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Pirate fantasy
- Pirates used to fly a false national ensign until an unsuspecting ship was close, then unfurl the Jolly Roger and attack.
FALSE FLAG OPS POTENTIAL TARGETS (identified by commentators thus far):
Washington, D.C.
San Francisco & Los Angeles
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SIGNIFICANT HYPOTHESIS FROM COMMENTS: OSAMA BIN LADEN IS LONG DEAD, IPSO FACTO, BIN LADEN TAPES ARE CONTRIVED.
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I have decided to start a public diary entry entitled "False Flag Watch" that I will run from time to time to do just that, watch for false flag operations, or signs and omens of them, in America and beyond, because there is much concern right now that there are forces at work within the bowels of our own government, or just beyond in its shadow networks, that are, if not actually planning a staged terrorist attack on America, at least praying for one to happen. These latter "prayers" have actually been duly publicized in the media recently and should be cause for great concern, if for no other reason than the old admonition, "Be careful what you pray for."
Note as well that false flag operations have an ugly history as covert and deceitful tools of governments to achieve less than noble aims, so I am not hallucinating here. False flag ops go all the way back to Emperor Nero framing the Christians for the Great Fire of Rome and beyond, wherever and whenever a State or other political body practiced deceit to manipulate its citizens at the expense of some poor scapegoat.
So tonight, July 19, 2007, I want to start with excerpts from the author and writer Paul Craig Roberts' (he was also Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan administration) latest article, "A Wake-up Call", which highlights this very topic. The full article can be found either right next door in our Best Web Op-Eds Section or at:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18037.htm
Here are some excerpts:
A Wake-up Call
By Paul Craig Roberts07/19/07 "ICH" -- --
This is a wake-up call that we are about to have another 9/11-WMD experience. The wake-up call is unlikely to be effective, because the American attitude toward government changed fundamentally seventy-odd years ago. Prior to the 1930s, Americans were suspicious of government, but with the arrival of the Great Depression, Tojo, and Hitler, President Franklin D. Roosevelt convinced Americans that government existed to protect them from rapacious private interests and foreign threats. Today, Americans are more likely to give the benefit of the doubt to government than they are to family members, friends, and those who would warn them about the government's protection.Intelligent observers are puzzled that President Bush is persisting in a futile and unpopular war at the obvious expense of his party's electoral chances in 2008.
........A number of pundits have concluded that the reason the Democrats have not brought a halt to Bush's follies is that they expect Bush's unpopular policies to provide them with a landslide victory next year. There is a problem with this reasoning. It assumes that Cheney, Rove,and the Republicans are ignorant of these facts or are content for the Republican Party to be destroyed after Bush has his warmonger-police state fling. "After me, the deluge."Isn't it more likely that Cheney and Rove have in mind events that will, once again, rally the people behind President Bush and the Republican Party that is fighting the "war on terror" that the Democrats "want to lose"?Such events could take a number of forms. As even diehard Republican Patrick J. Buchanan observed on July 17, with three US aircraft carrier battle groups in congested waters off Iran, another Tonkin Gulf incident could easily be engineered to set us at war with Iran. If Bush's intentions were merely to bomb a nuclear reactor, he would not need three carrier strike forces.
......Alternatively, false flag "terrorist" strikes could be orchestrated in the US. The Bush administration has already infiltrated some dissident groups and encouraged them to participate in terrorist talk, for which they were arrested. It is possible that the administration could provoke some groups to actual acts of violence.
......The Bush administration is preparing us for more terrorist attacks. The latest intelligence report says that Al Qaeda has regrouped, rebuilt, and has the ability to come after us again. "Al Qaeda will intensify its efforts to put operatives here," says the report.
Security operatives, such as Michael Chertoff, and various instruments of administration propaganda have warned that we will be attacked before next year's election. Chertoff is not a person who wants to be known as Chicken Little for telling us that the sky is falling.
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This public diary, when I do post it, should be considered as much a space for you to post something of importance as for me, so go ahead and make entries in the comments section. And whistleblowers should be encouraged to post info. You may just be saving your country from sliding deeper into fear, Fascism and the horrors of war.
