Rev-up and stand-down

For the past few weeks, this commentary section has focused on acts of terrorism and race-based violence that are occurring in the streets of the US and Europe. I wish we could turn to less gruesome news but, in my view, there is nothing more important to the future of personal freedom in the world than these events.

Details of the attacks continue to fill the news channels: the names of attackers, their origin, what weapons they used, how many were killed or wounded, are they part of an organized group?, and so forth. As important as these facts may be, there are other facts that may be even more important that are seldom featured in major news channels.

There is no better example than the fact that, in almost every case of terrorism and organized race-based violence, there is strong evidence that the attackers were recruited, radicalized, trained, funded, and protected by covert agencies of the governments that become the scenes of violence. Not only that, after the radicalized groups and dupes are pushed into suicide missions, it is amazingly common to discover that military and law-enforcement personnel are given orders to stand down for as long as possible, which allows the radicalized cannon fodder to create an amazing amount of carnage considering their small numbers.

Once this recurring pattern of rev-up and stand down is recognized, it becomes apparent that there are forces that actually want to see wanton acts of violence and killing as a catalyst to creating public demand for a police state, supposedly as the only solution to the problem they, themselves, created.

If you know what to look for, you will find this pattern within the following stories from this week’s news.

G. Edward Griffin
2016 July 22

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Larry Klayman, founder of Judicial Watch and Freedom Watch, has filed a class-action law suit on behalf of law enforcement. Defendants in the suit are Obama, former US Attorney General Eric Holder, civil rights activist Al Sharpton, Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, Black Lives Matter (BLM) founder DeRay McKesson, and other BLM leaders who are accused of using anti-police rhetoric to incite violence. TruNews 2016 Jul 21 (Story) (Cached)

Georges Dallemagne, a member of the Belgian parliament, reported that, on November 13, 2015, the night of three coordinated terror attacks in Paris, six French military personnel of the Sentinelle Project were at the entry of the concert hall where 89 people were killed but did nothing to interfere. In this French video interview, he says the soldiers were told to follow rules of engagement that did not allow them to take action unless they, themselves, were attacked. This story has been ignored by Western media. Free Thought Project 2016 Jul 21 (Story) (Cached)

Evidence indicates that the US was involved in the recent failed coup in Turkey, resulting in serious consequences as leaders now battle for power. This article summarizes the multiple facets of the coup, the players and their motives, including information about Fethullah Gulen who lives in the US and receives $500 million annually from US taxpayers for his charter schools, which teach radical Islam. PPJ 2016 Jul 21 (Story) (Cached)

A Syrian rebel group, once described as ‘moderate’ by the US State Department, filmed the beheading of an 11-year old boy who they suspected of spying. The gruesome video has circulated widely on social media. As many as 1,000 of these so-called moderate Zenki combatants were still receiving US aid in December 2014, and were using weapons from the CIA in 2015. Common Dreams 2016 Jul 21 (Story) (Cached)

The US government released the long awaited, heavily-redacted, 28-page report that shows the close connection between some of the 9/11 hijackers and the Saudi government. The report says that the White House inhibited law enforcement from investigating this connection and that Saudi officials were allowed to leave the US right after 9/11 so they could not be detained or questioned. Saudi Arabia currently is funding 20% to 40% of Hillary Clinton’s campaign for president. There is much more in this report that will make your blood boil. InfoWars 2016 Jul 18 (Story)

The US government says that, even though an older document implicates Saudi Arabia in the 9/11 attack, subsequent investigations found no such links. The Saudi government says it has been exonerated. [It remains to be seen who in Washington politics or mainstream media will have the honesty to point out that the reason no such links were found in subsequent investigations is that there were no subsequent investigations. They were blocked by the White House.] PBS News posted 2016 Jul 18 (Story)

French President Francois Hollande announced that the state of emergency that was to expire in two weeks will be extended for another three months following the Bastille Day attacks in Nice. He said that France will intensify its military action in Syria and Iraq. [It is precisely such military excursions, which victimize more civilians than terrorists, that makes it easy to recruit more terrorists from the population. Kill one, create a hundred. Stopping France’s suicidal policy of flooding the country with militant Islamic immigrants would be a better approach.] EuroNews posted 2016 Jul 16 (Story)