When I hear the word mistake
or accident spoken, written or implied in the same sentence with Ruby Ridge,
Waco or OKC, I reach for my.....keyboard.

Below is one perspective on the relationship between events.

For each layer of management there would be a different
perspective and a different excuse. At the top, and scattered through
the pile are those who know what the real deal was, and I do NOT
accept the one stated below. These were not accidents. The selection
of Richard Rodgers, and his assignment at follow-on incidents to RR,
was akin to an order to a certain chef to serve up an entre the
way THAT particular chef is given to cooking it.

Rodgers, as chef, was quoted at Ruby Ridge as saying: "The
negotiators can go home..."

What happened, happened accidentally-on-purpose. They happened
as part of pre-millenial crowd-control intended to put the fear-of-fed
into select demographic groups consisting of patriotic, end-time
variety religious folks and misc. others. The feds see citizens
with bibles and constitutional rights as challenges to their divinity,
and potential obstacles to their religion and goal of infinite government
power.

In the post cold war devil's workshop of idle hands, old
cold-warriors and FBi understudies concoct, fertilize, antagonize,
enrage, provoke, sponsor, aid and abet useful crises to be turned
into harvests of mission and budget expanding dollars and publicity.
An already bloated federal behemoth eats its young, gets fat, and goes
back to work deciding what the next manufactured enemy shall be....

As this ethic and practice seats itself in every institution
below it in the lowerarchy, it shall make the moral universe so opague
as to re-invent the dark ages. No one, at any given time, will
know exactly who or what to blame when city X becomes plasma, or
whether Osama was the chicken or the deliberately provoked and legitimately
angry "egg" of American/western imperialism and crisis engineering.

The quote from Robert Stinnet's book about Pearl Harbor
should be taken with a clean palate, sniffed, then sampled and rolled
around in the mind for a good, long time. Allow the significance
of the facts exposed in his book to sink into every nerve pathway
that groks politics and power.
The men who invent such evils, and decide to spill them into
the world never seem to appreciate that they are more like boomerangs
than bullets - and boomerangs that breed like bunnies.

See the paste below and attached quotation file full of assorted
goodies that are scattered throughout in an order that made sense
as it grew but probably no longer. Something in there to make
just about anyone wonder.

Cheers,

Fred

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>Coupla Feds Fess Up
>The FBI rarely admits its mistakes.
>http://www.mindspring.net/error/404.html
>
>
>But two G-men come clean in an upcoming documentary linking the 1992 Ruby
>Ridge tragedy to the ones that followed in Waco and Oklahoma City.
>
>In "Ruby Ridge: Anatomy of a Tragedy," Gene Glenn, who was the FBI's
>special agent in charge of the Ruby Ridge operation, and FBI negotiator
>Fred Lancely both admit that the agency botched the 11-day standoff in
>Idaho that ended with U.S. marshals killing the wife and son of white
>separatist Randy Weaver.
>
>Eight months later, the same FBI team headed by Richard Rodgers led the
>raid on the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Tex.
>
>"Had the FBI made the admission that the [Ruby Ridge] case was mishandled
>from the beginning, there might not have been the tragic outcome there was
>at Waco, because the policies and the personnel might have been changed,"
>said the documentary's producer-director, Craig Santy.
>
>"The government's failure to make these admissions led to widespread
>anti-government conspiracies culminating in the bombing of the Oklahoma
>Federal Building on the second anniversary of Waco," Santy added.
>
>Glenn, Lancely and Rodgers have all since retired, according to FBI
>spokesman Paul Bresson, who declined further comment.
>
>The documentary debuts May 19 on the Learning Channel.

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"How praiseworthy it is that a prince keeps his word and governs
by candor instead of craft, everyone knows. Yet the experience
of our own time shows that those princes who had little regard
for their word and had the craftiness to turn men's minds have
accomplished great things and, in the end, have overcome those
who governed their actions by their pledges."

"...It follows then, that a wise prince cannot and should not
keep his pledge when it is against his interest to do so and when
his reasons for making them are no longer operative. If all men
were good, this would be a bad precept, but since they are evil
and would not keep a pledge to you, then you need not keep yours
to them."

"All men will see what you seem to be: only a few will know what
you really are, and those few will not dare to oppose the many who
have the majesty of the state on their side to defend them."

