State Crimes Against Democracy- Laurie Manwell on Community Currency Radio Show

Listen to the Community Currency Radio Show Thursday, September 2, 2010, 2 pm - 3 pm - to discuss State Crimes Against Democracy with Laurie Manwell.

Laurie Manwell helped coin the term SCAD ( State Crimes Against Democracy) when she published one of a series of articles in the American Behavioral Scientist. Her article was entitled In Denial of Democracy: Social Psychological Implications for Public Discourse on State Crimes Against Democracy Post-9/11. The abstract says:

Protecting democracy requires that the general public be educated on how people can be manipulated by government and media into forfeiting their civil liberties and duties. This article reviews research on cognitive constructs that can prevent people from processing information that challenges preexisting assumptions about government, dissent, and public discourse in democratic societies. Terror management theory and system justification theory are used to explain how preexisting beliefs can interfere with people’s examination of evidence for state crimes against democracy (SCADs), specifically in relation to the events of September 11, 2001, and the war on terror in Afghanistan and Iraq. Reform strategies are proposed to motivate citizens toward increased social responsibility in a post-9/11 culture of propagandized fear, imperialism, and war.

Laurie Manwell has a BSc in Biology and Psychology, an MSc in Biology (cellular/molecular/developmental), and is currently a PhD candidate in Behavioral Neuroscience and Toxicology at the University of Guelph. She has published research on the effects of drugs on learning, memory, and behavior (Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behavior), information processing (Psychonomic Bulletin and Review), self-esteem, emotion, and motivation (Journal of Personality and Social Psychology), political psychology and democracy (American Behavioral Scientist), and cellular and molecular biology (Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology).

With the support of NSERC's Michael Smith Foreign Study Award, she studied factors that modulate neural stem cell production during transient illness and limb regeneration at the University of Florida.

She has also authored Faulty Towers of Belief: Part I.Demolishing the Iconic Psychological Barriers to 9/11 Truth and Faulty Towers of Belief: Part II.Rebuilding the Road to Freedom of Reason at the Journal of 9/11 Studies. She will be speaking with Buddhist scholar Graeme MacQueen September 4th in Bloomington, Indiana on the topic of Peace through Truth: 9/11 and State Crimes Against Democracy.

Please sign the State Crimes Against Democracy Testament and Proclamation
http://www.petitiononline.com/WTPvSCAD/ and share it with your colleagues, friends and family.

About the host-

Carol Brouillet is a longtime activist who organized three conferences on Strategies to Transform the Global Economy and (the first) marches on her Senators and Congresswoman in January 2002 to Demand a Congressional Investigation of 9-11. She publishes the Deception Dollars, and Co-Founded the Northern California 9-11 Truth Alliance . Currently the Northern California 9/11 Truth Alliance is working on the 6th Annual 9/11 Truth Film Festival (Featuring talks by Peter Phillips and Mickey Huff, who have both written and spoken about SCADs) and the 9th Annual 9/11Truth Rally/March.

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