For this reason many consider that a wise prince, when he has the opportunity, ought with craft to foster some animosity against himself, so that, having crushed it, his renown may rise higher. —Machiavelli, The Prince I can surely understand your reluctance to believe that the leaders of the United States could perpetrate such a crime against humanity. History, however, would seem to disagree with you. When you look at the history of false flag attacks performed by the American intelligence agencies, military and government you get a very different view of history . . . Create a problem, gauge the reaction of the public then provide the solution to soothe the people that fits the goals that the folks in charge had to begin with. —Oregon-based blogger and conspiracy theorist Greg Hoggatt, in an Oct. 28, 2008, email sent to the author Ken Jenkins: Videographer, Flower Child, Truther If you want to meet the gentle giant who embodies the sixties soul of the 9/11 Truth movement’s older members, you will find him, living and working alone, in a split-level wood-frame walk-up apartment on the fringes of a medium-sized town twenty minutes north of San Francisco.