From JFK To 9/11: Why People Believe In Conspiracy (Sometimes Its Just Obvious, DUH Alert)

Townhall.com ^ | 06/12/2007 | Dennis Prager

[leadpenny]

lol. I guess the Committee on Assassinations will have to reconvene so they can change their finding.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_Select_Committee_on_Assassinations

http://history-matters.com/archive/jfk/hsca/contents.htm

[don-o]

Scientific acoustical evidence establishes a high probability that two gunmen fired at President John F. Kennedy. Other scientific evidence does not preclude the possibility of two gunmen firing at the President. Scientific evidence negates some specific conspiracy allegations.

[Niteranger68]

It’s easier for these lazy a$$e$ to make up a story then to remember the facts. It’s like the kid who does a book report on a book that doesn’t exist.

[Uncle Chip]

Would the meetings that Kennedy, Graham, et al had with La Raza to cram an immigration amnesty bill down the throats of the American people qualify as “a conspiracy”???

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

"government can rarely hide...what it wishes to hide"

This may be true, but the Propaganda Machine (the "Mainstream Newsmedia") can hide anything behind a wall of disinformation, obfuscation, censorship, manipulation, groupthink, re-writing of history, and confusion--and its so-called "journalists" regularly do.

Ann Coulter can write whole books debunking the conspiracy theories of Objective Journalism^TM - and it is as if nothing was ever said. For example, Treason discusses the lack of evidence, and the positive evidence against, journalism's theory of "McCarthyism." The reality of so-called "McCarthyite censorship" is that the evidence for the theory actually rebuts the theory completely.

That is, the only "evidence" of McCarthyite censorship is found in published complaints about it. Now if something were being effectively censored in America with its First Amendment, that censorship would have to suppress not only its direct object but the very fact that that object was being censored. Once absorb that obvious point, and all evidence for McCarthyite censorship evaporates. And what you are left with is the realization that the theory of McCarthyite censorship is a conspiracy theory - and the knowledge that to challenge that theory is to inspire publication of conspiracy theories about yourself.

[JTR1888]

He is right about the 9/11 conspiracy nuts, but to believe Oswald acted alone, one must swallow “facts” contrary to the laws of physics: A human body cannot be struck by a bullet from the back and react by plunging BACKWARDS. A single bullet could not go through Kennedy’s body, make a 45-degree turn in mid-air, then plunge into Connally, shattering bones in both men, and then be found on JFK’s stretcher at the hospital in pristine, mint condition — an intelligence-insulting theory developed by none other than now-Sen. Arlen Specter (RINO-PA) when he worked for the Warren Commission. (We certainly know about HIS integrity!) Further, Oswald’s marksmanship record as a Marine simply does not lead one to believe that he could have fired all those shots as accurately and as quickly as they were fired. Most of the JFK theories are, I agree, fantasies, but there are real questions like these that the Warren Commission not only failed to adequately address, but offered explanations that no sane person could swallow.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

How about the “vast right wing conspiracy” theory?