Lyndon Johnson Introduces Federal Gun Control
Ekwall also quotes gun control advocate Robert Sherrill, author of The Saturday Night Special and Other Guns (1972), who states unequivocally that "The Gun Control Act of 1968 was passed, not to control guns, but to control blacks." Ekwall goes on to describe the unprecedented 1965-68 race riots in 125 American cities, in which the violence was graphically magnified by extensive TV coverage. In 1965, thirty-four people were killed in a race riot in the Watts area of Los Angeles. In 1967, twenty-six were killed in Newark alone, and forty in Detroit. Over 5,000 were left homeless in the Detroit riot, which was finally quelled by 4,700 federal paratroopers and 8,000 National Guardsmen.
The paranoia this engendered in the corporate and political elite was greatly heightened by public statements by Stokely Carmichael and other Black Panthers who openly advocated advocating violent revolution and the well-publicized protests (and police riot) at the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago.
The Move to Ban Gun Ownership Among the Poor
Ekwall finishes by outlining a series of state laws enacted during the Reagan, Bush senior, and Clinton administration, in conjunction with the federal Weed and Seed program, which in most cities specifically targeted blacks and low income whites. The latter re-funded social programs that Reagan had cut for states and cities that enacted draconian law and order legislation.
- 1988 - Maryland law banning cheap imported handguns.
- 1988 -- Chicago enacted Operation Clean Sweep to permit the confiscation of firearms and illegal narcotics in Chicago Housing Authority buildings. It allowed the Chicago police to conduct warrantless searches on all CHA tenants. Tenants who objected or attempted to interfere with these warrantless searches were arrested.
- 1990 - Richmond Housing Authority in Virginia imposed a ban, upheld by the state supreme court, on the possession of all firearms in public housing projects.
- 1994 - Clinton Administration tried to introduce H.R. 3838 to ban guns in federal public housing. It was defeated in the House Banking Committee. Similar legislation was filed (but unsuccessful) in 1994 in the Oregon and Washington state legislatures.
- 1995 -- Maine passed law banning guns in public housing (struck down by Maine courts the same year).
Gun Control and False Flags
No discussion of gun control would be complete without mentioning the high rate of "lone nut" shooting sprees that occur in the US. There is growing evidence that many of these apparently senseless shootings are actually "false flag" operations. In other words, they are staged by military and intelligence insiders to mobilize public support for gun control legislation.
False flag operations are a classic tool of espionage and deception, an operation in which an attack is planned by one, usually governmental source, but blamed either on another government or a lone nut. In the US, false flag operations are commonly used to terrorize the citizenry into accepting an unpopular war or repressive legislation, such as the Patriot Act.
History is full of false flag operations:
- The 1605 "Gunpowder Plot," in which Guy Fawkes allegedly tried to blow up the British parliament. The government used the highly publicized event to convince the British people that "drastic measures" were necessary to protect them against their Catholic foes. The unusual circumstances raised suspicions almost immediately and have always been linked to British spymaster Robert Cecil (see http://bowalleyroad.blogspot.com/2010/11/terrorist-or-fall-guy.html).
- 1898 -- The sinking of the USS Maine in Havana harbor was immediately pinned on the Spanish and used to justify declaring war on Spain (see http://www.truthmove.org/content/false-flag-operations/)
- 1933 -- The Reichstag Fire, believed to have been started by Nazi storm troopers, was blamed on communists and used to justify a Nazi takeover and crackdown on their opposition (see http://www.truthmove.org/content/false-flag-operations/)
- 1941 -- The supposed Japanese sneak attack on Pearl Harbor. Declassified documents reveal that the US government knew of the impending attack and allowed it to happen to generate support for US entry into World War II (see http://kennysideshow.blogspot.com/2008/12/10-false-flags-operations-that-shaped.html).
- 1964 -- The Gulf of Tonkin incident, in which phantom North Vietnamese ships fired non-existent torpedoes, which President Johnson used to justify a full scale American invasion of Vietnam. See http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/08/14/peeling-the-911-onion-layers-of-plots-within-plots/)
- The JFK, Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy assassinations, as well as 9-11, are all believed by serious scholars to be false flag operations orchestrated by US intelligence.
Researchers who study lone nut shooting sprees note that the shooters usually fit a distinctive profile that includes both a military and intelligence background, as well as a clear personality change in the absence of formal mental illness.
Charles Whitman is believed to be the first false flag lone nut shooter. In 1968, Whitman climbed a tower at the University of Texas and shot 16 people. This was a month before Johnson persuaded Congress to pass the first gun control legislation. Whitman, a former Marine, had received training by the Naval Enlisted Science Education Program (NESEP), an intelligence entity. He left a note which read, in part, "I don't understand what is compelling me to type this note. I have been to a psychiatrist I have been having fears and violent impulses."
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