by Paul Craig Roberts
[Editor’s Note: This article was published today at the website of Paul Craig Roberts, with the title “The Shooting At Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School In Parkland Florida”]
Readers have inquired about my silence about the Florida shooting on Valentine’s Day. The answer is that school shootings are not my expertise. Moreover, a country, such as the US, which no longer has an independent TV and print national media, is unable to find out and is dependent on the story told by authorities.
Although it is probably impossible to find out what happened, independent Internet media makes it possible for a person willing to invest the time and effort, to arrive at a conclusion on their own. Here are some of the things to think about.
A Parkland Florida Stoneman Douglas high school teacher says the school had been told there would be a code red drill. When he heard shooting, he assumed it was the drill. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAN4g66RFug
A woman, Debbie, provides videos of reporters interviewing students who say they were told there would be a drill with police firing blanks with people screaming, the purpose of which was to prepare the students in the event a real shooting occurred. https://www.bitchute.com/video/hCp33awMjsq9/ At about the 28 minute mark in the video Parkland FL high school students tell news reporters interviewing them that they were told there would be a realistic drill at the school that would simulate a real attack.
I do not know anything about Debbie. It is important to note that it is not Debbie who is making the claims. The interviews with the students are interviews broadcast by news organizations.
Debbie’s video could have been better organized, much shorter, and less confusing. Instead of preparing a concise report beforehand, she prepares her report as you watch.
At the 55 minute mark Debbie becomes emotional over the gullibility of the public and the inability of Americans to see the inconsistencies between the official timeline and news reports and the inconsistencies between the evidence the media presents and the media’s explanation of the evidence.
There is no doubt about the inconsistencies. Whether this is just sloppy reporting or simply reporters reading the official story off of pre-prepared press releases I do not know.
There is no doubt that the video interviews with schoolteacher and students who say they had been told there would be a code red drill are real. What I find disturbing is that there does not seem to be mention of the drill in the official story. Remember the Boston Marathon Bombing. That day the Boston newspaper had announced that there would be a bombing drill at the end of the race, and in videos of the event an announcement of a drill is made at the scene just prior to the explosion, which the announcement says will not be a real bomb.
Other puzzling features of the Parkland FL shooting are (1) one student says she was walking out of the building with the suspect while shooting was going on elsewhere in the building, which leads her to the conclusion that there were two shooters. Another student says there were three shooters. (2) Students report that police were in the building while shooting was underway. (3) Apparently there is no news interview with the Uber driver who delivered the shooter to the school. (4) The timeline which allows only a few minutes for the shooting is not sufficient time for the suspect to have put on his bulletproof vest, helmet, gasmask, go up a stairwell and shoot up 3 different floors. https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-02-26/questions-emerge-over-florida-shooters-full-metal-garb
What I have to say about this is the same as what I have said about other events. Instead of clearing up the inconsistencies and acknowledging that a drill had been announced, the media dismisses those who ask the obvious questions as conspiracy kooks. In place of rational explanations we get name-calling. Why?
What is so difficult about the authorities and the media explaining either that the teacher and students misunderstood and are mistaken that a drill had been announced, or, alternatively, explaining why there are several instances of an actual event occurring simultaneously with an announced drill? A person would think that the print and TV media would find a very interesting subject in real events occurring simultaneously with drills of the events, including apparently 9/11 itself, and how facts are known in advance of the actual event.
Instead, once again we get a pre-prepared story.
Many Americans are so brainwashed and so gullible that they are not capable of seeing that the evidence completely contradicts the official stories that they are fed by the authorities and the presstitutes. Dr. Lorraine Day was chief of trauma surgery at San Francisco General Hospital. She has completely and totally discredited and disproved the official Boston Marathon Bombing story. See for yourself: https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/34vs8r/lorraine_day_md_former_chief_of_orthopedic/
Sheila Casey uses photos from the alleged bombing scene to make it completely clear that the Boston bombing was a staged hoax by hired crisis actors: https://truthandshadows.wordpress.com/2013/05/08/false-flag-theatre-boston-bombing-involves-clearly-staged-carnage/
Architects, engineers, and physicists have conclusively proven that WTC 7 was brought down by controlled demolition and that the twin towers did not collapse because of airplanes and fire.
