Guest Post by Paul Craig Roberts
Today, April 19, 2017, is the 22nd anniversary of the Oklahoma City Bombing. The bombing of the federal Murrah office building was blamed by federal authorities on a bomb made from fertilizer inside a truck parked in front of the building by Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols.
There are many anomalies associated with the official explanation, including mysterious deaths of some, including a police officer, who understood that the actual facts did not accord with the explanation. Investigators who report the actual facts are branded “conspiracy theorists” and dismissed. This has been the Deep State’s way of controlling explanations since the 1940s.
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Americans, being the insouciant people that they are, never noticed that the Murrah building blew up from the inside out, not from the outside in.
However, Air Force General Benton K. Partin, the US Air Force’s top explosive expert, did notice. He prepared a detailed report containing “conclusive proof that the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, was not caused solely by the truck bomb. Evidence shows that the massive destruction was primarily the result of four demolition charges placed at critical structural points at the third floor level.” Here is a copy of General Partin’s letter accompanying the report he sent to US Senator Trent Lott. http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/OK/PARTIN/ok8.htm
General Partin was my neighbor in Alexandria, Virginia. I went through his report those years ago, and it is clear that the official “investigation” ignored all the facts presented by General Partin. Indeed, Partin’s report is not even part of the record. Wikipedia does not even mention the report as a “conspiracy theory” in Wikipedia’s recitation of the official line.
There was no more an investigation of the Oklahoma City Bombing than there was of 9/11.
It has never been clear to me why a number of people knew better than to come to work that day in the Murrah building or why what was likely deep state perpetrators desired to kill several hundred people, including children.
Perhaps it was targeted at the militias and the creation of police powers that could be used against them. Two years previously the Clinton regime murdered approximately 100 men, women, and children at the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas. The religious sect was threatening no one and in violation of no laws, but it was a dissident group that the US government decided to terminate.
The focus on dissidents changed with 9/11, which Israel and Israel’s American neoconservative allies used to apply wide-ranging and long-lasting massive violence to seven Muslim countries, costing US taxpayers trillions of dollars and what remained of the reputation of the United States.
The main consequence of “terrorism” is the extraordinary growth of unconstitutional police state powers throughout the Western world. Every protective shield of individual rights, except for the Second Amendment, has been stripped from the US Constitution by the so-called “war on terror.”
All of the alleged terrorist attacks have puzzling, uninvestigated, and unreported anomalities. It is astonishing that the media never asks any questions. Consider, for example, the Nice, France, Truck attack.
Nice police authorities have the unambigious evidence of the security cameras on every block of the truck’s alleged murderous route. There should be no question whatsoever about what really happened. Yet, the Minister of the Interior in Paris ordered the Nice public authorities to destroy the video evidence and not to release it. So all we have is a very grainy inconclusive video taken by a person allegedly married to a former Mossad intelligence officer. This person turns out to be the same person who provides the only video of an attack in Germany.
The bridge attack in London is overwhelming with the lack of any evidence. We simply get an official story. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPIAp2sDzTc
Sandy Hook is famous for the one bereaved parent, but there were allegedly scores of dead children. Where are the other parents? Aren’t they bereaved?
If these terror events are real, it is a simple matter for the media to ask questions, to investigate, and to give the public the facts. But the media never does. The media only repeats the official story without checking it.
In other words, the facts are whatever the government says they are. So what is the purpose of the media?
No purpose except to be a trumpet for the government.
The official stories of the Murrah office building bombing and 9/11 are now enshrined in memorials, the purpose of which is to make a lie the truth.
For insouciant Americans this works.
Oh no! Not another conspiracy.
yeah, that’s what I was going to say. You mean a motherfucker couldn’t have been pissed off enough about Waco to decide to extract a little revenge? Yeah, McVeigh fucked up, and he killed a bunch of kids, ultimately he was no better than janet reno. But I respect his intention.
Strfkr.
You and Dutchman studied this topic or are you two just spouting cute sounding bullshit so you can have an orgasm over your brilliance and wonderfulness.
Fertilizer isn’t that powerful even if you filled one of the rooms with it. The truck was well away from the front wall. That alone should be enough to question the rest. Did you notice there was no debris on the ground or cars in the parking lot across the street?
