A false flag action is one designed to appear as though carried out by someone other than the real perpetrators. Two notorious examples spring to mind, both going back to the onset of the Second World War.
On 31 August 1939, a gang of SS operatives dressed in Polish uniforms seized the radio station at Gleiwitz on the Polish border and broadcast an anti-German message in Polish. The next day, citing that incident as a casus belli, the Nazis launched the invasion of Poland.
The other evil power, the Soviet Union, wouldn’t be outdone. On 26 November 1939, the Soviets shelled their own outpost at Mainila on the Finnish border. Several soldiers were killed, the Soviets blamed the Finns for committing an act of aggression and invaded the country.
(Fragments of an exploded shell disperse in the direction of its trajectory. Thus it was instantly clear that the barrage came from inside Russia. Moreover, the Finnish artillery was positioned outside the range needed to reach Mainila. But these facts only came to light after the war.)
However, the term ‘false flag’ may also describe an action whose perpetrators deliberately misrepresent their motives for the sake of subterfuge. In that sense, most of our on-going riotous demonstrations, such as Free Palestine, No Genocide in Gaza, Black Lives Matter, Stop Oil, No Nukes, Save the Planet and so forth, are false flag – regardless of the messages inscribed on the flags they do fly.
If you look at the first three examples, the demonstrators pretend to be driven by commendable concerns about the wanton taking of innocent lives. If they were really driven by attaching a high value to a human life, we could argue about the particulars but without taking issue with the underlying biblical principle.
One particular we could argue about, by the way, is the misuse of the word ‘genocide’ to denote any mass killing. Whenever this solecism is committed, I mention the books Murder by Government and Lethal Politics by Prof. Rummel. He distinguishes ‘democide’, the killing of large numbers of people for whatever reason, and ‘genocide’, which he defines as murder by category, ethnic, racial or religious.
Thus, the Hamas murder of 1,195 Israelis on 7 October 2023 was genocide since those people were killed simply because they were Israelis. That started yet another war in which many ‘Palestinians’ were killed. However unfortunate, that action wasn’t genocidal – they weren’t killed because of their race, ethnicity or religion.
But that’s quibbling about semantics. Let’s just agree that killing people for whatever reason is always unpleasant, even though it may sometimes be necessary. Pacifists protesting against any killing whatsoever may be accused of naivety but not of bad faith – unless bad faith is what they demonstrate by wrapping their protests in false flags.
How do I know their flags are false? Simple. Their concern for human lives is highly selective and clearly biased against the West.
For example, Muslim bandits murdered hundreds of Nigerian Christians this summer – for no reason other than their religion. According to Prof. Rummel’s taxonomy, this qualifies as genocide, yet one doesn’t see any marches in European capitals demanding that the genocide of Christians be stopped.
When South African whites infringed on the civil rights of the black population, anti-apartheid marches regularly gridlocked traffic in many Western cities. Yet one doesn’t see many demonstrations against the systematic genocide of millions in Central Africa over the past few decades, in places like Sudan, the Congo, Uganda, Burundi, Rwanda – to name just the deadliest massacres.
Hundreds of thousands are being murdered in Darfur even as we speak, and yet no outburst of moral indignation is anywhere in evidence. Chaps, why have you doused your flaming conscience?
Don’t black lives matter anymore? Or do they only matter when white policemen accidentally kill a drug-addled criminal resisting arrest? What about thousands of black Americans killed every year by their black compatriots? Don’t their lives matter? And if they do, why is no one setting American cities ablaze in protest?
Come to think of it, even the truly bestial violence of 7 October 2023 incongruously had produced vigorous anti-Israeli protests before one or two rather anaemic anti-Hamas marches even took place. All this makes me certain that the slogans emblazoned on assorted placards and screamed by thousands of hoarse throats are there to hide the real animus behind the actions. If that’s not false flag, I don’t know what is.
All this is so obvious that I’m almost embarrassed to say it. The real motivation behind the rallies is harder to pinpoint, if only because it’s multifarious.
Some people, especially young ones, are natural troublemakers who’ll happily join the fun, especially at the expense of ordinary people going about their daily business. Youngsters are natural contrarians – I know; I was once young myself.
That motive, springing as it does mostly from hormonal activity, is innocuous enough. Some others, those that I suspect are dominant, are quite a bit more sinister than that.
One of them is simple old-fashioned racism, exactly the vice those marchers will claim to find especially abhorrent. What’s racist behind their actions is their unspoken premise.
Blacks killing blacks is only the cause for a what-do-you-expect shrug. Our fire-eating marchers want to save their shoe leather when news of yet another such atrocity breaks out. The same goes for murderous ‘Palestinians’. They don’t know better, do they? But Israelis [and any other Western or pro-Western group] should.
The marchers would never admit to having such thoughts, and they may not actually have them. But this is exactly what their intuition says, even if their words don’t.
These are all secondary motives though. The primary one is anomie, a state of growing disconnect from the West, not just as it currently is but as it has always been. For a wide raft of reasons, whole generations of Westerners have been raised in the spirit of hostility to their civilisation. And it’s but a short step from hostility to hatred.
When such animosity boils over, those people, thousands of them, are ready to join any rally regardless of the ostensible message on its false flags. That could be anti-hunting today, anti-fishing tomorrow, anti-birdwatching the day after – it really makes no difference.
And if the demonstration is likely to annoy our friends and excite our enemies, so much the better. Down with Israel, Down with oil, Down with all white cops (not just those directly involved in accidental killing), Down with the West – this last one remains unspoken but not unfelt.
This is their version of what in the politically incorrect past was called Hottentot morality: If enemies of the West kill its friends, that’s good. If friends of the West kill its enemies, that’s bad. Put out more false flags.
I wish psychologists, philosophers and sociologists bumped their heads together to get to the bottom of this mass phenomenon. But I doubt they ever will: most people in those professions today probably sympathise with our false flag marchers – if they aren’t actually within their ranks.