PMJI, FRiends, but I felt a comment was necessary.
And I know how crazy they sound.
And some of them are crazy. However, they have the right to make their case, as we have the right to make our rebuttals and counter-arguments. It is through this adversarial process that we hope to reveal the truth. It is this same process that is ostensibly (but no longer in reality, sadly) the basis of our legal system. When one side allows the other to shut-down that process the search for truth is short-circuited, and the truth can then be easily concealed.
This is what has been done to the meaning of the word "conspiracy". The enemy has successfully defined it, at least as far as the general public is concerned, as being practiced solely by "crazy" people. We have allowed them to go unchallenged when they level their accusations that "only crazy people or nuts believe in conspiracies". The FACT is, the word conspiracy simply means plans made in secret. The conspirators themselves can be crazy as bedbugs, e.g. the SECRET MEETINGS of the Congressional Democratic Caucus, or they can be quite sane, as demonstrated by the Founding Fathers. /grin
The simple, incontrovertible fact is that "conspiracies" have played a major role in many of the most momentous, civilization-changing events in human history. The Roman Empire was established through the competing conspiracies of powerful insiders (remember the First Triumvirate, the Second Triumvirate, etc. ad nauseum). The conspiracies of Lenin, Trotsky and the Bolsheviks brought about the Soviet Union. I could go on and on, but you get the idea. The history of human civilization is littered with conspiracies, some successful, some not, some harmless, some devastating in lives and destruction, some we know about, and most likely many we never heard of. It is an undeniable FACT, yet we allow our enemies to intimidate us into silence about them.
No one on our side ever has the guts to get in their face and reply, when accused of "believing in conspiracies": "Do you mean like Thomas Jefferson, or John Adams, or maybe Patrick Henry"? The FACT is, this country was founded in a conspiracy. The Patriots, the Founding Fathers, including those mentioned above, the Sons of Liberty, the Committees of Correspondence, and yes, even the signers of the Declaration of Independence operated much of the time in secret, for the simple reason that they were engaged in a CONSPIRACY against the British Crown, a conspiracy which could have gotten any one of them hanged.
I don't want to put myself in that category.
And thus you, and we, are already defeated, because we have allowed ourselves to be intimidated into forfeiting our God-given right to freedom of thought and expression. We have allowed our enemies to mis-define the meaning of words and then use those lies to bludgeon us into submission and silence.
Wonder what Ron Brown, if he could speak, could tell us about conspiracy and death.?