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Title: An Open Invitation to Tyranny
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URL Source: https://www.lewrockwell.com/2019/08 ... an-open-invitation-to-tyranny/
Published: Aug 8, 2019
Author: Paul Craig Roberts
Post Date: 2019-08-08 17:04:43 by Ada
Keywords: None
Views: 449
Comments: 4

The FBI has published a document that concludes that “conspiracy theories” can motivate believers to commit crimes.

Considering the growing acceptance of pre-emptive arrest, that is, arresting someone before they can commit a crime that they are suspected of planning to commit, challenging official explanations, such as those offered for the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, and Martin Luther King or the official explanation for 9/11, can now result in monitoring by authorities with a view to finding a reason for pre-emptive arrest. Presidents George W. Bush and Obama created the police state precedents of suspension of habeas corpus and assassination of citizens on suspicion alone without due process. If Americans can be preemptively detained indefinitely and preemptively assassinated, Americans can expect to be preemptively imprisoned for crimes that they did not commit.

As Lawrence Stratton and I explained in our book, , the historic achievement of forging law into a shield of the people is being reversed in our time as law is being reforged into a weapon in the hands of the government.

The FBI document says that conspiracy theories “are usually at odds with official or prevailing explanations of events.” Note the use of “official” and “prevailing.” Official explanations are explanations provided by governments. Prevailing explanations are the explanations that the media repeats. Examples of official and prevailing explanations are: Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction, Assad’s use of chemical weapons, Iranian nukes, Russian invasion of Ukraine, and the official explanation by the US government for the destruction of Libya. If a person doubts official explanations such as these, that person is a “conspiracy theorist.”

Official and prevailing explanations do not have to be consistent with facts. It is enough that they are official and prevailing. Whether or not they are true is irrelevant. Therefore, a person who stands up for the truth can be labeled a conspiracy theorist, monitored, and perhaps pre-emptively arrested.

Consider 9/11. No forensic investigation of 9/11 was ever officially conducted. Instead the destruction of the buildings was blamed on Osama bin Laden, and scenarios and simulations were created to support the allegation, not to find the truth. Architects, engineers, scientists, pilots, and first responders on site cannot reconcile the official prevailing explanation with the facts. The scientific and testimonial evidence that they have produced is dismissed as “conspiracy theory.” It is those experts who stand on the evidence who are defined as conspiracy theorists, not those who created the story of Osama bin Laden’s 9/11 conspiracy.

Consider Russiagate. Here we have an alleged conspiracy between Trump and Russia that was the official prevailing explanation. Yet, to believe in the Russiagate conspiracy did not make one a conspiracy theorist as this conspiracy was the official prevailing explanation. But to doubt the Russiagate conspiracy did make one a conspiracy theorist.

What the FBI report does, intentionally or unintentionally, is to define a conspiracist as a person who doubts official explanations. In other words, it is a way of preventing any accountability of government. Whatever the government says, no matter how obvious a lie, will have to be accepted as fact or we will be put on a list to be monitored for preemptive arrest.

In effect, the FBI’s document reduces the First Amendment, that is, free speech, to the right to repeat official and prevailing explanations. Any other speech is a conspiratorial belief that can lead to the commission of a crime.

Every American should be greatly concerned that the government in Washington does not see this FBI document as an open invitation to tyranny, repudiate it, and demand its recall.

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#1. To: Ada (#0)

...“conspiracy theories” can motivate believers to commit crimes.

FBI has conspired to motivate more "believers" into committing crimes than have any theories.

“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken

Lod  posted on  2019-08-08   22:47:46 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: Ada (#0)

It's no different than what we were taught the USSR and Nazi Germany did with their "Ministries of Propaganda" or, more likely, the less ominous names they had in their native languages.

Only here in the USA, we can trust what OUR government tells us, because OUR government is good, righteous and wholesome and would NEVER tell us anything that was untrue. On purpose. Usually. Unless they had a good reason to keep something secret. Or "national security" was at stake. Or if they knew what was good for us better than we do. Which they do because they are the government.

Pinguinite  posted on  2019-08-09   5:32:45 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: Pinguinite (#2)

Only here in the USA, we can trust what OUR government tells us,

Never believe what the government tells you unless it is officially denied.

Ada  posted on  2019-08-10   0:45:05 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: Pinguinite (#2)

When I worked for State of Illinois we had a saying, "Admit nothing and deny everything." It usually worked like a charm. ;)

"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke

BTP Holdings  posted on  2019-08-10   0:53:57 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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