Anglo-American Fascist Forecast

NATO’s Nazi Beginnings: How the West implemented Hitler’s goals  

Over at Willy Loman's Place, there is a link to an illuminating article by Robert S. Rodvik, of the Voltaire Network. Anyone who's familiar with Operation Paperclip and the origins of the CIA and MK Ultra and the rest of the shadow Anglo-American government (much of which we really know almost nothing about even now) will find the story of the origins and international intentions of NATO and other defense alliances and their relationship to fascist and Nazi programs -- indeed, their continuation of those programs -- to be familiar territory.

But the deep seated fascism of Our Governments and its Shadows is not widely recognized or appreciated. The idea that much of the infrastructure and superstructure of governments and international alliances that we take for granted -- or don't think of at all -- today came out of the adoption of Nazi and fascist policies and programs by Western powers after World War II seems bizarre and creepy at first glance.

And yet, there it is.

Not only were policies and programs adopted, so were personnel in many cases.

The outcome of WWII is still with us of course, but what lies behind the almost instantaneous transformation of the West, particularly the Anglo-American axis, into a Cold War with the Soviet Union and an endless litany of little hot wars everywhere to stem the tide of the International Communist Conspiracy is little understood.

That story is yet to be told in detail. It is another curtain still to be pulled back.

A BBC video from 1992 on just a part of it:






And here is The Stimulator on AntiFa and the Greek Thing: (Note: Foul Language and generally rebellious behavior)

One Thing After Another

Several FOIA requests regarding the FBI and DHS and others vs Occupy have produced intriguing results. 

Not surprisingly, what they show is that the Federal Government has been actively coordinating a mutual response to the Occupy efforts which at times has included violent assaults by militarized police on encampments, nonviolent protests and demonstrations.

It's not surprising because it was obvious as it was going on last October and November. The strategy was clear enough: break up and destroy the encampments, disperse their denizens, prevent them from coming back. Use infiltration and monitoring online communications for intelligence, conduct mass arrests, confiscate and destroy campers' property, present the appearance of overwhelming force. Meet any resistance with "measured" brutality.

Later, the strategy changed somewhat to include stings and set ups such as have been used against Muslims and others for many years, and the widespread replacement of mass arrests with "snatch-and-grab" take-downs and kidnappings of supposed leaders/troublemakers of protests and demonstrations. At the NATO conference in Chicago, authorities utilized the tactic of night raids and arrests of people (apparently targeted by infiltrators) who might commit crimes.

Anyone who was paying attention could suss out the official strategy toward the suppression of Occupy rather easily. That it was a coordinated strategy between dozens of local police forces was also obvious. What wasn't necessarily clear prior to the release of some of the documentation recently acquired was how it was all being coordinated through DHS and the FBI. Those aspects are still not entirely clear, and they probably won't be for some time to come. The outline, however, is straightforward.

Interestingly, some of those who have looked at these documents and considered their implications have come to the conclusion that what has been released is in the nature of a government leak -- in other words, that the authorities want this information to be known throughout the Occupy community so as to thwart any idea that somehow The People are winning -- or that they can win against an implacable and coordinated militarized force of police and a solid phalanx of dedicated civic bodies.

I'd say that's a little bit of a leap, but it's not too far fetched.

So far, it seems, the strategies of suppression that have been employed have worked pretty well.

And propaganda, of course, is a major part of any suppression strategy. Propaganda is the key.

"Leaked" documents detailing a portion of the coordination through DHS is an effective form of propaganda.

One of the more startling things I've noticed with regard to Occupy from my groundling perspective is just how obvious the strategies employed to suppress the movement have been and how successful they have been in achieving their objectives.

I saw this video yesterday regarding Chicago, and I think it is worth paying attention to, for the speaker, Jerry Boyle (the man in the suit) explains at length and in detail just what kind of strategies are being employed against protests and demonstrations and what their purpose is -- as well as some of the history behind them. 



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Boyle points out that the authorities are engaging in warfare against dissenters. Their objectives are clear:

 Those objectives include making sure that "good people" are so frightened by the potential for violence -- whether by the police or "black bloc" doesn't really matter -- that they will stay away from support or participation in Occupy. In the background all the time is the fear of the "terrorist" label -- which is being applied more and more openly by civic authorities against Occupy and the other anti-globalist protests, with a particular emphasis now on the upcoming political conventions in Charlotte and Tampa.


Now that the encampments are almost all destroyed, the objectives of the authorities include making sure that they don't come back primarily through show of force and intimidation tactics which seem to have been worked out and fine tuned in Oakland and New York City.

Boyle's advice is to remain flexible and unpredictable among other things. Yes, well...