Methinks they either forgot the “/s” at the end of their posts, or they just pulled you in on a marvelous troll.
It’s like they never heard of Elohim City, the Ryder truck never had a serial number stamped on the rear axle (none did), or the court order by the judge in the building trying to stop the BATFaggots from continually bringing live explosives in the building.
That, or they truly believe what .gov puts out via the media.
What is more believable?
The govt. never lies. I volunteered to lose half a life because those rotten commies torpedoed one of our ships in the Gulf of Tonkin.
Life is often all about timing ,Star.
If McVeigh had set that bomb off three hours earlier at 6 am instead of 9 am and only killed a few government employees instead of members of the public and kids he would have been a folk hero instead of the pariah he deservedly is.
You didn’t notice the part about the building being blown up from the inside?
“Investigators who report the actual facts are branded “conspiracy theorists” and dismissed. This has been the Deep State’s way of controlling explanations since the 1940s.”
Hmm sounds familiar…Wait, that’s how a few ‘big dogs’ do it here, too.
“Truth is that which serves the state”
………..G. Orwell “1984”
PCR looks good in a tin-foil hat. Almost as good as I do.
If enough people stop believing the government/media’s bullshit, we may run out of tin-foil.
I don’t believe the government’s account of this bombing because I don’t believe them if they tell me the sun rises in the east. Nor do I believe they’re even remotely worthy of the benefit of the doubt. Quite the opposite, they are worthy only of contempt and revulsion.
After they got away with killing Kennedy nothing was off limits. Did ‘They’ bomb this building? It doesn’t matter because they aren’t and won’t be accountable in any event.
“If these terror events are real, it is a simple matter for the media to ask questions, to investigate, and to give the public the facts. But the media never does. The media only repeats the official story without checking it.
In other words, the facts are whatever the government says they are. So what is the purpose of the media?”
I am sure that Dr. Craig Roberts knows the answer to the questions raised in the above quote but nevertheless I will take a stab at answering them. First, the media is not about facts or truth or objective and independent analysis. Second, the MSM is a mass propaganda organization with the sole objective of making sure the average American never learns the truth. Despite having the trappings of a news organization which is designed to disarm, deceive and deflect, the MSM is pure and unadulterated evil and must be shut down. No sovereign nation can allow such a subversive organization to operate freely inside its borders.
wdg….every sovereign nation controls the media; it comes with the territory. For example, how can you possibly hide the immense corruption without the media being compliant. Do you even doubt that our ‘intelligence’ agencies provide the proper news to report.
No different than politicians – they are owned.
That’s how the media came to be called “The 4th Estate”. It’s an arm of the state in the same way that the official church and the bureaucracy are.
I still think some insouciant AMERICANS believe we are going to carbon ourselves to death. Believing narratives that takes away another right or sets up a big push in that direction should now be highly suspicious. What are all these paid protesters supposed to accomplish. I read the Murrah building was where incriminating files of hill and billies misdeeds were being kept. I read McVeigh was alive and well still working for the deepstate, complete with video. Sandyhook was declared a drill by “o” complete with video. The list goes on and on. Here I thought tinfoil on my hat was for microwave,WiFi,uhf, vhf, sonar,radar frequencies cooking my brain, and controlling my thoughts. Silly me!
The Deep State is the reason there are 250 million plus guns in the USA…we don’t trust the Sum’ Bitches !
I respect PCR greatly, and everything he says here is spot on. But….get over “insouciant” Doc. It’s a great word, used occasionally. Several times in every article is stretching it a bit.
Lots of bad mojo happens on April 18, 19 and 20 in American history:
1775 – American Revolutionary War: The war begins with an American victory in Concord during the battles of Lexington and Concord. (I’d rate this as a good thing!)
The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake
The earthquake struck on April 18, followed by city-wide fires that lasted for several days. 3,000 people died. It was the second worst natural disaster in United States history.
The Sinking of the Titanic
It actually hit the iceberg at 11:40 PM on April 14, 1911, but all the worst stuff came after midnight on the 15th. 119 Americans were among the dead.
