Well, clearly there is a photo assistant running around putting hats on people during their photo sessions.
~ or ~
It also seems likely that these photos are being tweaked and pimped for public consumption.
But where does the real MITRE company begin? Does it really exist at all or is it nothing but pillow people?
Allow me to speculate. This is a discussion board after all.
To start with, let's look at their alleged history that we "uncovered" from various research. They came out of MIT Lincoln Laboratory. Alright, that could be easily confirmed with a visit to Boston and some research time. It certainly seems likely.
They "invented" the Internet. Now, that seems odd because we were always taught that the first e-mails and web browsers and Bulletin Board Systems and altnet came out of businesses like BBN, private interests and the like. And the military usually comes along and buys things and then claims to have created them. Does it figure that (D)ARPA first developed a universal Internet with the Pentagon? And if so, was the Internet then "transfered" to Project Whirlwind's digital computer project? Or is it more likely that private interests discovered tricks you could do with two computers and a telephone line, and the military wanted desperately to have invented it, so they just
said they did?
At any rate, we don't seem to have a very clear rationale for why a MITRE should exist unless this were the case. MITRE also claims to have formed after the performance of the Atom Bombs attracted scientists and such to the Boston area. Why Boston? Presumably, the technology used in Atomic Bomb incidents was strictly taught there. Is there any intelligent way to view this besides a primitive gathering of school children around a firework trick - and the bully who craves attention wanting to claim he can do better? Let's presume the "Nuke" is a real bomb that cannot be filmed because of radiation, and that's why the videos of the Nuke appear faked. (please contain debate over the Nuke's existence to the "Nuke Hoax" question discussed here:
http://z6.invisionfree.com/Reality_Shac ... owtopic=57))
In either case - nuke real or hoax - MITRE is said to have started out of the *tradition* of military affairs and power trips. And Nuke footage always comes out with the release of propaganda videos. Could the computer discoveries have been so stupendous to the psycho power-trippers that it inspired the man-machine symbiosis people (henceforth "pro-cyborgs") to believe they could uncover immortality and/or power through machines? Why should I assume as much?
It is basic human psychology (how I loathe that term and how it is normally abused, but in this case, I think it fits ...)
The power trippers who enjoy releasing propaganda films also enjoy making their citizenry cower beneath them. These people may justify this kind of fearmongering as "education of how the world works" or they may have a true psychosis. In any case, they enjoy presenting terrifying stories of potential horror as fact rather than a play. Yet, it is a play they enjoy living in. Perhaps many of them are pro-cyborgs who saw the digital computer as a magical key to enter the world of their imagining.
We might observe how both YouTube and Google apparently showed up and evolved to wrap our heads around how the military treats things. First, invention is private citizenry inspired by science fiction or curiosity or a sense of idealism that someone can make the world better with a new tool. Then, if it is successful, it is discovered, and acquired and ... then ... militarized by people who claim it must be militarized to prevent its "abuse" by "evildoers".
In other words, first inventions tend to be used peacefully. Then, the paranoid military intelligence groups covet the invention out of fear, claim it and try to work out how "evildoers" (that apparently only exist in their imaginations) might use the technology for "evil". And in the process of uncovering how "evil" works, they tend to - by coincidence or perhaps some mental problem - begin using the technology in the way their imaginary villain uses it. Thus, they actually imagine evil, and then act out what they imagine evil to be. By their own definition, they are evil. Terrorists and military are one and the same.
But how would this psychosis get a hold of artistic technology like the Internet and computers and why would it result in something like MITRE?
I think we must now face the limits of the pro-cyborgs' logic. On the one hand, they imagine they can enter their imaginary drama of total power through the aid of machines. On the other hand, the drama fails if most people remain on the outside, watching these old saggy men crawling into their digital boxes to play pretend.
9/11 had to be created in order for us to buy into their psychotic imaginary world of terrorists (Muslim Luddites) and heroes (pro-cyborgs).
So what were they going to do to militarize an entire new field of study before it's even discovered what computers can do? Perhaps MITRE was created to "contain" the technology and prevent it from causing a destabilization of power ... a destabilization of their fantasy drama. In that case, it would attract the military thinkers who believed in some sort of redemptive positive aspects of technology, some inherent "goodness" in technology that had to be defended against those who doubt the power of technology.
These people believed that if they could use our doubt in technology's power (to trick us) against our curiosity, they might bring the entire world into their sad universe of Good and Evil - black hat and white hat cowboys.
Perhaps MITRE was not created so much to "advance" the CIA or anything banal or patriotic. Perhaps it was as lofty as the belief that they could convert the world to their military stage - their somnambulist playground - and therefore they would never have to wake up from their dream. And the reason our efforts to hit something solid within the blob of MITRE information fails is because MITRE is nothing more than a living, cyborgian fantasy bubble propped up by the heroic machines these pro-cyborgs worship.
Why then do they worship said machines' power to create drama and trick people? What is the dream they are so terrified of waking up from, that they want to convert the whole world into their playground terror game for?
The dream they don't want to awaken from is the dream that they - the people who hate humanity as it is and wish to replace it with technological improvements - are superior to those who are content to be human. The dream that they are the "better men" - the "heroes" of humanity for wishing to merge us with wires and nanobots. The illusion that when you kill innocents it means you care more about this "cause". It means you are more important. When you take lives and manipulate people it makes you stronger, better, it makes you like God. Because evolution is "painful" but ultimately for the "greater good."
The dream they don't want to wake up from, that they refuse to acknowledge signs of in their own pyschology, is that their control of money and armies means they are significant. Their delusion of military servicemen being "crucial" to survival involves the idea that the epitome of being alive is to enter combat and stand on the corpse of another. The fantasy that they truly deserve the wealth they were born into, the cruelty they were trained under and the riches and luxuries they rob from native peoples the world over. This fantasy, and the true guilt that should accompany it, is - perhaps, just speculating - why MITRE exists and why 9/11 happened under its tutelage.