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| Edward L Winston | Posted: Jan 30, 2010 - 14:45 |
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 President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho: porn star and five-time ultimate smackdown wrestling champion! Level: 150 CS Original | Sky brought up a good question on the Facebook group: Where does the term False flag originate? So I got curious and decided to look into it. I can't find it in any etymology dictionary, or regular dictionary for that matter. So I decided to do a little bit of gum shoe work: + It was added to Wikipedia on December 4th, 2005, with _no sources_ http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=False_flag&dir=prev&action=history Please list the further back you can find, and maybe we can find the original usage of this term. | |||||
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| Sky | Posted: Jan 30, 2010 - 15:50 |
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 Level: 3 CS Original | It wasn't me, someone else brouught it up. I found that Halleck's International Law (written 1861) uses the term false flag, but the example he gives is of the English flying the flag of the neutral party Sweden to attack the Spanish. The way conspiracy theorists use the term is different, they use it to describe a government attacking itself or it's own people to fake an enemy attack. | |||||
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