Iconoclasm Today!: April 2013

Congress passed the controversial Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act earlier this week. CISPA would allow private companies to share information about its users with the federal government in the interest of circumventing possible cyber security threats. Critics like Rainey Reitman of the Electronic Frontier Foundation have stated that the bill is dangerously vague and that “To date, the authors of the bill have been unresponsive to these criticisms, offering amendments that are largely cosmetic. Dismissing the grave concerns about how this bill could undermine the core privacy rights of everyday Internet users, Rep. Mike Rogers (one of the bill’s authors) characterized the growing protests against CISPA as 'turbulence' and vowed to push for a floor vote without radical changes.” Sharon Bradford Franklin of the Constitution Project has stated that the current draft of CISPA “does not come close to addressing civil liberties threats,” and Ron Paul has criticized the bill as “Big Brother writ large,” and that “the bill will make government spies of Facebook and Google.”

The bill is characteristically vague when defining what constitutes a threat to cybersecurity. In its current form the bill would allow internet companies like AT&T, Verizon, Google, and Microsoft (who all support the bill) to share customer information with any federal agency if that user is a potential threat to cybersecurity. Under this law, companies could potentially share your information with the federal government without any judicial oversight. It is prescient that Ron Paul mentions Google specifically. After opposing SOPA, which is essentially an earlier version of this same law, Google quietly announced last year that it was actually lobbying for and helping to craft the legislation of CISPA. This is a company that has time and again flaunted the legitimate privacy concerns of its users, and has shown a chilling complicity with the federal government to harvest the private information of law-abiding citizens. This is no wonder considering Google’s ties with In-Q-Tel, a CIA venture capital branch. Facebook also has a history of insouciance about its users privacy concerns. In 2010 it was revealed that Facebook’s popular apps leaked private user information to advertisers without the user’s knowledge. In a private chat session with a friend, the founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, ridiculed his users saying “They trust me. Dumb fucks.”

The Obama administration has officially opposed CISPA in its present form and would likely veto the bill, but it is important to note that the Obama administration would rather all information sharing that the bill proposes be handled by the Department of Homeland Security to safeguard citizens' privacy rights. If you’ve been to an airport in the past ten years you know that the Department of Homeland Security hasn’t exactly made your privacy a priority.

The internet is now the frontline for citizens who want to expose government corruption and fight for liberty. The state is frightened by how easily citizens can share information about their misdeeds, and CISPA is a desperate move to track you, control you, and shut down your freedom of speech. Right now, the Senate is holding off on voting for CISPA, so now is your chance to contact your senator and urge them to vote NO on this privacy busting piece of legislation. Feel free to copy and paste the following message to an e-mail or letter to your senator. Of course, your message should be addressed to your particular senator. If enough people make their voices heard we can stop this legislation just like we stopped SOPA. Act now!

Dear Senator (name here),

I am writing to urge you to vote “no” on the CISPA bill should it be taken up by the Senate. CISPA does not adequately protect the privacy concerns of law-abiding citizens who do not want their information shared with the federal government. It is very discouraging to see Congress pass a bill that so flagrantly violates our fourth amendment rights. Of course I want the internet to be a secure place for people to share information and conduct business, but that security should never come at the expense of civil liberties. Benjamin Franklin wisely counseled us that “those who would sacrifice freedom for security deserve neither.”

I am standing with privacy advocates in the ACLU, The Electronic Frontier Foundation, The Constitution Project, and others to oppose any legislation that grants the government broad powers to gather my information without due process, impartial oversight, or transparency. I urge you to do the same.

Respectfully,

(Your name here)

Your Senator's contact information

Don't let the political establishment exploit this senseless tragedy to take away your rights.

Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. It is a dreary, rainy day in Salt Lake City but, as always, April showers will bring May flowers. So it will be for America, and, god willing, for the rest of the world. We live now in a time of great turmoil and upheaval, but I see a new dawn on the horizon for our people if we can resist the power monopoly of a morally bankrupt and decadent secret oligarchy. As the book of Ecclesiastes says, “To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven.” (3:1). Now is the time to break down. Tomorrow will be the time to build up.

This week has been grave and momentous, indeed. On the 16^th, a series of coordinated car bombingsoccurred in Iraq. These bombings killed 55 and injured untold hundreds. Coordinated car bombings are the trademark of Al Qaeda, whose Iraq branch appears to be resurgent. Of course, Americans could not be bothered with the atrocities in Iraq because of the bombing at the Boston Marathon last Monday that claimed the lives of three and injured hundreds more. As I suspected this attack had many trademarks of a false flag terror exercise. This is a type of terrorism that is created by a covert cell typically hidden within the political establishment. The attack is then blamed afterward on the cell’s political opponents in order to produce a favorable outcome. The name for this type of maneuver comes from a naval term for when enemy ships fly their opponents’ flags and then launch an attack after they have gained their confidence.

Shortly after the bombing, pictures appeared on the 4chan website of individuals at the finish line carrying black backpacks. These pictures were leaked by an anonymous party who identified himself as working for a “security commission.” He claimed that the individuals carrying the packs were potential patsies who would be framed for the attack to assure the political goals of a network operating within the US government. He claimed that they would try to frame this event on a “male in his late teens or early 20’s” and that "they won't find the suspect til later this week and the raid is supposed to occur on Friday."

