The colossal Covid debacle -- and its ghastly aftermath of job losses, relationship breakdowns, and jab deaths and injuries -- is a crime of historical proportions. I will never forgive those who supported jab mandates or who vilified those of us who had legitimate concerns about these garbage shots. I will never forget that terrible time here in Melbourne when the jab frenzy got going. Our politicians whipped up a seething rage against the unjabbed and the atmosphere was dark and dangerous and oppressive. I will never forget my favourite cafes plastered with signs warning me to keep out. I will never forget that most people were okay with this. I will never forget the bullying, the insults, and the endless propaganda. I will never forget how the media, the medical profession, and the politicians abandoned dissenters to the wolves. And now some of these wretched, vicious, sadistic buffoons are slithering out from under their rocks to call for an amnesty? Get back to me when the sun stops shining and the Earth stops spinning. Even that's too soon.
You and the article have summed it up perfectly. Happily I'm in the UK and not Australia, New Zealand or Canada. But I learned how easily people can be controlled and turn on others. The Holocaust is only a heart beat away. I am so disappointed in fellow humans and won't ever forget, it would be dangerous to do so.
Amnesty is a buzz word, nothing can ameriolate the brevity of what tortures we endured at their hands. They will realise there's blood on their hands once they start paying for it.
This is the best case scenario too - if they obsessively wash their blood-soaked hands until rubbed raw, then still press for amnesty - well I fear that their own blood will soak through too.
All contributors to our torture have two paths ahead of them, both of which cannot be traversed if they adhere to strict globalist agendas.
1. Admit responsibility, come clean and blow any whistles at your disposal AS HARD AS POSSIBLE, as soon as possible. Be gracious and seek true repentance for the diabolical degree of harm and death you chose to be a stakeholder of.
2. If you do not admit responsibility, we will hound you down and you will be held accountable. Our countries are under attack due to your wilful collusion with external enemy globalist transluciferian cults. This can only amount to treason or malfesance.
All Australians must fight to retain any last vestiges of national sovereignity. This Australian lady puts it simply and brilliantly! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8dO4MMuJ3k
Excellent article by the way - I am about to publish one on similar lines specifically targeting the corrupt federal health institutions of COSSI & NCIRS. I have evidence regarding both of these medical militias that will make the birds fly free up high into the sky.
It’s a good list assuming our politicians care about people and in reality they only care about their true masters who benefited handsomely. This cannot be written off as incompetence...New technologies were introduced. New markets created. Regulations and legislation remains changed. Censorship is the norm. Precedents for next pandemic are set. Human psychology is hijacked. Freedom remains a reward for compliance. Line was pushed so far back that most don’t know what normal is. It may not have gone exactly according to plan but I am certain that majority of their target goals were achieved.
I agree with everthing you said except for "Freedom remains a reward for compliance."
It does not and never did.
Would appreciate your thoughts on this short video by an Australian lady https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8dO4MMuJ3k . I agree with her wholeheartedly - if things are so far gone then we have to go further and save whatever remains of our national sovereignity. Once that is gone, then Australia shall exist no longer.
Yes the John Hopkins Univeristy sponsored SPARS pandemic scenario study had increasing discontent leading to probable civil war as an outcome. The Rockefeller Foundation's 2010 paper on future technology scenarios also detailed widespread civil unrest, collapse of sovereign governemts after citizens sought violent mob justice.
Attack the globalists and globalisation policies of our elected representatives. Eschew and scorn supra-national NGO's such as WHO, WEF and the United Nations. Harangue anyone who towed the line that led to our torture. Investigate them - you will find crimes committed by them everywhere and lay all that dirty laundry out bare for everyone to see.
That is a great post, Rebekah - a great start to what are going to be the long-haul proceedings needed to hold to account and indict the perpetrators of the ‘injectables’ assault on our humanity. One might describe the post as the start of a modern-day “Madame Defarge list” - the objective of which is to exact justice for the wrongs committed, especially on behalf of the victims who have suffered severe damage to their biology, together with the families left bereaved by the Kill-Shots.
Those public figures who inflamed and gave their imprimatur to the witch-hunt mobs by promoting demonisation of the so-called ‘anti-vaxxers’ must especially be called to account - and publicly shamed. There also needs to be a special place reserved in the legal Hell for the public health officials who implemented the bans on the early treatment options - such as Hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin - in order to force the uptake of the injectable products. In Australia, those individuals also used their coercive power to silence and threaten the registration of doctors who challenged the wisdom of the prevailing dogma. The crime of those public health officials is especially heinous because they acted as the willing enablers of the amoral, monied elites and the political puppets who initiated and drove the whole process. I look forward to your next step in this important analysis of the biggest crime in my long lifetime.
