M'lette, I have to apologize for posting this because you are fine human being, but you look better without the tinfoil.

The very name of the site thats hosting this, Prison Planet, should send off a warning signal. Conspiracy theories are seductive because they appear logical. All these bad things are happening right now. It can't be a coincedence can it? Its surely not OUR fault or the result of random chance? No, there's someone behind it, pulling the strings. Here are all these connections, however superficial they may be. The reason no one alse knows is because THEY (insert your favorite they) are behind it, but WE know better, lets educate the "sheeple". This kind of thinking has gone on for as long as there have been humans. Never yet have we seen something (The Roman Empire, the communists, the Catholic Church etc) that was able to pull it off simply because a conspiracy like this requires a degree of agency that simply doesn't exist in the real world. All of our set backs are the result of enemy action their's are mere ploys. It just doesn't stand up to the giggle test. Here is a response I wrote to Phil from Australia about this same post on an earlier thread.
No offense mate, but I think standing upside down, down there has gotten to you, all that blood rushing to your head and all . The one thing you need to know about America is that our wing nuts love a good conspiracy theory. This seems more prevalent on the right than the left, but the lefties are no slouches either. Its been that way since the beggining of the Republic. Got laid off? The wife getting uppity? The kids turning queer and the dogs looking at you funny? Not to worry! Its the witches,Masons, Catholics, Irishmen, abolitionist race mixers, the slave power conspiracy, the Crown, the reds, the jews (can't forget the jews in any good conspiracy theory [just ask Mel Gibson] and bonus points if the house of Rothschild gets mentioned), the Mexican irrendentists reclaiming "Azatlan", the UN, the drug cartels, the New World Order, or if all else fails the Anti-Christ his ownself. Insert two or more of the following and you've got a website. Add three and some ersatz history and a book deal will follow, maybe a movie if you can quote Bible phrophesy. Its just an American disease. There's a great classic book called "The Paranoid Style In American Politics" by Richard Hoffstadter. It was written in the fifties and traces the writings of these whack jobs. The funny thing is that the narrative is exactly the same,the only thing that changes is the name of the bad guys. Its always what happens in times of economic and social upheaval here in the US of A. Other countries riot, we put on tinfoil hats and wait for the End Times. As Hunter S Thompson put it, "When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro". Its just an American thing, no worries.
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