hatred and contempt must be directed at particular individuals.” -Joseph Goebbels

We will begin by showing how the enemy has asked for it many times over. The enemy has, on numerous occasions, deployed hate propaganda that clearly depicts Jews as “Christ Killers.”

“Crucified Palestine” has the same implications.

Instead of complaining and whining about how the enemy is using anti-Semitic images, we will go with Lord Clifford in King Henry VI:

I will not bandy with thee word for word/ But buckle with thee blows, twice two for one!

“What do you think they would do to Jesus?” suggests, of course, that militant Muslims are Christ-Killers. We can, in fact, use inflammatory phrases like “Christ-killing Islamofascists” and “Militant Islamic Christ Killers” quite freely, because their treatment of Christians makes it quite obvious what they would do to Jesus himself. We should, in fact, deploy even more cartoons of this nature.

A History of Hate Propaganda

Hate propaganda goes back many centuries, and its chief purpose is to dehumanize the enemy. The enemy is typically depicted as a bestial subhuman with whom reason and negotiation is impossible. Cartoons of the 19th century and earlier often depicted the enemy consorting with the Devil; a British cartoon of the Napoleonic Wars showed Napoleon Bonaparte taking advice from Satan. An 18th-century British cartoon attacked Russia’s empress Catherine II and her general Suvorov by showing Suvorov offering his mistress a collection of Polish heads while the Devil whispered suggestions in her ear.

The propaganda became more sophisticated toward the end of the 19th century, when the Yellow Press wanted to start a war between the United States and Spain. This trend continued into the First World War, and Goebbels and Hitler were two Germans who picked up on its effectiveness.

“The insurrection in Cuba that had been simmering for several years, provided [William Randolph] Hearst and [Joseph] Pulitzer with the excuse for a rip-roaring circulating-building crusade. Playing on the American people’s sympathy for the insurrectos, Hearst artists drew fake atrocity pictures of Spaniards stripping American women on the high seas, while Pulitzer correspondents in Cuba cabled reports of ‘Blood on the roadsides, blood in the fields, blood on the doorsteps, blood, blood, blood’” (Hess and Kaplan, The Ungentlemanly Art, 1968, 122).

The Spanish Brute, late 19th century.

The bestial ape evolves in time for the First World War.

Here is our own contribution.

Then again, it may be just as effective to let the enemy speak for himself. It saves us the effort of drawing pictures.

Considerations in Developing Propaganda: The Propaganda Man
Propaganda must be customized for the people to whom it is to be delivered. The objections to harsh language at IsraPundit and elsewhere are probably due to the fact that the audience is highly educated, and does not need to be persuaded by crude and coarse depictions of the enemy. One writes for the Wall Street Journal at a far higher level than for the New York Daily News or Post. On the other hand, and Joseph Goebbels made this quite clear, one wins not by winning over the intellectuals but rather “the man in the street,” who probably reads the Daily News or Post. These publications tend to have sensationalistic headlines about the latest horrible murder, atrocity, or whatever. Here is what one of the country’s foremost experts on psychological warfare has to say about the matter:

“Then go after the Propaganda Man [hypothetical listener on the other side] yourself. He is your friend. You are his friend. The only enemy is the enemy Leader (or generals, or emperor, or capitalists, or ‘They’).” (Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger, Psychological Warfare, p. 154)

“For psychological warfare purposes, it is useful to define the enemy as: (1) the ruler, (2) or the ruling group, (3) or unspecified manipulators, (4) or any definite minority. It is thoroughly unsound to define the enemy too widely.” (Linebarger, p. 51) “The sound psychological warfare operator will try to get enemy troops to believing that the enemy is not themselves but somebody else- the King, the Fuhrer, the elite troops, the capitalists. … ‘We’re not fighting you. We are fighting the So-and-so’s who are misleading you.’”

“Sending the Japanese cartoons of themselves, mocking the German language, calling Italians by familiar but inelegant names- such communications cropped up during the [Second World] war. The senders got a lot of fun out of the message but the purpose was unintelligently considered. The actual effect was to annoy the enemy, stiffening his will to resist.” (Linebarger, p. 40.)

We must similarly pay close attention to the Propaganda Man to whom we want to direct our cartoons. Who is the Propaganda Man (or Woman) for the following cartoon?

