Certainly, this country nurtures its fair share of wackos, and the incredibly easy availability of guns definitely contributes to the ever-present volatile mix. Nevertheless, the idea that the United States is the only country where ferocious financial and political interests would never consider using surrogates to achieve a larger purpose is both statistically impossible and just plain ridiculous.
As we've noted time and again, history is replete with examples of regimes, movements and vested interests manipulating or guiding provocateurs to sow panic, while taking extraordinary measures to keep their sponsorship hidden. From the Reichstag Fire to the Oklahoma City bombing, seminal events often turn out not to be as simple as we are told. (And don't get us started on the endless questions surrounding the intelligence oversights and strange actions surrounding 9/11.)
Our own top military officials thought it was a great idea to attack our own country in the false flag Operation Northwoods. Our spy agency spent years, decades perhaps, experimenting with mind control, Manchurian Candidates, and all the rest.
Our national police agency, the FBI, has a sordid history of soliciting problematical individuals and luring them to commit criminal and terrorist acts -- all purportedly designed to prevent disorder. Just one example was the bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993. Here's FBI informant Emad Salem, speaking to his FBI handler:
"[W]e was start already building the bomb which is went off in the World Trade Center. It was built by supervising supervision from the Bureau and the D.A. and we was all informed about it and we know that the bomb start to be built. By who? By your confidential informant. What a wonderful, great case!"
Today, the press frames both individual events and the longer arc of history not as an honest broker but as an integral part of a dangerous fantasy-making machinery. That means even traditional causes celebre like press freedom can be corrupted and twisted to fit sinister ends.
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