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accept." Jackall quotes an example ofhow our respect for our church could be used to
make us do things that we otherwise would not do. For example, some people would go
to the extent ofco=itting suicide because ofcertain religious beliefs, as in the case of
the September 11,2001 attack on America where it is believed the pilots who took over
the flights did that for the sake of their cause, with the promise of a great life after
death. Ifit were a Christian church the symbol of the cross would be used to represent
the church.
CARD-STACKING
The device of"card-stacking" is the strategy of evading the truth by telling lies
m order to win support. Some facts are underemphasized. Simple facts may be
exaggerated or important facts down-played. The apartheid regime of South Africa
exaggerated the separate development strategy because it was supposed to give
individual nations all the rights to and benefits of self-determination, when it was
actually entrenching apartheid. This requires though that one knows the background of
the people that one will be negotiating with.
THE BANDWAGON
In his explanation Jackall (1995:220) says the bandwagon device is designed to
make us do things just because everybody is doing them. Many techniques and symbols
are used to convince us and grand shows may be put on to get people of a certain race
or religion together. One good example is what happened in South Africa before the
1994 general elections when certain calls were made to the Zulus and the Afrikaners to
unite by virtue of belonging to those racial groups. The main thrust is the emotion that
is manipulated to drive us to the bandwagon e.g. our "fears and hatreds, prejudices and
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