So far, then, we have shown:
(1) The enemy hate propaganda is extremely dangerous because it is effective for the Propaganda Man for whom it is targeted, even though Euro-American intellectuals find it repulsive. It is a very serious mistake, based on the experiences of the Spanish-American War and World Wars, to assume that this stuff is not a threat.
(2) We must therefore reply in kind, truth for falsehood and with compound interest, while keeping in mind the Propaganda Man to whom our cartoons are to be directed.
(3) Our cartoons must be precision-targeted to evoke hatred, loathing, and contempt only for Islamofascism.
(4) The propaganda’s objective is to evoke hatred, fear, and loathing of Islamofascism and Islamofascist fifth columns (e.g. International Solidarity Movement) in North America, Europe, Israel, and the ANZAC countries. It must relegate such activities to the lunatic fringe currently occupied by the Ku Klux Klan and other hate cults.

Now we will examine some key principles of propaganda.

1. The human brain is designed to process images, not words
Words are an artificial communication medium: symbols with meanings attached to them. The brain must decipher the words of an editorial or a speech, and convert them into images. Compare the statement, “Cigarette smoke contains carbon monoxide and, if you are a pregnant woman, gets into your baby’s bloodstream,” and a picture of a baby smoking a cigarette.

2. Political cartoons are among the most effective means of communication.
* The Yellow Press (Hearst and Pulitzer) used them to start the Spanish-American War (1898). No one ever proved that Spain blew up the battleship Maine, but the press published a cartoon of a semihuman ape wearing a Spanish uniform and holding a bloody knife.
* Pro-English cartoonists used political cartoons to promote hatred of Germany, and to get the United States into the First World War. Germany failed to use similar methods to counteract this propaganda, which played a major role in losing the war. Hitler and Goebbels were, unfortunately, two Germans who took this lesson to heart.
* In summary, effective cartoons (they sound so innocent, don’t they?) have started wars, killed people, and changed history.

3. Joseph Goebbels was, unfortunately, right. Arguments that will not persuade (and may even alienate) an educated person are often effective in persuading the masses.
* Pro-gun control cartoons often feature a stereotyped, beer-swilling, pickup truck-driving, grossly overweight, and uneducated “NRA Member” as a symbol of gun rights advocates. Go back forty years and replace him with a Negro with exaggerated lips and bestial features- or sixty years, and replace him with a Jew with an exaggerated nose and other Semitic features. The principle is the same, and the NRA’s failure to use the same methods against its detractors is a serious omission.
* If you tell a lie long enough and effectively enough, you can get the masses to believe it. For example, the Virginia Slims Tennis Tournament suggests to impressionable children and teenagers that tennis players actually smoke. The tobacco propaganda machine is like the Ministry of Truth in George Orwell’s 1984. If you work at it, you can convince the proles (proletariat) that war is peace, slavery is freedom, black is white, and two and two make five. Therefore, if you are going to tell the truth (and we do not advocate doing otherwise), you had better use the same methods or the Goebbels and Hitlers of the world will swamp you.

An Essay on Inflammatory Propaganda

Men cannot be excited to kill by soft words spoken in an uncertain voice. When General Patton spoke, every man knew exactly what was demanded. Gen. Patton would explain, “It takes a lot of talking to get our American young men ready to kill, to murder. …The language of war is not polite. War is hell. It is difficult to make our fine American youth understand that the enemy wants to kill him. …I use the language of soldiers who are ready to kill.” –Porter Williamson, Patton’s Principles

The distasteful measures we are about to describe are a reasonable, necessary, and effective response to Islamofascist propaganda and fifth column activities that are pervading Judeo-Christian organizations such as the Presbyterian Church USA, Unitarian Universalist Church, Union for Reform Judiasm (formerly the Union of American Hebrew Congregations), and so on along with women on the political Left. The enemy is waging a very effective propaganda campaign to undermine Civilization’s will to resist, e.g. by building a perspective of moral equivalency between Euro-American Civilization and Islamofascist barbarism and chaos. Israel’s construction of a wall to keep terrorists out is morally equivalent to a Berlin Wall for keeping innocent people in. Palestinian terrorism is “resistance to the Israeli occupation.” The United States’ war against Saddam Hussein is morally equivalent to Saddam Hussein throwing political opponents into plastic shredders while his son Uday feeds women to attack dogs after he tires of raping them. An Iraqi terrorist who is murdering American soldiers becomes an “insurgent” or even, to quote filmmaker Michael Moore, a “Minuteman” and thus a heroic resistance fighter.

Civilization has not only the right but the duty to respond in kind and with compound interest. King Henry V said that modest stillness and humility were suitable peacetime behaviors, but war requires us to behave like tigers and “disguise fair nature with hard-favour’d rage.” Like actors stepping into a distasteful but necessary role on the world’s stage, we must don the ugly and terrifying mask of war. Pallas Athena, the namesake of Athens, was a favorite Greek deity who personified the highest aspects of Civilization. During peacetime she was the patron goddess of wisdom, the sciences, and crafts such as weaving but, when the polis or city-state went to war, she turned into a ruthless, terrifying, and cold-blooded killer.

