[CTRL] Fake Terror- The Road To Dictatorship

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Subject:      [CTRL] Fake Terror- The Road To Dictatorship
Date: Saturday, August 18, 2001 4:40 PM

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FAKE TERROR - THE ROAD TO DICTATORSHIP




Note: This article first appeared as a post written by myself at <A 
HREF="http://www.freerepublic.com/";>Free Republic
</A>. I was surprised to learn that it was copied from <A 
HREF="http://www.freerepublic.com/";>Free Republic</A> and
re-posted at dozens of sites around the world. So, it seems only fitting that
the article (with some updating) re-appear here at my own web site.

It's the oldest trick in the book, dating back to Roman times; creating the
enemies you need.

In 70 BC, an ambitious minor politician and extremely wealthy man, Marcus
Licineus Crassus, wanted to rule Rome. Just to give you an idea of what sort
of man Crassus really was, he is credited with invention of the fire brigade.
But in Crassus' version, his fire-fighting slaves would race to the scene of
a burning building whereupon Crassus would offer to buy it on the spot for a
tiny fraction of it's worth. If the owner sold, Crassus' slaves would put out
the fire. If the owner refused to sell, Crassus allowed the building to burn
to the ground. By means of this device, Crassus eventually came to be the
largest single private landholder in Rome, and used some of his wealth to
help back Julius Caesar against Cicero.

In 70 BC Rome was still a Republic, which placed very strict limits on what
Rulers could do, and more importantly NOT do. But Crassus had no intentions
of enduring such limits to his personal power, and contrived a plan.

Crassus seized upon the slave revolt led by Sparticus in order to strike
terror into the hearts of Rome, whose garrison Sparticus had already defeated
in battle. But Sparticus had no intention of marching on Rome itself, a move
he knew to be suicidal. Sparticus and his band wanted nothing to do with the
Roman empire and had planned from the start merely to loot enough money from
their former owners in the Italian countryside to hire a mercenary fleet in
which to sail to freedom.

Sailing away was the last thing Crassus wanted Sparticus to do. He needed a
convenient enemy with which to terrorize Rome itself for his personal
political gain. So Crassus bribed the mercenary fleet to sail without
Sparticus, then positioned two Roman legions in such a way that Sparticus had
no choice but to march on Rome.

Terrified of the impending arrival of the much-feared army of gladiators,
Rome declared Crassus Praetor. Crassus then crushed Sparticus' army and even
though Pompeii took the credit, Crassus was elected Consul of Rome the
following year.

With this maneuver, the Romans surrendered their Republican form of
government. Soon would follow the first Triumvirate, consisting of Crassus,
Pompeii, and Julius Caesar, followed by the reign of the god-like Emperors of
Rome.

The Romans were hoaxed into surrendering their Republic, and accepting the
rule of Emperors.

Julius Caesar's political opponent, Cicero, for all his literary
accomplishments, played the same games in his campaign against Julius Caesar,
claiming that Rome was falling victim to an internal "vast right wing"
conspiracy in which any expressed desire for legislative limits on government
was treated as suspicious behavior. Cicero, in order to demonstrate to the
Romans just how unsafe Rome has become hired thugs to cause as much
disturbance as possible, and campaigned on a promise to end the internal
strife if elected and granted extraordinary powers.

What Cicero only dreamed of, Adolph Hitler succeeded in doing. Elected
Chancellor of Germany, Hitler, like Crassus, had no intention of living with
the strict limits to his power imposed by German law. Unlike Cicero, Hitler's
thugs were easy to recognize; they all wore the same brown shirts. But their
actions were no different than those of their Roman predecessors. They staged
beatings, set fires, caused as much trouble as they could, while Hitler made
speeches promising that he could end the crime wave of subversives and
terrorism if he was granted extraordinary powers.

The Germans were hoaxed into surrendering their Republic, and accepting the
rule of Der Fuhrer.

The state-sponsored schools will never tell you this, but governments
routinely rely on hoaxes to sell their agendas to an otherwise reluctant
public. The Romans accepted the Emperors and the Germans accepted Hitler not
because they wanted to, but because the carefully crafted illusions of threat
appeared to leave no other choice.

Our government too uses hoaxes to create the illusion that We The People have
no choice but the direction the government wishes us to go in.

