False flag attacks

unsung
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edited March 2014 in A Moving Train
By now everyone has seen some type of conspiracy theory related to tragic events. You have 9/11 Truthers, Waco, Ok City, Boston, Conn school shootings, Colorado movie shooting. Why is everything on the school shooting still classified? Look at all of the fishy things that happened at Boston. Some of this doesn't line up.

So, does anyone put much stock into claims that these tragic events are really created and carried out by the US government? Does anyone think that they would really do such things? Or do you think it absolutely insane for people to even begin thinking that way?
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  • rgambs
    rgambs Posts: 13,576
    i think it is entirely within the realm of possibility, and even probability, that our government carries out "false flag" operations from time to time but conspiracy theories breed more theories and the whole deal leaves reality by the wayside pretty quickly.
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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,677
    I doubt many of the conspiracy theories are valid but it wouldn't surprise me if some are true. I also have doubts about what we hear and read in the news. I tend to trust the scientific community more than the political realm- which is why I focus more on environmental issues- we at least have some empirical evidence about science and nature and our actions have some small chance of making a difference. I don't think the same is as true on the political level. I also think we are fortunate to be able to openly discuss pretty much anything we want to even though we are often are clueless as to the reality behind those subjects. But then maybe that's part of the game to- like searching for a corner in a circular room.
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  • BinFrog
    BinFrog MA Posts: 7,314
    Thanks Alex Jones.
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  • unsung
    unsung I stopped by on March 7 2024. First time in many years, had to update payment info. Hope all is well. Politicians suck. Bye. Posts: 9,487
    Thanks for offering zero to the conversation.
  • BinFrog
    BinFrog MA Posts: 7,314
    Irony.
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  • goingtoverona
    goingtoverona Posts: 616
    well they say truth is stranger than fiction so anything is possible that's for sure.
    if you think what I believe is stupid, bizarre, ridiculous or outrageous.....it's ok, I think I had a brain tumor when I wrote that.
  • gimmesometruth27
    gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 24,470
    benghazi
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  • gimmesometruth27
    gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 24,470
    at this point anything is possible.

    i am waiting for the false flag event to get us to get our war on with russia.
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  • buck502000
    buck502000 Birthplace of GIBSON guitar Posts: 8,951
    I think the Boston Marathon bombing was a drill to practice Marshall Law. But that's just me.
  • rgambs
    rgambs Posts: 13,576
    Binfrog ever heard of the Gulf of Tonkin and the Pentagon Papers? If not then dig your head out of the sand and if so, wait until someone gets Alex Jones crazy before your snide remarks.
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  • BinFrog
    BinFrog MA Posts: 7,314
    Oh, ok...makes sense.

    So someone posts about false flag attacks, without any links or anything (or you know, pesky things that are important on a message board like...oh...an original thought to which people can reply and add their own). And let me get this straight - there's a possibility that my government was possibly behind any or all of the following:

    9/11
    Newtown Massacre
    Colorado Move theater Shooting
    Oklahoma City
    The Boston Marathon Bombings
    Waco (a little more complicated of course)

    And have I heard of the Gulf of Tonkin and.or the Pentagon Papers? Absolutely. 2 incidents directly tied to, possibly, the desire to escalate the war in Vietnam and provoke the enemy. How do either of those compare to domestic acts of terror in which Americans were killed on American soil?

    But to tie those into the events above, if I may: my government, who can't keep the gulf of Tonkin, the Pentagon Papers, Watergate, Monica-gate and the NSA spy program from leaking, and still can't give a straight answer on weapons of mass destruction or Benghazi...THAT government...is behind any or all of the incidents listed above? And NOTHING has leaked at this point? And by nothing I mean nothing credible. So help me god if anyone says anything about Super-Thermite (or is it Super-DUPER-Thermite?)...

    So it's this government, that over the years has managed to fuck up just about everything, that is possibly behind several incidents of mass destruction and mayhem on our own soil...for the purpose of: practicing martial law? insurance fraud? as a pretense to go to war? as a means to pass the Patriot Act?

    Ok, just making sure we're on the same page here.
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  • gimmesometruth27
    gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 24,470
    the movie theater shooting was not a false flag.

    seriously, what the fuck are people thinking? the government will allow people to be killed to push an anti gun agenda so that people have to be disarmed and can not defend themselves against said government??

    if anybody really believes that i have a bridge and a park and a sidewalk i am selling.
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  • gimmesometruth27
    gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 24,470
    the newtown shooting was not a false flag either.
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  • BinFrog
    BinFrog MA Posts: 7,314
    gimmesometruth27 said:

    the newtown shooting was not a false flag either.

    I'm glad you believe our government wasn't behind the killing of 20 innocent children on American soil as a means to pass gun control legislation.
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  • goingtoverona
    goingtoverona Posts: 616
    uggh, please no war with Russia. i think I've had enough in my lifetime already.
    if you think what I believe is stupid, bizarre, ridiculous or outrageous.....it's ok, I think I had a brain tumor when I wrote that.
  • gimmesometruth27
    gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 24,470
    goingtoverona said:

    uggh, please no war with Russia. i think I've had enough in my lifetime already.

    i agree.

    cheney said obama was being weak because he wants to find a diplomatic solution.

    neocons would have had us in a new war last month.
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  • gimmesometruth27
    gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 24,470
    BinFrog said:

    gimmesometruth27 said:

    the newtown shooting was not a false flag either.

    I'm glad you believe our government wasn't behind the killing of 20 innocent children on American soil as a means to pass gun control legislation.
    do you believe that the government was behind it for that reason?
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  • BinFrog
    BinFrog MA Posts: 7,314
    gimmesometruth27 said:

    BinFrog said:

    gimmesometruth27 said:

    the newtown shooting was not a false flag either.

    I'm glad you believe our government wasn't behind the killing of 20 innocent children on American soil as a means to pass gun control legislation.
    do you believe that the government was behind it for that reason?
    No, I am agreeing with you.
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  • polaris_x
    polaris_x Posts: 13,559
    the thing about all these things is that most people consider these things based on personal biases and that the fundamental process of critical thought no longer exists ... people want to vilify these theories because a) they don't want to believe it's possibly true and b) because they have been programmed to ... it's not to say that all these theories are true but simply - you can't go through the process objectively with people anymore ...

    9/11 is a great example ... so, many aspects of that incident does not corroborate the official story ... but it's nearly impossible to have objective discussions about it ...

  • BinFrog
    BinFrog MA Posts: 7,314
    polaris_x said:

    it's not to say that all these theories are true but simply - you can't go through the process objectively with people anymore ...

    The problem for me is that the "truthers" in all of these cases just come across as complete nutjobs. Take 9/11 for example. I won't deny there's some fishy stuff going on behind the scenes, and there's a lot more to the story than what we've been told in the "official" narrative. But the stuff that some of these really, really out there conspiracy theorists have come up with...it's just near impossible to take any of it seriously.

    Did you ever see that TV a few years ago where they pitted truthers against scientists/experts? Essentially the truthers laid out all of their theories, and one by one they were all essentially proven wrong...but the truthers wouldn't budge on ANY of it. They were so god damn arrogant and they just desperately want their fringe theories to be right...and they wouldn't listen to reason.
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