Almost all, if not all, of the carnage events have more unanswered than answered questions. You should ask yourself why the questions remain unanswered if the official stories are true.
–Paul Craig Roberts was Undersecretary of the US Treasury in the 1980s. He writes one of the best blogs in America: PaulCraigRoberts.org
Photo credit: The Independent.co.uk
Dee, the Cairns News website is showing not only your Port Arthur video, but they have also a couple of articles on this recent Parkland School shooting. It looks like the whole ‘gun control’ narrative is starting to crumble around the world.
I don’t watch TV, so I was unaware that Turnbull had backed away from recommending Australian gun laws in the U.S. Maybe the Aussie politicians just want to ‘let sleeping dogs lie’ and not bring up Port Arthur. The second article is quite good.
https://cairnsnews.org/tag/martin-bryant/
I love the sign that was held up by one of the sheep at one of the American demonstration, it read “Gun Control, a public health issue” – that was right out of the Australian play book back some 25 years ago. It is deja vu all over again…
In truth any society that has any sort of permit system is shot. Driving control parallels gun control in just about every respect and it effects just about every U. S. and Aus citizen. No adult should have to seek the permission of another re movement. As soon as such a system is in place the sky’s the limit.
That young lass should stay away from nail guns and cars without brakes.
Unless she is tragically the victim of a bizarre sewing machine accident.
It has just occurred to me that the nonsense spread as to “no child died at Sandy Hook” was probably intended to keep conspiracy theorists from demanding that the real killers be punished.
Thank you, Paul Craig Roberts, for your clear words. Now we demand action. There are a bunch of murderers out there. See recent Gumshoe article by Andrew MacGregor, who may or not be correct in ascribing the whole thing to one FBI boss named James Yacone.
At the very least, Yacone needs to be arrested under the Material Witness Act until he sings. It does not require any indictment to arrest him. He is not charged with a crime. He is a Witness (for now).
Get him. And same for Richard DesLauriers (who probably acts under hypnosis, I kid you not) re Boston marathon. That was almost 5 years ago. What is the matter with you lawyers in Bostoniensis. CAT GOT YOUR TONGUE?
Cairns News, you have done Australia a great deed by publishing the articles on your site. I am glad that I have been guided to your site. You have covered a lot of ground that many of us, who had reason to look closely at the Port Arthur Massacre had already discovered.
However a news agency has more clout than the usual website owner. It is great that you are not afraid to print the truth, that all msm are so scared to broadcast, (or are part of the criminal behaviour against society).
Mal, in reference to your comment about Cairnsnews not being afraid to print the truth, I quote from their first article –
“Australians were disarmed on a terrible lie, but most Yanks and the gutsy National Rifle Association will never fall for it. What a crying shame we don’t have any shooters’ representative bodies in Australia with any guts at all!”
Not only does Australia lack a gutsy shooters representative, but it also lacks a gutsy legal system nor does it have gutsy politicians, add in your comment about “all MSM are so scared to broadcast” and it appears quite clear that we live in a ‘Banana Republic’.
A Banana Republic where the government can kill its own citizens and then the Australian shooters representative body, the SSAA, will tell their constituents to turn in their guns because they want to appear ‘reasonable’. – In other countries that would not be considered a ‘reasonable’ response, that would be considered insane.
