Throughout history some acts of terror have actually been "false flsgs" ie When "powers that be" secretly arrange for an atrocity to be committed for the purpose of falsely blaming someone and /or pursuing an agenda. Recently though thanks to widely accessable alternate media and social networking through the Internet, many of these, including ones which occurred long ago can now be widely exposed. is now obvious that some acts of terror have been initiated by those with vested interests in the anti terror industry. Including from within government organisations.

eg It is now obvious that 9/11 was not done on the initiative of a few mad Arabs as the mainstream media has long tried to portray. Large numbers of details discredit various aspects of the official story despite the efforts of "shills" ie paid misinformation agents to debunk them. Seems the primary objective of this act of terror was to justify a "war on terror" which some people in powerful positions stood to gain from.

Another type of planned terror now being exposed has been many of the shootings supposedly done on sole initiative of a deranged "lone nut gunman" In these cases dimwits who can be readily character assassinated and are unlikely to have friends to effectively defend them have been selected and set up as "patsies" to take the blame. The JFK assassination is now becoming widely exposed as one of these. Some others have been obviously arranged by anti gun activists for the purpose of getting tough gun laws pushed through. The Port Arthur massacre was a classic example. Is obvious to many who have studied details that Martin Bryant was not the real gunman and the process of his imprisonment was a gross miscarriage of justice supported by people in high places.

I think we can safely ignore the conspiracy theories of the previous poster.
Getting back to the article.
"for a number of years authorities have applied an objective risk management approach to identifying and evaluating the relative risks to the nation's interest from a broad range of hazards."
I would suggest that this methodology has gone out the window in the years since 9/11. This has cost us millions of dollars and placed undue restrictions on many of our activities because the various governments want to be seen to be doing something. It really is time we got back to the basics of cost benefit analysis.
David

The writer seems to be more than a little confused. I was glad to also hear from "mox" that Bryant wasn't/isn't the 'real' gunman and mass killer he was convicted of being; and thanks for the heads up on the nasty, conspiritorial gun lobby, mox. Brilliant thinking!

Right, Mox. There is evidence that the Port Arthur massacre was another false flag - see MOSSAD. It is a Communist agenda for World Conquest through lies, murder, genocide, deceit and propaganda.

Dialectics
Communist Instrument for World Conquest

http://www.alor.org/Library/Butler%20ED%20-%20Dialectics.htm

http://www.deesillustration.com/

http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2015/01/30/police-state-upon-us-paul-craig-roberts/

Anyone paying attention knows that 9/11 has been used to create a police/warfare state. Years ago NSA official William Binney warned Americans about the universal spying by the National Security Agency, to little effect. Recently Edward Snowden proved the all-inclusive NSA spying by releasing spy documents, enough of which have been made available by Glenn Greenwald to establish the fact of NSA illegal and unconstitutional spying, spying that has no legal, constitutional, or “national security” reasons.Yet Americans are not up in arms.

Americans have accepted the government’s offenses against them as necessary protection against “terrorists.”
Neither Congress, the White House, or the Judiciary has done anything about the wrongful spying, because the spying serves the government. Law and the Constitution are expendable when the few who control the government have their “more important agendas.”

Bradley Manning warned us of the militarization of US foreign policy and the murderous consequences, and Julian Assange of WikiLeaks posted leaked documents proving it.

Were these whistleblowers and honest journalists, who alerted us to the determined attack on our civil liberty, rewarded with invitations to the White House and given medals of honor in recognition of their service to American liberty?

No. Bradley Manning is in federal prison, and so would be Julian Assange and Edward Snowden if Washington could get its hands on them.
Binney escaped the Police State’s clutches, because he did not take any documents with which to prove his allegations, and thus could be dismissed as “disgruntled” and as a “conspiracy kook,” but not arrested as a “spy” who stole “national secrets.”

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Binney escaped the Police State’s clutches, because he did not take any documents with which to prove his allegations, and thus could be dismissed as “disgruntled” and as a “conspiracy kook,” but not arrested as a “spy” who stole “national secrets.”

Greenwald, so far, is too prominent to be hung for reporting the truth. But he is in the crosshairs, and the Police State is using other cases to close in on him.

These are only five of the many people who have provided absolute total proof that the Bill of Rights has been overthrown. Washington continues to present itself to the world as the “home of the free,” the owner of the White Hat, while Washington demonstrates its lack of mercy by invading or bombing seven countries on false pretenses during the past 14 years, displacing, killing, and maiming millions of Muslims who never raised a fist against the US.

Many commentators have written articles and given interviews about government’s ever expanding police powers. The totality of the American Police State is demonstrated by its monument in Utah, where an enormous complex has been constructed in which to store every communication of every American. Somehow a son or daughter checking on an aged parent, a working mother checking on her children’s child care, a family ordering a pizza, and sweethearts planning a date are important matters of national security.

Some educated and intelligent people understand the consequences, but most Americans perceive no threat as they “have nothing to hide.”
The Founding Fathers who wrote the Bill of Rights and attached it to the US Constitution did not have anything to hide, but they clearly understood, unlike modern day Americans, that freedom depended completely on strictly limiting the ability of government to intrude upon the person.

Those limits provided by the Founding Fathers are gone. The hoax “war on terror” demolished them.

Today not even the relationships between husband and wife and parents and children have any protection from arbitrary intrusions by the state.

Essentially, government has destroyed the family along with civil liberty.

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Those insouciant Americans who do not fear the police state because they “have nothing to hide” desperately need to read: Home-schooled Children Seized By Authorities Still In State Custody: http://www.lewrockwell.com/2015/01/gary-north/homeschool-children-kidnapped/

In Police State America, authorities can enter your home on the basis of an anonymous “tip” that you are, or might be, somehow, abusing your children, or exposing them to medicines that are not in containers with child-proof caps or to household bleach that is not under lock and key, and seize your children into state custody on the grounds that you present a danger to your children.

The government does not have to tell you who your accuser is. It can be your worst enemy or a disgruntled employee, but the tipster is protected. However, you and your family are not.

The authorities who receive these tips treat them as if they are valid. A multi-member goon squad shows up at your house. This is when the utterly stupid “I have nothing to hide” Americans discover that they have no rights, regardless of whether they have anything to hide.

We owe this police power over parents and children to “child advocates” who lobbied for laws based on their fantasies that all parents are serial rapists of children, and if not, are medieval torturers, trained by the CIA, who physically and psychologically abuse their children.

In the opinion of “child advocates,” children are brought into the world in order to be abused by parents. Dogs and cats and the fish in the fishbowl are not enough. Parents need children to abuse, too, just as the Police and the Police State need people to abuse.

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