This article was published simultaneously by PANDA and Propaganda in Focus during the Autumn of 2022. It provides an introduction to the mechanisms through which dissent is controlled, with particular reference to the COVID-19 event, and highlights the ways in which 'conduct is organised' via real world threats and coercive tactics. I intend, in time, to develop a fuller academic paper based on it. Since the start of the COVID event, authorities around the world have sought to implement quite extraordinary policies including the so-called "locking down" of entire populations, compulsory masking and coercion through, for example, the mandating of multiple 'vaccine' injections. Many of these policies fly in the face of long-established and well-evidenced public health approaches to dealing with respiratory viruses whilst the scientific cogency of these measures - including lockdowns, community masking and "vaccine" injections - is coming under increased scrutiny. At th