RE: Bugbears, False Flag Attacks, and Scapegoats

I received this post today. It mirrors my beliefs, so I'm passing it on. The author's name is at the bottom.

Real Intent Behind Unconstitutional Laws
The real intent behind unconstitutional laws is their ultimate use against American citizens to quell dissent. Until they officially nullify the Constitution, they have to find ways to skirt the Bill of Rights. Out of one side of their treasonous mouths, they will declare that they are not attempting to interfere with First Amendment rights - while, out of the other side, they re-define the acts therein protected as "terrorism." And, apparently, the protests don't even have to take place. You can be hit with charges beforehand, as with the RNC demonstrators. Now, that's a level of "sophistication" that I never considered.

Danger Beneath the Surface
Laws like the Patriot and Military Commissions Acts are made to look like "safeguards" on the surface but are in actuality dangerous assaults on civil liberties. Many years ago, they wanted to give the police the right to stop every tenth driver to test for alcohol. Admittedly, that would prevent some accidents. But the Bill of Rights protects citizens from random search and seizure. Another example is putting up cameras everywhere. Even though this would reduce crime,.its true motive would be to allow the government to spy on citizens. Same general logic with regard to the telecom companies' providing customer information to the government.

Bugbears, False Flag Attacks, and Scapegoats
Bugbears, false flag attacks, and scapegoats play critical roles in the conversion of democracies into police states. (The takeover of the United States government was effected through a legislative - as opposed to a military - coup.) Three steps must be taken. First, identify a sinister force ("terrorism") ostensibly afoot in the world and allegedly aimed directly at you. Second, create an event (Twin Towers) supposedly linked to that force that will whip up mass hysteria and rabid patriotism. Third, select a scapegoat on whom to blame the event. Now, you're all set to put through unconstitutional laws for "protection" that citizens perceive do not or can not pertain to them. "No one will torture me or throw me into prison for years with no evidence or charges, because I'm not an 'enemy combatant.'" Even activists - for the environment or animal / human rights - fancy themselves safe, because they figure that the First Amendment irrevocably grants them freedom of speech and assembly, the right to redress grievances and advocate for reform, etc.

Who's Afraid of the Bogeyman?
Whenever a government selects one group of people and lays most national or global troubles solely at its feet, the group is more than likely serving as a "bogeyman" to divert attention from the crimes of that government and to re-direct hatred and blame onto an alternate source. Adolph Hitler told the German people that the Jews "had all the money." In reality, most of the six million Jews who went to the gas chambers were poor "shleppers" from the ghetto struggling to survive and feed their families. They weren't world bankers or Zionist leaders.

The "Terrorists Who Hate Us for Our Freedoms"
Today, the Middle Easterners are the scapegoat. Bush and fellow criminals came up with the term "the terrorists who hate us for our freedoms" and made the Twin Towers debacle - in reality a false flag attack engineered by the U.S. government - look like it was carried out by Muslims. By inciting hatred of Muslims (just like Hitler did with Jews), George Bush et al could now appear to "justify" illegal ongoing war and occupation, torture, indeterminate detention, suspension of habeas corpus, warrantless domestic wiretapping and spying, erosion of civil liberties, destruction of the trifoliate system of government (emasculation of Congress and the Supreme court), and flouting of the Constitution and international covenants (just like Hitler was able to implement all his monstrous policies - most notably, concentration camps and gas chambers) without a whimper of protest from the public.

Orwellian Doublespeak
Revoking our freedoms to "protect" us from those who are "jealous" of them is kind of like taking away our homes to protect us from the homeless or taking away our food to protect us from the hungry. One person quipped, "Of what freedoms can anyone still be jealous? We no longer have any!"

Politics Today
Politics today is not (if it even ever was) about what's important or appropriate for individual nations or the world. It's about mega-wealthy elites hijacking political systems to enhance personal fortunes - and the concomitant need to construct virtual or official police states to protect those ill-gotten gains.

They Never Learn
This is the way it has always operated in history. And no matter how many times it has occurred - and despite the fervent cries of "Never again!" - it is still going on today. And the people continue not only to ignore the "handwriting on the wall," but also to delude themselves every four years that one or the other political candidate lives for no other reason than to supply their needs and fulfill their dreams.

Lindy Greene