The most intriguing conspiracy theory

 ^ surprising considering the resistance it seems to have in this thread, but evidence that it still is the most popular conspiracy of our time

I'm just waiting for the day when some people start to say that the Mars landing was a hoax.

Slartibartfast wrote: I was channel surfing and John Lennon's Imagine was on.  I'm sure there was some conspiracy theory about him getting killed but I am fuzzy on the details.

Edited by Dean - November 25 2011 at 13:19

i don't doubt that some of L Rons Sci Fi books is a worth read if one are sci fi fan as much as books by Issac Asminov, Phillip K Dick and Frank Herbert, but his founding of a mishievous religion/cult makes him somwwhat less tasty

looks like something an exentric sci/fi writer would have come up with 

The T wrote: This is the best argument against the ridiculous 9/11 conspiracy theory:  people that really hate the government are actually giving it a pass on this one.

Yeah wow, that really is saying something!


There are many about 9/11, depends which one you want to look at.
I do not believe it was an "inside job". That it was created and done by the US government, the controlled demolition, all of that jazz.

However, was there either knowledge of what would happen, or enough of an idea, and it was ignored?
I never thought so, (usually just assumed gross incompetence of the government) but while I'm not sold there are some intriguing points to think about.

This outline for US foreign policy was first written in 1992. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfowitz_Doctrine#Oil
That sounds very familiar... and the names: Wolfowitz, Libby as well as Cheney and Powell seem to ring a bell

While it seemed surreal at the time, the idea of a plane being used as a missile is apparently not so crazy, with real life examples being foiled in 1995 and even more so in 1994.
In the months before hand there were numerous warnings from countries about some type of imminent and large attack, and that famous memo Bush and co. chose to ignore (OK more like co. im sure)

I know there were always threats, and it could still be negligence but it's a lot to brush aside and the swift actions the government took following the attack, including very quick talks of Iraq and Hussein that got pushed aside for a bit...it is intriguing for sure. Also makes for that scandalous, evil story we like so much.






Edited by JJLehto - November 25 2011 at 03:10

Well some say that the BBC (well, the News part of it) are run by the government, Andy.  That'd explain a lot. 

Channel 4 is better but I always forget to put it on.

The Day Today was so on the mark with its portrayal of rolling news.

There was a Radio 4 series on a while ago of a similar nature as well.

No, because Alex Jones is annoying.

A study was undertaken at the University of East Anglia in the 1980's, into the psychology of conspiracy theorists. It concluded that many conspiracy theorists had issues with drugs, drink and an inability to form personal relationships, and found the world around them very hard to cope with. Hence they looked for explanations for sinister and or/ seemingly random events, usually concluding that an evil cabal, who operated in the shadows of government, were behind most if not all significant geo-political events.

Tax payers money well spent, again..

No wonder we're broke. Perhaps if they had invested more money in research into the psychology and the CONSPIRACY that is global banking, we'd be slightly less f***ed!

Dean wrote: The T wrote: Mr ProgFreak wrote: Ah, and of course: Scientology. Evil galactic emperor using tax collectors which fly people in giant B-52 shaped space ships to earth and into volcanos - and then later forcing those peoples' souls to watch movies ...  That's not a conspiracy theory.. that's mass lunacy...  Unlike every other religion?         ...any other religion?         ... an other religion?         ... a religion?         ...a?

Well yeah but even for a religion scientology really takes craziness to the next level...