The goal of this exercise was to lead unnamed authorities to claim that "reloading powder shouldn't be for sale to the public," and that "because the powder in ammunition can be used for explosions that the number of rounds you can buy should be limited and taxed to help pay for these events." This was reported by the International Business Times. Infowars.com also reported that some of the images depicted men carrying backpacks who were wearing military gear and hats depicting Navy Seal insignias.

Hardcore terrorists or sheep-dipped patsies?

These images went semi-viral and were even picked up by mainstream sources. Later, however, the FBI released a video of two men wearing ball caps who they claimed were the only suspects in the case. These men would turn out to be Chechen immigrants, Tamerlan Tsarnaev and his brother Dzhokar. After an intense firefight with Tamerlan in which over 200 rounds were exchanged and explosives detonated, Tamerlan was killed. His brother was found a day later in a boat, wounded after a firefight, but alive. Interestingly, Senator Lindsay Graham suggested treating Dzhokar as an “enemy combatant” meaning that he would not be mirandized as you would any other violent criminal. This all took place while Boston and surrounding cities were locked into a state of martial law. Citizens were commanded to stay indoors and close their businesses while paramilitary police wantonly trampled their constitutional rights by racing through their homes and businesses, threatening anyone who resisted.

Soon after the bombing, reports also began to circulate that there was a high level of security at the marathon which included police and military. Before the bombing they announced to the crowd and the runners that a bombing “drill” would occur and that they should remain calm. Shortly before the bombing, The Boston Globe tweeted “Officials: There will be a controlled explosion opposite the library in one minute as part of bomb squad activities.”

Ali Stevenson, a University of Mobile cross country coach, said that he thought “it was odd there were bomb sniffing dogs at the start and finish lines.” He said that, “They kept making announcements to the participants do not worry, it's just a training exercise.” He noticed spotters on the roofs of buildings before and after the race. An experienced marathon racer, Stevenson said that he had never seen that level of security at a race before.

Taking this information together, I think it is reasonable to assume that the bombing at the marathon was a false flag event most likely orchestrated by a rogue faction working within the federal government and law enforcement. If this sounds too far-fetched to you, I encourage you to research Operation Northwoods here and here and a far more sinister European “stay-behind” organization called Operation Gladio here, which had connections to US intelligence. Just last year, The New York Times published an article documenting how the FBI has funded and provoked many terrorist attacks in the United States, most likely to scapegoat groups deemed undesirable by the political establishment, such as radical Muslims, conservative patriot groups, white nationalist groups, and anarchists.

The most prescient of these events, I think, is the 1993 World Trade Center bombing that was funded, and for the most part implemented, by the FBI to scapegoat radical Muslims. This operation employed a stable of potential patsies, individuals of sub-average intelligence that would implement the attack and be blamed for it afterward. Potentially, we see the same playbook with the Boston marathon bombings. In the leaked photographs we see a variety of different individuals with black backpacks who could become patsies. We see what appear to be US Special Forces with identical backpacks, men of middle or near eastern descent, some disheveled white males- all waiting to fulfill their role as patsies when the operation’s controllers select which narrative is most expedient for them. We have that combined with a drill that was potentially flipped “live” to disorient law enforcement and security officials who were not made aware of the plan beforehand. 9/11 is an excellent example of this tactic being used to disguise a real false-flag terror action. No fewer than 46 drills were in effect across government agencies on or around the same time as the 9/11 attacks. These drills were meant to simulate the conditions of the attack to confuse and disorient government officials and their staff, effectively paralyzing them from taking appropriate action, because they perceived events as being just an exercise. 9/11 scholarship is a fascinating field of study. I cannot recommend Dr. Webster Griffin Tarpley’s book, 9/11 Synthetic Terror enough if you would like to know more.

That elements within the state can stage these events and murder innocent people, including children, is a shocking revelation, but there is a silver lining in all of this. The rogue network stages these events because they are desperate. They know that people are waking up to their plans for global enslavement, and they know that if Americans especially become educated about them and become organized their global government revolution will fail. We have seen how frantically the globalist regime and their collaborators have moved to disarm Americans in recent months, to no effect. With this event we see the same playbook of past operations merely being recycled. Meanwhile the alternative press has become larger and more organized. They can react with greater agility to the official narrative and gain greater credibility than ever before, which frightens the control freaks more than ever.

I am confident that free people can stop the covert revolution for global fascism. If you are reading this article, then you are the resistance. Make no mistake, friends, information is power. We must fight this war with words to prevent an all-out war with guns. If we educate ourselves and our neighbors about the globalist conspiracy, we can wrest freedom away from these tyrants and restore our natural rights and common dignity.

As more information develops on the Boston marathon bombing, I am confident that today’s conspiracy theory will be tomorrow’s common history. The future is always being made and always that which is present becomes past. I will leave you with another Bible verse from Ecclesiastes 3:15, “That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already been; and God requireth that which is past.” The rainy day that I began this article is now yesterday, and the sun shines brightly today. There is a warm breeze, and the birds fill the air with their songs.