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From: Steve Wingate 
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FAKE TERROR - THE ROAD TO DICTATORSHIP  

http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/ARTICLE5/index.html

Note: This article first appeared as a post written by myself at Free Republic. 
I was surprised to learn that it was copied from Free Republic and re-posted 
at dozens of sites around the world. So, it seems only fitting that the article 
(with some updating) re-appear here at my own web site.  


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.  

 

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 on 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 Maine, 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, 
eventually winning the Phillipines (and annexing Hawaii along the way).  

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.  

 

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 (and mutating towards Socialism at the 
same time). 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 violated 
neutrality with lend lease, and even ordered the sinking of several German 
ships in the Atlantic, but HItler refused to be provoked.  

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 first 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 Japanese 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!  

 

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 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.  

click for larger image  

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!  

click for larger image  

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.  

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 
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.  

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, 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. In both cases, the nation had to 
totally collapse 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.  


Steve Wingate, Webmaster
ANOMALOUS IMAGES AND UFO FILES
http://www.anomalous-images.com


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