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2005-08-04 Britain

"Bomber" Superimposed onto Metropolitan Police Surveillance Camera Photo?

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Posted by Anonymoose 2005-08-04 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Ah! A conspiracy! Or maybe pixel burn-in...

Posted by PBMcL 2005-08-04 00:25|| 2005-08-04 00:25|| Front Page Top

#2 who and or why would someone do this? This is very concerning when you think of who would have access in the first place to do it.

Posted by Jan 2005-08-04 00:27|| 2005-08-04 00:27|| Front Page Top

#3 Are they Diebold cameras?

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2005-08-04 00:46|| 2005-08-04 00:46|| Front Page Top

#4 Optical illusion.

Cameras can be funny that way.

Thanks,
LC FOTSGreg

Posted by LC FOTSGreg">LC FOTSGreg 2005-08-04 00:51|| 2005-08-04 00:51|| Front Page Top

#5 If you look closely, you can plainly see that the dude wearing the white cap is George Bush himself, off to his side is Cheney, the dude wearing the black hat is Blair, and first guy through the doorway is my cousin.

Posted by Rafael 2005-08-04 01:24|| 2005-08-04 01:24|| Front Page Top

#6 LC-Optical illusion.
Cameras can be funny that way.

Exactimundo! - His left arm is bent at the elbow and his forarm is parallel to and above the rail...

Of course the police do have that sophisticated holographic projection equipment {WINK}... They could ruin these guys image with their perverted followers by projecting each of them carrying a ham... {he he he}

Posted by BigEd 2005-08-04 01:58|| 2005-08-04 01:58|| Front Page Top

#7 I zoomed in on it and it shows nothing of the sort. It's a security photo. The definition is too low to support the kind of naked eye analysis that this site is claiming.

I have to say that I've never understood these kinds of claims. Is it the thrill of hoaxing thousands? The need to prove that the government is intrinsically evil and must always be altering documents and test results? (I mean who knows what the Constitution originally said, dude? Like George Washington was a hemp farmer, if you know what I mean. The right to smoke reefer _must_ have been in the Bill of Rights.) All I know is that tomorrow it will be on the websites of thousands of unbalanced individuals who will accept the assertion of some unknown hoaxster without question while subjecting every claim and statement of the government to prejudiced scrutiny.

Posted by 11A5S 2005-08-04 02:00|| 2005-08-04 02:00|| Front Page Top

#8 Aww, the game is afoot! Why would Scotland Yard insert the 4th man, when obviously he wasn't there? Was it to 'team them up' for a nice conviction wrap up? or more sinister; the fact that they don't want to tip someone off to where he truly was surveilled!

Posted by smn 2005-08-04 02:12|| 2005-08-04 02:12|| Front Page Top

#9 unbalanced individuals who will accept the assertion of some unknown hoaxster without question

You got that right.

Posted by Rafael 2005-08-04 02:15|| 2005-08-04 02:15|| Front Page Top

#10 Bollocks.

Posted by Howard UK 2005-08-04 05:38|| 2005-08-04 05:38|| Front Page Top

#11 11A5S, before you wholeheartedly dismiss all conclusions, remember the Lee Harvey Oswald 'Gun In The Yard' photo? An obvious tamper by our government, to set a conclusion of doubt, at the time! Aptly explained in the critically acclaimed "JFK"!

Posted by smn 2005-08-04 05:55|| 2005-08-04 05:55|| Front Page Top

#12 [span class=PeterLorre]
It's a conspiraceee, I tell you, a conspeeraceeeeee!
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Posted by Mike 2005-08-04 06:24|| 2005-08-04 06:24|| Front Page Top

#13 smn, may I suggest a higher grade aluminum foil for your headgear?

Posted by leader of the pack 2005-08-04 07:04|| 2005-08-04 07:04|| Front Page Top

#14 I zoomed in on it and it shows nothing of the sort. It's a security photo. The definition is too low to support the kind of naked eye analysis that this site is claiming.

Might I suggest the effects described are a side effect of interlaced video?

Specifically, each "frame" of video -- NTSC and PAL -- is made up of TWO pictures. For PAL, they're each taken 1/50th of a second apart. Any motion between those two pictures will cause odd effects when it's viewed as a single frame.

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2005-08-04 07:24|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2005-08-04 07:24|| Front Page Top

#15 Much ado about nothing.

Posted by W Shakespeare 2005-08-04 07:46|| 2005-08-04 07:46|| Front Page Top

#16 Nah. He was beamed in there by the Mossad.
I thought everybody knew that...

Posted by tu3031 2005-08-04 08:29|| 2005-08-04 08:29|| Front Page Top

#17 Hmmm. Obviously a MI5/mossad/cia conspiracy to perpetuate the rape of the two beautiful arab daughters of Baghdad and Jerusalem. I knew this even before I zoomed in on the so called man in the white hat aka Bush! This message was revealed to me by magik text written in code in a pile of dogcrap I saw in the gutter yesterday. And no, I was not drinking too much green tea at the time!

Posted by CuriousGeorgeGalloway 2005-08-04 09:18|| 2005-08-04 09:18|| Front Page Top

#18 SMITHERS!!...