In 1898, Joseph Pulitzer's New York World and William Randolph Hearst's New
York Journal were arguing for American intervention in Cuba. Hearst is
reported to have dispatched a photographer to Cuba to photograph the coming
war with Spain. When the photographer asked just what war that might be,
Hearst is reported to have replied, "You take the photographs, and I will
provide the war". Hearst was true to his word, as his newspaper published
stories of great atrocities being committed against the Cuban people, most of
which turned out to be complete fabrications.

On the night of February 15, 1898, the USS Maine, lying in Havana harbor in a
show of US resolve to protect her interests, exploded violently. Captain
Sigsbee, the commander of the Maine, urged that no assumptions of enemy
attack be made until there was a full investigation of the cause of the
explosion. For this, Captain Sigsbee was excoriated in the press for
"refusing to see the obvious". The Atlantic Monthly declared flat out that to
suppose the explosion to be anything other than a deliberate act by Spain was
"completely at defiance of the laws of probability".

Under the slogan "Remember the Maine", Americans went to war with Spain,
eventually winning the Phillipines (and <A 
HREF="http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/HAWAII/hawaii.html";>annexing Hawaii</A> along 
the way).

In 1975, an investigation led by Admiral Hyman Rickover examined the data
recovered from a 1911 examination of the wreck and concluded that there had
been no evidence of an external explosion. The most likely cause of the
sinking was a coal dust explosion in a coal bunker imprudently located next
to the ship's magazines. Captain Sigsbee's caution had been well founded.

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt needed a war. He needed the fever of a
major war to mask the symptoms of a still deathly ill economy struggling back
from the Great Depression (and mutating towards Socialism at the same time).
Roosevelt wanted a war with Germany to stop Hitler, but despite several
provocations in the Atlantic, the American people, still struggling with that
troublesome economy, were opposed to any wars. Roosevelt violated neutrality
with lend lease, and even ordered the sinking of several German ships in the
Atlantic, but HItler refused to be provoked.

Roosevelt needed an enemy, and if America would not willingly attack that
enemy, then one would have to be maneuvered into attacking America, much as
Marcus Licinius Crassus has maneuvered Sparticus into attacking Rome.

The way open to war was created when Japan signed the tripartite agreement
with Italy and Germany, with all parties pledging mutual defense to each
other. Whereas Hitler would never declare war on the United States no matter
the provocation, the means to force Japan to do so were readily at hand.

The first step was to place oil and steel embargoes on Japan, using Japan's
wars on the Asian mainland as a reason. This forced Japan to consider seizing
the oil and mineral rich regions in Indonesia. With the European powers
militarily exhausted by the war in Europe, the United States was the only
power in the Pacific able to stop Japan from invading the Dutch East Indies,
and by moving the Pacific fleet from San Diego to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii,
Roosevelt made a pre-emptive strike on that fleet the mandatory first step in
any Japanese plan to extend it's empire into the "southern resource area".

Roosevelt boxed in Japan just as completely as Crassus had boxed in
Sparticus. Japan needed oil. They had to invade Indonesia to get it, and to
do that they first had to remove the threat of the American fleet at Pearl
Harbor. There never really was any other course open to them.

To enrage the American people as much as possible, Roosevelt needed the first
overt attack by Japan to be as bloody as possible, appearing as a sneak
attack much as the Japanese had done to the Russians. From that moment up
until the attack on Pearl Harbor itself, Roosevelt and his associates made
sure that the commanders in Hawaii, General Short and Admiral Kimmel, were
kept in the dark as much as possible about the location of the Japanese fleet
and it's intentions, then later scapegoated for the attack. (Congress
recently exonerated both Short and Kimmel, posthumously restoring them to
their former ranks).

But as the Army board had concluded at the time, and subsequent de-classified
documents confirmed, <A 
HREF="http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/6315/pearl.html";>Washington DC knew the attack 
was coming, knew exactly
where the Japanese fleet was, and knew where it was headed. </A>

On November 29th, Secretary of State Hull showed United Press reporter Joe
Leib a message with the time and place of the attack, and the New York Times
in it's special 12/8/41 Pearl Harbor edition, on page 13, reported that the
time and place of the attack had been known in advance!

