Prof. James F Tracy: False Flag Terror and Conspiracies!

The news medias readiness to accept official pronouncements and failure to more vigorously analyze and question government authorities in the wake of domestic terrorist incidents contributes to the American public's already acute case of collective historical amnesia, while it further rationalizes the twenty first century police state and continued demise of civil society. Some may recall "Bugs Raplin" (Giancarlo Esposito) the resolute investigative journalist depicted in Tim Robbins 1992 political mockumentary Bob Roberts. After being framed as the culprit in a false flag assassination attempt by corrupt political huckster Bob Roberts, Raplin delivers a perceptive soliloquy, that among other things effectively describes the American public's moribund civic condition and short circuited democracy. The reason Iran Contra happened, Raplin begins, is because no one did anything substantial about Watergate, and the reason Watergate happened is because there were no consequences from the Bay of Pigs. They're all the same operatives, the foot soldiers at the Bay of Pigs, the plumbers that got busted at Watergate, the gunrunners in Iran Contra, all the same people, same faces. Now it doesn't take a genius to figure out the connection here: A secret government beyond the control of the people and accountable to no one, and the closer we are to to discovering the connection, the more Congress turns a blind eye to it. We cant talk about that in open session, they say. National security reasons. The truth lies dormant in their laps, and they stay blind out of choice. A conspiracy of silence. Twenty years later, amidst the vast outsourcing of intelligence and military operations, many more events may arguably be added to such a shadow government's achievements: The 1993 World Trade Center bombing, the 1995 Oklahoma City Murrah Federal bombing, the September 11 terror attacks, the non existent weapons of mass destruction prompting the occupation of Iraq, the July 7, 2005 London tube bombings, the shoe and underwear bombings, all of which have contributed to the official justification of imperial wars abroad, and an ever expanding police state at home.