Something you may not see when you turn on the tele:
http://gunwars.news21.com/2014/armed-teachers-aim-to-defend-k-12-schools/
The only type of gun specific to self-defence is of course the handgun. In Aus ownership/use is prohibited save in relation to a Government approved Club activity(sport)
Florida School Shooting: Creative Writing Teacher, Stacey Lippel speaks. (and other articles)
http://veaterecosan.blogspot.co.uk/2018/02/florida-school-shooting-creative.html
In the coffee shop yesterday I was chatting to a retired attorney friend who was filling out a gun license for his rural property. I noted that you can apply to own a gun for pleasure (recreation) — but not for your defense. What if you are a single mother in a remote part of Oz and you are concerned for your safety. Nope. As far as I could see, I don’t think that is a valid reason. You have tick another box — like shooting for fun.
There’s a ludicrous denial re the fact that just about every mainstream sport originated in honing battle skills:
The following is an extract from an unpublished letter sent to the Albany Advertiser on 23 April ‘07:
“The transport of licensed firearms is no more prohibited than carrying golf-club and missile, cricket-bat and missile. If the comparison strikes anyone as extreme, they should do a double-take re the lingo of every Australian sports commentary. ………..Popular culture cheers kickers, batters, hitters and swingers “battling”, “warring”, “fighting”, “gunning”, ‘hunting” and “shooting”. The truth is that most sport is a catharsis for violence. But when it comes to the most consciously owned, disciplined, and least accident prone passion, shame is the name of the game……………… So who calls the shots re popular culture? Media, media, media and media.
I guess THEY are well aware that if the frustration and anger of the oppressed masses doesn’t have some sort of outlet it will simply explode. Hence the MSM obsession with footy etc . Hence the fact that there isn’t a total prohibition on civilian gun ownership.
Dee, that goes back to the NCV recommendations that the AIC then promoted. ‘Self defense’ is not a ‘genuine’ reason to own a firearm.
Again, go back to Duncan Chappel from the United Nations NGO UNICRI, who then went on to the NCV and then on to the AIC – then when he was finished screwing over the Aussies, he went back to UNICRI. The internationalists want CONTROL, they do not want people being able to defend themselves.
The abuses that have occurred through the “tough, but fair” gun laws is legendary. I have done well over a hundred cases regarding the gun laws that would shock the conscious of ordinary Australians if they knew about them. – What those onerous gun laws have done is create a class of normal law abiding citizens who now distrust and despise the Government and who have decided to make ‘other arrangements’ outside the legal system.
The first article I linked to over at Cairnsnews refers, to some extent, the disregard to the gun laws that the citizens have taken. I also sense that people are moving from a position of disregarding the laws to discovering a DUTY to disobey them.
‘The limits of the tyrant are prescribed by the limits of the oppressed’. – You can only crap on people so much before they strike back.
Guns are weapons for murder . If the government forces are the only ones armed then it’s obvious who the murderers are . Bringing demoncracy to the world !
last comment not permitted for stating true events .
We are all under surveillance . The snoops are satanic .
In forty years of voting we have used pencils bar one state election .
Luckily now we have on line voting ?
The delinquents are running the asylum .
I kid you not . This afternoon , in suburban Sydney , had four rounds of 4 then 3 then 3 and 2 army choppers pass 20 metres above house in the space of forty minutes . Should I be the one getting worried or is it them that are paranoid . What a waste of money . “Military madness is killing my country .” Have we become terrorists just for being able to think outside of their idiot box propaganda .
Just now they passed over the house again .
And now a sixth time . 4 army choppers flying very low .
Our leaders bringing their terrorism to suburbia .
We are living in the days spoken by the prophets .
Have faith in prayer and His love .
Cause He didn’t make the guns but He made us and His glory will have no end .
To all lovers of peace , strong weak used and abused , now is the time to shine .
For they are few and we are His believers .
Watch the ‘gun control’ video doe by the Parkland children that was made at 9:30 in the morning before the massacre at 2:20 in the afternoon.
https://heartiste.wordpress.com/2018/02/21/was-david-hogg-parkland-high-shooting-survivor-caught-lying-on-tape/
They were working the narrative BEFORE the massacre.