The much repeated claim that the Japanese fleet maintained radio silence on
it's way to Hawaii was a lie. Among other intercepts still held in the
Archives of the NSA is the UNCODED message sent by the Japanese tanker Shirya
stating, "proceeding to a position 30.00 N, 154.20 E. Expect to arrive at
that point on 3 December." (near HI)

President Lyndon Johnson wanted a war in Vietnam. He wanted it to help his
friends who owned defense companies to do a little business. He needed it to
get the Pentagon and CIA to quit trying to invade Cuba. And most of all, he
needed a provocation to convince the American people that there was really
"no other choice".

On August 5, 1964, newspapers across America reported "renewed attacks"
against American destroyers operating in Vietnamese waters, specifically the
Gulf of Tonkin. The official story was that North Vietnamese torpedo boats
launched an "unprovoked attack" on the USS Maddox while it was on "routine
patrol".

The truth is that USS Maddox was involved in aggressive intelligence
gathering in coordination with actual attacks by South Vietnam and the
Laotian Air Force against targets in North Vietnam. The truth is also that
there was no attack by torpedo boats against the USS Maddox. Captain John J.
Herrick, the task force commander in the Gulf, cabled Washington DC that the
report was the result of an "over-eager" sonarman who had picked up the
sounds of his own ship's screws and panicked. But even with this knowledge
that the report was false, Lyndon Johnson went on national TV that night to
announce the commencement of air strikes against North Vietnam, "retaliation"
for an attack that had never occurred.

President George Bush wanted a war in Iraq. Like Crassus, George Bush is
motivated by money. Specifically oil money. But with the OPEC alliance
failing to keep limits on oil production in the Mideast, the market was being
glutted with oil pumped from underneath Iraq, which sat over roughly 1/3 of
the oil reserves of the entire region.

George wanted a war to stop that flow of oil, to keep prices (and profits)
from falling any further than they already had. But like Roosevelt, he needed
the "other side" to make the first move.

Iraq had long been trying to acquire greater access to the Persian Gulf, and
felt limited confined a narrow strip of land along Kuwait's northern border,
which placed Iraqi interests in close proximity with hostile Iran. George
Bush, who had been covertly arming Iraq during its war with Iran, sent word
via <A HREF="http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/ARTICLE5/april.html";>April Glaspie</A> 
that the United States would not intervene if Saddam
Hussein grabbed a larger part of Kuwait. Saddam fell for the bait and
invaded.

Of course, Americans were not about to send their sons and daughters to risk
their lives for petroleum products. So George Bush arranged a hoax, using
public relations firm Hill & Knowlton, which has grown rich on taxpayer money
by being most industrious and creative liars! Hill & Knowlton concocted a
monumental fraud in which the daughter of the Kuwaiti Ambassador to the
United States, went on TV pretending to be a nurse, and related a horror
story in which Iraqi troops looted the incubators from a Kuwaiti hospital,
leaving the premature babies on the cold floor to die. The media, part of the
swindle from the start, never bothered asking why the "nurse" didn't just
pick the babies up and wrap them in blankets or something.

Enraged by the incubator story, Americans supported operation Desert Storm,
which never removed Saddam Hussein from power but which did take Kuwait's oil
off of the market for almost 2 years and limited Iraq's oil exports to this
very day. That our sons and daughters came home with serious and lingering
medical illnesses was apparently not too great a price to pay for increased
oil profits.

Following the victory in Iraq, yet another war appeared to be in the offering
in the mineral rich regions of Bosnia. Yet again, a hoax was used to create
support for military action.

The above photo of Fikret Alic, a Muslim, staring through a barbed wire
fence, was used to "prove" that the Bosnians were running modern day
"Concentration Camps". As the headline of "Belsen 92" indicates, all possible
associations with the Nazi horrors were made to sell the necessity of sending
yet more American troops into someone else's nation.

But when German Journalists went to Trnopolje, the site of the supposed
Bosnian Concentration Camp. to film a documentary, they discovered that the
photo was a fake! The camp at Trnopolje was not a concentration camp but a
refugee center. Nor was it surrounded by barbed wire. Careful examination of
the original photo revealed that the photographer had shot the photo through
a broken section of fence surrounding a tool shed. It was the photographer
who was on the inside, shooting out at the refugees.

