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The Paradise Perspective: Commentary from a Free and Compassionate Alternate Reality Volume 1, Number 32 What Even a Hoax Can Tell Us: The 'Kennebunkport Warning' by Glen Allport Exclusive to STR September 4, 2007 -
1 - An
Ominous Warning Last
week a warning was posted at many sites on the internet. The core of this
warning was that "the backers,
controllers, and allies of Vice President Dick Cheney are determined to
orchestrate and manufacture a new 9/11 terror incident, and/or a new Gulf
of Tonkin war provocation over the coming weeks and months." "Massive
evidence" was mentioned but not disclosed, nor has it been
forthcoming since the document was released. Several
prominent anti-war figures, including Cindy
Sheehan, were listed as having signed the document. Later, a JPEG
image of the document was posted that showed what appeared to be
signatures of the listed persons. Given
that the U.S. government has been saber-rattling at Iran for months, and
that our government has already used the 9/11 attacks so blatantly and
successfully to gain new police-state powers (the
USA Patriot
Act, the Military
Commissions Act of 2006, and the John
Warner Defense Authorization Act of 2007, to name only three
examples), a warning of
this nature is quite believable. Indeed,
just days after the "Warning" surfaced, the London Times
reported
(on Sunday 9/2/2007) that "The
Pentagon has drawn up plans for massive airstrikes against 1,200 targets
in Iran, designed to annihilate the Iranians’ military capability in
three days." Other
news suggests this plan of attack is nearing the point of execution, and
that some of those who will be ordered to carry out the attack are
wondering what
on Earth is happening: "What’s
missing is the answer to what the hell are we doing out here threatening
this country with all this power? Last night in the galley, an ensign
asked what right do we have to tell a sovereign nation that they can’t
build a nuke. I mean the table got EF Hutton quiet. Not so much because
the man was asking a question that was off culture. But that he was asking
a good question." -
2 - Hoax? Regardless
of whether an attack on ***Re:
"The PLEASE
DISTRIBUTE WIDELY To
Whom It May Concern: Each
of us were approached during the rally at the None of us have such evidence, and therefore, none of us signed a statement stating that we do. We
wish the authors of the document well in continuing much needed
investigations of all
aspects of 9/11. Signed:
Jamilla
El-Shafei, Cindy Sheehan, Dahlia Wasfi, Ann Wright *************************************************** [The
posting continues]: The
Bush administration has proven that sacrificing lives of Americans and
other innocents around the world is a price worth paying in the name of
criminal corporate profit. Dr.
Phil says that the best predictor of future behavior is past behavior.
As such, it is certainly within the realm of possibility for the
neo-conservative junta in I
signed a statement in Therefore,
please contact the statement's distributors for information on their
evidence. With
you in the struggle until justice is served, Dahlia -
3 - The
Most Important Meaning of this Event Whether
the "Warning" was a psyop designed to discredit future warnings
and complaints about administration behavior (as
some are now suggesting), or a desperate and dishonest act by someone
sincerely afraid, or an actual message from the listed signers, one
critical truth highlighted by the whole affair cannot be dismissed: Millions
of people around the world find it all-too-believable that the Imagine
anyone believing such things about the governments of, say, The
Around
the world, people have little trouble believing that the Bush
administration might create a terrorist attack in America or a false-flag
attack overseas because the behavior of the United States government since
9/11/2001 – quite possibly INCLUDING
the 9/11 attacks themselves – has often been dishonest, illegal, and
violent, featuring lies in the service of domestic tyranny and aggressive
foreign war; systematic torture of detainees in violation of U.S. law and
the Geneva Conventions; blatantly unconstitutional police-state
legislation; the creation of a gulag of Halliburton-built domestic
detention camps; and other horrors consistent with the actions of what
may be loosely termed a rogue government – one that uses violence and
propaganda to create fear and to justify dictatorial powers at home and
(in some cases) aggressive war abroad. Years
of such behavior is changing the world's opinion of us. In a story titled
"Dream on In
short: the actual behavior of the Bush administration suggests to millions
that the No
longer. -
4 - A
Common Tactic in War and Tyranny More
on why the "Kennebunkport Warning" was widely seen in anti-war
circles as possibly credible: the false-flag
