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Originally posted by GoodOlDave
In every major event on our history, there have been a type of mentality who instantly screams CONSPIRACY in knee jerk reflex, out of their own antiestablishment outlook-
-the British faked the Zimmerman lettrer to get us into WWI
-FDR knew the Japanese were going to attack Pearl Harbor
[etc...]
Far from being a paranoid or a determinist, the conspiracy analyst is a praxeologist; that is, he believes that people act purposively, that they make conscious choices to employ means in order to arrive at goals. Hence, if a steel tariff is passed, he assumes that the steel industry lobbied for it; if a public works project is created, he hypothesizes that it was promoted by an alliance of construction firms and unions who enjoyed public works contracts, and bureaucrats who expanded their jobs and incomes. It is the opponents of "conspiracy" analysis who profess to believe that all events – at least in government – are random and unplanned, and that therefore people do not engage in purposive choice and planning.
There are, of course, good conspiracy analysts and bad conspiracy analysts, just as there are good and bad historians or practitioners of any discipline. The bad conspiracy analyst tends to make two kinds of mistakes, which indeed leave him open to the Establishment charge of "paranoia." First, he stops with the cui bono; if measure A benefits X and Y, he simply concludes that therefore X and Y were responsible. He fails to realize that this is just a hypothesis, and must be verified by finding out whether or not X and Y really did so. [...] Secondly, the bad conspiracy analyst seems to have a compulsion to wrap up all the conspiracies, all the bad guy power blocs, into one giant conspiracy.
It doesnt stop because too many conspiracy theorists are making too much money from pushing their conspiracy theories. Why should they stop making money?
Of course it would be nice if they could also explain the other 100+ questions I have. (sshhhh! They can't).
A Tu-154 aircraft with failed flight control, navigation and radio communication systems has landed in taiga cutting a 200-meter-long swath through the forest, with no casualties and minimum damage to the plane.
Originally posted by hooper
reply to post by The Baby Seal Club
Of course it would be nice if they could also explain the other 100+ questions I have. (sshhhh! They can't).
It would also be nice if you would listen to the answer and all accept the notion that not all questions are legitimate. But I think we all now that is never going to happen. You probably are familiar with the routine by now.
Originally posted by GoodOlDave
-NASA is hiding evidence of life on Mars
-Nasa is hiding evidence that the world is going to end in 2012
-The gov't is hiding UFOs that crashed in Roswell
Have you considered that the plane was shot down to 'prevent more casualties from another yet undetermined target'?
Originally posted by earthdude
I'm not sold on any particular story but I know there are too many obvious lies to support the OS. It won't stop because we are tired of being lied to. It makes us mad. We know that the government lies, we have caught them lying. We want it to stop. It is ruining my country.
No I have not considered it. There is no reason to consider it. Just as there is no reason to consider that the plane was struck by a comet or slipped into a parallel dimension or passed through a time warp or was conjured up a warlock or was redirected to another airport where the passengers were removed and executed while little govenment gnomes staged a crash scene in a former coal strip mine in southwestern Pennsylvania.
But someone will bring it up, it will be debunked and dismissed and three weeks later they'll bring it up again as if it were something new.
Originally posted by hmmmbeer
How can anyone, who is not a PAID disinfo agent
Originally posted by hmmmbeer
Because we know the truth. And once you know the truth, you can never un-know. We are not swinging voters.
We will be vigilant to the end. The real 9/11 plotters will be brought to justice, one day.