By the enemy’s choice and not ours, we must accordingly cry “Havoc!” and let slip the dogs of war: an indiscriminate propaganda campaign that uses the most inflammatory language possible, in effective and synergistic combination with pictures and facts, to evoke worldwide hatred of militant “Islam.”

Choosing the Right Words
When describing the conduct of the Islamofascists, we must use deliberately inflammatory words like “femicide,” “rape,” “wife battering,” “child molesting,” “child rape,” and even “Islamofascist Christ Killers.” Such words evoke powerful emotions and even rage in Euro-American audiences and we must use them as frequently as possible. Meanwhile, the enemy is not an “insurgent” and he is certainly not, to use Michael Moore’s words, a “Minuteman.” He, or rather it, is a terrorist or a “sand Nazi.” (Remember, “Nazi” is a behavioral choice and not a race.) General Patton did not exhort his men to kill “Germans,” he told them to kill “lousy Hun bastards.” An Axis soldier ceased to be a human being and became instead a Jap, Kraut, or Hun.

The same technique should be used in describing Islamofascist violence against Arabs and Muslims. As an example, a Palestinian woman murdered her daughter for being raped by her brothers. In describing this incident, one refers to the victim as “she” and “her,” the mother as a “sow” and “it,” and the rapist brothers as “bucks” or “studs” i.e. terms normally reserved for animals. Only the victim is given a human face and description as a human being; the perpetrators are described as less than human.

Hijacking the Enemy’s Words
Words are weapons, and the enemy’s own words can and should be hijacked whenever possible–much like capturing an artillery piece and turning it against its former owners. “Allahu akbar” should always be used in the context of Islamofascists cutting off heads or committing other atrocities. Although it means “God is great” the context should always suggest, “Let’s chop off heads!” or “Let’s stone a woman to death!” Robert Heinlein did this in a nonfiction story in which the context of Pravda (truth) always suggested that Pravda meant “bull excrement.”

The enemy has also dug out the old “Jews as Christ Killers” blood libel. This was a very bad place for them to go because we can and should reply with the phrase “Islamofascist Christ Killers” whenever possible. The facts are with us and totally against them because Islamofascists and not Jews are persecuting and killing Christians in droves all over the world.

Circulating the Propaganda

To be effective, leaflets must scatter. Bundles of paper which fall intact make little impact on the enemy [or prospective audience, the general public in this case] unless they hit him on the head.” (Linebarger, Psychological Warfare)

Royalty-free leaflets and cartoons that anyone is free to copy are ways to distribute propaganda. The ideal result should be a chain reaction; e.g. if three people copy a royalty-free cartoon (which contains a statement giving permission to copy it as long as no changes are made) and post it to their own Web sites or blogs, and three visitors to each of their Web sites copy the cartoon, it will soon be all over the Internet. With regard to leaflets, we all remember imaginative amateur cartoons that circulated from one office to another even before there was an Internet; people who liked them photocopied them and gave copies to their friends.

Additional Propaganda Cartoons

This cartoon (1) dehumanizes the enemy into an entity with which no reason or negotiation is possible, and (2) shows it menacing a little girl. This one is even more graphic.

Key applications of the basic principles: (1) The enemy is depicted with bestial features. (2) The enemy is shown attacking infants and women, thus evoking pure hatred and contempt in Euro-American societies. (3) The quoted material shows that we have not just made a nasty picture, it shows that the picture is truthful.

The Propaganda Men (and Women) for this image: Christians, Jews, and gay people. The Muslim victim emphasizes the fact that the picture is not directed against all Muslims, but only against Islamofascists. Note the use of Nazi symbols (”Jude,” pink triangle) to equate militant Islam with Nazism.

This one uses Euro-American societies’ total revulsion for child molesters. The accompanying text again invites the viewer to prove for himself, perhaps through a Google search on the keywords, that the allegation is true.

“Jesus died for Christians, Muslims died for Mohammed.” (Large image, click on the link to view.) This strikes at the very foundations of “Islam 1.0″ (militant Islam) by reminding the viewer that, as opposed to Jesus, Mohammed was a self-serving bandit and conqueror who created a religion to get his followers to kill and die for him. It therefore demonstrates that Christianity is inherently superior to Islam, although we recognize that “Islam 2.0″ (Mohammed’s version minus all the violent stuff) is a legitimate belief system. One does not have to be a Christian to agree that a system that calls on the leaders to serve their followers is infinitely superior to one in which the followers are duped, e.g. with promises of 72 virgins, to die for the leaders. Those gray-beared mullahs who feed that garbage to Palestinian youths did not become gray-beared mullahs by following their own advice.