Winter 2012: As Election 2012 moves
ever closer, hundreds of fans have written to request either a
follow-up to my popular seminar manual, How To Counter Group Manipulation Tactics
(updated last summer), or have asked me to explain how the various
media, as well as professional "perception managers" -- yes, that
is a real term, just do a word search, including one on the Dept.
of Defense's own website -- are working to "throw" the election,
hoping to ensure an outcome in which nothing changes, save for a
few new faces and a bit of rhetoric. A series I wrote for the American
Daily Herald last year gave me an idea for merging both of
the above requests, and the events of the past four months did the
rest. My new book, AGENDA GAMES, still in the
editing stage, will soon be out, in plenty of time for a thorough
study prior to the election. Each chapter of the book will
identify and discuss one of the "games" currently being played on
the public in the service of one, overriding agenda, thereby
rigging the political process, with all its tangential issues,
ahead of voting time. Coupled to my updated Tactics manual,
the reader will be able to recognize, and hopefully shut down, the
games, replacing them each time with arguments and ideals that
will help bolster candidates who share the sense of urgency most
Americans feel today toward taking back the reins of this country
-- meaning, its local, county, state, regional and federal
governments. These governing bodies, in turn, control the
agencies and bureaucrats that currently are overpowering and
harassing American citizens. Both this new book, AGENDA
GAMES, and the updated Tactics manual,
cover the latest efforts that have been used to undermine and
intimidate good citizens -- using educational institutions,
environmental regulations, "security threats" health care,
cultural icons, a crumbling infrastructure, energy "scarcity,"
entertainment mediums, and more. Meanwhile, I continue to receive
plenty of feedback from leaders of committees, focus groups and
task forces detailing their successes with the Tactics manual.
Until AGENDA GAMES hits the street, I am leaving up
the following samples of comments I get on the manual:“I'm reading your 2011 ‘How to Counter’ book, in preparation for a trip to Santiago, where I will be meeting with government, business and free market think tank people, giving a couple of presentations, participating in a debate…. You have done a masterful job of analyzing the provocateur, change agent, community organizer, consensus-builder, societal controller mindset and tactics — and explaining how to counter them. It is exactly the education that my colleagues need. I'd like … another copy of your book to take with me and give my colleagues.” -- Paul Driessen, Author, Columnist and Senior policy advisor, Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow and Congress of Racial Equality
“If you’ve been to a public meeting lately, you will see the meeting is run by a man or woman who is not really part of the group in an ‘official’ capacity. They are called “facilitators.” His/her job is to bring the group to ‘consensus’…. If you begin to question the policy, or ask who the facilitator represents, or in general show signs of disagreement, the facilitator quickly loses his/her charm and begins to [portray] you as “uncooperative” or a troublemaker who is wasting the group’s time…. Best-selling author Beverly Eakman has been conducting one-day seminars for years to teach the good guys how to bust up these facilitator-controlled public policy meetings…. The problem was, Beverly could only conduct so many seminars and that made for a small distribution of the [accompanying] manual. Now that has changed. Beverly has updated the manual to stand on its own … and released it as a stand alone book. That means activists across the nation can now learn how to take back control of their government just by reading and following the advice in How To Counter Group Manipulation Tactics, 2011 Edition.” -- Tom DeWeese, President, American Policy Center (as published in The New American)
“[G]roup manipulation tactics used as a means of controlling political dissent have been and remain a fact of life for millions of people living under repressive regimes …. [These] tactics are used [in the U.S. today] to control the psychological environment of the meeting in an effort to marginalize and isolate those who might dissent, says Eakman, [a strategy] derived from the founder of Marxism, Karl Marx. In How to Counter Group Manipulation Tactics, Eakman has constructed not only an overview of how these tactics are employed in America but has put together a useful self-study course for those who seek to overcome the pernicious use of such techniques by the political left.” -- Dennis Behreandt, editor-in-chief, American Daily Herald
Eakman … shows how manipulators (who the author says frequently attempt to give themselves the euphemistic name of "facilitator") attempt to coerce individuals into adopting group beliefs, to trick an individual into thinking that the group's predetermined consensus was in fact the individual's own idea, and to make the individual think that he has input into the group's decision when in fact he does not…. [T]his tome is a pretty good introduction to the topic of psychological manipulation.” -- Eric Mayfield, Book Reviewer, Houston, Texas (as published on Amazon)
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receiving renewed interest. It covers every conceivable Platform
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being perpetrated by our existing government agencies with a platform
of corrective measures aimed at correcting those abuses. When a
Washington Post survey announced that “few in the [Tea Party] movement
agree on a legislative agenda beyond [merely] downsizing government,” I
decided to throw down the gauntlet: In a mere 120 pages, I set
out a comprehensive legislative agenda that represents views common not
only to most Tea Partiers, but to all constitutionally minded Americans
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