Originally posted by froder
I'm just speaking for myself here, but I don't make accusations without significant proof of them occurring, therefore I find it hard accepting the
degrading name of "Conspiracy Theorist", it has a bad stigma, and is often the prejudicial thing to call someone before you hear their story.
Okay, so maybe someone is a conspiracy theorist when they say that the Aliens hijacked the plains and crashed them into the World Trade Centers. But
it isn't a conspiracy theory when you expose the fact that President George Bush let a Saudi Arabian jet fly through America and pick up unknown
individuals the day afterwards. No; this is just something that the Bush administration and the FBI have to answer directly.
People who oppose political power simply because other people don't just so they're "not pawns" probably are pawns. It's childish rebellion in
most cases, and the goal is not to become a larger than the average civilian by reputation, the aim is to attain social awareness and research
regularly so you can develop a solid knowledge and personal ideology without being seduced by lies and demagogues.
this is what's great/horrible about labels. i can just reply to the above with a, 'you're a conspiracy theorist', and most sheeple will bleat and
begin grazing again. it doesn't even have to make sense.
same applies to , being anti-israel. the anti-semite label will demonize quicker that satan himself could do it.
my favorite new one, 'chemmie' for believing your eyes that somethings going on with contrails being purposely sprayed in grid patterns(see,
'painting the sky' thread).
classic cointel-pro tactics. sadly quite effective.