"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
“Their psyche, their emotions, and/or their political agenda bring them to their belief in a hidden conspiracy. Never the facts.”
A perfect view of these people is to listen to Coast to Coast on late night radio. I refer to it as Kook to Kook.
It is a great view into the minds of deranged fools.
It is fun listening for me, as I can get it via internet radio when I am just waking up.
Well, I’m glad that’s cleared up.
“— but there are no successful hidden conspiracies. I cannot think of one in my lifetime.”
Dennis; by definition, if you could think of one of these; it wouldn’t be one.
One fact that overly rational people sometimes fail to take into account is that a big enough conspiracy can be hidden in plain sight by virtue of its incredible nature. For example, let's say that a retired NASA astronaut were to write a book stating unequivically that the U.S. government was involved in hiding the fact that UFOs were spacecraft created by extraterrestrial aliens. No one would believe him except a few conspiracy nuts. After all, if there were really were a conspiracy to cover up the truth about UFOs, no astronaut would ever admit it, right?
Or what if a distinguished and well-connected professor of history from Harvard with an Ivy League teaching career were to calmly admit in print that the U.S. and UK governments are secretly controlled by a conspiracy composed of the Anglo-American business and political elite (including the Council on Foreign Relations) and that both the Republican and Democratic parties are controlled by an international Anglophile network? Who'd believe him? I mean, a conspiracy that big would be too big to hide, right?
Right. A conspiracy doesn't have to hide if it's big enough. The bigger a conspiracy is, the less likely people are to believe it is real — even if the truth is standing on a grassy knoll right beside them with a gun in its hands.
I´ve experienced that, too. Stand up and get your life in order, and don´t blame the government, the weather, your parents, or whoever that your life isn´t like you want it to be.
I can name one conspiracy that has never been solved. What happened to Jimmy Hoffa? Another conspiracy which held almost completely until Hiroshima was the development of the Atomic Bomb (defining conspiracy as keeping an activity secret but not necessarily criminal). Another would be the breaking of the Enigma code.
While I happen to agree that the JFK assassination was the work on one lone nut, by definition a successful conspiracy can never be documented. We would not know about it. Some events just crawl through our minds that we are not getting the whole story such as the following:
1. Vince Foster and Ron Brown
2. Oklahoma City
3. TWA 800
4. O.J. Simpson
I would think a book about the history of conspiracies, how long they held, and why they finally broke would be fascinating. Such a study could verify that successful conspiracies could go on for a long time (perhaps forever if the involved parties died).
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.
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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.
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”???
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.
How about the “vast right wing conspiracy” theory?