attack is a proven method of creating support for military aggression
and for police-state repression at home; as a result, such attacks have
been commonplace in history. In essence, a false-flag attack is a form of
pro-war, pro-tyranny propaganda. The Reichstag
fire, used by Hitler to justify
dictatorial powers and widely believed to have been staged for that
purpose by the Nazis, is only the most famous example. The There
is yet another reason the Kennebunkport hoax rang true to so many: the
neo-cons in charge of our federal government made it clear, years before
9/11, that "a
new Pearl Harbor" would be necessary to rally public opinion
around their violent plans for taking over the Middle East (and indeed,
essentially the entire world); see the infamous New
American Century website, begun in the 1990s and still active. David
Ray Griffin titled his book The
New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions about the Bush Administration and
9/11 in reference to that " Whenever
I am reminded of that comment and all that followed, from 9/11 on, what
comes to mind is the phrase "probable
cause." -
5 - Rumor
and Underground News versus the Major Media During
the Hitler years, the press in both You
can watch video of a Nazi rally here;
Hitler shows up about four minutes into the clip. The video is worth
watching especially if you've never seen the spectacle of a Nazi rally or
Hitler in action as an orator. As we now know – and as some could see at
the time – Hitler had been destroyed
as a human being in childhood. Basically, he was a sociopath; insane
but functional – an all-too-common condition among "world
leaders" generally. In his early writings, including Mein
Kampf, Hitler had already ".
. . announced
– long before he came to power – a program of blood and terror in a
self-revelation of such overwhelming frankness that few had the courage to
believe it", as
Konrad Heiden, author of Der
Fuhrer: Hitler's Rise to Power puts it in his comment at Amazon. Yet
in the 1930s and even into the early 1940s, Hitler was widely portrayed in
the media and by various authorities and experts as the respectable leader
of a civilized, educated nation. Hitler was Time
Magazine's Man of the Year for 1938. Media coverage showed Hitler as a
statesman, a member of the global power elite, and even something of a father
figure (which Hitler certainly encouraged) – not as dangerous
psychopath plotting death for millions. What
does that say about the judgment of experts and authorities? What does it
say about the major media and about the public in general? When
lies and repression are the norm, the most accurate source of news and
commentary is not the
mainstream press, which becomes increasingly a tool
for propaganda (in addition to the general bias
towards war shown in the media in the build-up to war with Iraq and
now Iran, consider the pro-war
ad blitz about to commence in the U.S.). The mainstream press mostly
refused to publish stories about the death camps and other atrocities
being planned and then committed by Nazi Germany. The information was
available but it was not sanctioned as "official" and was not
widely reported in the major media of the day. The information was in the
form of rumor, of second- and third-hand anecdotes, of flyers printed in
back rooms at night, and as graffiti hastily written on walls, paint
dripping as the author fled the scene. The
major news organizations could have tracked these stories and rumors down
and exposed the truth for the world to see. But they did not, and as a
consequence, the truth remained largely hidden until many millions of
victims had already been murdered. People
in Hitler's When
lies and tyranny are the norm, the most accurate sources of news and
commentary are frequently rumor and the underground press. Both sources
are replete with lies, fantasies, and distortions, yet both also contain,
all-too-often, powerful truths which the public needs to hear. This is the
role played by today's internet, and is why government censorship
of the internet is increasing in nations around the world. No tyrant
wants a spotlight on his criminal actions; the cover for this censorship
is always to "protect the public" from one imaginary danger or
another. Members
of the White Rose told the truth about the Nazi death camps and other
horrors at a time when the major media would not. Had the media paid
attention earlier, had they been pressured to tell the truth to a wide
audience, the arc of history might have been different. -
6 - Conclusion Is
the "Kennebunkport Warning" a hoax? Apparently so. But
it still has much to tell us. Glen Allport is the author of The Paradise Paradigm: On Creating A World of Compassion, Freedom, and Prosperity and maintains paradise-paradigm.net. This is one in a series of columns on the human condition.
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