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A Response to Robin Mathews' Series of Publications on the Police Invention of John Nuttal and Amanda Korody as Islamic Terrorists.

Your latest article on the BC Muslim Entrapment Case hones in on some very important information. Your most recent essay, "the Law's delay, the insolence of office," extends the interpretive thrust of your interconnected series of articles and open letters on the topic. This sequence of publications marks you, Robin Mathews, as the most insightful and persistent journalist investigating the application of the Royal Canadian Police Force's "major crime technique" to the police invention of John Nuttall and Amanda Korody as Muslim jihadists.

Why would the federal government want to invest so much financial and political capital in such a scam? Why would the federal government direct federal police to facilitate a plot to apprehend this challenged duo supposedly in the midst of perpetrating an Islamic terror event. As you well know, Robin, a lot depends on the answer to this question.

So far answers and political accountability concerning this matter have been scarce to non-existent. But we do have the telling remark sent in response to your repeated interventions. In a moment of, perhaps, careless candour Federal Public Safety Minister, Ralph Goodale, indicated the RCMP' deployed its "major crime technique" to set up Nuttal and Korody in order to be catch them. The imposed scenario was to picture them in the media as apprehended jihadists seeking to plant and explode a pressure cooker bomb at the grounds of the British Columbia Legislature in Victoria on Canada Day of 2013.

At American Herald Tribune we have been publishing most of your essays covering this Muslim entrapment case as well as your other literary efforts that all can be characterized as indigenous interpretations of Canada's ongoing subordination to imperial globalization. As I have argued in Earth into Property and elsewhere, the current round of imperial globalization began in 1492.

It is not without irony that we have been publicizing in a venue named American Herald Tribune the latest phase of your nationalist campaign for a decolonized and sovereign Canada. Let me put on my ironic hat as AHT's Alberta-based Editor-In-Chief and suggest in a public way some criticisms and suggestions concerning your latest commentary on the actions and positions of the Justin Trudeau government in Canada.

You do touch on the issue of federal motivations to set up Nuttal and Korody, although in my view you fail to provide the necessary background and context for your own overly tentative allegation. You write of

the apparent uncovering - the revelation - of a “False Flag”, - in short a dark, political action (possibly ordered from the Stephen Harper Prime Minister’s Office) to victimize the incompetent and innocent pair on behalf of “Western” desires to paint Islam as an inhuman breeder of despicable brutalities.

Wow! That's saying a lot. Who would have an interest in stimulating "'Western' desires to paint Islam as an inhuman breeder of despicable brutalities." If police powers have been abused by the federal government of Canada in this instance to "paint Islam as an inhuman breeder of despicable brutalities," wouldn't this case in all likelihood form part of a larger pattern? What is the role of the Nuttall/Korody case in relation to the seemingly never ending invasions and incursions that continue to be mounted in the name of a Global War on Terror?

Having put before your readers a window into the possibility of a giant "Western" psychological operation with false flag terrorism as a core ingredient, you inexplicably pull back. Then you swerve back to indicate that the true significance of the Nuttall and Korody case is that we have a very well constructed judicial ruling to document the dynamics of a phenomenon that goes far beyond the details of this particular case. You write,

(Fortunately, Justice Bruce had no need to go near that matter in her reasoning or judgement.) So far – across the West - the power and tightness of control by “the Deep State” has been so effective that an undeniable finding of State “False Flag” activity has been impossible to achieve anywhere. Some will say that such a finding has been impossible because in a fair review of facts … no such finding could be made.This case is, nonetheless, unique in that – if the judgement by Justice Bruce is upheld – it will confirm from the highest level of justice that government-created False Flag criminal events to indoctrinate and brainwash populations are in fact possible and do in fact take place. [Robin's emphasis].

From the Cold War to the Global War on Terror

As I see it, the only possible explanation for the federal government's gross financial and political investment in setting up Nuttall and Korody as patsies, and now to mount an appeal aimed at covering over the obvious implications of the Catherine Bruce ruling, is to continue to promote the toxic mentality of Islamophobia. This manufactured inducement to fear Muslim religion, people and culture constitutes the most essential psychological ingredient of the Global War on Terror. This Islamophobia-inducing message was highlighted from the very first hours of the event that remains the most transformative episode of the twenty-first century. I refer, of course, to the rapid-fire sequence of violent occurrences on September 11, 2001.