Meanwhile, the indifference and unresponsiveness of government and institutions to the plight of the People is expected to continue without remorse or let up indefinitely. The only things the Ruling Class seems interested in -- besides gambling, war and resource extraction and control -- is taking away what little remains of peoples well being and economic security so as to backstop any potential losses at the top of the finance pyramid.

We're in for one thing after another for the duration.

Won't You Please Come to Chicago?

Nothing like this, nothing remotely like this, happened in Chicago over the weekend.

Over the weekend we saw some actions in Chicago that had the feeling of reality and yet lacked a certain something.

Even the police overreaction to the crowds of protesters, the few times it happened, had an unreal gloss to it.

What was going on?

The Pre-Crime arrests and the efforts to squelch independent coverage of what was going on were really quite transparent to anyone who has been following this sort of thing for any length of time. Of course -- we know -- the State sets up various participants in real or imagined resistance campaigns as fall guys and patsies through the strategic use of informants, infiltrators and provocateurs. In the case of the pre-crime arrests in Chicago, it appears that the set up may have included planting "evidence" and other tactics utilized when the targets wouldn't go along with the plan.

The strategic stops, detentions and raids of live streamers was an interesting tactic that seemed obviously meant to intimidate and disable the most prominent streamers -- Luke, Tim and Nate in particular -- and to send one of those messages that are always being sent by the Authorities -- to all the rest of them: mind your Ps and your Qs. To the public, of course, goes the message that anyone can be rounded up at any time for any reason or none at all.

For what it's worth, I think the Pre-Crime arrests and the strategic detentions and raids worked rather well and accomplished their objectives.

The intensity of the pre-NATO propaganda campaign asserting the violent nature of the protests to come and encouraging Chicagoans to leave town for the duration was pretty spectacular in its own right.

But the strangest thing to someone who was around in 1968 was the curiously reserved -- yet always in view -- behavior of the Chicago Police. Visions of "1968" were circulating widely in the lead-up to the NATO events, but the upshot was apparently very carefully managed to show to the Whole World Watching that nothing like "1968" was going to happen or did happen. Surprise, surprise. A few noggins were banged by batons to be sure, and there was a limited amount of blood in the streets after a few confrontations between police and demonstrators, but for the most part, there were no clashes evoking "1968".

The Red Zone was rarely breached, and when it was it was almost by accident, quickly corrected by phalanxes of police. The World Leaders were able to do their business unmolested by the crowds in the streets, and undisturbed by the unpleasantry of tear gas wafting into the halls and auditoria of Power.

The demonstrators, who numbered in the tens of thousands at their peak, did their thing pretty much unmolested as well, though it must be noted that they were, how to put it, "guided" by police phalanxes emplaced so as to control the crowds' movements and confine their presence to designated sectors while not significantly interfering with either their spontaneity or their ability to take to the streets. This was a highly sophisticated operation by the police, and it is little wonder the Chief was nearly moved to tears in expressing his admiration for the generally well-executed plan the department had prepared in advance of the NATO summit. Not only was this unlike the by now notoriously brutal behavior of the NYPD and the Oakland Police toward their demonstrators, it was no doubt intended as something of a model for handling the protests expected at the party nominating conventions in Tampa and Charlotte later this year.

The constant repetition of the scenes of police overreaction and brutality toward demonstrators that we've seen almost since the advent of the Occupy Movement has had a cumulative effect on the consciousness of and conscience of America -- to the extent that still exists -- and the constant initiation of violence by the police (regardless of what the "nonviolence" community believes about who started it) has ultimately been counter productive to the interests of the Powers That Be, in part because witnessing leads to radicalization. The more people see for themselves what's going on, the more people are radicalized.

The expectations in Chicago were in some respects for a bloodbath because of visions of "1968" and because of what's been done in so many cases of Occupy protest and demonstration up to now. The crack-downs have too often been harsh and violent. Thousands have been arrested, hundreds injured, dozens of camps destroyed.

It wasn't that way in Chicago where there were a handful of arrests and injuries, and no camps erected to be destroyed.

There was instead something more insidious.

So long as the battle lines in the streets were drawn clearly and actions and their consequences were visible, as was the case from the outset of Occupy until fairly recently, a process of protest and demonstration and police overreaction was in place. It had almost become an institutionalized ritual.

Now with the Pre-Crime arrests becoming standard (following identical patterns to those used against Muslim communities for years, which in turn grew out of standards and practices adopted as far back as the Drug Wars and even earlier with COINTELPRO) , with the overt intimidation of independent media and the strategic decision to "let protest demonstrations happen" as they will, expectations are no longer valid.

The point of the violent crack downs against Occupy, the mass arrests and the brutality was to discourage "good people" from participating, and to an extent it worked, helped along by members of the "nonviolence" community who were obsessed with the dress and demeanor of some activists and made a cottage industry of demonizing and scapegoating bandana wearing and Black Bloc Anarchists. Whether they were conscious collaborators with the State's efforts to discourage and diminish popular participation in Occupy actions and events, I don't know, but they were and are complicit in that effort, much as most of the major churches have been complicit in the establishment of a permanent State of War and the security apparatus that now rules us.