We may start to hear more often the phrase "Mistakes were made", but it is not a true apology. It sounds like an apology, but it is not a true admission of error.
Crimes against natural law & at law within our legal systems require proper due process. Any apologies from the accused can be read to the court prior to the judge's or grand jury's sentencing.
Excess deaths now higher in UK than during peak pandemic.
An average of 1,564 extra deaths per week. Throughout 2020 it was 315. Throughout 2021 it was 1,322. 24,440 non covid deaths since May, 2022. Heart problems and complications due to diabetes, cancers.
Deaths registered, UK, week ending 21 October 2022 13,463. 15.7% above the five-year average = 1,822 excess deaths, compared to 1,379 in week up to 23 March, 2020 where lockdowns began in UK.
Unlike during pandemic, when most of the deaths were in the over 80s, now in all age groups.
Amitava Banerjee, clinical data science, consultant cardiologist, Institute of Health Informatics, University College London:
"We should never ever have had a pandemic preparedness team that did not consider the indirect and long-term effects. We focussed on the direct effects of excess deaths from covid, but from the beginning it’s likely the indirect effects will lead to more deaths, and more morbidity and more economic impacts than Covid deaths itself.
What I see is still a focus on the direct effects of Covid. Nobody who is in charge of the NHS, or any of the new health secretaries, are making any noises about it."
While I entirely agree about the scale of the deception and oppression, I’m not sure what you hope to achieve. When the whole world has been worked over by the few - with practically every government at every level enabling our persecution - how is any sort of restitution feasible?
The only things you can seriously ask for are (i) vengeance and (ii) sufficient restructure of governments worldwide to ensure that nothing like this can ever happen again.
The overwhelming arrogance of governments - now that an understanding of the extent of the deception has begun to spread beyond “the 15%” (psych research has repeatedly demonstrated that only around 15% of people will stand against “the current thing” even when that is clearly and demonstrably illogical-to-insane) - suggests that they’re all going to tough it up...nothing to see here, move along please.
One problem, of course, is the destruction of western educational systems over the last few decades. We now have sheeple teaching sheeple how to teach the next generation of sheeple. Almost no one under 50 actually has a meaningful education and the capacity and resilience to use it to attack a new problem independently.
Re-bootstrapping society isn’t going to be easy, is it?
There are days when I throw up my hands, thank heaven for having had a good slug of lifetime during the golden age (seriously, we were - and could still be - living living in a golden age, the like of which has never been known before) and simply focus on making the most of the decade or two I have in front of me, engaging with society as little as I can get away with...apres moi, le deluge, as they say.
Interesting to be living at the end of times. Somewhat uncomfortable, though.
A fundamental principle of a functioning democracy is an informed demos. It all falls apart when the demos is not adequately informed - this is why systems of propaganda are so pernicious and anti-democratic. Everything I do is with the intention to inform. If mainstream media were covering what I'm writing about, I'd probably write about something else. I also want to equip people to persuade. I was not open to certain ideas until I could read them in the format and tone that I am accustomed to (high level news or academic texts). There have to be multiple texts saying the same thing but in in different tones, formats and vernaculars so that people can receive them. So I intend to provide materials for sharing with people who are open minded but perhaps not yet convinced (ie: me 18 months ago). Finally, I believe that there is value in keeping receipts. My substack is a receipt roll.
I love many of the comments here. For me - forgiveness is for God. I want, nay - I demand - punishment. Hard, severe, real punishment for those that did unforgivable things to their fellow human beings and for all those that supported and cheered it. Nothing less will do. There will be no forgiveness here nor from any member of my family.
Thanks Rebekah. Great content. My brother - who I've been very close to all my life - moved to Perth, WA with his wife. He literally thinks I'm insane and irresponsible over my reaction to what I realized very quickly was at best a grotesque overreaction and at worst a very deliberate attack on the foundation of liberty on which our society was at least once based upon. My wife and I have lost several friends over this, and the other day she came home from dropping our youngest off at Brownies in tears because she refused to let them mask her, she was so exhausted with fighting this garbage pseudo science. Here in Canada, like in my native UK and in Australia, the middle and working classes are being wiped out by surging energy prices and rampant inflation. All entirely avoidable and an inevitable product of government policy. The destruction, the ruination of human life, the physical and mental harms are almost incalculable. The idea that those responsible get to walk away, that they 'just made a few mistakes', is morally utterly repugnant. And if they do get away with this, it will happen to our kids and grandchildren again, and again and again. There must be consequences, and they must be severe... Thanks once again!
