Pervasive Military Propaganda Infects Christmas
The Pentagon looks for every opportunity to propagandize for war — even stealing the message of peace for Christmas and turning the Santa Claus myth into a message of war.
Jack Balkwill of LUV News writes “a series of propaganda videos is out by NORAD with which to indoctrinate our children into thinking Santa Clause is escorted by fighter jets so that he can deliver toys without being attacked by bad guys. Your tax dollars in action, full of generals talking about Santa being real and participating, video after video– some of them in French in case the Children of Quebec aren’t getting their fair share of propaganda, encouraging them on to military careers when they come of age to be blown to bits for the capitalists.”
In “Santa Is Coming to Town With Two F-18 Fighter Jets” Abby Zimet writes:
“Thanks to the wisdom and omnipresence of the U.S. military, specifically the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), Santa Claus will be accompanied tonight by two jet-fighter planes bristling with missiles, along with various online bells, whistles and Santa cams to allow kids to track “The Big Red One” and give his journey “more of an operational feel” – and to develop brand loyalty for when they turn 18. Because nothing says the season of peace and joy like military hardware with global-scanning, radar-tracking, jet-scrambling capabilities.”
The military and security state is so dominant in US culture and in the federal budget as well as around the world with at least 1,180 military bases and outposts around the world. The US is the largest Empire in world history, and the Pentagon’s propaganda and worldwide empire of bases is central to it. The video below is not the only pro-war propaganda on this holiday of peace, in Silver Spring, MD Santa rode through town in a BearCat—an acronym for Ballistic Engineered Armored Response Counter Attack Truck—is an armored police tactical vehicle, and escorted by escorted on Wednesday by county police officers.
You can see their artful propaganda in this video series, let’s hope that by exposing it Americans will be find their Christmas-war propaganda revolting.