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As long as you do not fear that the government is pulsing your brain or otherwise tapping, reading or controlling your thought waves while you discuss those subjects, I do not see a problem with it. If you feel the need for tin-foil hat protection, or a lead padded room, or that the FBI/CIA/NSA/FEMA/BATF, etc, might be tapping your phone line or infiltrating your group to gain access to the sensitive super-secret global world busting information that you and only you possess, but are about to enlighten the rest of us with, then I'd advise you not to post it. I do not want to be held responsible for what the government might do to you once they sniff your IP address from our incoming packet stream.

So that's what "tin-foil-hat" means.

The problems with society today are very visible and overtly pursued.

Addressing those problems is too important to waste time with paper theories about covert conspiracies.

Unless one considers the alliance between the National Education Association and GLSEN, insofaras their combined efforts to bring inappropriate, heterophobic material to public-school kids, to be a covert conspiracy.

I'd call it an overt "Look at our monopoly and tremble!" alliance.

You should know about this:

Train Crash at Crush, Texas

Crush, Texas was a town for only a day in the late summer of 1896. Locate about 3 miles south of the town of West it was the site for the biggest publicity stunt of the time. W.G. Crush, general passenger agent of the Missouri/Kansas/Texas (Katy) Railroad, came up with the idea of crashing a couple of trains together to attract public attention to the railroad company. The site was selected and a date was set for September 15, 1896. For months the event was promoted by the railroad company with posters and ads in newspapers along the railroad towns for thousands of miles.

A separate set of tracks were laid along side the railroad. Two trains that were being retired were selected for the event. Test runs were performed to get the speed right. The railroad company was sure it had made appropriate modifications to the engines to prevent any kind of explosion. After all, the attraction was publicized as a safe event.

People swarmed in for the event. Many walked or came by buggy so no accurate number of spectators could ever be determined. Estimates range between 30,000 and 50,000 people attended the attraction. Although there was no charge to attend the crash the railroad sold lots of tickets to bring passengers to the new town named in honor or Mr. Crush. Two-hundred constables were hired to control the crowd and a jail was built to hold the law-breakers.

The trains were freshly painted. One was painted green with red trim and the other red with green trim. Each pulled several cars behind with advertising space. The two engines rolled up to each other for a cheer from the crowd. Each rolled back a distance of one mile. When Mr. Crush gave the signal the engines roared toward each other at full speed, the engineers jumping off to avoid the collision. The locomotives hit with a crash which was followed by a roar as one of the boilers exploded sending debris in all directions. Two people were killed and more were injured from the flying pieces. Others were burned as they rumbled through the wreck for souvenirs.

Mr. Crush was fired from the railroad but was later rehired when the publicity of the stunt in the end turned out to be positive for the railroad.

source:
http://www.west-tx.com/w-hist.html

pictures:
http://www.lsjunction.com/facts/crush.htm