Saturday, June 30, 2007

The Night Of The Long Knives

On this sad night for human liberty, the UK’s top newspaper outlets lead with the following headlines on their websites…

Glasgow attacked in airport terror strike (The Guardian), Blazing 4x4 rammed into airport terminal (The Independent), Blazing car crashes into Glasgow airport (The Telegraph), Terrorists strike Glasgow airport with car firebomb (The Times), Two held as blazing jeep crashes into British airport in terror strike (The Daily Mail), Bombers try to blow up UK airport (The Express), Terror as car explodes in Glasgow airport (The Mirror), Terror at Glasgow airport (The Sun).

This is single-message mass media at work, broadcasting their favourite frequency: fear.

Without any real facts, we are all too rapidly being presented with the idea that this is a coordinated al-Qaeda attack against the UK. Baghdad style tactics on mainland Britain. Again, they're trying to create the false link between al-Qaeda and Iraq. Ridiculous. The Independent newspaper declares that these events are: “the first known attempts to bring Islamist tactics used in Iraq to Britain, by exploding a vehicle bomb to cause maximum casualties.” The seed is also being planted that CCTV may be helping the security forces to find the Mercedes bombers from Friday night. CCTV is good for you people!

As the government and its security advisers try and persuade us that the car bomb attacks have all the hallmarks of al-Qaeda, I suggest the opposite. The car bomb attacks have all the hallmarks of government staged terror. As Paul Joseph Watson points out: "It is important to stress that there are several kinds of "staged" terror attacks and we have made this distinction on numerous previous occasions and presented the evidence to back it up on a case by case basis. The first kind is where the operation is wholly planned and executed by rogue units of intelligence agencies after which patsies are framed. The second is where a group is infiltrated and radicalized by a government informant and provocateured into attempting terror attacks. The third is where government policy stirs resentment amongst groups which are essentially prodded into committing acts of violence."

Knowing the Control System's penchant for anniversaries, the following fact emerges from the history books. In 1934, on June 29th and June 30th, Hitler consolidated his dominion over German politics by ordering the execution of many key opponents of his Nazi regime, especially those within the paramilitary wing, the Sturmabteilung. This night would become knows as Nacht der langen Messer, or Night of the Long Knives.

The Night of the Long Knives represented a turning point in the conduct of German government. From that point on, it was clear that the Nazi Party was in unquestioned control of the state, that Hitler was in control of the Nazi party, and that both were fully prepared to use raw, brutal violence to accomplish their political objectives. This fratricidal bloodletting could be seen as a harbinger of the violence that characterized the Nazi regime, from the use of force to establish an empire of conquest, to the later horrors of the Holocaust. Sound familiar?

UK dictators securing their powerbase on the exact same two days? Don’t worry, it’s just a coincidence.