Posted by Monty Burns">Monty Burns 2005-08-04 09:47|| 2005-08-04 09:47|| Front Page Top

#19 If it was faked you can guarantee there would be no sign. They would have cleaned up everything.

This reminds me of the lunar landing photos that some idiots claim are faked (yet actual photographers can easily explain). I don't get the conspiracy folks, they live in a twisted world.

Posted by rjschwarz 2005-08-04 09:50|| 2005-08-04 09:50|| Front Page Top

#20 Ah, we now know the evil Joos plot. It's really Manny, Moe, and Joe.

Posted by Captain America 2005-08-04 11:19|| 2005-08-04 11:19|| Front Page Top

#21

Ever bodi luvs sumbody sumtime...

the bar runs into his head at an angle. Bars actually seldom do that.

Oh, now friend I wouldn't be saying that.... Ima say hello Mister Bar many times.

Posted by Deano 2005-08-04 11:59|| 2005-08-04 11:59|| Front Page Top

#22 Great intro from Anonymoose!

Posted by intrinsicpilot 2005-08-04 12:49|| 2005-08-04 12:49|| Front Page Top

#23 They are Mossad agents..in sports casual attire

Posted by Kent Mccord 2005-08-04 15:13|| 2005-08-04 15:13|| Front Page Top

#24 The conspiracy Conspiracy:

Buwahaaahaaa! Little do they know; the real master plan involves sowing panic, fear and confusion among the Moonbats by promoting lunatic conspiracy theories.
It's a hell of a lot cheaper than a jackboot gestapo and unlike, say, a nuclear strike, it preserves our real estate and other capital assets.

In all seriousness, lurid conspiracy theories can be (and are in fact) a very successful component of our "black" propaganda.

The objective is to appeal to the vanity of idiotarians, always an easy task, while planting the seeds of doubt, fear, dissension, and confusion.
A good (if somewhat simplified) example would be a claim that Rovian forces have introduced some new kind of mind-control technology. This appeals to the individual Moonbat's elitist vanity, confirming its place on the cutting edge by virtue of knowing what others do not. However, upon reflection, it can also cause the Moonbat to doubt its own sanity.

Similarly, criticism of fellow radicals for various inconsistencies and shortcomings can be seen as ideologically rigorous, appealing to pseudo-Maoist elements in particular, but it will inevitably sow dissension and resentment.

It is always possible to raise suspicion that a devoted radical may in fact be a COINTELPRO plant or wing-nut troll. The target may resist this successfully, but the stain will linger. Accusation, the act of denunciation, has a hypnotic appeal for radicals, probably for its associations with absolute power, and they will not easily give one up once it is made.

Stories of unvincibly sinister assassination squads and flawlessly concealed disappearances appeal to leftist egoes, helping them to identify with glamorous Latin American revolutionaries and Hollywood rebels. If seriously believed or even seriously suspected, though, they have the same effect as actual assassinations and disappearances; paranoia, suspicion, and intimidation.

Finally, as I just intimated, conspiracy theories attribute real power to the conspirators. Totalitarian sympathizers ultimately fear and respect nothing else. A steady diet of conspiracy will embed the power of their enemies firmly into the leftist worldview, with an obvious potential for generating conflict and divided loyalty.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2005-08-04 18:03|| 2005-08-04 18:03|| Front Page Top

#25 Isn't there also a very real danger if you use this domestically? I know very little about psyops, but it seems to me that you run the risk of cementing in the minds of neutral / moderate people a false picture that the government is out of control and should be voted out of office.

Posted by curious .... 2005-08-04 18:15|| 2005-08-04 18:15|| Front Page Top

#26 There is a danger, curious, which is why the theories must be designed to appeal only to those who are not moderate or neutral. This is a fairly difficult task, but there are ways.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2005-08-04 18:34|| 2005-08-04 18:34|| Front Page Top

#27 AC, I'd like to quote that description of conspiracy theories on my 'blog.

Posted by Phil Fraering 2005-08-04 20:14|| 2005-08-04 20:14|| Front Page Top

#28 Many thanks, Phil, and feel free.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2005-08-04 23:07|| 2005-08-04 23:07|| Front Page Top

#29 A final note: have you noticed that a strong propensity to conspiracy theories seems to be a characteristic of all of the countries that were conquered by the Mongols or the Turks back in the day? It seems to be built into the structure of the government the same way the Mukhabarat is.

Posted by Phil Fraering 2005-08-04 23:36|| http://newsfromthefridge.typepad.com]">[http://newsfromthefridge.typepad.com] 2005-08-04 23:36|| Front Page Top

#30 A large portion of the population either can't read or are barely literate, so they believe anything printed on paper. And, in most cases, the governments are not participatory, so what the people experience really is the result of secret plans in unknown places. Finally, the media feed them the most egregious nonsense all the time. So you get a society living on its nerves, incapable of judging reality from fairy tales.

In my very humble opinion...

Posted by trailing wife 2005-08-05 00:03|| 2005-08-05 00:03|| Front Page Top

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