The Trudeau government claims to be an opponent of Islamophobia but in reality it marches along with its broadly-based promotion to advance the imagery of the "clash of civilizations" introduced by Bernard Lewis and popularized by Samuel Huntington on the eve of Global War on Terror. The need on the part of all "Western" governments to induce in the general population critical levels of phobia towards Islam constitutes an expedient deemed necessary for promoting aggressive wars abroad, police state/surveillance state incursions at home. Who could deny the connections linking the propagandistic promotion of Islamophobia in the West to the serial invasions of Muslim majority countries including Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, and Yemen?

Ever since 9/11 we have witnessed how the political currency of fear has been deployed and exploited to hollow out what remains of our liberal democracies. We have seen how the elaborate post-9/11 psychological operation has rendered the anti-war movement almost defunct and non-existent exactly when we need it the most. This regime of Islamophobic fear mongering his been promoted under the auspices of elected officials advertised to us as representing both left and right. We have been conned by the likes of those who sold us both Stephen Harper and Justin Trudeau, both Barack Obama and George W. Bush.

Where the Cold War depended on building up the imagery of violent communists as the main enemy to be guarded against, after 9/11 the worldwide community of Muslims, the ommah, was cast by "the West's" top-level psychological warfare experts as the new global enemy. While there has been some highly-publicized efforts to weed out "bad Muslims" from "good Muslims," the bottom line of the Global War on Terror has been to produce a mental environment where Islam is widely understood to be the primal seed bed of self-motivated, self-financed violent jihadists acting totally irrationally because they "hate our freedoms."

The jihadist replacements for the former communist enemies were needed to justify inflated budgets for the military-industrial complex and its related "national security" apparatus.This musical chairs of demonology in the psychological operations of global geopolitics has been instrumental in keeping in place roughly the same pyramid of financial and political power whose upper echelons benefited most from the Cold War. In the post-9/11 era of the Global War on Terror, old Cold Warriors like Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld were able to retool themselves as leaders in the transformation of "the West's" global war on communism into a global war on terrorism.

Throughout the transition the "national security" establishment maintained its strategic hold over the commanding heights of our political economy. The "national security" establishment has thus been rendered a bastion and agent of elite dominance in the ongoing waging from above of barely-disguised class warfare.

Ironically, the term, "national security," induces a false sense that national sovereignty is somehow being protected when actually quite the opposite is taking place. The so-called "national security state," a phrase increasingly treated as synonymous with the "Deep State," is in fact more like a transnationalized police state. As I have been experiencing up-close-and-personal in the ongoing assaults on my tenured faculty position in Alberta, this transnational police state seeks to block and, if possible, criminalize the free and open discussion of who is doing what to whom in generating our present predicament. As the grotesque failure of mainstream reportage on the Nuttall/Korody case well illustrates, fakes news is being allowed a very wide latitude to prop up our fake democracies.

Terror Factory for the Psychological Operations of a Fake War on Terror

As I see it, Robin, we must begin to assess the Nuttall/Korody affair within the framework of many hundreds of similar episodes throughout the United States and all the NATO countries including Canada. In As I see it, Robin, we must begin to assess the Nuttall/Korody affair within the framework of many hundreds of similar episodes throughout the United States and all the NATO countries including Canada. In The Terror Factory: Inside the FBI's Manufactured War on Terrorism , Trevor Aaronson presented in 2013 his analysis citing hundreds of cases where FBI-sanctioned operatives zeroed in on Muslim individuals rendered vulnerable because of addictions, mental illnesses, criminal records and the like.

This pattern has been replicated by Canada's federal police in the elaborate scheme of entrapment directed at Nuttall and Korody. As is now well documented in the ruling by BC Judge Catherine Bruce, these vulnerable individuals were supplied by federal police and their undercover Muslim agents with direction, financing, weaponry and all manner of direction and assistance in pointing Nuttall and Korody towards actions meant to be interpreted by a complicit media as attempted Islamic terrorism.

In most, but not all cases, the FBI apprehended the patsies just before some violent acts took place. As Aaronson describes it, one of the motivations for the FBI to act in this way has been to increase its budgets, to do its part in helping to manufacture the appearance of a "clash of of civilizations." Accompanied by what is known in intelligence and counterintelligence circles as a "strategy of tension," the clash of civilizations has been promoted as the dominant geopolitical conception integral to waging the Global War on Terrorism as the replacement for the Cold War.

You are absolutely correct, Robin, in associating the conception of false flag terrorism with the RCMP's effort to manufacture Nuttall and Korody as media-ready embodiments of Islamic terrorism. False flag terrorism is a term that emerges from naval history. A common strategy at sea was for those commanding vessels in enemy waters to raise false flags. Sometimes pirates would use false flags to trick targeted vessels so they could approach their prey without opposition.

