Dictatorship through Deception
by Michael Rivero
First posted on New Republic Forum Xmas 'Eve 1999
Comments:
What a piece of astute prediction in Michael Rivero's New Republic
post from 20 months ago Read it well for the modus operandi of the
proto-dictators behind the WTC attack.
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 landholder 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 Sparticus in order to
strike terror into the hearts of Rome, whose garrison Sparticus
had already defeated in battle. But Sparticus had no intention of
marching on Rome itself, a move he knew to be suicidal. Sparticus
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 Sparticus 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 Sparticus, then positioned two Roman legions
in such a way that Sparticus 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 Sparticus' army
and even though Pompeii 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.
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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 no 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.
The Germans were hoaxed into surrendering their Republic, and accepting
the 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 Main, 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.
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.
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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. 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 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 Sparticus
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 Sparticus. Japan needed oil. They had to invade Indonesia to
get it, and to do that they 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 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!
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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" sonarman 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 Ambassador 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 public relations firm Hill & Knowlton, which has
grown rich on taxpayer money by being most industrious and creative
liars! Hill & Knowlton 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 above photo of Fikret Alic, a Muslim, staring through a barbed
wire fence, was used to "prove" that the Bosnians were
running 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
Bosnian 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.
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!
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.
Of what real worth is rule by the will of the people when that will
is obtained by fraud and deception? Are we truly free to choose
when the government and media so orders the information we see that
we cannot but choose what the government wanted all along?
In the aftermath of the assassination of John F. Kennedy, an event
in our history that reveals the extent to which government and the
media will lie to the public, POST Magazine used a fraudulent photograph
to sell Americans on the now-discredited "Magic Bullet"
theory.
In the 70s, leaked FBI documents blew the lid off of an FBI operation
known as COINTELPRO. Far from being the law enforcement and criminal
investigation function the FBI's public image would suggest, COINTELPRO
turned out, upon Congressional inquiry, to be pure criminality on
the part of the FBI itself, which targeted anti-Vietnam protestors,
Native American Activists, Civil Rights Activists, and early feminists
for harassment and disruption, on orders from the Nixon White House.
In one classic example revealed during the hearings, it was revealed
that the FBI had printed up and distributed a coloring book filled
with racist anti-white and anti-police images, then used media assets
to claim that the book was the product of the Black Panthers, an
organization which at the time was interested in breakfasts for
ghetto children and local control of the curriculum. The coloring
book so enraged the public (with the media cheering them on) that
the population at large stopped listening to the blacks' legitimate
political grievances.
Among those who supported the early civil rights movement was actress
Jean Seberg. A rising star, whose credits included "Joan of
Arc", "Paint Your Wagon", and "Airport",
Jean was smpathetic to the civil rights movement and to the Black
Panthers. Because of her, the American people were beginning to
listen to the blacks' concerns. The FBI decided this could not be
allowed to happen.
The Los Angeles office of the FBI requested AND OBTAINED permission
from Washington DC to plant a false story in the media that Jean
Seberg was not pregnant by her French Diplomat husband but by one
of the Black Panthers. In an age where inter-racial sex was still
considered a social taboo, the scandal wrecked Jean Seberg's career
in Hollywood. She suffered a miscarriage, and the funeral for the
baby was held with an open coffin, revealing the lie in its most
tragic form. Seberg eventually committed suicide.
Other revelations from the COINTELPRO hearings included incidents
of offices of targeted dissidents being broken into, equipment being
sabotaged, files being stolen, false information planted to cause
as much disruption as possible, or to allow targeted individuals
to be arrested and falsely imprisoned. The FBI maintained (and still
does to this day) networks of informants on every college campus
and in every major corporation. The FBI actually used awareness
of the informant network in an attempt to trick the Black Panthers
into murdering some of their own members, by planting phony documents
suggesting that the targeted individuals were themselves FBI informants.
Lie after lie. Deception after deception. This is how the government
of the United States keeps you confused, keeps you blind, keeps
you disinformed, lies, cheats, and steals, all the better to rule
you while letting you imagine you have some freedom of choice in
the matter. It's a "soft" dictatorship, but a dictatorship
no less.
Truth is for the masses; it's a serious inconvenience for the government
and the media. Just ask Vincent Foster, Ron Brown, JFK Sr., JFK
Jr. or the passengers of TWA 800.
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 regrettably 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,
whose prior record of honesty and forthrightness is, even in the
most generous light, deplorable.
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, with over 10 "terrorist"
warning stories in the media every single day, all 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. No nation that fell into
dictatorship ever reverted to the rule of law. In all cases, the
nation had to be totally destroyed before freedom was restored to
the people.
Remember that when Crassus tells you that Sparticus approaches.
Remember that when thugs in the streets act in a manner clearly
designed to provoke the public fear.
Remember that when the Reichstagg burns down.
POSTSCRIPT
With roughly 100 new stories warning of terrorism in the mainstream
media just today, the possibility cannot be ignored that the American
people are being pre-conditioned to accept as real a terrorist event
manufactured by our own government, a terrorist eent no more real
than those created by powerful leaders through the ages to sell
an agenda to a populace which would otherwise not accept it.
If indeed such a plan is even now being considered by covert elements
of our government, the very best deterrent possible is if those
who plan such a modern "Reichstagg Fire" become convinced
that the public might not believe the reality of the staged event;
that they might not accept the designated scapegoat; that the revelations
of FBI informants at the deepest levels of the New York World Trade
Towers and OK City bombings might be enough to cause most Americans
to look closer to home for the source of the so-called terrorists.
All it takes to stop such a plan is the creation of doubt in the
minds of the planners.
Spread the word, and feel free to repost this article.
Again, my deepest thanks to the Frepers who corrected the earlier
version of this post.
Merry Christmas to all.
Posted on 12/24/1999 09:37:23 PST
by Michael Rivero
