How To Spot A False Flag Event
Chuck Baldwin
A
missionary friend of mine in Eastern Europe recently gave me a heads up
regarding an excellent article written by Sebastian Swift entitled "5 Confirmed False Flag Operations And How To Spot Them In The Future."
Swift writes,
"The false flag phenomenon is distinctively modern and used as an ideological weapon to control populations with the fear of a manufactured enemy. They are used in ostensibly democratic systems where people believe they have inalienable rights. Such democratic systems--primarily the United States, Israel, and Great Britain--must shock people into sociopolitical and geopolitical consent and, as such, require sophisticated modern propaganda systems and advanced covert operations teams with highly proficient skills."
Here are his telltale signs of a false flag operation:
- There is an immediate comprehensive narrative, including a convenient culprit. Law enforcement, government agencies, and the mainstream media immediately proffer a narrative that completely explains the event and encourages citizens to tie their intellectual understanding of the tragedy to the emotions they experience. In his lecture at Contact in the Desert, [author and researcher] Richard Dolan noted that a distinguishing characteristic of a false flag operation is that the official narrative IS NOT questioned by the media. There are often legislative, ideological and sociopolitical power plays waiting in the wings, which the government can immediately implement.
- The official narrative has obvious domestic and geopolitical advantages for the governing body. The Bush administration used 9/11 to usher in the War on Terror, which has served as a lynchpin for countless civil liberty infringements by the national security state, including ubiquitous domestic surveillance and indefinite detention.
- The narrative behind the attack serves to leverage emotions like fear, as well as patriotism, in order to manufacture consent around a previously controversial issue. For example, many of the recent domestic terror attacks, including the Aurora [and Orlando] shooting[s], have exacerbated and reinforced advocacy of gun control legislation.
- Military training drills and police drills occur on the day of and very near the attack itself, causing confusion to obscure eye witness testimony and allowing orchestrators to plant both patsies, disinformation and backup operatives. This is no small point. An incredible percentage of major domestic or international terror attacks have involved simultaneous "training drills.” This list includes, but is not limited to, the infamous NORAD drills of 9/11, the 7/7 London Bombings, the 2011 Norway shooting, the Aurora shooting, Sandy Hook, and the Boston Marathon. Though none of the aforementioned events can be confirmed or denied without a doubt, they bear a striking resemblance to previous false flag attacks and should be looked at with an investigative eye.
It's time for those of us who have been
reluctant to consider the possibility that our own government (and the
governments of Israel and Great Britain) could actually be complicit in
domestic terrorism in order to further a nefarious agenda to at least
stop accepting the government and media’s version of these tragedies at
face value. For the most part, the mainstream media is little more than a propaganda ministry for the federal government. We haven’t seen true objective investigative journalism since before the death of John F. Kennedy.
Granted, not every national tragedy is part of a government conspiracy--and
there is a plethora of "conspiracy nuts" out there to whom EVERYTHING
is a conspiracy and through which we must wade to try to ascertain the
truth. These people make it difficult for all of us. The Internet has
provided the Chicken Littles of the world with an opportunity to play
journalist. And their “everything's-a-conspiracy” rants only serve to
mask the true conspiracies and turn the average John Doe away from the
truth. That’s why I believe that many of these “conspiracy-everywhere”
Internet bloggers are actually PART OF THE CONSPIRACY. Their job is to
make genuine whistleblowers and researchers look like conspiracy
“kooks.” Then, of course, there are genuine kooks out there, too.
Regardless,
the similarities and "coincidences" of many of these national tragedies
are just too numerous for rational people to ignore. I believe Mr. Swift's analysis is very intelligent, coherent, and plausible.
Our Founding Fathers believed their government (the British Crown) was deliberately conspiring against them. Thomas Jefferson said as much in our Declaration of Independence:
“Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”
Read it again: “But when a long train of abuses and
usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a DESIGN to
reduce them under absolute Despotism . . . .” Jefferson and the rest of
America’s founders believed that there was a “design” (i.e, “plot,”
“scheme,” or “conspiracy,” if you please) to “reduce them under absolute
Despotism.” So, if you believe that government conspiracy is only for
kooks, you must include America’s Founding Fathers in that group.
Patrick Henry may have said it best:
"We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren, till she transforms us into beasts. Is this the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty? Are we disposed to be of the number of those who, having eyes, see not, and having ears, hear not, the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation?"For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth--to know the worst and to provide for it."
I submit if we deliberately "shut our eyes
against a painful truth," liberty is not long for this country. And
there is plenty of blame to go around.