The phrase evolved over time to apply more generally to engineered events where the actual protagonists misrepresent the true nature of violent episodes. The goal of such deceptive operations is to turn public opinion against groups about to be targeted for maltreatment through, for instance, military invasions, mass incarceration, and torture. The RCMP's framing of Nuttall and Korody, therefore, should be conceived as one small but very significant episode among a host of similar episodes required to keep public fears of Islamic terrorism alive. The political currency of public fear must be periodically renewed and rendered local in a variety of settings so that the imagery of the Global War on Terror as a naturally unfolding clash of civilizations, or even as a vehicle of civilization's imagined ascent over savagery, is sustained and restored.

It is now a well documented aspect of the Cold War that NATO and the CIA were deeply involved in creating false flag terror events in Western Europe throughout the Cold War. Daniel Ganser and others have documented how the main operatives directing Operation Gladio financed and facilitated violent events deceptively depicted in the media as the vile work of communists, socialists and other varieties of leftists.

The aim was to demonize leftists in public opinion to prevent them from achieving electoral success in parliamentary processes. One way to understand at least some aspects of the Global War on Terror, especially within Western countries, is to see the more recent rounds of false flag terrorism as continuing processes that began in the Cold War with Operation Gladio. Instead of making communists the object of fear and loathing, the current objective is to induce Islamophobia through the constant renewal of the menacing imagery of Islamic terrorism.

All of this is not to say that there is no such thing as particular cases of Muslim animosity towards the West or no such thing as violent Muslim individuals ready, willing and able to commit random atrocities. The reality is, however, that such individuals are often identified as assets to be supported, trained and directed by Western Intelligence agencies. There is a fairly large literature on this subject pioneered in large measure by Peter Dale Scott, the son of F.R. Scott. F.R. Scott was Canada's legendary poet, philosopher, civil libertarian, constitutional expert and NDP founder. His son, Peter, spent much of his career in the English Department at the University of California on the Berkeley campus where he coined the term, "Deep State."

Building from his work as an academic expert on the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Prof. Scott subsequently authored The Road to 9/11: Wealth, Empire and the Future of America (Berkeley: University of California, 2007). Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed is another leading academic figure who helped pioneer the study of the West's Deep State in sponsoring, recruiting, training and facilitating proxy armies assembled and employed to fight under Muslim flags. Prof. Ahmed's scholarship helped to draw wider attention to the role of the CIA and the Saudi government in building up al-Qaeda to overthrow the Soviet-backed puppet regime in Afghanistan in the 1980s. This history can be extrapolated to help explain the extension of similar phenomena in the Western Deep State's role in helping to build up ISIS and al-Nusra as proxy forces deployed in a variety of operations including the effort to overthrown the Syrian government of Bashar al-Assad.

While the Nuttal/Korody case is the best documented instance of false flag terrorism in Canada, the most consequential and ambitious example of the same phenomenon highlighted the role of Michael Zahef-Bibeau in two shooting episodes that took place on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on October 22, 2014. Zahef-Bibeau himself along with Corporal Nathan Cirillo are said to have been both shot dead in this episode. Parliament's sargeant-at-arms, Kevin Vickers, is said to have killed Zahef-Bibeau, a feat for which he was honoured in the Israeli Knesset where he received a medal from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

This episode clearly was made to fit well into the efforts of then-Prime Minister Stephen Harper to win the forthcoming federal election in 2015. The episode was also used to help launch the campaign to pass into law the draconian Bill C-51, sometimes described as Canada's Patriot Act. Stephen Harper did not get re-elected in 2015 but Bill C-51 did pass into legislation with the support of Justin Trudeau and the Liberal Party of Canada. This strand of continuity between the Stephen Harper government and the Justin Trudeau government extends also to the Nuttall and Korody case. As you note, Robin, the resistance is formidable against any investigation into the role of false flag terrorism and government-promoted Islamophobia in the service of "the West's" Global War on Terror.

Whatever actually transpired on Parliament Hill, Zahef-Bibeau was shown to be a very troubled individual suffering addictions and with a history of many criminal convictions. There is significant evidence Canada's most heavily publicized jihadist was in fact the object of a Deep State plot to help him along as the main protagonist of an event that became the subject of world news meant to highlight the ubiquity of the Islamic terror threat. Even the sleepy backwater of Ottawa was vulnerable to the menace of Islamic jihadism, it was announced tp the world in well illustrated front page coverage in, for instance, The New York Times, The Guardian, the Kuwait Times, Pakistan's Dawn, and the Frankfurter Allgemein.

