False flag operations

"False flag operations " occur when elements within a government stage a secret operation 

whereby government forces pretend to be a targeted enemy while attacking their own 

forces or people.The attack is then falsely blamed on the enemy in order to justify going to

 war against that enemy. 

The term comes from the old days of wooden ships, when one ship would hang the flag of

 its enemy before attacking another ship in its own navy. Because the enemy's flag was

 hung instead of the flag of the real country of the attacking ship, it was called a "false flag"

 attack.

"If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign

 enemy." 

- U.S. President James Madison

"Why of course the people don't want war ... But after all it is the leaders of the country 

who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along,

 whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist 

dictatorship ...Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the

 leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and 

denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works

 the same in any country." - Hermann Goering