Here we are again in America faced with another major event with the government’s reported death of Osama Bin Laden, reported in such a way that has left many of us, some would say too many of us, with more questions than there are answers for.

In recent years what was a small, but steadily growing portion of Americans now labeled routinely as conspiracy theorists has swelled in ranks to the point that now when such events are announced by the Government, often in the very same announcement the Government spokesman takes proactive measures to label anyone who might doubt the official story or have questions the Government prefers not to answer as Conspiracy Theorists.

The inference is obvious, Conspiracy Theorists are simply contrary to be contrary, and they, their questions, and observations should not be taken seriously.

Words like tin-foil hat, paranoid, anti-government, anti-Semite, Islamic sympathizer and others are often bandied about to describe those falling under the ever widening umbrella of conspiracy theorists.

Invariably as the debates on the internet, in the coffee shops, on the busses and trains, and office water coolers ensue the typical refrain by those who believe the official story verbatim is “Not everything is a conspiracy you know.”

However more often than not it’s when partisan politics begin to enter the fray that it starts becoming impossible for Americans to ask quality questions and have a quality discussion.

It is to partisan politics I now want to speak and the paradox, the fallacy that they breed in their tireless debates about the government would never conspire against the people. Not this government under this president and this party.

Immediately the accusations begin to fly, you must be in the ‘other’ party, that ‘lost’ the last election.

You must not like the President as they insert a host of imaginary reasons, from their accent to their zebra skin neck tie, to everything in between that have absolutely nothing to do with the issue and event being questioned.

As they begin to answer questions then with other questions, questions about why you are asking questions in the first place, this inevitably leads to the absolute statement…

You know darn well no amount of proof or quality of answers would satisfy you.

The inference is you are simply on a witch hunt, you are on a witch hunt because you don’t like the politician at the helm, and that’s because you belong to the other party, the other party that is presumed to be constantly conspiring against the party of the president in power.

Conspiring to defeat the Presidents agenda, conspiring to sully his reputation, conspiring to regain power, and believed to be willing to stop at next to nothing in such a conspiracy to such an end, and as such, your reluctance to believe the government’s official story, is now all about a conspiracy not to.

A partisan conspiracy not to!

Both parties are the same, and both parties use the same tactics when it comes to deflecting away from the hard questions many concerned Americans have to ask, and excusing why they have no quality answers for those questions in the process.

Such people are in fact now conspiring to that end now, to excuse a lack of quality information, to dismiss inconsistencies and holes in the official story, to slander anyone who wants to ask.

But here is the rub.

These are all people who don’t believe that the Government would ever conspire to deceive the people, even though they are all people who believe that at least one of the two parties that make up government would conspire against the other, at the expense of the American people.

So here is my question for those of you who love to play the partisan divisive card of left/right politics.

How can you believe that the government would not conspire against the people, when you obviously believe to the point of constant accusation that the other party you are not in, is constantly conspiring against your party and it’s leader?

I call that a Paradox, and while many people who think this way and employ these tactics will routinely say not everything is a conspiracy, how come you always say not believing or questioning the official story is a conspiracy hatched by the other party?

Is America really well served by the people questioning one another on motives when it comes to real questions regarding real events that the government has failed to deliver enough quality information to satisfy a growing number of independent and critical minds?

I don’t think it is, and it’s that horrible division within America and the rancor it breeds, and the chaos it creates within the masses that makes it so easy for the government to in fact conspire against the American people in the vacuum these enmity filled debates create.

Question the official story of the Republicans you are a traitor, question the official story of the Democrats you are a Conspiracy theorist.

To bad people who have questions can’t just be Americans who have questions.

The nation is doomed if we can’t get our out of control, heavily in debt government embroiled in a half dozen declared and undeclared wars under control and accountable to the people.

The sad thing is that it’s not the Government preventing that, it’s ourselves as we conspire for the sake of a leader or a party and allegiance to it, to thwart our fellow Americans in their attempts to get quality answers and hold the government accountable.

Americans need to rethink the left/right divide, the word games, the labels and the stereo types, and start dealing with the real issues, and we need to do it before it’s too late.

Trust me Republicans and Democrats if you really believe the other party is conspiring against yours all the time, there is absolutely no reason either party once in power, wouldn’t conspire against the American people too.

And then we come down to elections. And they give us "THE CHOICE". And we choose and in this expression of freedom, of our free will, we choose. And in choosing we become a defender of that choice because then we are defending ourselves.

I will repeat this. Mostly for myself because I have never realized this before.

When we choose, we choose who we are . Every choice we make defines us to ourselves. And it is the nature of the self, to defend itself, to seek continuance.

And the cycle just continues and continues and continues.
AND THIEY KNOW THIS. They have allowed this false either/or thing to go on because they understand the cycle and how consciousness is attuned to it.

Well I have voted since 1972, and you know what. I AM DONE WITH IT.

I can feel the shackles falling from my shoulders as I seek to defend myself.

Star n Flag
So true
It's becoming almost impossible to have a debate at times

It's funny, I tend to agree with the liberals when a republican is in power and I agree with conservatives when a Dem is in power.

But while their party is in power they often have no dissenting voice.
While Obama was having a speech at a convention with his supporters some got up and sang a song to free Bradley Manning, this was at Obama's own convention where his supporters paid thousands of dollars to attend.

However..... they said themselves whether Obama frees Mr. Manning or not and stop torturing him or not they will still vote Obama in 2012.
What can this country do when even the dissenting voice within the active party will continue to support them?

There was a time when only conspiracy theorists were labeled as conspiracy theorists, now every form of skeptics are called this now, the word has truly evovled, or de-evolved if you will, into meaning anyone that is even slightly skeptical about an official story.
Surely mobsters and mass murderers wouldn't lie to us right? Of course not, to believe so is insanity.

Now if you follow Canadian politics the same paradox is being exported over there, Canada right now is truly being americanized with this same paradox.

The U.S. has never been as divided as it is now and that should be a major concern but it is not.

What really bothers me about this is that we cannot have the discussions that NEED to happen. It seems that, instead of searching for the truth, there are (usually 2) groups of people who are looking to convince others their position is right.

I still don't have a firm position on the OBL killing and when I ask questions, I get labeled, just on the basis of my questions. What I want is the truth, which I am not naive enough to think we'll ever have in full, but what I get are rumors, assumptions, suspicions and mis-quoting... It becomes more confusing than it needs to be!

I don't believe everything is a conspiracy, but I KNOW our government isn't always honest with us (duh) and that there are legitimate conspiracies within our government, but I can't just believe it without a little evidence!

We shouldn't be divided here on ATS. We should be talking about what has been said and by whom. But instead, when I bring questions up, people just accuse me of loving Obama or trusting everything the gov't says. Can we not ask a simple question or ask for a source without being labeled and tossed into one "camp" or the other???

Bah! Sorry - frustration shows.