In the wake of the recent mass shootings; and after the FBI
concluded that conspiracy theories could fuel terror attacks; and after
the major media and politicians hoisted the notion that free speech
should be further eroded, in order to
protect the citizenry;
the obvious choice for persons who want to avoid blame for violence is:
REMAIN NORMAL.
Eyes straight ahead. Don't think. Obey official orders. Maintain a
pleasant outward appearance. Don't question authority. If you
accidentally encounter information that points to crimes committed by
those in power, don't bother trying to figure out where
on the political spectrum they reside. Instead, move along, forget
what you experienced, keep your mouth shut. Play dumb. Better yet,
become dumb.
Here's an instructive and astonishing example, if you consider the implications.
Fake evidence used in the Oklahoma Bombing.
How official "science" was deployed to advance a political agenda.
On April 19, 1995, one-third of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma
City blew up, killing 169 people and wounding 680 others.
Three men were arrested and convicted: Tim McVeigh, Terry Nichols, and
Michael Fortier. McVeigh was put to death on June 11, 2001, Nichols is
currently serving multiple life sentences without the possibility of
parole, and Fortier was sentenced to 12 years
(he served that term and was released).
The official narrative of the bombing stated: A Ryder truck parked at
the curb outside the Murrah Building contained barrels of ammonium
nitrate plus fuel oil (ANFO bombs), and their coordinated explosion
occurred shortly after 9AM on the morning of April 19th.
In addition to the deaths and the woundings, the explosion impacted 324 buildings and 86 cars in the area.
(In My 1995, book,
"The Oklahoma City Bombing, the Suppressed Truth,"
I laid to rest the claim that ANFO bombs could have caused that much
damage; and more importantly, I showed that an explosion coming out of a
Ryder truck at the curb could not have
caused the particular profile of damage sustained by the Murrah
Building.)
The vaunted FBI lab decided that, indeed, all the damage and death HAD been caused by ANFO bombs in the Ryder truck.
But two years after the bombing, on March 22, 1997, we had this from
CNN: "The Justice Department inspector general's office has determined
that the FBI crime laboratory working on the Oklahoma City bombing case
made 'scientifically unsound' conclusions that
were 'biased in favor of the prosecution,' The Los Angeles Times
reported Saturday."
"...[FBI] supervisors approved lab reports that they 'cannot support'
and...FBI lab officials may have erred about the size of the blast, the
amount of explosives involved and the type of explosives used in the
bombing[!]."
"...harshest criticism was of David Williams, a supervisory agent in the
[FBI] explosives unit, the paper [LA Times] said. Those flaws
reportedly include the basis of his determination that the main charge
of the explosion was ammonium nitrate. The inspector
general called such a determination 'inappropriate,' the Times said."
"...FBI officials found a receipt for ammonium nitrate at defendant
[Terry] Nichols' home and, because of that discovery, Williams slanted
his conclusion to match the evidence."
And with those revelations, the case, the investigation, the court
trials, and press probes should have taken a whole new direction. But
they didn't.
The fake science was allowed to stand.
Therefore, other paths of investigation were abandoned. If bombs did,
in fact, explode in the Ryder truck, but didn't cause the major damage,
then those bombs were a cover for other explosions of separate
origin---for example, charges wired inside the columns
of the Murrah Building, triggered at the exact moment the Ryder Truck
explosion occurred.
Now we would be talking about a very sophisticated operation, far beyond the technical skills of McVeigh, Nichols, and Fortier.
Who knows where an honest in-depth investigation would have led? The
whole idea of anti-government militia terrorism in the OKC
attack---symbolized by McVeigh---was used by President Bill Clinton to
bring the frightened public "back to the federal government"
as their ultimate protector and savior.
Instead, the public might have been treated to a true story about a
false flag operation, in which case President Clinton's massaged message
would never have been delivered.
But the fake crooked science pushed by the FBI lab was permitted to stand---despite exposure as fraud.
If the federal government can egregiously lie about an event as huge as
the Oklahoma Bombing, using fake science as a cover---what wouldn't they
lie about?
That's a question which answers itself.
IN THIS CASE, THE FBI, CNN, THE LA TIMES, AND OTHER MAINSTRAM MEDIA
OUTLETS WERE ALL GUILTY OF PUSHING "A CONSPIRACY THEORY," BECAUSE, AS
ANY FOOL CAN SEE, FOLLOWING UP ON THE FBI LAB'S CROOKED LIES AND TWISTED
EVIDENCE WOULD HAVE LED TO A NEW THEORY AND A
NEW INVESTIGATION OF THE CASE, IN WHICH THE BOMBER AND HIS TWO
ACCOMPLICES WOULD MOST LIKELY HAVE BEEN OVERTHROWN AS A COMPLETE
EXPLANATION.
Therefore, the free speech of these conspiracy theorists---CNN, the LA
Times, and the FBI lab---should be limited, if not completely shut down.
After all, these conspiracists certainly provoked severe
demoralization/cynicism about the honesty of government in the minds of
many, many persons---and a few of those persons would have been
motivated to pick up a gun and do harm to others.
You can't have it both ways. You can't say conspiracies are only sold
by people outside the mainstream AND no matter what the mainstream
publishes it never implies a conspiracy. And this is where the protests
against free speech crash on the rocks. This
is where the stew of accusations and pretenses of knowledge about how
opinion and information cause violence crash on the rocks.
This is where people who can think begin to see how agents and players try to divide and conquer society.
And this is where a 230-year-old weapon still stands to block assaults on free speech: the 1st Amendment.
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