It's getting closer to that time when how the truther scam works will be examined in detail. Until then a solid background about con artists should be offered. Perhaps I should have blogged this yesterday, but that would be a cheap shot...
One of the questions that linger, even after sorting out the 911 Truth Movement as being a scam, is why. Why bother? Obviously people like Ron Paul and Alex Jones have something to gain(money and votes), but how does it explain the involvement of B-list losers who appear to have gained nothing tangible, like Craig "Killtown" Lazo and his sleazy Portland group? At least three persons Lazo was involved with actively recruited people under pretences. One still works at a state agency with minimal upward mobility(rumor is she's attempting to blame all her activities on some guy who "led her astray". Please.), another was a legal aid who's vanished from the conspiracy scene, and the last, "casseia", is now regaling anyone who will listen about tales of her supposed long term depression. Yup, she scammed people all because she was depressed....I don't think so.
These are narcissist gambits to elicit sympathy, the "poor me" pity play. They reveal a grandiose entitled outlook, with no sense of responsibility for engaging in confidence games, and an emotional immaturity that borders on delusion. The boyfriend made her do it? Really? She was so depressed she had no choice but to lie and con people? No one who has any real influence or credibility is going to buy this. Unless Jennifer can prove this guy(probably Craig, but it could be Jaye) used some sort of coercion, the "boo, hoo, he made me recruit people and lie about them" is going over like a lead balloon. Ditto for the, "I had no idea what I was doing, I was depressed and anxious" baloney.
But as tissue thin these fig leaves are to rational people, scammers think they might work because they're basically not so bright adrenaline junkies:
No truer statement was written! Even discounting all the play acting "falling outs" "splits" and screaming "agent" at each other, there have been a couple of genuine instances where participants stopped trusting each other. The split between Paula Gloria and the rest of Craig Lazo's back up band, leading to Nico going his own way, is one. Though I usually put this sort of thing down to the incompetence of one party and the other party is simply trying to save itself.
Basically, conartists don't think like normal people:
An unusually sick group
Quoting a studies by Richard Blum (Deceivers
and Deceived: Observations on Confidence Men and Their Victims,
Informants and Their Quarry, Political and Industrial Spies and Ordinary
Citizens), Chuck Whitlock points out that most con artists are:
.. impulsive, amoral, uncontrolled and detached from normal
The essential feature of Antisocial Personality Disorder is a pervasive pattern of disregard for, and violation of, the rights of others ...This pattern has also been referred to as psychopathy, sociopathy, or dissocial personality disorder...Individuals with Antisocial Personality Disorder frequently lack empathy and tend to be callous, cynical, and contemptuous of the feelings, rights, and sufferings of others."Chuck Whitlock, Chuck Whitlock's Scam School, © 1997, macmillan, New York, NY, pages 20, 21; Richard H. Blum, Deceivers and Deceived: Observations on Confidence Men and Their Victims, Informants and Their Quarry, Political and Industrial Spies and Ordinary Citizens, (Springfield: Charles C. Thomas, 1972), pp 49-50.
Alright, let's put that into ordinary words.
Adrenaline rush
The scammer is compulsive, exactly like a
compulsive gambler or compulsive liar.
It is interesting to note that although the scammer is a sharp-witted
liar, his gambling skills are such that he usually loses his ill-gotten
gains within hours of the take.
Swindlers are irresistibly drawn to scam. It gives them an adrenaline rush when you are so enthralled with their made-up persona that you quite literally shove your money into their hands. The scam itself is an ego trip.
And that just about explains everything, including the post scam "Omg I was so depressed I didn't know what I was doing! Also, my boyfriend made me!" excuses. Any engagement with these sleazebags is just more narcissistic supply, even if the claim to be "really, really, really, sorry about stuff!".
People who are really sorry, fix what they can with as little melodrama as possible and remove any lies or information they never should have used without expecting a pat on the head. These excuses and fake apologies are an attempt to stay in contact with and control the mark. You know you are dealing with a scammer with a Narc ego when breaking off contact makes them go ballistic.
Note, they are not mad at being caught out, or even mad the "friendship"(that was never real) is over. They're just mad they no longer have control. And they sure don't feel any remorse or guilt over their actions:
The danger of the missing gene
There is no guilt associated with a scam, not
even the slightest twinge. A con artist is quite simply missing that
particular gene. The con artist has no inbred stops, no conscience.
That's what it means to be a sociopath. If anything, the con feels
justified in taking your money, "You deserved to be taken. You asked for it."
Why is this dangerous? Because it means that
the con artist will pressure you to the end
of your resources, regardless of the pain and grief it
causes you. Neither children, nor the elderly, nor the fragile of
health are immune from his attack. It does not matter to the con that
he may be taking your last dime, nor does it matter to him that you may
need the promised wealth to pay for a dire need. This criminal will
take your money to the detriment of your health by selling fake cures
and false hopes, even knowing that his scam may ultimately cause your
death.
The swindler's attitude toward his victim is the
same as any serial criminal.
The last bit is highlighted because the "truthers" scammers recruited people with full knowledge they'd be exposing people to racist, anti-semites and other extremists without any sort of warning or caution.
They also were aware that if the person didn't work out, they intended to sell their information down the river to protect the con at all costs. And if that meant including information gathered fraudulently and using it in videos with underage girls doing what Webfairy calls "sexy dances", then so be it.
No normal person does this or wants to be associated, however tangentially with such activities.
The bottom line is the people who recruit for the 9/11 Truth Movement don't feel any sense of responsibility for conning people into an anti-semite sewer of fraudulent activism. They lie to get people involved because they sincerely believe they have a right to do anything they can get away with. And that gives them warm fuzzy feelings of control.
All witting players in the "Truther" con are parasites and vampires to a woman and man.
Let the "buyer" beware.
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