Written by Allen Aslan Heart   

We are horrified, outraged at the pain and suffering visited on totally innocent people surrounded by heavy security. That was the purpose and design of this event. Failing to place the Boston Marathon attack into the historical context leaves out all the guideposts history has provided. George Santayana's famous quote, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it" should remind all of us that the reason such horrible attacks recur is because we have not learned our history or used our knowledge to avoid repeating it. THAT is the memorial we must establish for the victims.

There was an official conspiracy theory to 9-11 that formed the basis for policy and we elected representatives to carry forward that policy. Not well known is that after the FBI produced a list of Arab hijackers who he claimed conspired to attack America, Director Mueller admitted that there was no hard evidence and that some of the Muslim "hijackers'" identities were probably stolen. That part of the official narrative was not promoted, so our formulation of policy was skewed by flawed assumptions. We can, however, imagine who wanted us to believe Arabs did it.

When making assumptions on the basis of the "news," remember they are the ones who insisted that there was WMD in Iraq, got over a million people killed, many more millions wounded or maimed, and cost us over a trillion dollars. They are now filling the news cycle with "experts" giving us the propaganda about who the Boston Bombers might be. Huge assumptions are being made.

Even before Adam Lanza is convicted on the basis of real evidence, he is assumed to be guilty by verdict of the media. Authorities have sealed the evidence still more months while the debate in Congress and around the country continues based on assumptions. That's the power of propaganda: you might not even recognize it, it is so subtle.

If we don't look to the past, we have no guideposts by which to understand where we are now or where circumstances will take us into the future. We need to know to watch the development of official narratives that are politically driven and not based on facts.
They want us to use this time to think about the victims and the victim’s friends and families. That is what the trauma is for. So while we grieve.notice that they are busily formulating the next narrative on CNN or FOX and people begin to pick up the little pieces of what will become the next assumption.

The propaganda is loud and strong on all mainstream channels taking aim at conservatives and Patriots...which takes in a huge swath of the American center and right. This time they aren't going after Muslims or Arabs. They are going after folks who tend to think that the Constitution is not "just a god-damned piece of paper." They're going after people who don't want their guns confiscated or their children vaccinated. We need to reexamine assumptions about the War on Terror because most people have never heard the whole story. Assumptions ARE being made as we watch the news broadcast and from that we create our national narrative

Sometime around Friday they’re going to blame a male in his late teens - early 20s and say he bombed the Boston Marathon because he’s unstable. When they raid his place, they'll find firearms and a NRA book in his home and say he used reloading powder for the explosion and that reloading powder shouldn't be for sale to the American people. Because the powder in ammunition can be used for explosives they'll say that the number of rounds you can purchase should be limited... and taxed. The PR campaign has already kicked into high gear when the two bombs went off. This was in preparation for two months.

Let's see if this leak pans out. Should be interesting.