I don't buy into the controlled opposition talk (although I don't deny it could be happening), but I do acknowledge that it's good PR to allow a few high profile pieces to be published essentially saying 'ooh, that bit wasn't so good, but other bits were good and ultimately we were doing our best', all while leaving the groundwork in place to do it all over again next time.
A limited hangout, or partial hangout, is a public relations or propaganda technique that involves the release of previously hidden information in order to prevent a greater exposure of more important details. It takes the form of deception, misdirection, or coverup often associated with intelligence agencies involving a release or "mea culpa" type of confession of only part of a set of previously hidden sensitive information, that establishes credibility for the one releasing the information who by the very act of confession appears to be "coming clean" and acting with integrity; but in actuality, by withholding key facts, is protecting a deeper operation and those who could be exposed if the whole truth came out. In effect, if an array of offenses or misdeeds is suspected, this confession admits to a lesser offense while covering up the greater ones.
A limited hangout typically is a response to lower the pressure felt from inquisitive investigators pursuing clues that threaten to expose everything, and the disclosure is often combined with red herrings or propaganda elements that lead to false trails, distractions, or ideological disinformation; thus allowing covert or criminal elements to continue in their improper activities.
Victor Marchetti wrote: "A 'limited hangout' is spy jargon for a favorite and frequently used gimmick of the clandestine professionals. When their veil of secrecy is shredded and they can no longer rely on a phony cover story to misinform the public, they resort to admitting - sometimes even volunteering - some of the truth while still managing to withhold the key and damaging facts in the case. The public, however, is usually so intrigued by the new information that it never thinks to pursue the matter further."[1]
In a March 22, 1973 meeting between Richard Nixon, John Dean, John Ehrlichman, John Mitchell, and H.R. Haldeman, Ehrlichman incorporated the term into a new and related one, "modified limited hangout."[2]
The phrase was coined in the following exchange[3]:
“PRESIDENT: You think, you think we want to, want to go this route now? And the--let it hang out, so to speak?
DEAN: Well, it's, it isn't really that--
HALDEMAN: It's a limited hang out.
DEAN: It's a limited hang out.
EHRLICHMAN: It's a modified limited hang out.
PRESIDENT: Well, it's only the questions of the thing hanging out publicly or privately.
”
Before this exchange, the discussion captures Nixon outlining to Dean the content of a report that Dean would create, laying out a misleading view of the role of the White House staff in events surrounding the Watergate burglary. In Ehrlichman's words: "And the report says, 'Nobody was involved,'". The document would then be shared with the Senate Watergate Committee investigating the affair. The report would serve the administration's goals by protecting the President, providing documentary support for his false statements should information come to light that contradicted his stated position. Further, the group discusses having information on the report leaked by those on the Committee sympathetic to the President, to put exculpatory information into the public sphere.[3]
The phrase has been cited as a summation of the strategy of mixing partial admissions with misinformation and resistance to further investigation, and is used in political commentary to accuse people or groups of following a Nixon-like strategy.[4]
Writing in the Washington Post
, Mary McGrory described a statement by Pope John Paul II regarding sexual abuse by priests as a "modified, limited hangout".[5]References
^ Victor Marchetti (August 14, 1978) The Spotlight^ Template:Frost/Nixon: The Complete Interviews. David Frost, Richard Nixon. Paradine Television, 1977.^ a b "Transcript of a recording of a meeting among the president, John Dean, John Erlichman, H.R. Haldeman, and John Mitchell on March 22 a
The colossal Covid debacle -- and its ghastly aftermath of job losses, relationship breakdowns, and jab deaths and injuries -- is a crime of historical proportions. I will never forgive those who supported jab mandates or who vilified those of us who had legitimate concerns about these garbage shots. I will never forget that terrible time here in Melbourne when the jab frenzy got going. Our politicians whipped up a seething rage against the unjabbed and the atmosphere was dark and dangerous and oppressive. I will never forget my favourite cafes plastered with signs warning me to keep out. I will never forget that most people were okay with this. I will never forget the bullying, the insults, and the endless propaganda. I will never forget how the media, the medical profession, and the politicians abandoned dissenters to the wolves. And now some of these wretched, vicious, sadistic buffoons are slithering out from under their rocks to call for an amnesty? Get back to me when the sun stops shining and the Earth stops spinning. Even that's too soon.
