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“About choosing between independent wisdom and fear, you choose between a vest or a double-edged knife.”
| Item #: SCP-110-PT |
Level 3/110-PT |
| Object Class: Keter |
Confidential |
Special Containment Procedures:: Only the original instance of SCP-110-PT is under Foundation custody at Site PT7. For budgetary and storage reasons, all discovered instances of SCP-110-PT should be immediately destroyed on its discovery. By the way of contagion of the anomaly, it is currently considered as uncontained.
Mobile Task Force PT7-β (“Ministry of Truth”) is assigned to investigate mentions and appearances of SCP-110-PT on physical medias and public speeches, in addition to suppress them and apply amnestics as appropriate. During the elections, members of MTF PT7-β should be in voting places under cover in order to minimise the contagion of SCP-110-PT.
Control and misinformation campaigns should be done for alteration of the general perception of SCP-110-PT as a phenomenon caused by political disagreements, as well as excerpts rewriting and audio editing that possess influence of SCP-110-PT in order to cease its anomalous effects.
Individuals directly affected by SCP-110-PT should be terminated (Under analysis of Ethic Committee of Site PT7 — See Addendum 110-PT-1). Individuals affected indirectly should be treated according with their symptoms.
Experiments utilising SCP-110-PT are currently suspended.
Description: SCP-110-PT is a heap of pages of paper dated at some point of the year of 1934. When observed by a human being, SCP-110-PT will always have a cover titled "Dossier", "Confidential", "Top Secret" or similar. The number of pages of SCP-110-PT randomly varies from observer to observer, being identified records of 10 to 274 pages.
Should it be seen by more than one observer at the same time, or by one individual with protection against cognitohazards, all pages will be blank.
SCP-110-PT affects its observer with a strong cognitohazard after the second page be read. The subject begins to read a supposed document regarding a group of political spectrum diametrically opposed to the reader, being its content unique to different observers.
The supposed text reports in fanciful and often contradictory details a violent seizure of power by the opposing political group. The affected subject will believe this information regardless of his previous knowledge about the subjects covered in the text.
The individual then will start to demonstrate signs of restlessness and distrust of the people around them, relying themself of the text read. This behaviour will intensify as the days go by, resulting in extreme paranoia and social isolation of the individual. After approximately one month of exposure, any interaction with the affected individual will be received with extreme hostility. Although the effects can be mitigated with amnestics, the symptoms of direct exposure to SCP-110-PT cannot be completely nullified to date.
Apart from the original text of SCP-110-PT, the anomalous cognitive effects can be transmitted to a lesser extent to other individuals which did not directly observed SCP-110-PT, by means of speech or transcription of the text to other physical media. Portions of SCP-110-PT written on digital media does not possess anomalous effects. Indirect exposure to SCP-110-PT can be nullified by means of amnestics or with constant exposure of divergent political spectrum people or speeches to the affected subject during a period of 10 to 15 days.
According to recovered documents of 1946 of the then Brazilian Foundation, SCP-110-PT was created by the extincted Group of Interest ██████ █████████ (GoI-993).
SCP-110-PT was applied for the first time in 1937, when cells infiltrated from GoI-993 within the first echelon of the Brazilian government used the anomaly for an ideological change and of the State cadres. In 1945, the Brazilian Foundation identified SCP-110-PT as anomalous, performing a work of mass amnesticisation among the governmental cadres, in addition to the replacement of SCP-110-PT in historiographical sources by a false narrative about a coup d'etat based on false claims created by members of the government itself. Thus, although SCP-110-PT has been contained, its secondary effects endured for longer.
Despite this performance, the effects of SCP-110-PT spread across the general population, although in a mitigated manner, which required extensive work over a decade for the partial removal of SCP-110-PT from the general population.
In 1966, there was a new massive use of SCP-110-PT, this time by unknown sources. Due to the suppression of activities of the Brazilian Foundation, thorough investigation were not conducted about its effects on the civilian population and on the current government.
Nevertheless, minor uses of SCP-110-PT are not discarded, since at certain times, especially of great social unrest for political reasons, behaviours consistent with those of affected individuals by SCP-110-PT are spotted with more frequency.
Is has been discovered that cases of subjects indirectly affected by SCP-110-PT increased considerably in the last decade, leading to suspicion that some complete document of SCP-110-PT besides that which is in custody may come to exist. In the current situation, it is considered that SCP-110-PT has affected between 7% and 10% of the Brazilian population, attributing this conjuncture to the spread of the anomaly over decades.
More in-depth investigation were required by the Director of Site PT7 on the possibility of additional complete instances be in possess of some Group of Interest or in free circulation in specific locations in ████████, Brasília and ██████ ████, São Paulo, by the majority of occurrences in its vicinities.
There is a proposal upon the termination of individuals that are directly contaminated by SCP-110-PT, on account of high cost to the apprehension of these subjects, as well as the difficulty in its complete recovery. The proposal is being analysed by the Ethic Committee of Site PT7.
This message was sent to the members of MTF PT7-β as well as to the researchers directly responsible for SCP-110-PT.
You must be concerned about the delay in approving the containment procedures of our anomaly. Well, there's no need for that.
Indeed, we touched in a sensitive spot, and therefore, it will require the Ethic Committee to approve our idea. This happens because we are in a certain way doing the same thing that it is in the imagination of those who are controlled by SCP-110-PT. We are repressing those who talk too much and are inconvenient.
The point is that these people are literally causing so many problems that we cannot afford to deal with something that can affect an entire government, or a population impossible to control entirely. In this, it seems to me to be the only alternative to nip it in the bud, ethically speaking.
In the case of any better idea, use that Committee analysis time and bring proposals to my desk.
~Dr. Catarina de Carvalho, Department of Misinformation and Control, Site PT██.
