Black helicopters, concentration camps, and mind control are the signature New World Order motifs

Evidence

As these ideas were developed in the 1990s, the picture of the New World Order became increasingly detailed. Instead of simply positing conquest by an evil cabal, the New World Order came to include highly specifi c claims about both the identities of the conspirators and the means they would employ to seize power and defeat their opponents. Among the latter techniques, three allegations were particularly signifi - cant: that black helicopters are tangible evidence of the conspiracy’s existence, that a network of concentration camps is being readied to incarcerate dissenters, and that a technology of mind control has been developed in order to make the rest of the population docile and malleable. The signifi cance of these claims lies in their relative novelty. — Michael Barkun, A Culture of Conspiracy, 347

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The concentration camp legend originated on the political left — Michael Barkun, A Culture of Conspiracy: Apocalyptic…, 373