Obama's Psych-Ops on Americans

Psychiatrist Dr. Keith Ablow asserts "that this administration is engaged in a coordinated attempt to dispirit, disarm and disenfranchise large portions of the American population and to weak our founding principles through what is best understood as psychological warfare."

It began with Obama's apology tour overseas and continues through the current scandals.  But it can be overcome by acknowledging what is really happening to us and remembering who we are.

Psychological warfare has been described as a set of techniques aimed at influencing a target audience’s value systems or beliefs and inducing confessions of wrongdoing or attitudes favorable to the group proffering the techniques.

The techniques are often combined with black ops strategy, in which covert initiatives seek to dispirit, disempower and confuse adversaries.

The psychological warfare has continued, I believe, with other opportunities the president has had to make American’s question their individual freedoms and autonomy.

This has included misrepresenting horrific crimes, such as the one which unfolded in Newtown, Connecticut, as evidence of the need for gun control measures, when they clearly evidenced a need for revamping our mental health care system.

Gun rights are inextricably entwined in the American psyche with freedom to defend oneself. Attacking gun rights, I believe, is an element of the psychological warfare on the American belief that force is justifiable when confronting evil.

My belief that psychological warfare is being deployed on Americans by this American president and his administration has been solidified as news has come out of the targeting of conservative groups by the IRS.

This black ops targeting doesn’t just have the effect of slowing the financial momentum of these groups. It has the goal of dispiriting them and making them feel helpless to achieve their goals.

If liberal Americans stand by and do not seek swift and severe justice for those who perpetrated these acts, then they will have tacitly been victimized, too. Because they will have tacitly agreed that it is acceptable for their government to target certain political movements for persecution—and that will have fundamentally changed the psyche of America.

Will it succeed? Not if we pay attention, suggests Dr. Ablow:

The enemy of psychological warfare is the knowledge of what is really happening to us and remembering who we really are.

Dr. Ablow is a Fox News medical team contributor. Read his full article.