Josef Mengele would laugh at your statement. Read up on his mind control research as well as operation paper clip and MK Ultra. These days mass mind control is much more sophisticated than electric shock. BUT!!! you are on the right track. Mind control can occur only immediately after inflicting trauma while the memory of trauma is still fresh. Inflicting the brain with trauma opens up new compartments in the mind behind which we put the traumatic memory so we can go on with our daily lives. However if you methodically apply a trigger which could be words, images, sounds etc, you condition the brain to attach memory modules to the trauma before it gets compartmentalized. So eventually as time passes, the trauma is compartmentalized away, the mind "heals" and you get along with normal life. Here's the catch. Whenever the trigger is applied, the trauma comes flooding back into the mind because the trauma has been connected to the trigger. Under traumatic stress, the mind reverts from mental acuity and powers of logic and comprehension to operating with emotion. People become irrational. They can be then be made to do things that would never make any sense to them under normal conditions. In the case of 9/11 the American population has been conditioned to think with fear. Whenever they hear the word "terrorist" or "9/11", Americans get illogical and react with fear. Why do you think Bush won again? And more importantly, that's why people like Liebermann will keep on getting re-elected from now on.