" I will never forget that most people were okay with this."
This is the worst bit to me. None of this could have happened if everyone hadn't acted like it was cool and fine.
Exactly. Imagine if we had all just said no. Even if half of us said no, that would have ended this thing in a day.
You and the article have summed it up perfectly. Happily I'm in the UK and not Australia, New Zealand or Canada. But I learned how easily people can be controlled and turn on others. The Holocaust is only a heart beat away. I am so disappointed in fellow humans and won't ever forget, it would be dangerous to do so.
Amnesty is a buzz word, nothing can ameriolate the brevity of what tortures we endured at their hands. They will realise there's blood on their hands once they start paying for it.
This is the best case scenario too - if they obsessively wash their blood-soaked hands until rubbed raw, then still press for amnesty - well I fear that their own blood will soak through too.
All contributors to our torture have two paths ahead of them, both of which cannot be traversed if they adhere to strict globalist agendas.
1. Admit responsibility, come clean and blow any whistles at your disposal AS HARD AS POSSIBLE, as soon as possible. Be gracious and seek true repentance for the diabolical degree of harm and death you chose to be a stakeholder of.
2. If you do not admit responsibility, we will hound you down and you will be held accountable. Our countries are under attack due to your wilful collusion with external enemy globalist transluciferian cults. This can only amount to treason or malfesance.
All Australians must fight to retain any last vestiges of national sovereignity. This Australian lady puts it simply and brilliantly! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8dO4MMuJ3k
Excellent article by the way - I am about to publish one on similar lines specifically targeting the corrupt federal health institutions of COSSI & NCIRS. I have evidence regarding both of these medical militias that will make the birds fly free up high into the sky.
It’s a good list assuming our politicians care about people and in reality they only care about their true masters who benefited handsomely. This cannot be written off as incompetence...New technologies were introduced. New markets created. Regulations and legislation remains changed. Censorship is the norm. Precedents for next pandemic are set. Human psychology is hijacked. Freedom remains a reward for compliance. Line was pushed so far back that most don’t know what normal is. It may not have gone exactly according to plan but I am certain that majority of their target goals were achieved.
I agree with everthing you said except for "Freedom remains a reward for compliance."
It does not and never did.
Would appreciate your thoughts on this short video by an Australian lady https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8dO4MMuJ3k . I agree with her wholeheartedly - if things are so far gone then we have to go further and save whatever remains of our national sovereignity. Once that is gone, then Australia shall exist no longer.
I think that video is accurate. Reaction is expected…the plan is remove or reduce governments. They manage both sides.
Yes the John Hopkins Univeristy sponsored SPARS pandemic scenario study had increasing discontent leading to probable civil war as an outcome. The Rockefeller Foundation's 2010 paper on future technology scenarios also detailed widespread civil unrest, collapse of sovereign governemts after citizens sought violent mob justice.
So...how do you defeat the masters? You start by taking away their minions.
What do you mean?
Attack the globalists and globalisation policies of our elected representatives. Eschew and scorn supra-national NGO's such as WHO, WEF and the United Nations. Harangue anyone who towed the line that led to our torture. Investigate them - you will find crimes committed by them everywhere and lay all that dirty laundry out bare for everyone to see.
That is a great post, Rebekah - a great start to what are going to be the long-haul proceedings needed to hold to account and indict the perpetrators of the ‘injectables’ assault on our humanity. One might describe the post as the start of a modern-day “Madame Defarge list” - the objective of which is to exact justice for the wrongs committed, especially on behalf of the victims who have suffered severe damage to their biology, together with the families left bereaved by the Kill-Shots.
Those public figures who inflamed and gave their imprimatur to the witch-hunt mobs by promoting demonisation of the so-called ‘anti-vaxxers’ must especially be called to account - and publicly shamed. There also needs to be a special place reserved in the legal Hell for the public health officials who implemented the bans on the early treatment options - such as Hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin - in order to force the uptake of the injectable products. In Australia, those individuals also used their coercive power to silence and threaten the registration of doctors who challenged the wisdom of the prevailing dogma. The crime of those public health officials is especially heinous because they acted as the willing enablers of the amoral, monied elites and the political puppets who initiated and drove the whole process. I look forward to your next step in this important analysis of the biggest crime in my long lifetime.
> 'long-haul'
I see what you did there :-)
concur with your comments and rueful righteous ire!
We may start to hear more often the phrase "Mistakes were made", but it is not a true apology. It sounds like an apology, but it is not a true admission of error.
