There have been some cracking conspiracy theories circulating since that day in September 2001. On the Sky One channel last night they rounded up a bunch of these conspirators and gave them an hour to flex there theories which went from the insane to the ridiculous but as i was sitting there and tutting loudly at the absurdity of it all, one of the men pulled out an official looking document.
"I put forward it was the actions of the Government to launch a war" he spouted brandishing a wad of paper "They have form in this area" and highlighted a sentence or two, one of which caught my attention.
'...blow up a US ship and blame Cuba..' it said.
Not sure if i had caught it properly i sniffed about the web and was quite shocked at what i discovered on many of the US News sites.
In the early 1960s, America's top military leaders reportedly drafted plans to kill innocent people and commit acts of terrorism in U.S. cities to create public support for a war against Cuba.
Code named Operation Northwoods, the plans reportedly included the assassination of Cuban exiles, sinking boats of Cuban refugees on the high seas, hijacking planes, blowing up a U.S. ship, and even orchestrating violent terrorism in U.S. cities.
The plans were developed as ways to trick the American public and the international community into supporting a war to oust Cuba's then new leader, communist Fidel Castro.
America's top military brass even contemplated causing U.S. military casualties, writing "We could blow up a U.S. ship in Guantanamo Bay and blame Cuba," and, "casualty lists in U.S. newspapers would cause a helpful wave of national indignation."
Have to admit, it did throw me slightly but it is just to absurd to even contemplate the US Government orchestrated the 2001 World Towers catastrophe isn't it?
Yes, it is.
Isn't it?
6 comments:
I don't think it's crazy to speculate that our gov't noodles around with ideas like this. What's crazy is to believe they'd be competent enough to carry them out, including getting the complicit silence of everyone involved. For sure, someone would get pissed off at the group and come out with a book about the whole thing.
In any case, these 9/11 theories forget about the fact that there IS a Bin Laden who has been planning this stuff and alludes to it on tape, unless that's an elaborate hoax as well. Yah, he's always been a CIA agent and, uh, makes these tapes in Wyoming, where they're then smuggled through Mexico, etc. to end up at Al Jazeera.
"For sure, someone would get pissed off at the group and come out with a book about the whole thing."
I'm reminded of "Goodfellas" and the fate of everyone who knew anything about the Lufthansa heist. You probably have a point about their competence, though.
I just wish it were impossible to believe that they would be willing to do such a thing. But it simply isn't, if we're honest with ourselves.
I was quite shocked that it was even seriously contemplated back then.
Almost all of the theroies on the show were plain crazy, including this one about the Govt doing it but that one line did catch my eye and i had to look it up but i agree with you both, the amount of people needing to be involved would make it impossible to stop it leaking out somewhere.
They might be willing to do such a thing if they knew for certain they could get away with it, but there's no way they could.
Your mention of the 1960s and Cuba touches on the JFK assassination - one of history's truly great mysteries which always stirs up the conspiracy buffs stew pot.
Reminds of Bill Hicks' bit on becoming president:
It's just a handful of people that run everything, and that's provable. I have this feeling that whoever's elected president, no matter what promises you make on the campaign trail - blah, blah, blah - when you win, you go into this smoky room with the twelve industrialist, capitalist scumfucks that got you in there sitting in shadow, and this little screen comes whirring down from the ceiling. The film clicks through the 4-3-2-1 countdown and then you see a shot of the Kennedy assassination from an angle you've never seen before, which looks suspiciously off the grassy knoll.
And then the screen comes up, the lights come on, and they say to the new president, "Any questions?"
"Um, just what my agenda is."
Fuck yeah, O'Tim. Any quoting of Bill Hicks deserve great and sincere praise. Bravo!
Post a Comment