7/7 Dallas Shooting

[Cordelia]

At 4:00, CBS radio reported Johnson as 'lone gunman'.

NPR now is reporting lone gunman and the Washington Post:

Dallas police shooting kills five officers; gunman acted alone, DHS says

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/mor ... ge%2Fstory

[coffin_dodger]

Maybe the authorities don't yet want to broadcast the fact that the US is on the verge of a full-blown race war? I mean, shit can get ugly fast, what with all those lovely guns waiting to be used by both sides. The elite do so love to watch the little people slaughter one another, but they really have to crank up both sides to frenzy before the real fun can start and everyone is forced to take a side. Keep it simple - black or white, as the saying goes.

[Nordic]

Sure does look like a photoshop!

No. It doesn't.

[MacCruiskeen]

slightly different again, credited to randy biart, shows the shooter disappearing right round the corner and ends with other officers arriving to treat/rescue the officer who has just been shot:



the shooter is extremely brutal and extremely quick.

[Nordic]

I just want to say this is a great thread going here. It reminds me one of one of the main reasons I love this place. I doubt there's a better thread anywhere in the Internet about this.

[JackRiddler]

As of now story is pretty much narrowed down to lone shooter did it all.

[Nordic]

Interesting article here:

http://21stcenturywire.com/2016/07/08/d ... f-tension/

DALLAS MAIDAN: Staged Snipers Designed to Inflict 7/7 ‘Strategy of Tension’

JULY 8, 2016

Excerpt:


Coincidentally, yesterday’s event just happened to all on July 7th, or ‘7/7’ ala London 7/7. Following on that theme, the media and law enforcement began floating the term “terrorist attack” and CNN leading the pack by claiming that Dallas 7/7 was the police’s “worst loss since ‘9/11′” (Sept 11, 2001). So one can see how the spin is already being applied to this media event.
The Maidan Massacre
Back February 2014, events transpired in Kiev, Ukraine which sparked international outrage and calls for ‘regime change’ in Kiev, and served as the key catalyst for a coup d’etat and the ouster of Ukraine’s democratically elected president Viktor Yanukovych.
A leaked phone call between EU foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton and Estonian foreign affairs minister showed how there was knowledge at the highest levels of European government, but western leaders opted to maintain a disinterested stance in the face of this new evidence. Listen to the phone call here:


