Surviving Capitalism (Not) : Was Tamerlan Tsarnaev a Double Agent Recruited by the FBI?

We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.
—Frances Moore Lappé, excerpt from Time for Progressives to Grow Up

Monday, June 24, 2013

Was Tamerlan Tsarnaev a Double Agent Recruited by the FBI?

Click here to access article by Peter Dale Scott posted on WhoWhatWhy.

I have followed the writings of this Canadian author for more than 40 years. He is a former diplomat and professor of English at the U. of California (Berkeley). He has made a second career writing about, and exposing, the many subversive actions of US secret services. I regard his writing material as a completely reliable source of information and analysis.

In addition to presenting a number of puzzling facts about the older Tsarnaev brother, I think the most valuable section is the last quarter where he describes the methods used by the FBI to recruit informants and patsy "terrorists".

All the evidence suggests to me that Tamerlan was not a double-agent, he was recruited like so many Muslims to be set up in a "terrorist" event.

Such events accomplish two purposes: the demonization of Muslims and the justification for eliminating more civil rights and increasing surveillance of Americans--in other words, the construction of a police state. It seems to me that our One Percent masters, in this age of instant global communications, no longer trust their control over media, the movie industry, and educational institutions to keep us in ignorance. They now have to use fear.