Axxman300
Philosopher
Let's look at mass shootings as an example of why False Flag theories go right down the toilet.
Theory: Mass Shooting at [insert name of latest US shooting here] was staged to sway public sentiment and enact stricter gun laws.
Real world: Pick a mass shooting in the past 5 years, and then show me the sweeping legislation which followed. What? You can't? Why not?
Problem: in each case, the shooter either passed background checks, or had legal access to the weapon(s) used. In short, they bought the guns legally. This means that the laws on the books only go so far. So nothing gets changed because the Constitution stands in the way of a total ban, and right now an amendment would never be ratified.
Conclusion: False Flag Mass Shootings, if they occur, are a huge waste of time.
The reality is that the US has a mass shooting every three months or so, and one really nasty one every 28 months (it's how we roll). So why stage an attack instead of just waiting for the next one to come along and go from there? Some Congress people and political advocates already do this.
Let's look at a couple of classics, the Reichstag Fire and the Gulf of Tonkin.
The Reichstag Fire, Feb. 27, 1933, where the German Parliament Building burned down, and the Hitler government assumed arson, and used the event to enact the Decree for the Protection of the German People, which curbed civil rights. Arson was suspected and Communists were blamed, but the true cause of the fire remains a mystery, and many assume the Nazis started the fire to blame the communists as a false flag event.
The Gulf of Tonkin, where the USS Maddox exchanged gunfire with North Vietnamese gunboats, would lead to a resolution giving LBJ power to increase troop levels in South Vietnam. The actual event is mostly muddy, the weather was bad, it was night time, and while shots were fired nobody got hit. The problem was that Johnson received the initial report of the event, which was riddled with inaccuracies, and got the ball moving on Capitol Hill before he had all of the facts (not that he wanted them), before the official after-action report could be made.
These two events represented false flag operations to CTers for years, but most historians view them as events where leadership took advantage of the situation for their own agendas. It never mattered to Hitler how the fire started, he already knew who to blame guilty or not. The Maddox had been in the Gulf of Tonkin to support hit and run raids by the South Vietnamese.
Had neither event happened both Hitler and Johnson would have still found a way to justify their next steps. False Flaggers are simpletons, and history is always so much more complex.
Theory: Mass Shooting at [insert name of latest US shooting here] was staged to sway public sentiment and enact stricter gun laws.
Real world: Pick a mass shooting in the past 5 years, and then show me the sweeping legislation which followed. What? You can't? Why not?
Problem: in each case, the shooter either passed background checks, or had legal access to the weapon(s) used. In short, they bought the guns legally. This means that the laws on the books only go so far. So nothing gets changed because the Constitution stands in the way of a total ban, and right now an amendment would never be ratified.
Conclusion: False Flag Mass Shootings, if they occur, are a huge waste of time.
The reality is that the US has a mass shooting every three months or so, and one really nasty one every 28 months (it's how we roll). So why stage an attack instead of just waiting for the next one to come along and go from there? Some Congress people and political advocates already do this.
Let's look at a couple of classics, the Reichstag Fire and the Gulf of Tonkin.
The Reichstag Fire, Feb. 27, 1933, where the German Parliament Building burned down, and the Hitler government assumed arson, and used the event to enact the Decree for the Protection of the German People, which curbed civil rights. Arson was suspected and Communists were blamed, but the true cause of the fire remains a mystery, and many assume the Nazis started the fire to blame the communists as a false flag event.
The Gulf of Tonkin, where the USS Maddox exchanged gunfire with North Vietnamese gunboats, would lead to a resolution giving LBJ power to increase troop levels in South Vietnam. The actual event is mostly muddy, the weather was bad, it was night time, and while shots were fired nobody got hit. The problem was that Johnson received the initial report of the event, which was riddled with inaccuracies, and got the ball moving on Capitol Hill before he had all of the facts (not that he wanted them), before the official after-action report could be made.
These two events represented false flag operations to CTers for years, but most historians view them as events where leadership took advantage of the situation for their own agendas. It never mattered to Hitler how the fire started, he already knew who to blame guilty or not. The Maddox had been in the Gulf of Tonkin to support hit and run raids by the South Vietnamese.
Had neither event happened both Hitler and Johnson would have still found a way to justify their next steps. False Flaggers are simpletons, and history is always so much more complex.
