"Ordinary people, simply doing their jobs,
and without any particular hostility on their part,
can become agents in a terrible destructive process.

"Even when the destructive effects
of their work become patently clear,
and they are asked to carry out actions
incompatible with fundamental standards of morality, relatively few people have the resources
needed to resist authority."

Jewish Currents Resisting Authority
A Personal Account of the Milgram Obedience Experiments

 "But I was just doing what I was told!"

• Street gangs and organized crime

• Religious/Satanic cults & pedophile rings

• Government & corporate crimes & cover-ups

• Nazi Germany - Vietnam - Iraq - Abu Ghraib - Guantanamo

"Be a good team player!"
"Don't rock the boat"
"Go along to get along"
"Just follow the crowd"
"Don't make waves"

The experimenter (E) orders the subject (S) to give what the subject believes are painful electric shocks to another subject (A), who is actually an actor. The subjects believed that for each wrong answer, the learner was receiving actual shocks, but in reality there were no shocks. After the confederate (A) was separated from the subject, the confederate set up a tape recorder integrated with the electro-shock generator, which played pre-recorded sounds for each shock level.^[1]

Milgram experiment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Linsly-Chittenden Hall, Yale University, where most of the obedience experiments were conducted. Photographed by Alan C. Elms.

The Milgram experiment was a seminal series of social psychology experiments conducted by Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram, (who died December 20, 1984 at the age of 51) which measured the willingness of study participants to obey an authority figure who instructed them to perform acts that conflicted with their personal conscience. Milgram first described his research in 1963 in an article published in the Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology,^[1] and later discussed his findings in greater depth in his 1974 book, Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View.^[2]

The experiments began in July 1961, three months after the start of the trial of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem. Milgram devised the experiments to answer this question: "Could it be that Eichmann and his million accomplices in the Holocaust were just following orders? Could we call them all accomplices?"^[3]

Milgram summed things up in his 1974 article, "The Perils of Obedience", writing:

The legal and philosophic aspects of obedience are of enormous importance, but they say very little about how most people behave in concrete situations. I set up a simple experiment at Yale University to test how much pain an ordinary citizen would inflict on another person simply because he was ordered to by an experimental scientist. Stark authority was pitted against the subjects' [participants'] strongest moral imperatives against hurting others, and, with the subjects' [participants'] ears ringing with the screams of the victims, authority won more often than not. The extreme willingness of adults to go to almost any lengths on the command of an authority constitutes the chief finding of the study and the fact most urgently demanding explanation.

Ordinary people, simply doing their jobs, and without any particular hostility on their part, can become agents in a terrible destructive process. Moreover, even when the destructive effects of their work become patently clear, and they are asked to carry out actions incompatible with fundamental standards of morality, relatively few people have the resources needed to resist authority.^[4]

Controversy surrounded Stanley Milgram for much of his professional life as a result of a series of experiments on obedience to authority which he conducted at Yale University in 1961-1962. He found, surprisingly, that 65% of his subjects, ordinary residents of New Haven, were willing to give apparently harmful electric shocks-up to 450 volts-to a pitifully protesting victim, simply because a scientific authority commanded them to, and in spite of the fact that the victim did not do anything to deserve such punishment. The victim was, in reality, a good actor who did not actually receive shocks, and this fact was revealed to the subjects at the end of the experiment. But, during the experiment itself, the experience was a powerfully real and gripping one for most participants.

Milgram's career also produced other creative, though less controversial, research; such as, the small-world method (the source of "Six Degrees of Separation"), the lost-letter technique, mental maps of cities, cyranoids, the familiar stranger, and an experiment testing the effects of televised antisocial behavior which, though conducted 30 years ago, remains unique to the present day.

Milgram Basics - Dr. Thomas Blass
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Original Music Video With Peter Gabriel and a clip from Kubrick's "Full Metal Jacket" and Parker's "Birdy".
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We Do What We're Told (Milgram's 37) (Peter Gabriel)

A mash-up featuring scenes from "The Empire Strikes Back" , and the song "We do what we're told (Milgram's 37)" by Peter Gabriel.
(The title refers to the 37 out of 40 participants who showed complete obedience in Experiment 18.)
Dipped in Bronze

What about the "real world"?

A returning Iraqi veteran is shot three times at point-blank range by a cop ... simply for doing what he was told.

Men were not meant to control other men. No "state" public relations scheme of "protection" and other political gibberish can change this. I urge everyone to read about the Stanford Prison Experiment. Go to prisonexp.org . This experiment, where healthy (mentally and physically) men were put in control over other men, had to be stopped after only six days because the men put in control became sadistic.

If these men became sadistic within six days, then consider the nature of a man/woman who has been controlling other men and women for years, such as pretended "presidents," "judges" and "governors".

Is it any wonder men and women pretending to be "states" provide their wonderful services at the barrel of a gun?

In fact, the situation gets worse when there is a lack of responsibility and accountability, go to new-life.net/milgram.htm and read about the Milgram Experiment. Ever hear of "sovereign" and "judicial" immunity? Chilling, to say the least.

"I am sure there was no man born marked of God above another for none comes into the world with a saddle upon his back, neither any booted and spurred to ride him." Last words of Richard Rumbold before being hanged for planning an insurrection against the tyrant Charles II, 1679 YouTube - Cop Shoots Man SCARY

The Milgram Experiment

Videoclip based upon the notorious Milgram experiment obedience to authority.
Directed by Joris Van Grunsven & Menno Fokma. 2005

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