The Port of Texas City Explosion
On April 16, 1947, a cargo ship full of improperly-stored ammonium nitrate fertilizer exploded just off the coast of Texas, causing a chain reaction that blew up other ships and freight. The explosion killed at least 581 people, and set the stage for the very first class-action lawsuit. It was the largest industrial disaster in US history.
The Bay of Pigs Invasion
On April 17-19 of 1961, 1,500 Cuban soldiers trained by the CIA invaded Cuba in an attempt to overthrow Fidel Castro, under the assumption that the US military would provide air support. When the invasion became global news, President John F. Kennedy decided not to provide air strikes. The operation failed spectacularly, and Fidel Castro was hailed as a military hero.
The United States Embassy Bombing in Beirut
On April 18, 1983, a member of the Islamic Jihad Organization, with ties to Hezbollah, drove a car bomb up to the US embassy in Beirut and blew himself up, killing 63 people, including 17 Americans. It’s considered the first time Islamists ever intentionally targeted the United States.
The Elijah, Missouri Siege
From April 16-19, 1985, the FBI surrounded the headquarters of a group of white supremacist Christian terrorists called The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord. The standoff ended peacefully, but the event allegedly helped inspire the Oklahoma City Bombing exactly ten years later.
The Ruby Ridge Helicopter Incident
The confrontation between a group of isolated doomsday preppers in Idaho, and some overzealous federal agents didn’t turn deadly until August of 1992, but the event used as the primary justification for the standoff occurred on April 18, 1992. A helicopter working for Geraldo Rivera flew over and its crew reported hearing shots fired toward it. A later grand jury report called the accusation “grossly unfair.” Ruby Ridge partly inspired the Oklahoma City Bombing.
The Branch Davidian Fire
On April 19, 1993, the 51-day siege of a compound associated with an oddball sect of Seventh-Day Adventists in Waco, Texas, concluded when the FBI attempted to raid the facility, resulting in a fire that consumed 76 people.
The Oklahoma City Bombing
On April 19, 1995, a Gulf War vet blew up the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, using 7,000 pounds of ammonium nitrate fertilizer, killing 168. The terrorist intentionally staged the bombing two years to the day after The Branch Davidian Massacre. It was the deadliest act of terrorism in US history until 9/11. It’s still the deadliest act of domestic terrorism.
The Columbine Massacre
On April 20, 1999, 15 people died in the worst high school shooting in US history.
The Virginia Tech Shooting
On April 16, 2007, 33 people died in the second-deadliest single-shooter incident in US history. The perpetrator referred to the Columbine High school shooters as “martyrs.”
The BP Oil Spill
This event is best remembered for the expanding ecological catastrophe that seemed like it would never end, but an explosion on April 20, 2010 set the oil spill in motion. It resulted in the deaths of 11 workers, and, yes, the worst environmental disaster in US history.
The Boston Bombing
The Boston Marathon Bombing on April 15, 2013 killed three people, and set in motion events that would claim three more lives by the end of the week.
The 2013 Texas Fertilizer Plant Explosion
In the aforementioned article for The Washington Post, Joel Achenbach pointed out that on April 17, 2013, 15 people died in an ammonium nitrate fertilizer factory explosion in Texas, 66 years and one day after the Port of Texas City Explosion, but it was overshadowed by the madness going on in Boston. The 2013 incident was sparked by an intentional act of arson.
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Why did they lose all interest in this man? Have you heard another word about him since 1995? Does anyone else find that odd?
Has anyone ever heard of Andreas Strassmeir? The guy who worked as C.I. for the FBI and BATF? The fact that there are always agent provocateurs involved in virtually every terror attack on US soil is just another one of those coincidence theories.
Crazy people trying to link evidence together without permission. Leave that to the professionals.
Yeah HSF I remember “Andy the German”. The Feds were uninterested in him until he left the country,then they said they interviewed him on the phone. John Doe # 3? It’s like he never existed despite many witness testimonies. How about Carol Howe’s unheeded warnings to the Feds.
It never ends.
Well, you could go down and look at the evidence .. oh, wait. They bulldozed it down days or weeks later, without allowing anyone from outside the government to examine it.
Just like Waco.