"In all men's acts, and in those of princes most especially, it
is the result that renders the verdict when there is no court of
appeal. Let the prince conquer a state, then and preserve it;
the methods employed will always be judged honorable, and everyone
will praise them. For the mob is always impressed by appearances and
by results; and the world is composed of the mob. The few cannot
prevail when the many have someone to rely upon."

"For, everything considered, he will find things which, though
seeming good, will lead to his ruin if pursued, and others which,
though seeming evil, will result in his safety and well being."

"A certain ruler of our time...preaches nothing but peace and faith,
yet he is the extreme enemy of both; and if he had been true to
either of them, he would more than once have lost either power
or reputation."

-- Niccolo Machiavelli. The Prince.

* * * * * * * * *

"Law enforcement officials planned to thwart the bombing of
the World Trade center by substituting harmless powder for
explosives, but the scheme was called off by the FBI, newspaper
reported today. Tape recordings secretly made by an FBI informer
reveal that authorities were in a far better position than
previously known to foil the Feb, 26 bombing of New York's
tallest towers, the New York Times reported."

"The New York Times published conversations the informer, a
43-year- old former Egyptian army officer, Emad Ali Salem, taped
with his FBI handlers. In the tapes, Salem recalls that the FBI
had planned on "building the bomb with a phony powder and
grabbing the people who was involved in it." "But the informer,
who is heard lecturing his handlers, said the powder idea was
called off and "we didn't do that.""

"Salem is also heard on the tapes criticizing the agents for
ignoring his warnings that the World Trade Center was to be
bombed."

-- Excerpts orginally from Rueters, found in the Thursday,
Oct.28, 1993 Los Angeles Times. Part A, Page 21.
(See longer article in LA Times on Friday, Oct. 29, 1993.)

"The trial showed that, six months before the Manhattan blast,
the FBI terminated its key informant in the Muslim group, after he
failed several lie-detector tests. Then, following the World Trade
Center explosion, the FBI rehired the same Cairo-born informant,
Emad Salem, for a fee of more than $1 million. He became the linchpin
of the government's case, - gathering most of the evidence against
the conspiracy defendants, or, in the view of the defense lawyers,
illegally entrapping them in a scheme of the 45-year-old Mr. Salem's
own design."

"In the previous 10 weeks or so, Mr. Salem failed to induce the
sheik to incriminate himself on tape, defense attorneys pointed out.
Moreover, though the FBI has been tapping the sheik's phone since
several days before the bombing, he had said nothing linking him to that
plot or any other, the defense showed."

"On the witness stand, Mr. Salem was a disaster for the prosecution.
In eight weeks of testimony, he confessed to having lied under oath
in a previous trial and to having served as a double agent for the U.S.
and Egyptian governments."

-- Excerpts from the Wall Street Journal Friday, September 22, 1995
(Note Salem was involved in design and construction of a bomb, had
opportunity to make the bomb inert, and yet the FBI either terminates
the guy in the midst of these activities, or pretends to have
terminated him. Also note that the sheik has his phone tapped from
just a couple days before the bombing... which is analogous to the
telepathy the FBI showed by calling area hospital burn wards at 6:00
A.M. April 19th and having a thermal imaging aircraft in the air the
day they incinerated the Davidians....)

"Nobody dared fight the flames. Attempts to do so were prevented
by menacing gangs. Torches, too, were openly thrown in, by men crying
that they acted under orders. Perhaps they had received orders. Or
they may have just wanted to plunder unhampered."

--Tacitus; Annals, Chapter 14 The Burning of Rome. Penguin
Classics 1981 Translated by Michael Grant
Larger excerpt below. Compare and contrast the Burning
of Rome, with the Reichstag, WTC, OKC, and now, in fact
FDR and Pearl Harbor.

* * * * * * * * *

"In 1933, Adolph Hitler, Chancellor of Germany, was preparing for
the upcoming elections. He and his supporters used all manner of
brutality to provoke the armed resistance of his political opponents,
the communists. Nazi terrorists roamed the streets freely. Despite all
efforts, there was no sign of revolution. If it could not be
provoked, might it not have to be invented? On the night of Feb.
27th, 1933, Hitler's stormtroopers using underground passages, made
their way to the Reichstag (the German Parliment) and scattered
gasoline and other chemicals. They were aided in their plans by a
half-witted Dutch communist Marinus van der Lubbe, who had been heard
boasting in a bar a few days before that he planned to set the
Reichstag on fire. Van der Lubbe was the dupe. He was encouraged to
set the Reichstag on fire. But the main job was done by the
stormtroopers without his knowledge, of course. Goering, prior to the
fire, had drawn up a list of those to be arrested after the fire. When
he arrived at the fire, Goering loudly proclaimed, "This is the
beginning of the Communist revolution! We must not wait a minute. We
will show no mercy. Every Communist deputy must this very night be
strung up."
"The day following the fire, seven sections of the German
Constitution which guaranteed individual and civil liberties were
suspended. The arrests were made. The Nazi state was born."

William Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, Simon and
Schuster, 1990, pages 190-195.

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"In 1979, ATF informant Bernard Butkovich and FBI operative Edward
Dawson led a group of KKK and Nazi Party members on a shooting spree
during a parade in Greensboro, North Carolina, which led to the deaths
of five members of the Communist Workers Party.* Interestingly, the
Washington Post reported how Butkovich "urged members to buy equipment
to convert semi-automatic guns to fully automatic weapons, and offered
to procure explosives (including hand grenades)." According to the New
York Times, witnesses reported that Butkovich, a veteran demolitions
expert, also offered "to train them in activities such as making pipe
bombs and fire bombs," and that "the Nazis take weapons to the
[Communist] rally in the trunks of their cars."** With a map of the
parade route supplied by Greensboro Police Department Detective Jerry
Cooper, Dawson, Butkovich, and their KKK and neo-Nazi comrades were
able to select the most advantageous site for their ambush."

--David Hoffman, The Oklahoma City Bomb and the Politics of Terror

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* * * * * * * * *

In May of 1947, against a background of mounting Cold War hysteria,
President Harry Truman reluctantly announced the establishment of the
Central Intelligence Agency. Questioned later about that decision,
Truman said:

It was a mistake. And if I'd known what was going to happen,
I would never have done it....Now, as nearly as I can make out,
those fellows in the CIA don't just report on wars and the like,
they go out and make their own, and there's nobody to keep track
of what they're up to. They spend billions of dollars on stirring
up trouble so they'll have something to report on. They've become
...its become a government all of its own and all secret. They don't
have to account to anybody. That's a very dangerous thing in a
democratic society, and its got to be put a stop o. The people
have a right to know what those birds are up to. And if I was back
in the White House people would know.

--Harry Truman

Text from Colonel Davies, author of Named - The Master Spy and Hit Men
who Shot JFK. Bookman Press 185 Flinders Lane, Melbourne Victoria,
Australia. (Excellent and plausible little book)

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* * * * * * * * *

During an operation, the gravity of what you are doing is obscured
by the determination to do whatever it is you have been programmed
to do. If you whack a bunch of people, blow up cars or hotels,
or murder children, it doesn't make any difference. Something in
your character sets you apart from normal people, and once it's
trained and propagandized to where you start believing what people
are telling you, you lose your sense of right and wrong, and in
some cases, your sense of morality. In the end, when the veil of
perceived sanction is lifted and you no longer have the protection
of the invisible barrier that justifies all your actions, then those
unspeakable acts committed in the name of freedom and democracy,
come back in a more objective retrospect. Finally, you understand
the impact. You say to yourself, did I do that? Usually, you did.

Former CIA officer Victor Marchetti discovered this unfortunate
truth long ago. As Marchetti writes in The CIA and the Cult of
Intelligence:

The "clandestine mentality" is a mind-set that thrives on secrecy
and deception. It encourages professional amorality -- the belief
that righteous goals can be achieved through the use of unprincipled
and normally unacceptable means. Thus, the cult's leaders must
tenaciously guard their official actions from public view. To do
otherwise would restrict their ability to act independently; it
would permit the American people to pass judgment on not only
the utility of their policies, but the ethics of those policies
as well.Š

Finally, there was the blatantly uninhibited statement of former
OSS Colonel George White, one of the original founders of the CIA:

"I toiled wholeheartedly in the vineyards because it was fun, fun,
fun. Where else could a red-blooded American boy lie, kill, cheat,
rape and pillage with the blessings of all the highest?"

excerpts from David Hoffman's The Oklahoma City Bombing
and the Politics of Terror.

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* * * * * * * *

"The covert operators that I ran with would blow up a 747 with 300
people to kill one person. They are total sociopaths with no conscience
whatsoever."