Those violent efforts of the police and the complicity of certain social institutions and communities did their job. Many people are now too frightened of "what might happen" to participate in Occupy events -- because of how the police react, not so much because of what a Black Bloc might or might not do. The camps are mostly destroyed, so there is very little round the clock public awareness of the Occupy Movement and issues (though it does exist), and internal struggles over power, money and purpose have left a lot of disharmony in their wake.

On the other hand, with so many Americans radicalized by conditions and events, protest is unlikely to go away any time soon. The task for Authority, then, is to manage the protests as well and as apparently gently as possible. And that's what we saw in Chicago for the most part. It definitely has a cruel side, aspects of which are only hinted at. It can be brutal, but rarely rather than ordinarily. It can be intimidating and frightening.

But it was nothing like "1968" -- and so, from a psychological standpoint, what happened in Chicago with regard to the NATO protests was "better" than what's happened so many times in so many cities where World Leaders have foregathered for whatever it is they do when meeting face to face to plot the further oppression and exploitation of the masses.

It was even "better" than what has happened dozens of times when Occupy actions have been violently suppressed.

Oh, and then there was the G8 Thing in Maryland. Anybody go to that? Were there protests? Demonstrations? Anything? And does anybody believe anything in the G8 Communique? Hello?

Time, Place, and Manner

One of the concepts being proffered regarding protesting is the legal notion of "time, place, and manner" restrictions on rallies, marches and demonstrations -- ie: petitioning for redress of grievance -- that, according to the courts do not violate the First Amendment protections of free speech. The legal theory is, apparently, that so long as time, place and manner restrictions do not discriminate on the basis of the political content of the marches, rallies and demonstrations, they are perfectly permissible.

This means, of course, that the First Amendment's protections of free speech and assembly and petitioning for redress of grievance are essentially moot. Yes, the People may have the right, according to the Constitution, but the People do not have the liberty to exercise that right -- except to the extent the Authorities wish to permit it.

Thus, in part to challenge this reading of the First Amendment, many of the protests and demonstrations over the past several months have been deliberately "unpermitted." The organizers (well, that's a stretch) do not seek the permission of civic authorities to march and carry signs because they maintain that the Constitution itself is all the "permission" that's necessary.

This practice has put civic authorities and the police on the spot; yes, they have the "legal" authority to restrict the time, place and manner of demonstrations and to require permits for rallies and marches (and to restrict the kinds and sizes of signs and the amount of noise, the routes of travel and so on) but having the authority and exercising it are two different things. As they have exercised their authority with increasingly harsh and brutal measures against demonstrators, more and more Americans become radicalized. As more and more Americans become radicalized, they cease obedience to every jot and tittle of the "law" and the authority of the Authorities is progressively diminished.

When the events surrounding Move In Day in Oakland, CA (January 28, 2012) are considered in retrospect, we can see how the process works -- or could work. Oakland's movement(s) did not take advantage of their success in delegitimizing the authority of the police and civic officials that day in part because they didn't recognize it. As far as I can tell, they still don't.

What happened throughout the day starting with the march to the Kaiser Center, but especially with regard to the Battle of Oak Street and into the night with mass arrests at the YMCA, was in totality a highly radicalizing event. I'm sure it was terrifying to be in the midst of it -- I know some of the people who were there, and they still shudder. It wasn't pleasant. Many of those who participated were shocked at what happened and some sought to blame the victims (ie: the organizers and activists). Many others were astonished and appalled, not at the behavior of the demonstrators but at the actions of the authorities and police and the extraordinary levels of violence they were prepared to undertake in order to protect vacant buildings and to maintain their vacancy at all costs. That alone was delegitimizing authority.

But instead of recognizing how thoroughly Authority had delegitimized itself during the day's events, many of those who considered the events soon afterwards saw the results through a backwards lens, asserting that the events had instead delegitimized the movement through lack of organization and clarity, lack of transparency, ineffective actions, and the precipitation of violence among other faults and failings. Consequently, instead of building on success, the movement in Oakland has been facing disintegration.

Now comes Chicago.

The Pre-Crime arrests have begun, the drones are (maybe) deployed, and soon we can expect the full panoply of the National Security State to be displayed. Oddly, or perhaps not, some of the livestreaming I was expecting is simply not functioning. Hm. Who would have thought? Other livestreamers are apparently too tired and hungry to go on. There is a strange silence out of Chicago. Very strange indeed. I can find only one active live stream from Chicago, and it is from the NBC affiliate, naturally focusing on the Power Players and arrests, typically only vaguely aware of People in the Streets.

Ah, but so it goes.