FAKE TERROR

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post written by myself at Free Republic in late 2000. I was

surprised to learn that it was copied re-posted at dozens of sites

around the world. So, it seems only fitting that the article (with

some updating) should re-appear here on my own web site.

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FAKE TERROR -

THE ROAD TO WAR AND DICTATORSHIP

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 land holder 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 Spartacus in order to

strike terror into the hearts of Rome, whose garrison Spartacus had

already defeated in battle. But Spartacus had no intention of

marching on Rome itself, a move he knew to be suicidal. Spartacus

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 Spartacus 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 Spartacus, then positioned two Roman legions in such

a way that Spartacus 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

Spartacus' army and even though Pompey 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.

Then the Reichstag burned down; a staged terrorist attack.

 

The Germans were hoaxed into surrendering their Republic, and

accepting the total 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 Philippines (and annexing Hawaii 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 Spartacus

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

Spartacus. 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, Washington DC knew the attack was

coming, knew exactly where the Japanese fleet was, and knew where it

was headed.

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" sonar man 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 April Glaspie

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 a public relations firm which has grown rich on

taxpayer money by being most industrious and creative liars! The PR

firm 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 photo (right) of Fikret Alic staring through a barbed wire

fence, was used to "prove" the existence of 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 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.

 

 

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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, who offered to

sabotage the bomb. The FBI told him "no". 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!

 

 

 

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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 Spartacus approaches.

 

Remember that when thugs in the streets act in a manner clearly

designed to provoke the public fear.

 

Remember that when the Reichstag burns down.