'Hitler'
Goodwin's law again--sorry nervous making thread bring out a small clown 'Reír El payaso'
Thanks Ed, the thread has gone on long enough for the probability to reach one. Hitler has now been mentioned.
Continued:
What of the idea that 9/11 was an inside job?
Who gains?
There is a very long list of
known "false flags", orchestrated by leaders or would be leaders in order to have people come to them for protection, or to stay with them for protection.
There are other reasons for false flag attacks, such as justifying a policy that was unjustifiable in any other way.
Probably the most widely know example is the burning of the German parliament building and a subsequent rash of terrorism in Germany in the early 1930's, all orchestrated by the national socialists, and highly successful in convincing enough of the German population to accept Hitler's leadership as the price of restoring a degree of order.
Other lesser known examples include the Tsarist secret police in late 19th century and early 20th century Russia, orchestrating supposed Anarcho-Communist bombings, shootings and robberies, to convince the Russian people that that was the only alternative to the Tsar.
Stalin's artillery, shelling the Russian town of Mainilla, so the shelling could be blamed on the Finn's as a pretext for the soviet winter invasion of Finland. The Nazi equivalent was the Gliewitz incident, in which nazi storm troops dressed in Polish uniforms "captured" a German radio station and broadcast fake Polish propaganda. The incident was used as a pretext for the nazi invasion of Poland.
More recent known false flags include terrorism orchestrated by "Gladio" as a means of scaring the populations on continental Europe (and especially Italy) away from supporting leftist parties, and into accepting the amazingly corrupt christan democrats, and NATO.
and, Russian secret police, blowing up apartment blocks in Moscow in order to paint Yeltsin as a "weak" leader, hence bringing Putin to power, and as a pretext for another war in Chechnya. (Alexander Litvinienko, documented and published this in the west, and was subsequently poisoned using polonium)
If 9/11 was a "False Flag", then, Who Gained?
- Establishment control freaks - there is no way that American's would have swallowed the "Patriot Act" without a 9/11 style justification.
- Fe'ral employees, especially in the 3 letter agencies have increased in number and budgets
- Military suppliers and military budgets (and lucrative job opportunities for retiring military procurement personnel )
- The crony consultancy and contracting firms who get to build bases and airstrips during the war and occupation phases, and who get to "re-construct" when the war is over.
- Even the owners of the WTC site, who got rid of buildings that were suffering from high maintenance costs and low occupancy rates.
There's actually a pretty extensive literature on the use of crises, whether "organic" or staged, terrorist or economic, as a means to grow the state. eg, Higgs, R. Crisis and the Leviathan.
http://www.bookdepository.com/Crisi...ment-Robert-Higgs/9780195059007?ref=grid-view