Hong Kong: Beware of Staged ViolenceTony Cartalucci (Image: US-backed unrest in Ukraine featured gunmen killing protesters and security forces alike. Covert, staged, and false flag violence is a documented component of US meddling beyond its borders.) Iran as a Documented Precedent It was the 2009 Brookings Institution document titled, Which Path to Persia? (full document here) that stated unequivocally in regards to toppling the government of Iran, that (emphasis added): Consequently, if the United States ever succeeds in sparking a revolt against the clerical regime, Washington may have to consider whether to provide it with some form of military support to prevent Tehran from crushing it. This requirement means that a popular revolution in Iran does not seem to fit the model of the velvet revolutions that occurred elsewhere. The point is that the Iranian regime may not be willing to go gently into that good night; instead, and unlike so many Eastern European regimes, it may choose to fight to the death. In those circumstances, if there is not external military assistance to the revolutionaries, they might not just fail but be massacred. Consequently, if the United States is to pursue this policy, Washington must take this possibility into consideration. It adds some very important requirements to the list: either the policy must include ways to weaken the Iranian military or weaken the willingness of the regimes leaders to call on the military, or else the United States must be ready to intervene to defeat it. The policy document would also openly conspire to fund and arm listed terrorist organizations including the notorious Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK). The document would state: The United States could work with groups like the Iraq-based National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) and its military wing, the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), helping the thousands of its members who, under Saddam Husayns regime, were armed and had conducted guerrilla and terrorist operations against the clerical regime. Although the NCRI is supposedly disarmed today, that could quickly be changed. It would also admit that (emphasis added): Despite its defenders claims, the MEK remains on the U.S. government list of foreign terrorist organizations. In the 1970s, the group killed three U.S. officers and three civilian contractors in Iran. During the 1979-1980 hostage crisis, the group praised the decision to take America hostages and Elaine Sciolino reported that while group leaders publicly condemned the 9/11 attacks, within the group celebrations were widespread. Undeniably, the group has conducted terrorist attacksoften excused by the MEKs advocates because they are directed against the Iranian government. For example, in 1981, the group bombed the headquarters of the Islamic Republic Party, which was then the clerical leaderships main political organization, killing an estimated 70 senior officials. More recently, the group has claimed credit for over a dozen mortar attacks, assassinations, and other assaults on Iranian civilian and military targets between 1998 and 2001. At the very least, to work more closely with the group (at least in an overt manner), Washington would need to remove it from the list of foreign terrorist organizations. And of course, in the following years after Brookings report was published, MEK was indeed delisted, armed, and funded before being attacked and nearly wiped out under the now US-ousted government of Iraqs Nouri al-Maliki. The Brookings Institutions report, Which Path to Persia? is a signed confession a documented conspiracy that was demonstrably executed not only in Iran but also in neighboring Syria. While its ultimate goal of toppling Irans government has so far failed, there is no doubt that the criminal conspiracy found within its pages became US policy in both Iran and far beyond. It is an indictment against the legitimacy of US foreign policy, the tactics it uses to execute it, and the alleged causes of democracy and freedom it claims to be promoting while it does so. US-backed Chaos Thailand 2010 Like Hong Kongs current Occupy Central protests, there was another US-backed political network in Southeast Asias nation of Thailand led by long-time US proxy Thaksin Shinawatra that was losing momentum. Their so-called pro-democracy protests began waning in April of 2010. After multiple attempts to provoke Thai security forces into violence, Shinawatras political lieutenants deployed heavily armed militants to lay waste to protesters and security forces alike, killing some 25 people in a single night including soldiers and an assassinated Thai Army colonel who was leading riot control operations. Altogether some 300 heavily armed terrorists would be deployed over the following weeks resulting in armed clashes in Bangkoks streets concluding in May and leaving over 90 killed and many more injured. While to this day Western media claims it was a military crackdown, irrefutable evidence including photographs, videos, and even admissions from the Wests own Human Rights Watch confirm the presence of Shinawatras armed mercenary force. Like what was planned in Iran by Brookings, and demonstrably carried out in nations like Libya and Syria waning protests were quickly backed by heavily armed terrorists in Bangkok to prevent staged unrest from being contained by security forces. Hong Kong Next? As momentum falters in Hong Kongs Occupy Central, the possibility of its US sponsors carrying out staged violence to escalate tensions remains high. In what fashion such provocations manifest themselves in remains to be seen, but it is unlikely the West will allow their proxies to become so exposed upon the worlds stage, only to allow local authorities to finally restore order, then quietly dismantle, perhaps permanently, Washingtons network of sedition in Hong Kong. Onlookers must remain vigilant and quickly analyze acts of violence with the insidious nature of Occupy Centrals true leadership and foreign sponsors kept in mind. For Hong Kongs authorities, they must resist attempts by protesters to provoke them into violence and be vigilant of false flag violence. For the protesters themselves, they must be aware that their lives are seen as utterly disposable by both Occupy Centrals leadership, and their foreign sponsors. While their intentions may be pure, their leaders are confirmed to be compromised agents of foreign sedition. As was the case in Bangkok in 2010, US-backed political fronts can and have in the past opened fire on both their own supporters and state security forces to escalate tensions. The Wests mystery gunmen have found themselves employed everywhere from Libya and Syria, to Egypt and Ukraine, as well as Southeast Asias Thailand. It is not entirely unthinkable that the US may use similar tactics in Hong Kong, or other troubled spots the US is stoking chaos in such as Chinas western province of Xinjiang or Tibet. Tony Cartaluccis articles have appeared on many alternative media websites, including his own at Land Destroyer Report, Alternative Thai News Network and LocalOrg. Read other contributed articles by Tony Cartalucci here. 