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The Lamest Conspiracy Theory

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Posted on May 25, 2011
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The scene of the Jan. 8 shooting outside a Safeway market in Tucson where six people died and 13 were wounded.

A group of skeptics has been hounding victims of the Jan. 8 shooting in Tucson that claimed six lives and nearly killed U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, claiming the massacre was a government hoax. One belief is that Jared Lee Loughner, the accused shooter, is actually an actor hired from the Tucson area. Though this is clearly a fringe outfit, it’s amusing and disturbing to watch citizens mobilize over such a far-fetched conspiracy when there are so many real problems that beg for political engagement.  —KDG

New York Times

Television images of the chaotic scene after the Jan. 8 shootings here do not convince them. Neither do the funerals for the deceased, the scars of the wounded or the federal prosecution of the man accused of being the gunman.

Some conspiracy Web sites are claiming that the shootings that nearly killed Representative Gabrielle Giffords and did end the lives of a federal judge, a 9-year-old girl and four others never actually took place. One particularly bizarre site, run by a Texas man, says it was all a government hoax that used actors.

Such obviously fantastic claims would usually not merit the attention of law enforcement, but they have in this instance because some believers have been confronting, and alarming, some of the people associated with the case in recent weeks.

Richard Kastigar, investigative chief of the Pima County Sheriff’s Department, said he passed information about the Web site to his intelligence unit. He reacted angrily to those denying the shootings. “There were bodies sent to the morgue, people’s loved ones,” Mr. Kastigar said.

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By Inherit The Wind, May 28, 2011 at 4:27 pm Link to this comment

ROFLMAO!!

And here I was, thinkin’ The Rapture was happening last week, giving away my Elvis Isn’t Dead Tee-shirt, my “I Buried Paul” copy of Abby Road, and my “Abducted By Aliens” decoder ring!  Now I can’t get them back….LeeFeller insists on keeping them !!!!

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By diamond, May 28, 2011 at 12:11 am Link to this comment

“(snickering to self).”

Absolutely, ITW. I always snicker at the truth,myself. 9/11 is simply the most glaring and most successful example of ‘manufacturing consent’ in the history of the United States. And the usual suspects made a shitload of money out of it too. And isn’t that what really counts in the end? You just don’t seem to understand how much these kleptomaniacs despise the American people and how little they give a tinker’s curse what happens to them, or democracy or the rule of law for that matter. The truth is while wailing about ‘patriotism’ they hate democracy and love war: the problem is, most Americans don’t love war, so having wars is tough these days. But now that they’ve established the precedent of manufacturing not only consent but invasions of countries to steal their resources, the sky is the limit.

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By Inherit The Wind, May 27, 2011 at 5:44 pm Link to this comment

Like waving a red cape in front of a color-blind bull!

You just KNOW what’s gonna happen!

(snickering to self)

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By diamond, May 26, 2011 at 3:39 pm Link to this comment

“It may be a conspiracy or it may be a theory but be certain someone will make hay over it.”

They already did: insider trading on Wall Street prior to and on 9/11 reached $15 billion. And it all took place in the form of put options on the airlines that they knew would be involved in the scam and on the re-insurers who would lose money because of 9/11.

•A jump in United Airlines put options 90 times (not 90 percent) above normal between September 6 and September 10, and 285 times higher than average on the Thursday before the attack –CBS News 26/9/01

•A jump in American Airlines put options 60 times (not 60 percent) above normal on the day before the attacks – CBS News 26/9/01

•No similar trading occurred on any other airlines. Bloomberg Business Report, the Institute for Counterrorism (ICT) Herzliyya, Israel (citing data from the CBOE).

•Morgan Stanley saw, between September 7 and September 10, an increase of 27 times (not 27 percent) in the purchase of put options on its shares.

•Merrill-Lynch saw a jump of more than 12 times the normal level of put options in the four trading days before the attack (9-11 Research).

It’s well known that all of this happened and the figures are a matter of public record. So why wasn’t this investigated? Because, clearly, any investigation would have exposed high profile people in the CIA, the Bush Administration and on Wall Street and would have led to questioning of the official story of the 9/11 attacks.

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By Inherit The Wind, May 25, 2011 at 7:58 pm Link to this comment

PatrickHenry, May 25 at 4:58 pm Link to this comment

It may be a conspiracy or it may be a theory but be certain someone will make hay over it.
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Sure thing!

Plus some imbeciles are SURE to buy into it!
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(and post here on TruthDig…..)

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By PatrickHenry, May 25, 2011 at 4:58 pm Link to this comment

It may be a conspiracy or it may be a theory but be certain someone will make hay over it.

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By Inherit The Wind, May 25, 2011 at 4:40 pm Link to this comment

Yeah, and I waiting for them to admit the moon landing was faked!

(ROFLMAO!)

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By diamond, May 25, 2011 at 3:54 pm Link to this comment

They are only saying this because they don’t want to face the fact that Sarah Palin and the lunatic right put Gifford’s district on a map in a gunsight. They are merely trying to deflect attention away from the right’s love of guns and violence which has so often had such tragic consequences.

They know that if they tell a lie or even a half lie often enough, there will always be a lot of lazy, ignorant people who will believe it. If 9/11 teaches us anything, it teaches us that. I’m still waiting for someone to tell me:

1. How kerosene can reduce concrete to ash and burn steel.

2. Why building number 7 was ‘pulled’ to quote the owner of the World Trade Centre, Larry Silverstein, on the ‘Today’ show and how the explosives were put in the building in a matter of hours when it takes weeks to wire up a building for a controlled demolition.

3. Why the story of building number 7’s collapse went to air up to 20 minutes before it happened on both the BBC and BBC 24 and numerous TV stations in America.

4. Why Donald Rumsfeld told a room full of military personnel early on the morning of 9/11 that a ‘world event’ was about to take place that would change everything.

5. Why Mark Bernbach, a Fox journalist, told the Fox news desk in a live report from the streets of New York that ‘It was definitely not a commercial jet liner. It had no windows and it had blue logo on it.”

6. Why a CNN journalist told viewers in a live report from the lawn in front of the Pentagon, “You wouldn’t know a plane had ever been here.”

A conspiracy theory is only a theory if it’s not an actual conspiracy.

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By gerard, May 25, 2011 at 12:45 pm Link to this comment

Some words (ideas) are more powerful than others.
“Conspiracy” is powerful because:
  The word itself comes from Latin “con” = with
plus Latin “spiritus” = all kinds of mystical connotations regarding “to breath” hence “live, living” and on th “spirit” and “air” and “magic” and “Holy Spirit”  “breath of life” “aspiration” (to hope) “inspiration” (to put breath into) and on and on. If there ever was a “loaded” word, this is it.
  “Con” comes from Latin, meaning “with” “together”
so “to breathe (the same air) together” with others.
  “Conspiracy” historically holds meanings of “danger” due to usage in connection with plots, evil and crime.  People talking together to plot some bad deed.  Although it would be nice if “conspiracy” also meant “To plan together for good”—but custom dictates otherwise.
  People like stories about conspiracy because of the elements of secrecy, danger and excitement. Governments consider conspiracies dangerous, but get angry when the people they rule turn things around and accuse them of conspiracy.

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By Inherit The Wind, May 25, 2011 at 11:24 am Link to this comment

I’m sure our regular bat-shit crazy conspiracy “shrink” (et al) will insist that the conspiracy is real, and probably that Mossad or the CIA is behind it.

It should be funny but it isn’t.

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