Noam
Chomsky: Trump Could Stage a ‘False Flag’ Terror
Attack and ‘Change the Country Instantly’
By
David Ferguson
March
28, 2017 "Information
Clearing House"
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Story"
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Author and
political philosopher Noam Chomsky sounded a
dire warning on Monday in
an interview with AlterNet’s Jan Frel,
saying that President Donald Trump could stage a
“false flag” terror attack in an effort to
consolidate his power and strip Americans of
their constitutional rights.
Chomsky
warned that eventually the people who voted for
Trump will realize that his “promises are built
on sand” and begin to lose faith in his
presidency, at which point Trump will need
someone to scapegoat, so he will say, “‘Well,
I’m sorry, I can’t bring your jobs back because
these bad people are preventing it.’ And the
typical scapegoating goes to vulnerable people:
immigrants, terrorists, Muslims and elitists,
whoever it may be. And that can turn out to be
very ugly.”
“I
think that we shouldn’t put aside the
possibility that there would be some kind of
staged or alleged terrorist act, which can
change the country instantly,” Chomsky said.
Chomsky — who
has called
Trump a “con man” who will drag civilization
“down to the utter depths of barbarism” — also
said that much of the world is amused at the
outrage many Americans feel about Russian
meddling in the 2016 election.
“I mean
whatever the Russians may have been doing, let’s
take the most extreme charges, that barely
registers in the balance against what the U.S.
does constantly,” he said. “Even in Russia. So
for example, the U.S. intervened radically to
support [Boris] Yeltsin in 1991 when he was
engaged in a power play trying to take power
from the Parliament, Clinton strongly supported
him. In 1996, when Yeltsin was running, the
Clinton administration openly and strongly
supported them, and not only verbally, but with
tactics and loans and so on.”
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“All of
that goes way beyond what the Russians are
charged with, and of course that is a minor
aspect of U.S. interference in elections
abroad,” said Chomsky, adding that the U.S.
operates under a philosophy of “If we don’t like
the election, you can just overthrow the
country.”
The White House is
reportedly in turmoil
after the collapse of the administration’s
healthcare law, which was withdrawn before it
could come to a vote on Friday. While the
president’s poll numbers are at historic lows,
Trump’s supporters are
still largely loyal
to the man they voted for.
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