-- Gene Wheaton Former Pentagon CID Investigator

"These events in East Asia had their reflection in the United States.
The simultaneous announcement in Korea and Japan that, according to CIA,
KAL 007 had landed on Sakhalin and the passengers were safe had come at
10:00 A.M. Tokyo time, and the similar announcement by the office of
Korean Air Lines in Tokyo at 11:00 A.M. Also at 11:00 A.M. Tokyo time, which
was 10:00 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, Orville Brockman, the duty officer
at FAA headquarters in Washington, reached Tommy Toles, by telephone at
his home in Georgia. Toles was the press secretary of Rep. Larry
McDonald. McDonald, the head of the John Birch Society and of Western Goals,
organizations of the extreme right in U.S. Politics, was a passenger
on KAL 007."

-- Michel Brun Incident at Sakhalin pg. 7.

"The same information was made public in Tokyo by the Japanese
government, which also quoted the CIA source. In a different part of
Seoul, an aide handed Sen. Jesse Helms, who had just arrived on Flight
015 to attend an international conference, a message stating that the
Korean airplane "was on the ground at Sakhalin and all the passengers
are safe."

--Michel Brun Incident at Sakhalin pg. 4.
(What better way to deflect suspicion than to announce the
good news of the safe landing of the aircraft?)
(And what, do you suppose McDonald, Helms, and the man who
died 24 hours later in yet another freak airplane accident,
had in common? Stay tuned for more quotes as I find them.)

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"I watched as the Anti-War Movement rendered it impossible for this
country to conduct or win the Vietnam War. I tell you, dear friend, that
this Militia and Patriot movement in which, as an attorney, you have
become one of the centerpieces, is far more significant and far more
dangerous for America than the Anti-War Movement ever was, if it is
not intelligently dealt with. And I really mean this."

--Former CIA Director William Colby to his friend, Nebraska
State Senator John DeCamp, literally days before the bombing.
(Note the term "intelligently dealt with", by which we can
guess that the OKC bombing and the campaign to place blame
on the Patriot/Militia movement was what Colby was speaking
of...)

"Jane C. Graham, a HUD worker injured in the bombing, also clearly
felt two distinct blasts. As Graham stated in a videotaped deposition:
"I want to specify that the first bomb -- the first impact -- the
first effect, was a waving effect, that you got when the building was
moving, you might have maybe felt a little waving, perhaps an
earthquake movement, and that lasted for several seconds. "About 6 or
7 seconds later, a bomb exploded. It was an entirely different sound
and thrust. It was like it came up right from the center up. You could
feel the building move a little.Š But there were two distinct events
that occurred. The second blast not only was very, very loud, it was
also very powerful. And as I said, I just felt like it was coming
straight on up from the center of the building -- straight up."

"Then, on the Friday before the bombing, HUD worker Jane Graham
noticed three men in the garage whom she thought were telephone
repairmen. As Graham stated in her deposition, the men were holding
what appeared to be C- 4 plastic explosives:

"It was a block, probably 2 by 3 inches of 3 by 4,
in that area, but it was a putty color -- solid piece
of block -- I don't know what it was. But they had that
and they had this wiring. When they saw me watching
them, they were down there and they had plans of the
building. They were discussing -- they were arguing in
fact -- apparently there was a disagreement, because
one of the men was pointing to various areas of the
garage. They were talking about, I assume, plans of the
building. I thought maybe they were telephone men at
first. "When they saw me watching them, they took the
wiring -- it looked like cord, telephone cord -- it was
putty colored -- they took whatever else was in their
hand, they put all of that back into a paper sack, they
put it in the driver's side, behind the passenger seat
[of a] pale green, slightly faded station wagon."

Graham later told me that one of the men was holding a one by two
by three inch device that looked like "some sort of clicker, like a
small TV remote- control," she said. The men stopped working abruptly
when they saw Graham. "They looked uncomfortable," she said. "They
were as intent looking at me as I was at them." She also stated that
the men were not wearing uniforms and were not driving a telephone or
electric company truck. They were, however, very well built. They
"obviously lifted weights" said Graham. (Graham's account is backed up
by IRS worker Kathy Wilburn, who also saw the trio of men in the
garage, as did a HUD employee named Joan.) Although the FBI
interviewed Graham, they never showed her any pictures or brought her
before a sketch artist. "They only wanted to know if I could identify
McVeigh or Nichols," she said. "I said it was neither of these two
gentlemen."
A call to the local electric, telephone, and natural gas companies
revealed that the men were not authorized repairmen. Nor were they
construction workers inspecting the premises for a proposed renovation
project by the General Services Administration (GSA). The 20 or so
contractors involved in that bid stated emphatically that the men were
not their employees. While David Hall (who stopped working on the case
in late 1995 due to an IRS audit) wasn't aware of the Graham
deposition, he did drop a bombshell (no pun intended).
"We do know that explosives were delivered there without a doubt.
We know there were six boxes of 25 to 35 pounds marked 'high
explosives' delivered to the building two weeks prior to the
explosion. We had contact with the truck driver who was involved in
that delivery. The name of the trucking company is Tri-State, located
in Joplin, Missouri." Tri-stateŠ is an explosives carrier.
"We've talked to the driver," said Hall. "We've talked to two drivers.
Nobody knows what was in them because they were boxed and marked 'high
explosive.'" Then Hall dropped another bombshell.

