Paul Craig Roberts – paulcraigroberts.org
The FBI has published a document that concludes that “conspiracy theories” can motivate believers to commit crimes. https://www.scribd.com/document/420379775/FBI-Conspiracy-Theory-Redacted#download
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 Tyranny of Good Intentions, 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. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/155833/the-tyranny-of-good-intentions-by-paul-craig-roberts-and-lawrence-m-stratton/
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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defo worth a look right must dash to work
but each morning, must have a quick coffee and read truthseeker
It takes a person of integrity to blow the whistle on the whittling away at the first amendment. Paul Craig Roberts is one such person. Unfortunately, PCR’s calibre is in such short supply in American society that the government can get away with murder. This is now done in your face more than any other time in history courtesy of the apathy, the ignorance and the cowardice of the populace at large. Amerika is the reincarnation of the Soviet Union except that the level of deception is so much greater since doublethink is so prevalent that most citizens believe that they are free when they are shackled and kept in the dark cave away from the true colours and the light.
It takes a person of courage and integrity to blow the whistle on the whittling away at the First Amendment. Paul Craig Roberts is such a person. People of his caliber are in such a short supply that the American government can get away with murder. Amerika is becoming more an more a reincarnation of the Soviet Union except that doublethink is so much more prevalent courtesy of the cowardice, apathy and ignorance of the populace. The people are kept in a dark cave unable to face the reality of the true colours under the light while believing themselves to be free.
One rule for us who built this country while the government taxed us and sent our kids to war for the jews
One rule for us and one rule for the newcomers
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-49251372
The conspiracy theorists have got to the hardened criminals in D.C. “Oh god, they’re on to us” said one senator to another. “Sic the FBI on them!”.
The Trump/Russian collusion makes perfect sense if you simply replace “Russian” with “Jewish”. Those people who tried to influence the election in his favor (whether they were actually successful in that or not) may have been Russian as a matter of citizenship — but I guarantee that they were Jewish and working on behalf of Israel, not Russia.
Just like when you hear the media talking about the Russian mob — what they really mean is the Jewish mob in Russia. If they can’t shift the focus on to some other group which masks the Jewish nature of the culprits — then we get vague things like “a foreign nation”. Any other nation will be named if they do something bad. The news media only gets vague when it is Israel and they want to hide who the real culprits are.