Anatomy of a Coup (not for the faint-hearted)...
By dodoguy
@dodoguy (1292)
Australia
June 18, 2008 2:54pm CST
Hi Fellow Citizens,
I'm speaking here as a Global Citizen, and necessarily so, given the sensitivity of the subject.
Time to step back and look at the forest from an impartial perspective.
Here's the meat of the matter - it's painfully apparent to me that the US Government was hijacked a few years back by Big Oil and Defense Industry interests.
I'm talking about the infamous events of 11 September 2001, of course. Like many of you, I watched with amazement as the events unfolded in real-time on television, in the early hours of the morning on 12 September 2001 Australian time. The recent news article at this link has refreshed my memories of the subject - [ http://www.daily.pk/world/americas/99-americas/3865-usa-military-officers-challenge-official-account-of-september-11.html ].
There was a time, probably a decade or two back, where the sanctity and inviolability of free speech would have seen these things being publicized, debated and contested in the USA, rather than in Pakistan.
So how is this possible? How can such a great people as the USA be so completely subverted to the plans and agenda of a minority, seemingly without any apparent protest or challenge?
IMO it's a real concern for everyone around the world, because it demonstrates how an entire population can be manipulated by a controlled media and compliant political apparatus - despite the people themselves being a kind-hearted, generous, well-intentioned, God-fearing race!
Where exactly is the disconnect between individual and Empire?
I see the same sort of manipulation of public opinion by a controlled media here in Australia, but (unless I've missed it) we've thankfully not (yet) been the victims of something like the 11 September 2001 atrocity.
History has other examples of this sort of thing - precedents, if you like - the events leading up to the democratic election of the Nazi Party in Hitler's Germany, for example, and even Pearl Harbor if one wants to draw parallels. But nothing quite so blatant as the 2001 events - at least, not that I know of.
I'm thinking it will probably be 50 to 100 years before the historians are game to spill the beans on what actually went on and who were the masterminds behind it all.
Will we ever get the full story on 11 September 2001?
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@spalladino (17891)
• United States
18 Jun 08
The 9/11 conspiracy theories have been discussed time and again here in the U.S. and there aren't many who believe them. The problem with conspiracies is that, eventually, one or more of the conspirators will talk and so far no one has come forward as a participant in order to substantiate any of the claims made in that article. It's impossible to believe that a small group of citizens of this country could conspire to kill thousands of their fellow Americans in such a horrible way, to follow through with this plan and for not one of them to break their silence. We are not controlled by our media, in fact, the opposite is true. Our media has become so corrupt and leans so far to either the left or the right that we don't believe much of anything that we read, see or hear in the news. They have their own agenda and, if this conspiracy were true, the media outlets who hate the current administration would have been digging up as much evidence as possible and at least one of the participants would have come forward by now because the pay day for that person by whoever could break the story would be very high.
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@dodoguy (1292)
• Australia
18 Jun 08
Hi spalladino,
Thanks for sharing your views on the subject. I've actually given up wondering how it's possible for the opinions of a lot of people to be "managed" by just a small minority, and just accept that it's a part of the way the human species works.
It's probably easier for someone like me to draw uncomfortable conclusions, simply because I'm an outsider looking in.
The Pearl Harbor disaster has some parallels here, because the highest levels of the US government were forewarned, but nevertheless deliberately permitted the Japanese "surprise attack" on Pearl Harbor so as to galvanize the American public. That resulted in the loss of some 3,000 American lives at Pearl Harbor, but catalyzed the entry of the US into WWII on the side of the Allies.
I suspect that no-one then would have believed such a thing possible, but we know it's true from the disclosure of the relevant US Government documents. I'd expect similar revelations some decades down the track re 2001.
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@dodoguy (1292)
• Australia
18 Jun 08
Hi olivemai,
Thanks for your comment. I guess the question that goes begging is - hypothetically - how SHOULD a population respond to a situation where the people in charge are responsible for something like the 11 September 2001 attacks?
And the answer (probably) is - short of a wholesale revolution or civil war - there's NOTHING that anyone can do! So many people would be implicated in the orchestration and subsequent cover-up, that there'd be thousands of people put on trial and executed for treason. And most people just don't have the stomach or energy for that, when it's so much easier to just accept the official line and go with the flow.
Just look at Hitler's Nazi Party - they had to trash half the world and bomb Germany back into the stone age before the penny finally dropped for most German citizens!
And to be honest, from my understanding of things, when it comes to public opinion and mass behavior, people don't behave intelligently, they just go along with the herd.
Hypothetically speaking, there's probably not much that anyone can do about it, because an individual has very little impact compared to the herding behavior of 300 million people (or however many millions happen to live in whatever country we're talking about).
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@olivemai (4738)
• United States
19 Jun 08
It may also have to do with intelligence! Not the government intelligence, (well, it does but that is not what I mean here) but the intelligence of the average American! Plus, people do not want to believe it so they choose to ignore it. Now most Americans want US to get out of the Middle East, and find alternative ways for transportation and heating/cooling our homes!
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