Reichstag Fire
Reichstag fire, burning of the
Reichstag (parliament) building in Berlin, on the night of Feb. 27,
1933, a key event in the establishment of the Nazi dictatorship and
widely believed to have been contrived by the newly formed Nazi
government itself to turn public opinion against its opponents and to
assume emergency powers ... his propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels,
is supposed to have devised the scheme. ... On Feb. 28, 1933, the day
after the fire, Hitler's dictatorship began with the enactment of a
decree "for the Protection of the People and the State," which
dispensed with all constitutional protection of political, personal,
and property rights.
Encyclopaedia Britannica
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The Reichstag fire was a disaster for Communists because they
received the blame for starting it, but it was a dream come true for
Hitler and his cohorts as it allowed them to turn Germany into a
dictatorship.
Did the Bush
administration try the same trick on September 11, 2001?
The victims of the 9/11 attacks have been disaster
for Muslims because 19 Arabs were named as hijackers of the planes, but
they've been a dream come true for the PNAC 'think-tank' whose 2000
Statement of Principles stated a "catastrophic and catalyzing
event, like a new Pearl Harbor" would advance their policies, i.e.
justify wars and "regime
changes".
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"This is about control over Middle East oil. [The
Statement of Principles] indicates that America is aiming for global
leadership, both military and economically..." - Michael Meacher, UK MP
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The fact that Pearl
Harbor was engineered by the US government to bring America into WWII
would have been known by PNAC signatories...
10 [PNAC members] are now in the Bush administration.
As well as Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz, they include Deputy Secretary of
State Richard Armitage; John Bolton, who is undersecretary of state for
disarmament; and Zalmay Khalilzad, the White House liaison to the Iraqi
opposition. Other signatories include William Kristol, editor of the
conservative Weekly Standard magazine, and Richard Perle, chairman of
the advisory Defense Science Board. [ABC
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...so their statement actually referred to policy advancement
through a governmentally orchestrated "catastrophic and catalyzing
event" - Operation Northwoods
is an example of this thinking.
The "new Pearl Harbor" occurred on 9/11...
Like his father, Bush tries to keep a daily diary of
his thoughts and observations. That night, he dictated: "The Pearl
Harbor of the 21st century took place today." [Washington Post] |
...and now wars and "regime changes" are justified by the
events of that day:
U.S. President George W Bush ... defended the war in
Iraq, telling Americans the United States was forced into war because
of the Sept 11 terror strikes. [Japan Today
17/06/05] |
"The Pearl Harbor of the 21st century" effectively thrust
PNAC's radical ideas to the fore...
The terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001,
and concerns that another similar attack might follow, gave Defense
Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld "a tremendous sense of urgency" in pushing
his transformation effort ... . Rumsfeld said ... the Sept. 11 attacks
underscored the importance of the transformation program he announced
Sept. 10, 2001. [American
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...so were the events of 9/11 governmentally orchestrated?
"In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it
happens, you can bet it was planned that way."
Franklin D. Roosevelt |
There were many exercises prior to 9/11 which related
specifically to the events of that day:
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NORAD conducted exercises with fighter jets
simulating hijacked planes flown into the World Trade Center in the two
years before the attacks. Pentagon planners also envisioned the attack
on the Pentagon five months before it happened.
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On June 2, 2001 PNAC signatory Paul Wolfowitz predicted a
military surprise:
"Military history is full of surprises, even if few are
as dramatic or memorable as Pearl Harbor. Surprises happen so often,
that is is surprising that we're still surprised by it. ... Be prepared
to be surprised. Have courage." [defenselink.mil] |
From July 26, 2001 John Ashcroft stopped traveling on
commercial airlines:
In response to inquiries from CBS News over why
Ashcroft was traveling exclusively by leased jet aircraft instead of
commercial airlines, the Justice Department cited what it called a
"threat assessment" by the FBI, and said Ashcroft has been advised to
travel only by private jet for the remainder of his term. [CBS News]
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World Trade Center staff received evacuation drills prior to
9/11:
Ben Fountain, 42, a financial analyst with Fireman's
Fund, was coming out of the Chambers Street Station, headed for his
office on the 47th floor of the south tower. "How could they let this
happen? They knew this building was a target. Over the past few weeks
we'd been evacuated a number of times, which is unusual. I think they
had an inkling something was going on." [People] |
On September 10 top Pentagon officials were compelled to
cancel travel plans:
On Sept. 10, NEWSWEEK has learned, a group of top
Pentagon officials suddenly canceled travel plans for the next morning,
apparently because of security concerns. [MSNBC 9/24/2001] |
Also on September 10 Willie Brown, the former Mayor of San
Francisco, was warned about air travel:
Brown received a warning about 10 PM on the evening of
September 10 to be cautious about air travel. He was scheduled to fly
to into New York City. Brown refuses to say exactly who gave him the
prescient warning, citing only "my security people at the airport." [SFGate 9/12/2001] |
President Bush's cousin had a fortunate change of venue for a
September 11 business conference:
President Bush's cousin should have been in the World
Trade Centre when it was attacked. Jim Pierce, managing director of AON
Corporations, had arranged a business conference on the 105th floor of
the South Tower where its New York offices were based. But his group
was too large so they decided to move across the street to the
Millennium Hotel. [Annova]
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An imminent attack was forecast...
"The Director of the CIA warned that there could be an
attack—an imminent attack—on the United States of this nature. So this
is not entirely unexpected." [Memory
Hole] |
...maybe that's why FEMA
was in New York on September 10.
The above may be seen as coincidences, but also consider the
following:
An occasional coincidence could be ignored, but all of the
above cannot be dismissed as coincidental. PNAC demanded a
"catastrophic and catalyzing event", they got it, and a cover-up
ensued. The Nazis attempted to initiate a New World Order by burning
the Reichstag, it is apparent that an identical objective lay behind
the 9/11 attacks.
"There is a chance for the President of the United States to use the
disaster . . . to carry out what his father - a phrase his father used
I think only once, and it hasn't been used since - and that is a New
World Order."
Senator Gary Hart,
Sept. 14, 2001 [mp3]
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The attacks had the desired catalysing effect...
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"I can hear you, the rest of the world hears you
... and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us
soon."
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...and gave the US government the green light to start a
pre-planned war in Afghanistan - how convenient it was that the
head of the Northern Alliance was
assassinated
on September 9, 2001.
The attacks also created a much needed enemy and stripped US
citizens of liberties in the guise of fighting terrorism.
"Terrorism is the best political weapon for
nothing drives people harder than a fear of sudden death." - Adolph
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"There will be no going back to the era before
September 11, 2001, to false comfort in a dangerous world."
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Watch the History Channel documentary excerpt detailing the
burning of the Reichstag and note the parallels to today's 'War on
Terror', then read these
Bush family connections to 9/11 and dictatorship.
Another 'al Qaeda' attack would result in America coming
under military rule.
NSPD 51 has barely been reported by the
mainstream media. ... This Combined Directive ... grants unprecedented
powers to the Presidency and the Department of Homeland Security,
overriding the foundations of Constitutional government. NSPD 51 allows
the sitting president to declare a “national emergency” without
Congressional approval. The adoption of NSPD 51 would lead to the de
facto closing down of the Legislature and the militarization of justice
and law enforcement ... NSPD 51 grants extraordinary Police State
powers to the White House and Homeland Security (DHS), in the event of
a "Catastrophic Emergency". [GlobalResearch.ca]
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The Constitution of the United States would be
consigned to history.
PATRIOT Act II would become legislation -
not nice.
Plans for establishing civilian labor camps have been drafted and detention camps are
being built.
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