Crimes against natural law & at law within our legal systems require proper due process. Any apologies from the accused can be read to the court prior to the judge's or grand jury's sentencing.
Thanks Rebekah and the naked pom.
Here is another data point supporting this:
Excess deaths now higher in UK than during peak pandemic.
An average of 1,564 extra deaths per week. Throughout 2020 it was 315. Throughout 2021 it was 1,322. 24,440 non covid deaths since May, 2022. Heart problems and complications due to diabetes, cancers.
Deaths registered, UK, week ending 21 October 2022 13,463. 15.7% above the five-year average = 1,822 excess deaths, compared to 1,379 in week up to 23 March, 2020 where lockdowns began in UK.
Unlike during pandemic, when most of the deaths were in the over 80s, now in all age groups.
Amitava Banerjee, clinical data science, consultant cardiologist, Institute of Health Informatics, University College London:
"We should never ever have had a pandemic preparedness team that did not consider the indirect and long-term effects. We focussed on the direct effects of excess deaths from covid, but from the beginning it’s likely the indirect effects will lead to more deaths, and more morbidity and more economic impacts than Covid deaths itself.
What I see is still a focus on the direct effects of Covid. Nobody who is in charge of the NHS, or any of the new health secretaries, are making any noises about it."
Bang on! All I can add is it would read better if you number listed all the wound wrongs. How many are there so far?!
Ah yeah good one. 21! And no doubt more incoming...
https://thehighwire.com/videos/vaxxed-from-cover-up-to-catastrophic
This is how long and deep the corruption around vaccines goes 😔
While I entirely agree about the scale of the deception and oppression, I’m not sure what you hope to achieve. When the whole world has been worked over by the few - with practically every government at every level enabling our persecution - how is any sort of restitution feasible?
The only things you can seriously ask for are (i) vengeance and (ii) sufficient restructure of governments worldwide to ensure that nothing like this can ever happen again.
The overwhelming arrogance of governments - now that an understanding of the extent of the deception has begun to spread beyond “the 15%” (psych research has repeatedly demonstrated that only around 15% of people will stand against “the current thing” even when that is clearly and demonstrably illogical-to-insane) - suggests that they’re all going to tough it up...nothing to see here, move along please.
One problem, of course, is the destruction of western educational systems over the last few decades. We now have sheeple teaching sheeple how to teach the next generation of sheeple. Almost no one under 50 actually has a meaningful education and the capacity and resilience to use it to attack a new problem independently.
Re-bootstrapping society isn’t going to be easy, is it?
There are days when I throw up my hands, thank heaven for having had a good slug of lifetime during the golden age (seriously, we were - and could still be - living living in a golden age, the like of which has never been known before) and simply focus on making the most of the decade or two I have in front of me, engaging with society as little as I can get away with...apres moi, le deluge, as they say.
Interesting to be living at the end of times. Somewhat uncomfortable, though.
What I hope to achieve is this:
A fundamental principle of a functioning democracy is an informed demos. It all falls apart when the demos is not adequately informed - this is why systems of propaganda are so pernicious and anti-democratic. Everything I do is with the intention to inform. If mainstream media were covering what I'm writing about, I'd probably write about something else. I also want to equip people to persuade. I was not open to certain ideas until I could read them in the format and tone that I am accustomed to (high level news or academic texts). There have to be multiple texts saying the same thing but in in different tones, formats and vernaculars so that people can receive them. So I intend to provide materials for sharing with people who are open minded but perhaps not yet convinced (ie: me 18 months ago). Finally, I believe that there is value in keeping receipts. My substack is a receipt roll.
You have my respect, and I wish more power to your elbow.
I love many of the comments here. For me - forgiveness is for God. I want, nay - I demand - punishment. Hard, severe, real punishment for those that did unforgivable things to their fellow human beings and for all those that supported and cheered it. Nothing less will do. There will be no forgiveness here nor from any member of my family.
I get it.
Thanks Rebekah. Great content. My brother - who I've been very close to all my life - moved to Perth, WA with his wife. He literally thinks I'm insane and irresponsible over my reaction to what I realized very quickly was at best a grotesque overreaction and at worst a very deliberate attack on the foundation of liberty on which our society was at least once based upon. My wife and I have lost several friends over this, and the other day she came home from dropping our youngest off at Brownies in tears because she refused to let them mask her, she was so exhausted with fighting this garbage pseudo science. Here in Canada, like in my native UK and in Australia, the middle and working classes are being wiped out by surging energy prices and rampant inflation. All entirely avoidable and an inevitable product of government policy. The destruction, the ruination of human life, the physical and mental harms are almost incalculable. The idea that those responsible get to walk away, that they 'just made a few mistakes', is morally utterly repugnant. And if they do get away with this, it will happen to our kids and grandchildren again, and again and again. There must be consequences, and they must be severe... Thanks once again!