Obviously,
the “no conspiracy” group is contributing greatly to the demise of
liberty by their unwillingness to even examine the evidence suggesting
government conspiracies. Truly, they are shutting their eyes “against a
painful truth.” And, unfortunately, this group is most prevalent among
pastors, Christians, and churches.
I
find it incredible that people who supposedly study their Bibles are so
completely blind to government conspiracies. The Old and New Testaments
are replete with examples of government conspiracies. Jewish
governments, especially, were notorious for conspiring against God’s
prophets in the Old Testament and against Jesus and the Apostles in the
New Testament. Plus, the New Testament plainly pictures the master
conspirator, Satan, as being the “god of this world” and “the prince of
the power of the air.” His offer to Christ on the Mount of Temptation to
give Jesus the “kingdoms of the world” was NOT challenged by the Lord.
In other words, Jesus didn’t dispute the fact that Satan controls many,
if not most, of the world’s governments. The Book of Ephesians warns
against the conspiracy of “principalities,” “powers,” “rulers of the
darkness of this world,” and “spiritual wickedness in high places.”
Every Bible commentator that I respect includes wicked civil magistrates
within these personages. Yet when one brings up the possibility of
government conspiracies to the average church member, he or she is
treated as if they have the palsy.
Nowhere is this attitude of the denial of conspiracies more evident than in the whole Muslim versus America façade. Almost
no Christian leader seems to be able to see the “man behind the
curtain” in this whole affair. They have absolutely NO concept of what
the governments of the U.S., Great Britain, Israel, Turkey, and Saudi
Arabia are surreptitiously doing to instigate and foment this “war with
Islam.” (Of course, there is no war against the Islamic states of Saudi
Arabia and Turkey; they are our “allies.”) Christians aren’t even
willing to study the matter. Therefore, the devil--along with the evil
miscreants inside Western governments that he controls--is able to go
about his diabolical work completely undetected.
But,
in all fairness, the “everything's-a-conspiracy” group must also share
culpability in our country’s demise. There are too many professing
“patriots” who seem to have no honesty or objectivity whatsoever. To
them, everything government does is bad whether it is or isn’t. And, of
course, they, the so-called “patriots,” can do NOTHING wrong.
For
example, if a black kid in an inner city is unjustly killed by a police
officer, these “patriots” say absolutely NOTHING. But if one of their
“own” is justly killed by police, they scream “tyranny” and shout about
the need for revolution. Such people seem to have no reasoning ability
and no understanding of Natural Law. They are agenda driven as surely as
are big-government toadies. In fact, some of these “patriot” Internet
bloggers and radio broadcasters are no better than the mainstream media:
they twist the truth in order to pander to the people who are
supporting them financially. It’s not about principle; it’s not about
truth; it’s not about the rule of law. It’s all about their financial
success.
When
we only condemn injustice committed by government, while overlooking
and condoning injustice committed by so-called “patriots,” we lose all
credibility and integrity. Everything is not a conspiracy. Every
policeman or federal agent is not a Jackboot. Sometimes there are real
acts of violence committed by real deranged criminals with no help
whatsoever from anyone--including anyone in government. And
sometimes there are so-called “patriots” who are themselves evil, using
the freedom movement for their own ulterior purposes. And, of course,
there are well-intentioned people who sometimes do very foolish and
unwise things. And only foolish and unwise people would condone and
support foolish and unwise actions, even if they are well-intentioned.
I totally agree with Sebastian Swift’s article that there
are indeed false flag operations being perpetrated by rogue elements
within government--including the governments of the United States, Great
Britain, and Israel. I further agree that people need to
honestly and objectively be alert for the identifying characteristics of
these false flag operations. More than that, the American
people need to begin holding our civil magistrates accountable for these
operations, as they could not continue without the tacit support of our
elected representatives and President.
But
what we do NOT need are phony “patriots” who do nothing but distract,
confuse, and incite by calling everything a conspiracy and who
themselves are guilty of unlawful conduct--unlawful conduct as defined
by God and Natural Law. (This is why the ignorance and silence of
America’s pulpits is such an egregious crime: people do not even know
how to discern lawful and unlawful conduct because pastors are not
teaching them these Biblical Natural Law principles.) Plus, I am
personally convinced that many of these hot-headed so-called “patriots”
are in reality government agent provocateurs who are deliberately trying
to incite real patriots into doing something stupid.
Again,
I submit if we deliberately "shut our eyes against a painful truth,"
liberty is not long for this country. And that includes admitting when a
tragedy is NOT a conspiracy. But it also means admitting when evidence
suggests that it IS.