Tragedy and Hope 101: the illusion of justice, freedom and democracy by Josef Plummer
Chapter 08
"False and Designing Men
In the previous chapter, we touched on one of the more devious ways that leaders can manipulate the public: they can choose to implement a dual policy (that is, a policy of publicly pretending to honor the will of the people, while simultaneously doing everything possible to evade it). By any reasonable measure, dual policies constitute an egregious betrayal of democratic principles and public trust. They also reveal the deeply dishonest nature of the ruling class. However, dual policies are not the most effective or the most immoral way to manipulate the public. For that, we must turn to the false-flag operation.
The term “false flag” usually describes a deadly or immoral act that is planned and carried out by one group but is made to appear as if it was planned and carried out by another. Adolf Hitler’s Operation Himmler provides a good example. It consisted of a series of false-flag operations, each designed to create the appearance of Polish aggression against Germany. One way the Nazis achieved this was by taking prisoners from concentration camps, dressing them in German uniforms, and then killing them on the Polish frontier. 1 These “dead Germans” were later used by Hitler as a justification for attacking Poland in 1939.
While false flags are commonly used as a pretext for war, they can also be used by leaders to justify silencing dissent, suspending civil liberties, and seizing additional power. Again, we can turn to Adolf Hitler for an example. Prior to the German election of March 5, 1933, the Nazi Party had done all it could to weaken and disrupt opposing political parties, but despite their best efforts, it appeared as if the Nazis would still face stiff competition at the polls. Here, Quigley describes how they dealt with this problem:
Under circumstances which are still mysterious, a plot was worked out to burn the Reichstag building and blame the Communists…After the building was set on fire…the government at once arrested four Communists, including the party leader in the Reich-stag. The day following the fire [Hindenburg, the president of Germany] signed a decree suspending all civil liberties and giving the government power to invade any personal privacy, including the right to search private homes or confiscate property. At once all Communist members of the Reichstag, as well as thousands of others, were arrested…The true story of the Reichstag fire was kept secret only with difficulty. Several persons who knew the truth…were murdered in March and April to prevent their circulating the true story. Most of the Nazis who were in on the plot were murdered by Goring during the “blood purge” of June 30, 1934."
Both Operation Himmler and the plot to burn the Reichstag provide straightforward examples of false-flag operations, but other variations do exist. For instance, sometimes the act of aggression and subsequent casualties are completely fabricated. If you recall from chapter 6, Operation Northwoods offered this type of false flag as one potential option. The proposal involved an elaborate scheme using a remote-controlled drone aircraft and fake cockpit transmissions to make it appear as if Cuba had shot down a US civilian airliner filled with students on vacation. (After being widely reported in the media, this nonevent could have then been used as a pretext for going to war with Cuba.) Northwoods also proposed other common false-flag variations like provoking the enemy and then allowing them to successfully attack (known as a “stand down” false flag) and also creating an enemy, in the form of a terrorist group, and then using the subsequent “terror attacks” as a pretext for going to war.
Although Operation Northwoods was endorsed by the highest-ranking officer in the US armed forces (chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Lyman Lemnitzer) and although it went all the way to President Kennedy’s desk for final approval, some insist that it was just a one-time aberration that had no chance of ever going operational. Those who make this claim are not serious students of Network- directed policy. Nonetheless, it’s worth looking at the primary argument they offer in defense of their position, which is that Lemnitzer allegedly lost his job for signing off on the plan. (I suspect that you or I would face something a little more severe than unemployment if we conspired to facilitate terror attacks against US targets, but I digress.)
It is true that Lemnitzer, after signing off on Northwoods, was denied another term as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, but he wasn’t jobless for very long. Rather, he was soon appointed Supreme Allied Commander of NATO, and NATO is the organization that, along with the CIA, created and ran Operation Gladio. In other words, Lemnitzer’s new post provided him the perfect lawless environment to operate in—where orchestrating violent government coups, engaging in false- flag terrorism, and carrying out assassinations all served to further official Network policy. He wasn’t punished; he was promoted.
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