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2 years ago :: Sep 14, 2011 - 11:00AM #21
johndavid23 Posts: 4,324	This appears to be the only board on which we are allowed to note that the use of the word "conspiracy" as a namecaller, a put down, a demeaning prejudicial term is one of the predominant forms of brainwash in the USA. Any questioning of authority is shuttled into the "conspiracy theory" category so that normal minds do not have to bother themselves with those pesky questions which upset the status quo. It reminds me of the '50s when anything "unAmerican" (ie., not the official line) was labeled as "communist" or at least "pink". Any questioning of the course of capitalism, of the power of the wealthy to control our lives, could ruin one's career and subject one to intense FBI scrutiny. The nation seems to be drifting back into this mindless mentality, as the recent 10 year 9/11 celebration of "Fascist Christmas" revealed.
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2 years ago :: Sep 14, 2011 - 1:11PM #22
johndavid23 Posts: 4,324	Other prominent people who are "conspiracy theorists", who question authority: www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/09/the-co-c... "9/11 Commissioner Bob Kerrey said that “There are ample reasons to suspect that there may be some alternative to what we outlined in our version . . . We didn’t have access . . . .” He also says that it might take “a permanent 9/11 commission” to end the remaining mysteries of September 11 9/11 Commission co-chair Lee Hamilton says “I don’t believe for a minute we got everything right”, that the Commission was set up to fail, that people should keep asking questions about 9/11, and that the 9/11 debate should continue 9/11 Commissioner Max Cleland resigned from the Commission, stating: “It is a national scandal”; “This investigation is now compromised”; and “One of these days we will have to get the full story because the 9-11 issue is so important to America. But this White House wants to cover it up” Senator Mike Gravel – who was the main congressman responsible for making the Pentagon Papers public – calls for a new 9/11 investigation Congressman Ron Paul calls for a new 9/11 investigation and states that “we see the [9/11] investigations that have been done so far as more or less cover-up and no real explanation of what went on” Congressman Dennis Kucinich wants a new investigation Congressman Jason Chafetz says that we need to be vigilant and continue to investigate 9/11 Senator Lincoln Chaffee endorses a new investigation Congressman Dan Hamburg wants a new investigation In addition,many high-level military and intelligence officials have called for a new investigation, including: Daniel Ellsberg has called for a new investigation U.S. General, Commanding General of U.S. European Command and Supreme Allied Commander Europe, decorated with the Bronze Star, Silver Star, and Purple Heart (General Wesley Clark) said “We’ve never finished the investigation of 9/11 and whether the administration actually misused the intelligence information it had. The evidence seems pretty clear to me. I’ve seen that for a long time” Former Deputy Secretary for Intelligence and Warning under Nixon, Ford, and Carter (Morton Goulder), former Deputy Director to the White House Task Force on Terrorism (Edward L. Peck), and former US Department of State Foreign Service Officer (J. Michael Springmann), as well as a who’s who of liberals and independents) jointly call for a new investigation into 9/11" (This is a list, not paragraphs.) How many will it take to break the censorship and silence?
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2 years ago :: Sep 24, 2011 - 5:13AM #23
Dostojevsky Posts: 4,746	" How many will it take to break the censorship and silence?" If this silence were broken and the facts opposite to what we've been hearing from Governments were proven beyond a doubt, which Government would dare come out and acknowledge it? I think people would riot.
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2 years ago :: Sep 28, 2011 - 7:20AM #24
Ricky Posts: 1,064	Proofs of a Conspiracy by John Robison: www.sacred-texts.com/sro/pc/index.htm This book is the grand daddy of them all. For those wishing to study conspiracy theory (or fact), this is where you begin.
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2 years ago :: Sep 30, 2011 - 9:47PM #25
drawout Posts: 5,341	I thought this was amusing.. Al Qaeda slams Iran for peddling 9/11 conspiracy theories It's not often foreign leaders are chastised by al Qaeda for going too far in their critique of the United States--but Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has somehow managed the trick. Ahmadinejad is already facing bruising attacks at home from conservative Iranian clerics and politicians on several fronts--and now al Qaeda representatives are assailing him for peddling conspiracy theories that deny the terrorist group's culpability for the Sept. 11 attacks news.yahoo.com/blogs/envoy/al-qaeda-slam... snicker. Nothing liek having someone else get credit for all your hard work. It just doesnt pay to be a arch villian anymore. No sane person should have a gun in their home! Arm the Homeless!
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2 years ago :: Oct 06, 2011 - 4:18AM #26
Roodog Posts: 9,748	Sep 30, 2011 -- 9:47PM, drawout wrote: I thought this was amusing.. Al Qaeda slams Iran for peddling 9/11 conspiracy theories It's not often foreign leaders are chastised by al Qaeda for going too far in their critique of the United States--but Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has somehow managed the trick. Ahmadinejad is already facing bruising attacks at home from conservative Iranian clerics and politicians on several fronts--and now al Qaeda representatives are assailing him for peddling conspiracy theories that deny the terrorist group's culpability for the Sept. 11 attacks news.yahoo.com/blogs/envoy/al-qaeda-slam... snicker. Nothing liek having someone else get credit for all your hard work. It just doesnt pay to be a arch villian anymore. You're right, it is amusing. For those who have faith, no explanation is neccessary. For those who have no faith, no explanation is possible. St. Thomas Aquinas If one turns his ear from hearing the Law, even his prayer is an abomination. Proverbs 28:9
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2 years ago :: Oct 07, 2011 - 11:21PM #27
Hatman Posts: 9,477	Personally, i don't think it so much "amusing" as "telling," e.g. that "Al Quaida" was then and is now a tool of the CIA, a tail with which to wag the dog, a carefully-constructed "enemy-du-jour" boogeyman, even armed and supplied by intelligence services to this day(e.g. ISI of Pakistan, with full knowledge of this fact by Pakistani-stationed US diplomats, according to the Wikileaks). How perfect for the "intelligence" service, eh? i mean, if you can have the supposed "enemy" of the US ALSO deriding "conspiracy theories," then anyone believing anything OTHER than the "official government story" could be potentially construed as "siding with the terrorists," which is mighty convenient for the Guantanamo-style prison proponents. With goodwill to all the People- Hatman "History records that the moneychangers have used every form of abuse, deceit, intrigue, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling money and it's issuance." -- James Madison(1751-1836), Father of the Constitution for the USA, 4th US President
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