Historic Deceptions
"History is the lie commonly agreed upon." - Voltaire
Terrorism isn't just the work of scary looking guys in caves and so-called rebel groups. Governments of the world also use it to get the population to go along with their agendas. It's an old trick used again and again throughout history. Look back to A.D. 64, August 10th. History tells us that Nero, the Emperor of Rome, set the city ablaze while he fiddled. Apparently he thought the Christians were getting too popular, and, after this event was blamed on them, people were happy to rip them limb from limb in the arenas. This is just one example, albeit from ancient times, of a government creating a crisis and then offering up a solution to the population who will go along with it out of fear and safety. Lets look at some more modern examples of this trick.
february.27th.1933
On February 27th 1933, the Reichstag government building in Germany went up in flames. The Reichstag was seen as a symbol of German independence, built by the first chancellor of the second German Empire in 1871. Bismarck had created Germany through a series of wars leading up to 1870. The Reichstag building was a reminder to people of Germany's great past and the burning was an insult to Nationalism and Democracy. Within hours of the fire, 4,000 people suspected to be communists were arrested. Hitler declared a state of emergency and used part of Article 48, which stripped people of their civil rights. This fire was a major stepping stone to Hitler becoming the Fuehrer of Germany. The Nazis claimed that this was the work of a Dutch Communist- Marinus van der Lubbe. However, many historians believe that the Nazi's themselves were responsible for the fire. If they were, it wouldn't be the first time in the world that a government created a crisis, blamed their enemies and then used it to their advantage for power and profit. In Hitler's case, becoming Fuehrer, stripping German citizens of their rights (under the guise of security) and eventually kicking off World War 2 when he invaded Poland in 1939. The German people were told that Poland was about to attack them, and they needed to go to war. However when the smoke cleared, it was revealed that Hitler lied about that. Sound familiar?
december.7th.1941
December 7th 1941. Japan warplanes strike Pearl Harbor in what was said to be a "surprise attack". However, according to government documents declassified in 1994, the attack was only a surprise to the American citizens. The Federal government of the time apparently knew of the attack in advance, as the Army board back then concluded. Some historical records also show that President Roosevelt himself knew up to 12 days beforehand of the exact date, time and place Japan would strike. This was due to warnings from other countries and a call from Winston Churchill letting him know that Japanese carriers had changed course and were on their way to Pearl Harbor. Why didn't he do anything? The attack, of course, got Roosevelt (who campaigned on keeping the US out of the conflicts going on overseas) to send this country into World War 2 and the rest is history.
Despite evidence right there in black and white that questions the official story we've all been taught in school, documentaries and big Hollywood movies like Pearl Harbor are made that continue what could possibly be a big deception. When these government documents were declassified in 1994, some of the mainstream media briefly mentioned them and that was that. Let's not bother updating the history books or be outraged that people inside government that we're supposed to trust are capable of such deception.
For much more detailed information about this, see:
Pearl Harbor: The Facts Behind the Fiction
The McCollum Memo: The Smoking Gun of Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor Mother of All Conspiracies
Pearl Harbor, 9/11 and the Coming Outrage
Lets go to an excerpt from a November 2001 ABC News story entitled "U.S. Military Wanted to Provoke War With Cuba" to explain this doozy.
Code named Operation Northwoods, the plans reportedly included the possible assassination of Cuban émigrés, sinking boats of Cuban refugees on the high seas, hijacking planes, blowing up a U.S. ship, and even orchestrating violent terrorism in U.S. cities. The plans were developed as ways to trick the American public and the international community into supporting a war to oust Cuba's then new leader, communist Fidel Castro.
America's top military brass even contemplated causing U.S. military casualties, writing: "We could blow up a U.S. ship in Guantanamo Bay and blame Cuba," and, "casualty lists in U.S. newspapers would cause a helpful wave of national indignation."
View scans of these original declassified documents at c0balt.
It is established as fact that in 1962 the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Lyman L. Lemnitzer, tried to convince President Kennedy to authorise an attack on John Glenn's rocket, or on a US navy vessel, to provide a pretext for invading Cuba. Are such tactics confined to history?
Search Google for "Operation Northwoods", and you'll get a plethora of news articles, commentaries and information about this.
september.11th.2001
The ABC News article above ends with "The scary thing is none of this stuff comes out until 40 years after".
Scary indeed. What will come out about recent major events, such as September 11th, in 40 years? Currently, we're just told that Osama and his group of thugs planned the attacks on the Trade Center and Pentagon. He supposedly admitted it on tape. Forget that Osama was trained and funded by the CIA at one point and that the Bush and Bin Laden families were (still are?) in business together. In fact Osama's brother was meeting with Bush Sr. the morning of the attacks. A couple days later, he and the rest of the Bin Laden family in the US were apparently allowed to board a jet and leave the country without questioning, while the rest of us could not fly. Lets not look into the fact that many of the people that have a lot of power right now (Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, etc) started a group called the Project for a New American Century in the 90s, and wrote essays about how "some catastrophic and catalyzing event, like a new Pearl Harbor" would speed up their plans of basically taking over certain parts of the world, especially the oil-rich Middle East. Is that not just a little bit suspicious? ABC's Nightline with Ted Koppel actually covered this on March 5th 2003 before the Iraq war began. Furthermore, what about the US government telling other countries of their plans to invade Afghanistan and building up troops in the area months before September 11th? Many of the newspapers in these countries wrote articles about it while Americans were basically kept in the dark. Our wonderful mainstream media at work. Then there was Condoleezza Rice calling up then-San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown, and telling him not to fly on September 11th. In case you missed that, the assistant to the president for national security affairs, called a friend the day before 9/11 and told him to stay off planes. I'd bet the people who were killed in those planes would have liked to get that warning, too. Lets not forget the unusual insider trading that happened days, even hours before the attacks. Who knew that United and American Airlines stock was about to plummet? Recently it's been admitted that the Iraq war was also planned as early as January 2001. What a stroke of luck the Bush administration had with 9/11. The terrorists struck just in time to anger the American people to allow them to kick off these pre-planned wars. These are just a few of many strange occurrences and unanswered questions that point to another possible deception at the expense of the American people. However, mention some of these facts to most Americans, and they'll look at you like you've got two heads because it goes against what the government, the mainstream media and pundits repeat constantly. Surely our governments and leaders would never ever lie to us. They're all great people.
Will it take 40 years to learn the full truth about this one? There are entire books and web sites dedicated to September 11th and a possible cover-up.
Some are clearly authored by kooks, while others raise very valid questions and have documents, video and more to back up their points. Also many of the families that lost loved ones that day have been speaking out after learning many of the facts mentioned above. Just recently a Zogby poll came out saying that 50% of New Yorkers believe the government knew about 9/11 beforehand and did nothing.
Are there psychos and terrorist groups that like to blow up stuff for their causes? Of course. However, history has shown us that governments just about everywhere have also used (and covertly supported) "terrorism" to help advance their agendas and control the populations they're supposed to represent. Furthermore, the people usually end up finding out the true story behind events years after the fact, when those that were behind the acts are long gone and the next generation doesn't care.
On the bright side, thanks to the internet, we might not have that long with more recent and future deceptions. Past deceptions are being exposed left and right to the point where governments are reclassifying old documents set to be released into the public record.
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