Going Out Like a Lion: The Predictable Repeated Attacks on the SSPX by Church Militant!

Surprise! Surprise! Church Militant is coming out with another hit piece on the SSPX. It's become their M.O. so no one should be surprised. I know nothing at this point about the piece except that I watched the promo. It's scheduled to air on March 31st and crackerjack investigator, Christine Niles, introduces it with the title "Black Trads Matter." Note the snide ridicule. Always, always, those of us devoted to the traditional Latin Mass are described and dismissed as "trads." That is a typical propaganda tool and one of Alinsky's rules for radicals. You freeze the opponent and then ridicule him. It's a tactic well known throughout history. Think of the terms kike, mackeral-eater, spic, cracker, nigger, gook, cockroach, etc. ad nauseum. CM is expert at that particular propaganda tool when it comes to labelling orthodox Catholics who attend the Latin Mass. Check out this brief description from Propaganda 101:

Name Calling or Substitutions of Names or Moral Labels:

This technique attempts to arouse prejudices in an audience by labeling the object of the propaganda campaign as something the target audience fears, hates, loathes, or finds undesirable. 

Types of name calling: 

Direct name calling is used when the audience is sympathetic or neutral. It is a simple, straightforward attack on an opponent or opposing idea. 

Indirect name calling is used when direct name calling would antagonize the audience. It is a label for the degree of attack between direct name calling and insinuation. Sarcasm and ridicule are employed with this technique. (Source)

There is little objectivity in anything coming out of Niles and her "investigations." She mixes the truth with lies and exaggeration to manipulate the viewer (not to mention using Hollywood-style images, music, voiceovers, etc.). And so it continues and presumably will continue until their disgusting cult disappears into obscurity which it no doubt will sooner or later. 

March is supposed to go out like a lamb, but there is nothing lamb-like about CM with their personality circus road show. March at CM is going out like a raging lion! They hate the SSPX with a passionate intensity that reminds me of Yeats famous poem:

The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

That describes CM to a T. They use their "passionate intensity" and uncharitable zeal, with no love whatsoever, to attack everyone and everything that doesn't come from their studio.

I will watch the show, but anyone who does needs to pray and use discernment to recognize their manipulation tactics. The promo piece already indicates propaganda. Can the content be trusted? Certainly not uncritically. 

I already discussed the propaganda technique in the title. A second is the background music underscoring Niles' words in the promo. It's an African drumbeat. So...what is the impact of the drumbeat on the psyche? 

Drum beats were first synchronized with the physical body’s heart beats. But then, as drum-speed rhythms increased, so did the people’s heart beats move faster in order to remain synchronized. In Spiritual realms, Primitive African Shamans considered the Drum as a symbol of Primordial Sound. (Source)

It’s no coincidence that 4.5 beats per second corresponds to the 4-7 cps of the Theta brain wave activity that induce a very deep trance. It’s in this deep trance that the shamanic practitioner can then transport her consciousness into non-ordinary reality. Based on archeological and anthropological evidence this way of inducing the trance state with drumming appears to have been used by shamans throughout history, stemming back to the Paleolithic era. (Source)

The viewer is already being set up to put their critical thinking to bed and just accept whatever crackerjack investigator Niles says as gospel truth. Unfortunately, she has demonstrated that she is willing to lie as we've documented on our Church Militant page. Check it out. You cannot trust her. Period! 

I'll give my review of the piece after it's aired, but I urge viewers to be wary of simply accepting any CM "investigation" as trustworthy. They typically use "witnesses" whose credibility is seriously suspect. They treat rumors as documented fact. They also dismiss those who disagree with their analyses as brainwashed ignoramuses. After all, how can anyone question cult leader Michael Voris and his stooges? CM is the only "authentically Catholic," trustworthy "news" organ on the planet. 

Watch their antics with a jaundiced eye and remember: Mike Voris and company rival "The Greatest Show on Earth!" If you follow them uncritically you become a proof text for the saying attributed to P.T. Barnum, "There's a sucker born every minute."