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Originally posted by andy1972
Vietnam was a war meant to be sustained....never won.
"All war is based on deception." ~ Sun Tzu, The Art of War
“Most wars are engineered by the Illuminati to weaken civilization and create a global police state" The Illuminati want to own and control everyone. They want to be God. They contrived all the revolutions, the world wars, the Cold War, Korea, Vietnam, the JFK assassination, 9-11, Iraq and Afghanistan and the "war on terror."
Does A Satanic Cult Rule The World?
One group and one group alone is responsible for virtually all wars and bloodshed on the face of this planet. The Synagogue of Satan
Originally posted by smurfy
reply to post by SQUEALER
If you ask me, the FBI is playing a very dangerous game and where people may really get hurt.
Originally posted by PointDume
Originally posted by MrInquisitive
reply to post by below
OP, apparently you don't know what the term "false flag operation" means.
I agree the OP exagerrates the claim when using the phrase "carried out."
However...
The FBI radicalized individuals and concocted elaborate phony plots for these individuals to carry out. Then the FBI announced their success at preventing the plots.
This pattern of behavior fits the definition of a false flag because the government touted its ability to prevent the attack without disclosing its involvement in generating the attack.
The efficacy of the attack does not make the situation not a false flag, it only reduces the severity of the situation.
I do think its fair to say that these incidents are the bare minimum false flag. In other words, if you removed a single element, the definition would no longer apply
Originally posted by MarioOnTheFly
reply to post by MrInquisitive
These were plots that the FBI encourage likely would-be terrorists into planning a terrorist attack
I'm not disputing that there are would-be terrorists out there...but, give them a few months, with a giant state apparatus at their disposal...they can make a terrorist out of you if they want to. You don't even have to be a would-be...but they choose mid eastern types because it sells easier.
If they encouraged, provided funds, and made deals...that is almost as same as "carried out". Sure they give them bombs...remember the 93 WTC bombing...
It is a simple game of marketing their own necessity of existence. Plus...you get more funding I presume, if you foil a plot or two...
It is a simple game of marketing their own necessity of existence. Plus...you get more funding I presume, if you foil a plot or two...
Originally posted by MrInquisitive
WRONG. These weren't false flag attacks or plots. The fact that the FBI has been involved in setting the suspects up in these cases has been known in each one as far as I know, because I have heard criticism of such cases since they started being announced.
As alleged in the Complaint, the defendants wanted to engage in terrorist attacks. They selected targets and sought the weapons necessary to carry out their plans. Fortunately, the defendants sought the assistance of a witness cooperating with the Government.
Even more shocking was that the organisation, money, weapons and motivation for this plot did not come from real Islamic terrorists. It came from the FBI, and an informant paid to pose as a terrorist mastermind paying big bucks for help in carrying out an attack.
Operations carried during peace-time by civilian organisations, as well as covert government agencies, may by extension be called false flag operations if they seek to hide the real organisation behind an operation.
Something disguised to seem affiliated with a group OTHER THAN the one it really is affiliated with. For example, a "false flag operation" is a terrorist act committed by one group for the express purpose of discrediting another group, which is framed for it.
Originally posted by MrInquisitiveAnd frankly I am just tired of ignorant people using the term "false flag" without knowing what it means, just because it is the buzz-word phrase du jeur for conspiracy buffs.
Originally posted by abbey7777
False flag attacks are lies and total rubbish started by bored ats members who still are waiting for a real ufo to turn up or a real alien
Originally posted by SQUEALER
If you control the game, you can guarantee the win.
The people to attain high office, don't get their by chance.
They guarantee their success, by creating the situations that make them look like stars.
So, the FBI creates games, call them undercover operations, control the outcomes, arrest and prosecute their victims, and rise in rank, as a result of their successes.