"We also know that the ATF had a magazine inside the building,
which was illegal. But the floor was blown out of that magazine. And
there's some question about what was in there too that created that
damage, because that was a foot of concrete that was blown out of that
magazine." While several other unexploded bombs were pulled out of the
wreckage, none were widely mentioned. One such bomb was a 2 X 2 foot
box marked "High Explosives" WHICH HAD A TIMER ON IT. This was
confirmed by Oklahoma City Fire Marshal Dick Miller. The timing
mechanism apparently had been set to detonate at ten minutes after
nine. Apparently it had malfunctioned due to the initial blast.
According to Toni Garrett, a nurse who was on the scene tagging
dead bodies. "Four people -- rescue workers -- told us there was a
bomb in the building with a timing mechanism set to go off ten minutes
after nine." According to Garrett, witnesses told her it was an active
bomb. "We saw the bomb squad take it away." This fact was confirmed by
an Oklahoma City Police officer who inadvertently began to walk into
the building when a fireman yelled, "Hey idiot, that's a bomb!" The
stunned officer looked over and saw the 2 X 2 box surrounded by police
crime tape. He then heard the fireman yell, "There's one over there
and another over there! We're waiting for the bomb squads to come back
from hauling off the others."

--David Hoffman OKC Bomb and the Politics of Terror

"The government must, and I say must, take responsibility for their sting
operation going sour, We are not expendable for their cause.Š"

--HUD worker Jane Graham.Š

"It is not because these people (the Patriots) are armed, that
America need be concerned," Bill explained to my surprise. "It
is not that these people stockpile weapons and have para-military
training sessions, that they are dangerous" Colby continued.Š
"They are dangerous, John, because there are so many of them. It
is one thing to have a few nuts or dissidents. They can be dealt
with, justly or otherwise, so that they do not pose a danger to
the system. It is quite another situation when you have a true
movement -- millions of citizens -- believing something, particularly
when the movement is made up of society's average, successful
citizens."

--Cia Director William Colby to Nebraska Senator John DeCamp
(Note that nuts can be dealt with "justly or otherwise"
where "otherwise" was probably the operative term at Waco.
...Also note that millions of average, successful citizens
are generally not considered a threat in a democracy, they
would normally be considered a demographic group. One
must also ponder whether Director Colby was not essentially
paranoid regarding "millions" of militia members. Some
estimates by organizations hostile to militias estimate
militia memberships in the tens of thousands - a couple
orders of magnitude smaller. But Government profits
from all crises and profits from them in direct or
even exponential proportion to them. It pays then, for
all possible threats to be exagerated beyond all factual
recognition.)

While it cannot be said for certain that the Alfred P. Murrah
Building was destroyed as part of a preconceived plan to create
the illusion of a domestic terrorist threat within America -- as
a foundation for destroying political dissent -- it is clear that the
investigation was politically crafted for just that purpose. In March
of 1994, there began an extensive media campaign to portray the
militias as Right-wing terrorists. Numerous sensationalistic stories
appeared in the media, largely orchestrated by the ADL, Political
Research Associates (PRA), and the SPLC. Then in March of 1995,
Congressman Steve Stockman (R-TX) learned that a nation-wide, early-
morning paramilitary raid against militia groups was planned for
March 25. It seemed that a couple of concerned ATF agents had
informed the National Rifle Association (NRA) about the plan,
code-named Operation ROLLING THUNDER. Stockman immediately fired
off a letter to Attorney General Janet Reno:

"It has come to my attention through a number of reliable
sources that an impending raid, by several Federal agencies,
against the "citizen's militias" groups, is scheduled for
March 25 or 26 at 4:00 a.m. A paramilitary style attack
against Americans who pose no risk to others, even if
violations of criminal law might be imputed to them, would
run the risk of an irreparable breach between the Federal
Government and the public, especially if it turned out to be
an ill considered, poorly planned, but bloody fiasco like
Waco.Š "

Stockman's letter went unanswered, and two Senators who confronted
the Assistant Secretary of Defense were thrown out of his office.
What is interesting to note, however, is that the raid was scheduled
just one month prior to the Oklahoma City bombing, that launched the
largest anti-militia media campaign ever witnessed.

