"False Flags And Government Lies"
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Created on: Friday 12th of February 2016 12:47:59 PM CDT
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8. False Flags And Government Lies
Government lies about events both important and not, in order to cover up events that its people would otherwise find reprehensible, implement agendas, or to induce feelings of patriotism and support for its policies and continued power. A short list of confirmed lies the US government has told include:

The sinking of the USS Maine—a navy ship that was sunk either intentionally or accidentally in 1898 by US forces but blamed on an invented Spanish attack that was used by yellow journalists like William Randolph Hearst as a pretext for war against Spain resulting in America taking Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines.
Operation Northwoods, a 1962 plan for the US government to commit acts of sabotage, bombing, hijacking, and murder against innocent American civilians in order to create a pretext for war against Cuba. It was approved by the military but rejected by President Kennedy—shortly before his assassination.
The CIA shipped cocaine into California and used it to fund arms shipment to terrorists in Nicaragua in the 1980s (Exposed by Gary Webb’s Dark Alliance, later murdered)
The Pentagon Papers revealed a series of lies about the Vietnam War, including pentagon analysis that they could not likely win the war, but joined anyway, admissions that the US had no interest in helping the South Vietnamese but entered the war for political maneuvering, that the US intended to install its own pro-US dictator before exiting the country, that US had plans to assassinate its ally, South Vietnam’s president Diem, revelations that President Johnson lied when campaigning about scaling back the war, while increasing secret illegal bombings, and more. These lies eventually lead to Nixon’s removal from office.
FBI agent Coleen Rowley came forward saying her office knew prior to 2001 that alleged bomber Zacarias Moussaoui paid $8,000 cash for Boeing 747 flight lessons and was planning a suicide hijacking but had requests to search his room denied by superiors.
NFL star Pat Tillman left his lucrative career to go to war in Iraq and Afghanistan, discovering during the war many lies that he wished to expose, but was murdered by fellow soldiers in Afghanistan, which the government initially blamed on a firefight with terrorists that never happened. Senior army commanders including General John Abizaid and General Stanley McChrystal knew Tillman was shot in the head by friendly fire, but approved the lie, along with awarding of Silver Star and Purple Heart. Members of Tillman’s unit burned his body armor, uniform, and notebook to destroy evidence, but no one was ever prosecuted. Note: his family, particularly dad, is a badass and did NOT accept this.
The Gulf of Tonkin incident was a supposed attack by North Vietnamese Navy on the USS Maddox which the US used as a pretext for war against Viet Nam. It didn’t happen.
DynCorp, a US defense contractor was caught trafficking children for sex; the whistleblowers were punished but not the perpetrators
Various lies about Iraq (Cheney: “Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein has weapons of mass destruction. There is no doubt he is amassing them to use against our friends, against our allies, and against us” W Bush: “We found the weapons of mass destruction [in Iraq]. We found biological laboratories” Rumsfeld: “We know where they [Iraq’s WMD] are. They’re in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south, and north “
You are not being spied on. The government is not listening to your phone calls or tracking your internet activity. See: Carnivore, PRISM, wikileaks, Snowden.
The laughably silly narrative told about the killing of Osama, which Pulitzer Prize investigative journalist Seymour Hersh calls a “complete fabrication from beginning to end,” and includes a staged photo op, which was originally claimed to show live reaction of the executive team watching the raid on video, to destruction of the body and all evidence, hours after the raid before DNA testing could be completed, to “honoring” the enemy’s religious wishes with a burial by sea that no one witnessed and is not part of any sort of Muslim ritual.