The police do the same thing, on a smaller scale.It's very hard to find a real criminal, someone to arrest, to get that promotion and higher badge. So, why not create the criminal, arrest and prosecute the unsuspecting, and guarantee your promotion that way? Why wait around a lifetime for the chance to solve crimes that may never come your way? This is the difficulty that minority groups have with police. It's not that the police are racist, they just need arrests to look good to their department. Who are they going to arrest? The easy targets are the weak, the disadvantaged, the poor, the uneducated, it's like a gold mine out there of opportunity to advance oneself. It only takes a little creativity, and boldness, and when dealing with the poor, there's very little real risk. So, the people who feel the effects of these "games of promotion" are usually those without the resources to mount a defense.
The structure of society is such, that in almost every sphere of activity, a little cheating goes a long way to engineering one's advancement in the chosen career.
To take the "chance" out of the game of life.
To make it to the top, in this life, before retirement.
You need an edge.
You need to "control" the chance.
Originally posted by SQUEALER
Originally posted by smurfy
reply to post by SQUEALER
If you ask me, the FBI is playing a very dangerous game and where people may really get hurt.
People might get hurt. That's just collateral damage. At a sufficiently low level, this thing called collateral damage is accepted in most spheres of human activity. Man attempting to go into space, space shuttle disaster. US drones dropping bombs on terrorists, children getting hit instead. New vaccinations being tried, people suffering complications. Aspirin kills 3,000 people every year, yet doctors still prescribe it, because the benefits outweigh the risks. All collateral. Someone makes a calculation, and comes to the conclusion that the benefits outweigh the costs. We don't know exactly what their thinking process is, or how they determine what is beneficial. It might just be someone's delusion about National Security. Someone imagines a threat, and devises a solution to that threat. The solution requires them to invent schemes to probe the threat and response levels, to have drills, to actually enact events, so that like laboratory scientists, they are at some point dealing with actual phenomena, and not just theoretical Hypothecation all the time. At some point, the intelligence analyst has to test his ideas out in the field. Nobody is going to pay him, to sit behind a desk, and think up events that never occur. He has to be able to say, "see, I told you so", and sufficiently often, to continue to get paid, to continue to be considered a valuable asset to the agency.
Self-preservation demands action.
The only dangerous people are the FBI. They have the training, they have the communication channels. They have the computer databases of information. And the most important thing, they make the arrests.
The average wannabe crook, doesn't have anywhere near a fraction of the resources at his disposal, as the average FBI agent. So, yeah, they play a dangerous game. But, it's their game. They are the masters of that game. The people are not organized, and will never be. The FBI is organized, and motivated. They need to keep their jobs. Many like their game. They like being FBI, and want to keep it that way. So, they need to do things to protect their jobs, enhance their positions, further their career, get that promotion. They don't answer to any higher power. They are the higher power. When a police is found to be corrupt, call in the FBI. Who do you call if the FBI is corrupt? There is nobody to call. The FBI cannot be corrupt, because they define what corrupt is. Whatever they do, is part of an undercover operation, and hence secret, and not subject to questioning.
That's the kind of power everybody wants. But, only a few lucky crafty individuals have been able to wrangle their way into those special organizations that enable this power. Who would give that power up? When have you ever heard the chief of one of these organizations like the FBI say "I quit", "I had enough". Doesn't happen. Underlings might quit, because they recognize they don't have the craftiness to stay the course.
So, all the games are necessary for people to keep their jobs.
Society of the future may change all this. With information exchange, people tweeting each other, leaks coming out all the time, it's getting alot harder to play these games, and not have people know about it. We all see the military guys walking about at the Boston event, we see their photos, their stuffed backpacks. But, we don't know their identities yet. But the time will come when everyone's identity is instantly revealed from photo recognition. .So, a soon as you tweet a photo, someone will tweet back that person's name, address, and phone number, where he went to school, which country he is a citizen of, etc..The intelligence services already have this kind of capability, but the public will get it too.No one will be able to hide. People will police themselves, and the careers that create the games to sustain those careers will all vanish, along with the games.And we will have no bombings, since there will be no one "to profit" from such a ridiculous event.