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Since the incident, numerous investigations have been conducted that have documented beyond any reasonable doubt that the Maidan’s infamous ‘sniper massacre’ was a politically engineered event, designed to lay the blame for dead protesters and dead police – onto the government’s Berkut special police force, amplify domestic unrest and accelerate a US and EU supported geopolitical campaign of destablization which was already in motion.
Earlier this year, in January 2016, one such academic investigation concluded that the sniper event at Maidan Square was in fact a ‘false flag’ event which was used to create a false public perception of events and usher in a shift in political power in that country. Canadian political science professor Dr. Ivan Katchanovski of Ottawa University concluded that
“This academic investigation concludes that the massacre was a false flag operation, which was rationally planned and carried out with a goal of the overthrow of the government and seizure of power,” wrote Katchanovski in his study, called ‘The “Snipers’ Massacre” on the Maidan in Ukraine.’
Despite all these revelations, the US, UK and the EU are still standing by their earlier narrative of the sniper massacre as a, ‘Euromaidan democratic, peaceful mass-protest movement and a ‘color’ revolution led by pro-Western parties.’
Ukraine’s own internal investigation into the matter has been shown to be a highly political exercise, which appears to have resulted in a comprehensive cover-up of what really happened on the day.
Snipers in Homs, Syria
In the early days of what western governments and media were portraying as an “Arab Spring” color uprising in Syria in 2010 and 2011, unknown snipers played a crucial role in advancing a “strategy of tension” and fomenting civil unrest, particularly in the city of Homs. Snipers were reported as firing on citizens and also shooting at police indiscriminately. The western media’s policy was not to report on this, but only to report on the state security reaction and crack-down triggered by these mysterious and seemingly random acts of violence.
Some independent writers and researchers have reported on the anomalies of the Homs shootings, but as yet, no in-depth investigation has taken place.
However, the testimony of Father Frans Van der Lugt in Homs, provided a look into what was happening during this ugly phase of a western and GCC-backed rebellion being waged in Syria:
“From the start, the protest movements were not purely peaceful. From the start I saw armed demonstrators marching along in the protests, who began to shoot at the police first. Very often the violence of the security forces has been a reaction to the brutal violence of the armed rebels.”
It’s clear now after looking back at numerous reports about these incidents, that they were designed to instigate a crisis, which would ultimately lead to either a political instability and civil unrest.
The other aspect of these false flag’ events, is that they have the potential to also redefine the relationship between the public and the state and its security apparatus.
In each instance, a ‘regime change’ was expected, although this was not completely successful in the case of Syria.
The Dallas Deception
The Dallas Shooting is significant on a number of levels.
Firstly, Dallas will further accentuate the artificial divide between what Americans perceive as the ‘Left’ or liberal wing of political society, and the what is sold as America’s ‘Right’ or conservative wing. In this dialectic, Democrat is set against Republican, young against old, black is pitted against white, wealthy against poor, upper class against middle class, and even middle class against lower class. In the run-up to the Presidential election in November, this division will be important in order to polarize America along a prefabricated dialectical line and thus keeping the national discourse down at a base, or emotional level – and through this binary process avoid any real examination of America’s fundamental issues, policy flaws and the federal government’s unsustainable bloated borrow & spend habit – effectively kicking the can down the road another 4 years (which seems to be the norm). Ultimately, this serves the state, its bureaucratic stakeholders and the power structure as a whole.
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Secondly, this event can be used to nudge the ‘left-wing’ and Democrat party’s own gun control agenda, which is being aggressively pursued at the moment. This wing of the political establishment has already demonstrated that it has no qualms about using a national incident or tragedy, like the Orlando Shooting, as warm PR leverage to push their ’emergency’ legislative agenda. Ironically, ‘left-wing’ and black activists will be blamed for this latest act of political violence and will be used in this case to further advance the political left’s own bespoke gun control agenda – much to the dismay of ‘Conservative America.’
As a result of this staged event carried out by agent provocateurs, “anti-police” or “anti-government” African-American ‘militant’, or ‘Black Power’ activists will be painted a poor light, and effectively marginalized. Once this process if complete, the state can then move in to extend that marginalization to any ‘anti-government’ protests – further neutering any real grass-roots opposition for what is obviously a rapidly growing police state in the US.
Thirdly, this event is being used to increase tension between the public and law enforcement. Note the differences between the short and the long-term narratives at play here. In the short-term, this Dallas Sniper event is originally designed as a ‘reaction’ to US police killing poor unarmed black men on the streets of America, but in the long-term the pendulum will swing back to the state in order to “restore law and order”, thus further consolidating power into a more concentrated police state. This is evidenced already by US law enforcement are already rallying in solidarity, in an “us against them” dialectic by placing the nation’s police as the protagonist and the public as the antagonist.
This obvious dialectical theme is already being echoed internationally on Twitter, as police in the US and the UK advance the term ‘Thin Blue Line”:

It should be noted here that the colloquial policing term Thin Blue Line is derived from the term”Thin Red Line”, which describes as an inferior, outnumbered force holding back the hordes. The original reference of this comes from a Battle of Balaclava – fought by the Highland Infantry Brigade for the British Army during the 19th century Crimean War. Explained:
“The Thin Red Line has become an English language figure of speech for any thinly spread military unit holding firm against attack. The phrase has also taken on the metaphorical meaning of the barrier which the relatively limited armed forces of a country present to potential attackers.” (Wiki)
It’s important to understand the symbolism behind this term ‘Thin Blue Line’ which is currently being invoked by law enforcement. It implies an “us against them” dialectical narrative, arguably, quite far and remote from the familiar peace officer-oriented slogan “Protect and Serve.”

Finally, this event will be used to reinforce and heighten the ever-increasing profile of America’s bizarre new post-9/11 Cult of the First Responder, which appears to be an extension of the ‘Cult of Our Boys’, a lionization campaign which was developed by the Pentagon over years of mass US troop deployment in two highly unpopular wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The main thrust of the effort to glorify and assert to preeminence of the First Responder is part and parcel of a wider US agenda to fully militarize US domestic society, and to characterize US public life as a combat zone, or domestic war zone which society devolves its authority and constant crisis management over to America’s new unified command structure and Gendarmerie – the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and the FBI.
Between the 1960’s and 1990’s, Operation GLADIO saw numerous staged terror events carried out in Europe in order to advance a ‘strategy of tension’. All of the alleged “terrorist” attacks during this time were later proven to be the work not of terrorists, but of the security and intelligence services. Many innocent civilians died, and still to date, no one has been convicted, much less brought before a court or public hearing on a dirty state-sponsored program which many believe is still running to this day, albeit in one form or another.

[kelley]

NYTimes:. One shooter

Come on

Granted the weapon wasn't a bolt-action Italian carbine

But still

[MacCruiskeen]

BBC 22:59 BST 8 Jul

The Dallas Police Department just released an update on its investigation into Micah Xavier Johnson.



http://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-36743033

Liking Professor Griff on your FB account can now be adduced against you posthumously as evidence of murderous intent .