This sounds like controlled opposition exit strategy narrative.
Steering the narrative up alongside truth, only to direct it away
Fault lines is a propaganda script- preparing the hypnotised for the next scene in the show. Anyone who has been complicit would push that garbage
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid0zkwsP7CufKh9MZntmeQEypjNvZrb7Cd3qy7rxcrgkEQPWjYXS8e71HPzQfxbmxSpl&id=100078975250122
I don't buy into the controlled opposition talk (although I don't deny it could be happening), but I do acknowledge that it's good PR to allow a few high profile pieces to be published essentially saying 'ooh, that bit wasn't so good, but other bits were good and ultimately we were doing our best', all while leaving the groundwork in place to do it all over again next time.
https://3speak.tv/watch?v=vladtepesblog/cuhwzezu
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New word to add to your vocabulary-
Limited hangout
A limited hangout, or partial hangout, is a public relations or propaganda technique that involves the release of previously hidden information in order to prevent a greater exposure of more important details. It takes the form of deception, misdirection, or coverup often associated with intelligence agencies involving a release or "mea culpa" type of confession of only part of a set of previously hidden sensitive information, that establishes credibility for the one releasing the information who by the very act of confession appears to be "coming clean" and acting with integrity; but in actuality, by withholding key facts, is protecting a deeper operation and those who could be exposed if the whole truth came out. In effect, if an array of offenses or misdeeds is suspected, this confession admits to a lesser offense while covering up the greater ones.
A limited hangout typically is a response to lower the pressure felt from inquisitive investigators pursuing clues that threaten to expose everything, and the disclosure is often combined with red herrings or propaganda elements that lead to false trails, distractions, or ideological disinformation; thus allowing covert or criminal elements to continue in their improper activities.
Victor Marchetti wrote: "A 'limited hangout' is spy jargon for a favorite and frequently used gimmick of the clandestine professionals. When their veil of secrecy is shredded and they can no longer rely on a phony cover story to misinform the public, they resort to admitting - sometimes even volunteering - some of the truth while still managing to withhold the key and damaging facts in the case. The public, however, is usually so intrigued by the new information that it never thinks to pursue the matter further."[1]
Contents
1 Modified limited hangout2 References3 See also4 External linksModified limited hangout
In a March 22, 1973 meeting between Richard Nixon, John Dean, John Ehrlichman, John Mitchell, and H.R. Haldeman, Ehrlichman incorporated the term into a new and related one, "modified limited hangout."[2]
The phrase was coined in the following exchange[3]:
“PRESIDENT: You think, you think we want to, want to go this route now? And the--let it hang out, so to speak?
DEAN: Well, it's, it isn't really that--
HALDEMAN: It's a limited hang out.
DEAN: It's a limited hang out.
EHRLICHMAN: It's a modified limited hang out.
PRESIDENT: Well, it's only the questions of the thing hanging out publicly or privately.
”
Before this exchange, the discussion captures Nixon outlining to Dean the content of a report that Dean would create, laying out a misleading view of the role of the White House staff in events surrounding the Watergate burglary. In Ehrlichman's words: "And the report says, 'Nobody was involved,'". The document would then be shared with the Senate Watergate Committee investigating the affair. The report would serve the administration's goals by protecting the President, providing documentary support for his false statements should information come to light that contradicted his stated position. Further, the group discusses having information on the report leaked by those on the Committee sympathetic to the President, to put exculpatory information into the public sphere.[3]
The phrase has been cited as a summation of the strategy of mixing partial admissions with misinformation and resistance to further investigation, and is used in political commentary to accuse people or groups of following a Nixon-like strategy.[4]
Writing in the Washington Post
, Mary McGrory described a statement by Pope John Paul II regarding sexual abuse by priests as a "modified, limited hangout".[5]References
^ Victor Marchetti (August 14, 1978) The Spotlight^ Template:Frost/Nixon: The Complete Interviews. David Frost, Richard Nixon. Paradine Television, 1977.^ a b "Transcript of a recording of a meeting among the president, John Dean, John Erlichman, H.R. Haldeman, and John Mitchell on March 22 a