From David Hoffman's The Oklahoma City Bombing
and the Politics of Terror.
(If "Rolling Thunder" had gone forth with the OKC
bomb following, everyone would have KNOWN the militias
were to blame. The appearance of these circumstances
make it very plausible that the OKC event was
engineered to have an anti-militia effect on society
and to reverse the anti-fed feelings growing after Waco
by making "innocent" federales the victims...And myriad
examples of federal foreknowledge of the bombing with
no attempt to stop it or prosecute such people as
Strassmeir, Mahon, Brescia etc... well, you should get
the idea. The Nazis claimed they were attacked by
the Poles too.... And that would have been official
history had the Nazis won. In this case, the feds
are winning and US citizens are the "Poles.")

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Subject: Re: Was BATF Pre-Warned about Oklahoma Blast?
From: ferretman1@aol.com (FERRETMAN1)

CNN Prime News, June 7, 1995 8:17 PM Eastern Time News Reporter Mark
Feldstien presented a 6 minute news report complete with film of ATF
test of Identical bomb (only a 1000 pounder instead of the size used
in OKC blast), in November of 1994. One of the agents (unnamed) that
was involved in the November test, just happened to be right across
the street from the OKC Federal Building on the day of the blast, and
as a consequence was able to provide "valuable" information to the
Dallas Field Office. Investigation progressed rapidly because agents
"knew what to look for".

Transcript of this little tid bit is available from : Journal
Graphics, 1535 Grant Street, Denver, Colorado 80203. Phone:
1-800-266-6397, Transcript # is 1187-4, June 7 1995 8:17 PM EST, CNN
Prime News.

Explosives Chief Ralph Ostrowski gave ending interview, and the
newscasters final comment was that the November test was almost a "dry
run" of OKC explosion.

Hmmmmmmmmmm........................
lets see now: Testing of almost identical device just 5 months before
explosion, AND one of the agents involved in testing right across
street during OKC bombing????????
Hmmmmmmmmmmm.
Transcript is one and a half pages long, costs $12.00.
Journal Graphics keeps transcripts for several news agencies besides
CNN.
Millions of folks must have seen this 6 minute news story, but I have
heard nothing else about it. Am I alone in viewing CNN on Wed, June 7
1995 ???

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* * * *

...Lieutenant Commander Arthur H. McCollum... He felt that war with
Japan was inevitable and that the United States should provoke it at
a time which suited US Interests. ...McCollum advocated eight actions
that he predcited would lead to a Japanese attack on the United States.

...McCollum's eight-action memo was dated October 7, 1940...
Beginning the very next day, with FDR's involvement, McCollum's
proposals were systematically put into effect.
Throughout 1941, it seems, provoking Japan into an over act of war
was the principal policy that guided FDR's actions toward Japan.

--Robert B. Stinnett. Day of Deceit, Simon and Schuster pg. 8,9.

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* * * *

As was revealed by the COINTELPRO scandel, the FBI has conducted many
programs to create confusion and to discredit and harass political
activists. One of the most notorius examples was the "Black Panther
Coloring Book". This was a coloring book featuring pictures of black
children killing white people that so enraged the white population
against the blacks that people stopped listening to their legitimate
political greivances.

Of course, the Black Panthers never printed such a coloring book; this
particular variation on the "big lie" was printed at taxpayer expense
by the FBI, as recorded by the congressional investigations which detailed
some 50 seperate programs with similar methods and objectives. Most were
targeted on people who opposed the war in Viet Nam.

Those congressional investigations resulted in the passage of
several laws to limit the FBI's ability to conduct clandestine
domestic disinformation campaigns. That package of laws was among
those which FBI director Freeh asked Congress to rescind shortly after
he was appointed by Bill Clinton. One must accept the likelyhood that
such a request was not made lightly, and that in asking permission to
engage in disinformation campaigns within the United States, Freeh was
demonstrating an intent to do so.

--Michael Rivero, 22 August 1995 From discussion of professional
debunkers on the internet.

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