Having "a personal journal of combat tactics" likewise, even if you are one of our brave troops who served for years in combat zones..

"Others have identified him as a loner." Hot damn. If that ain't evidence.

"Ballistic vests, rifles, ammunition" - none of this is illegal per se in Texas, right? Is there any suggestion he didn't have a licence for these things?

"Bomb making materials" - I really wonder what that means, exactly. Fireworks? Shoes? A lighter?

[brekin]

Still getting over that police took him out with a robot that had a bomb.

Robot's role in killing Dallas shooter is a first
http://money.cnn.com/2016/07/08/technol ... index.html

...
"I think this is an anomaly," said Brian Hart, the president of Black-I Robotics, which makes ground robots for the government. He doesn't foresee a new trend of police using robots to kill suspects.
...

With Christopher Dorner the police lit the cabin on fire.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christoph ... nd_manhunt

Police initially attempted to force Dorner out of the cabin by using tear gas and demanding over loudspeakers that he surrender. When Dorner did not respond, police used a demolition vehicle to knock down most walls of the building. They then shot pyrotechnic tear gas canisters into the cabin, which resulted in the cabin catching fire. Such devices are nicknamed "burners", as the heat generated by detonation often causes a fire. Shortly thereafter, a single gunshot from the cabin was heard.[80] As the fire continued, ammunition was exploding from within the cabin, making it dangerous for officials to try to put out the fire.[81] Law enforcement experts differ on whether using pyrotechnic devices to end the standoff, instead of waiting Dorner out, was justified.[80]

Think we are going to see a lot more of tactical use of robots with explosives, guns, incendiaries, stun guns, etc.
I don't know if this was a similiar model that was used, but pretty intense. Of course, the bad guys will start buying their own tactical robots.

[0_0]

in the same vein as Nordics link above: "Unknown Snipers and Western backed “Regime Change”" http://archive.is/n2bDU

The Russian investigative journalist Nikolay Starikov has written a book which discusses the role of unknown snipers in the destabilization of countries targeted for regime change by the United States and its allies. The following article attempts to elucidate some historical examples of this technique with a view to providing a background within which to understand the current cover war on the people of Syria by death squads in the service of Western intelligence.

[MacCruiskeen]

Waaait a minute - from the DPD website:

During the search of the suspect’s home, detectives found bomb making materials, ballistic vests, rifles, ammunition, and a personal journal of combat tactics. Detectives are in the process of analyzing the information contained in the journal.

In addition, Brandon Waller B/M/25 was arrested for unrelated weapons charges at the scene on July 7, 2016

https://dpdbeat.com/2016/07/08/investig ... -officers/

We've been hearing all day that they had arrested THREE suspects who were mysteriously "refusing to cooperate". Now there's suddenly no mention of them? Now there's only one arrestee, one Brandon Waller, "arrested for unrelated weapons charges at the scene on July 7"?

More bad news:

Resources from various federal, state, county and local law enforcement agencies such as the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, Federal Bureau of Investigation, ... are all assisting with the investigation and the processing of evidence and crime scene locations.

[slimmouse]

in the same vein as Nordics link above: "Unknown Snipers and Western backed “Regime Change”" http://archive.is/n2bDU

The Russian investigative journalist Nikolay Starikov has written a book which discusses the role of unknown snipers in the destabilization of countries targeted for regime change by the United States and its allies. The following article attempts to elucidate some historical examples of this technique with a view to providing a background within which to understand the current cover war on the people of Syria by death squads in the service of Western intelligence.

The Ukraine of course imediately springs to mind

[0_0]

Michael Bautista captured part of downtown Dallas shooting during Facebook Live



Police believe there were two snipers who opened fire on officers from elevated positions.

[Grizzly]

Also from the DPD website is a link to donation sites for the DPD, (which in and of itself isn't all that suspicious) but which links back to a facebook site (DPD Facebook site?) that has the following:

Due to the fact that we have received several request on how to make donations, we are providing the following... http://fb.me/2hl5a3NxG

http://atodallas.org
http://www.dallasfoundation.org
-- with Pam Halsey and Janie Gaitan

May be nothing, but Dallas foundation? Is that like the Clinton Foundation? And who is Pam Halsey and Janie Gaitan? Google has nothing..

Finally, I could see giving to the families of slain officers, but to a foundation? Idk, just cynical enough to think these people think that the public are dupes and will gladly hand over $$ cash out of the sympathy of their hearts ... Jaded? Ha...I past jaded, a decade ago...

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