Once again, Americans had been hoaxed into support of actions they might
otherwise not have agreed with.

While several American Presidents have willingly started wars for personal
purposes, perhaps no President has ever carried it to the extreme that Bill
Clinton has.

Coincident with the expected public statement of Monica Lewinsky following
her testimony, Bill Clinton ordered a cruise missile attack on Sudan and
Afghanistan, claiming to have had irrefutable proof that bogeyman
extraordinaire (and former Afghani ally) Osama Bin Ladin was creating
terrorist chemical weapons there.

Examination of the photos of the debris revealed none of the expected
structures one would find in a laboratory that handled lethal weapons-grade
materials. Assurances from the CIA that they had a positive soil test for
biological weapons fell on their face when it was revealed that there had
been no open soil anywhere near the pre-bombed facility. Sudan requested that
international observers come test the remains of the factory for any signs of
the nerve gas Clinton had insisted was there. None was found. The Sudanese
plant was a harmless aspirin factory, and the owner has sued for damages.

Later examination of the site hit in Afghanistan revealed it to be a mosque. <A 
HREF="http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/LIE/fake-mig.gif";>
click for larger image</A>

Meanwhile, back in Kosovo, stories about genocide and atrocities were
flooding the media (in time to distract from the Sudanese embarrassments),
just as lurid and sensational and as it turns out often just as fictional as
most of William Randolph Hearst's stories of atrocities against the Cubans.

Again, the government and the media were hoaxing Americans. The above photo
was shown on all the American networks, claiming to be one of Slobodan
Milosovic's Migs, shot down while attacking civilians. Closer examination
(click on the photo) shows it to be stenciled in English!

Like Germany under Chancellor Hitler, there have been events in our nation
which strike fear into the hearts of the citizens, such as the New York World
Trade Tower bombing, the OK City Federal Building, and the Olympic Park bomb
(nicely timed to divert the media from witnesses to the TWA 800 shoot down).
The media has been very quick to blame such events on "radicals",
"subversives", "vast right wing conspiracies", and other "enemies in our
midst", no different than the lies used by Cicero and Hitler.

But on closer examination, such "domestic terrorist" events do not appear to
be what they are made out to be. The FBI had an informant inside the World
Trade Tower bombers, Emad Salam, <A 
HREF="http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/OK/wtcbomb.html";>who offered 
to sabotage the bomb. The FBI
told him "no".</A> The so-called "hot bed" of white separatism at Elohim City,
occasional home to Tim McVeigh in the weeks prior to the OK City bombing, was
founded and is being run by an FBI informant! <A 
HREF="http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/OK/TRUCK/TRUCK2.gif";>click for 
larger image</A>

And nobody has ever really explained what this second Ryder truck was doing
in a secret camp half way from Elohim City to Oklahoma City two weeks before
the bombing.

So, here we are today. Like the Romans of Crassus' and Cicero's time, or the
Germans under a newly elected Hitler, we are being warned that a dangerous
enemy threatens us, implacable, invisible, omnipresent, and invulnerable as
long as our government is hamstrung by that silly old Bill of Rights. Already
there have appeared articles debating whether or not "extraordinary measures"
(i.e. torture) are not fully justified under certain circumstances such as
those we are purported to face.

As was the case in Rome and Germany, the government continues to plead with
the public for an expansion of its power and authority, to "deal with the
crisis".

However, as Casio watch timers are paraded before the cameras, to the
stentorian tones of the talking heads' constant dire warnings, it is
legitimate to question just how real the crises is, and how much is the
result of political machinations by our own leaders.

Are the terrorists really a threat, or just hired actors with bombs and Casio
watches, paid for by Cicero and given brown shirts to wear by Hitler?

Is terrorism inside the United States really from outside, or is it a stage
managed production, designed to cause Americans to believe they have no
choice but to surrender the Republic and accept the totalitarian rule of a
new emperor, or a new Fuhrer?

Once lost, the Romans never got their Republic back. Once lost, the Germans
never got their Republic back. In both cases, the nation had to totally
collapse before freedom was restored to the people.

Remember that when Crassus tells you that Sparticus approaches.

Remember that when thugs in the streets act in a manner clearly designed to
provoke the public fear.

Remember that when the Reichstagg burns down.



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