Among those who wrote about this episode as a possible home-grown example of false flag terrorism are Graeme McQueen, Barrie Zwicker, John McMurtry and me. All of us are professors attuned to watch out for false flag terrorism through our shared work in investigating the 9/11 debacle. I see that our little group is well represented among those following your coverage, Robin, of the federal government's continuing insistence that Nuttal and Korody are dangerous Islamic terrorists who were prevented at the last minute from wreaking havoc on Victoria's 2013 Canada Day celebration. Might you join us, Robin, in sounding the alarm more actively that the misrepresentation of false flag terrorism, including the 9/11 Mother of all such events, must be more assertively identified as a catalyst of Islamophobia? [1]

Questions About the Relationship of Israel First Partisans to False Flag Terrorism

I recommend the trilogy on false flag terrorism in edited volumes that include essays on the subject by 55 authors, many of them expert practitioners, well-known academics and controversial public intellectuals. I have three essays within the collection edited by Dr. Kevin Barrett, a devout Muslim who was famously turfed from his academic position at the University of Wisconsin in 2006 for integrating 9/11 skepticism into the curriculum of an introductory Islamic Studies course. Published by Sifting and Winnowing Press between early 2015 and 2016, the volumes are entitled We Are Not Charlie Hebdou: Free Thinkers Question the French 9/11, Another French False Flag: Bloody Tracks from Paris to San Bernadino, and Orlando False Flag: The Clash of Histories.

Together Dr. Barrett and I co-hosted for two years False Flag Weekly News, an enterprise that seems to have been a factor in causing the Board of Governors and President of the University of Lethbridge to attempt to banish me from my tenured position at the University of Lethbridge. Although I have now been reinstated in my university post after having been suspended for over a year outside the terms of the collective agreement, the labour relations dispute involving my faculty association, the university board and I is still far from resolved. When the matter did go to court in recent months, our side prevailed in the judge's ruling. Premier Rachel Notley responded to my subsequent reinstatement by adding her voice to that of Canada's Israel lobby. Its agents remain very unhappy, to say the least, about how I have been publicly addressing subjects like false flag terrorism.

The topic that seems to arouse a lot of animosity among my detractors, including the staff of B'nai Brith Canada and the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA), is the fact that Dr. Barrett and I associate a good portion of the directing role in false flag terrorism to parties in many Western countries that might be described as Israel First partisans. An example of such partisans would be some prominent members of the Project for the New American Century (PNAC). A year prior to the 9/11 debacle, the neocon PNAC group laid out a plan for strengthening the muscle of US militarism. Part of the plan acknowledged the need for a "catalytic event like a new Pearl Harbour" to advance PNAC's plans in the court of public opinion. Many of PNAC's members left no doubt that one of the key reasons for building up US military capacity was to advance plans for the expansion of Israeli power and territory in the Middle East.

Even among so-called 9/11 truthers this interpretation is quite controversial. Probably with sound reason, some students of false flag terrorism are inclined to believe that any public connection linking the agendas of Israel, the United States, NATO, and Saudi Arabia to Gladio-style skulduggery might repel neophytes who otherwise would be inclined to consider subjecting official narratives to skeptical inquiry. In such circles there is a determination to constrain the discussion to issues like the demise on the afternoon of 9/11 of World Trade Center #7, a steel-framed skyscrapper not hit by any airplane. The rapid fall of Building 7 symmetrically into its own footprint, at one point at the speed of free fall descent, is sometimes described as "the smoking gun" of 9/11.

I look forward to continuing to follow your unrelenting effort to force some accountability on the RCMP and on its political masters who must not be allowed to ignore the hugely significant revelations that Judge Bruce brought to light in the case first reported as a police apprehension of Islamic jihadists in British Columbia. I thank you for your exemplary interventions to date. I hope this effort to provide background and context to this important matter proves helpful to at least some readers.

Yours Sincerely,

Tony Hall

Notes

[1] https://truthandshadows.wordpr ess.com/2014/11/08/canadas-fal se-flag-terror-fingerprints-of -u-s-involvement/

https://www.veteranstoday.com/ 2014/10/31/harper-the-ottawa-s hooter-and-the-selling-of-war/

http://www.globalresearch.ca/d ecoding-harpers-terror-game-be neath-the-masks-and-diversions /5410373

http://democracyprobe.ca/wp-co ntent/uploads/2015/10/09021508 .pdf