The Reptile Report #010799.2 / OBEDIENCE TO AUTHORITY

Obedience to Authority by Stanley Millgram (Published in the 1970s.) Made into a television movie (1975/76) called "The Tenth Level" starring William Shantner.

This film has DISAPPEARED because it sheds a klieg light on WHAT REALLY HAPPENED IN GERMANY! The book, like the film, PROVED THAT WHAT HAPPENED UNDER THE NAZI(RITESHIP) COULD HAPPEN IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

The book is NON-FICTION!

It is the record of a series of experiments whereby ORDINARY, OFF THE STREET, CITIZENS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA were COERCED INTO ADMINISTERING TORTURE TO THEIR "FELLOW MAN" WITHOUT ANYONE LAYING A HAND ON THEM OR PUTTING A GUN TO THEIR HEAD!

THEY DID IT BECAUSE THEY WERE TOLD TO DO IT BY SOMEONE THEY BELIEVED HAD THE AUTHORITY! THEY OBEYED EVEN WHEN IT WAS AGAINST THEIR MORAL, SPIRITUAL, HUMANITARIAN CODE OF ETHICAL BEHAVIOR!

The good news is that some people flat out walked out on the experiment the minute they were told to continue after the first sign that something wasn't right.

The bad news is that an alarming percentage of AVERAGE AMERICANS TORTURED A PERFECT STRANGER, WHO NEVER DID ANY HARM TO THEM, BECAUSE THEY WERE OBEDIENT TO AUTHORITY.

The set up went something like this:

A man in authority in charge of the "experiment" (white coat, clipboard type, played by William Shantner in the film). A second man (an actor) who "plays" the "student". A laboratory with an instrument panel with ten buttons. A separate room where the "student" of the experiment is strapped in a chair and wired to receive electric shocks administered by the "teacher" (aka the average citizen). The American Citizen (aka the "teacher") is led to believe he or she is a volunteering in an "educational" training experiment.

When the American Citizen is brought into the "laboratory" he or she is introduced to the second man as if that man is also an American Citizen. The two of them "decide" who will be the "teacher" and who will be the "student". It is always designed that the "American Citizen" becomes the "teacher" but it looks like it was based on "chance". The American Citizen, now the "teacher" is brought into the second room and observes the "student" being strapped into a chair and wired for electric shocks. Then they close the door on the "student" and the "teacher" is seated at the panel of buttons.

The "teacher" is then told to read off a series of words and the "student" must repeat them back exactly as spoken. If the "student" gets it wrong, the "teacher" is to administer an electric shock by pressing the appropriate button on the panel. The first shock is mild but with each succeeding mistake the electric shocks grow more intense until it reaches the TENTH LEVEL which is excruciating pain so intense that the "student" is at risk of suffering permanent physical damage or even death.

The "teacher" is able to hear the "student's" beginning discomfort all the way up to the point where the "student" is begging for mercy. The "teacher" is coerced by the "man in authority" to continue through all the stages. Many different tactics are employed by the "man in authority" but they are all strictly verbal, such as "please continue" or "you agreed to participate in this important experiment, you must continue". Some "teachers" get very upset when they hear the "student's" discomfort. They argue with the "man in authority" and some, at this point, get up and storm out refusing to engage in something that is causing harm to someone else. Others stay on in spite of their own resistance and take it up a few more levels before leaving. BUT THERE ARE THOSE WHO STAY. THERE ARE THOSE WHO GO ALL THE WAY.

THEY ARE OBEDIENT TO AUTHORITY!

At no time was any real pain administered to the "student" except the first mild shock. The rest was pure acting but the "teacher" didn't know it. The actions of the "teachers" were authentic.

This book is absolutely essential reading for anyone who is attempting to understand what happened in Germany and what is happening in the world today. World War II is a microcosm of the United States today!!!

Obedience to authority is DANGEROUS when the authority is EVIL.

Anyone who attempts to prevent QUESTIONS and silence the TRUTH, IS EVIL.

Mat 7:7 Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:

Mat 7:8 For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.

Mat 23:13 But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in [yourselves], neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.

I notice that a lot of people who lost their keys are busybusybusy searching under the lamp post not because they lost them there BUT BECAUSE THAT'S WHERE THE LIGHT IS! Doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me, but it sure "looks good" to the hoipolloi!

Jana Janus, Omnipresent on The Mean Planet