What makes people believe in absurd conspiracy theories?

[Fort Fun Indiana]

A better question would be, why do people so stubbornly resist questioning any "official" narrative?

Exactly. Because they can not believe that it can be just that simple. That the story is what it is.

So called conspiracy theories have come to be associated with the right wing and the left doesn't want any part of that. They're afraid if they agree with us on something then they'll have to admit we're right about other things too...

Hmm, no, there are also people on the right who ridicule you. And the left has its share of conspiracy nutballs.

 

[impuretrash]

Hmm, no, there are also people on the right who ridicule you. And the left has its share of conspiracy nutballs.

Well, not all conspiracy theories are created equal. Some are obviously ridiculous like the Roswell incident but when it comes to the FBI, CIA and other secretive government organizations there's no reason not to be suspicious of them, quite the contrary actually. For example, during the 60s and 70s, the FBI was engaged in a series of covert activities targeting so called anti-government groups mainly far left or communists but also white supremacist and civil rights activists. They encouraged these groups to engage in violent protests as opposed to peaceful ones, wiretapping and blackmail and even resulted in a few murders.

And that's just the stuff we know about. Supposedly the FBI stopped using these tactics in the 70s but you'd have to be mighty fucking stupid to believe that.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

Hmm, no, there are also people on the right who ridicule you. And the left has its share of conspiracy nutballs.

Well, not all conspiracy theories are created equal. Some are obviously ridiculous like the Roswell incident but when it comes to the FBI, CIA and other secretive government organizations there's no reason not to be suspicious of them, quite the contrary actually. For example, during the 60s and 70s, the FBI was engaged in a series of covert activities targeting so called anti-government groups mainly far left or communists but also white supremacist and civil rights activists. They encouraged these groups to engage in violent protests as opposed to peaceful ones, wiretapping and blackmail and even resulted in a few murders.

And that's just the stuff we know about. Supposedly the FBI stopped using these tactics in the 70s but you'd have to be mighty fucking stupid to believe that.

haha... "suspicious".... the next time I see a conspiracy nut who is only "being suspicious" and not, instead, making up insane, untenable bullshit will be the first time. That's what makes them a conspiracy nut!

 

[impuretrash]

Hmm, no, there are also people on the right who ridicule you. And the left has its share of conspiracy nutballs.

Well, not all conspiracy theories are created equal. Some are obviously ridiculous like the Roswell incident but when it comes to the FBI, CIA and other secretive government organizations there's no reason not to be suspicious of them, quite the contrary actually. For example, during the 60s and 70s, the FBI was engaged in a series of covert activities targeting so called anti-government groups mainly far left or communists but also white supremacist and civil rights activists. They encouraged these groups to engage in violent protests as opposed to peaceful ones, wiretapping and blackmail and even resulted in a few murders.

And that's just the stuff we know about. Supposedly the FBI stopped using these tactics in the 70s but you'd have to be mighty fucking stupid to believe that.

haha... "suspicious".... the next time I see a conspiracy nut who is only "being suspicious" and not, instead, making up insane, untenable bullshit will be the first time. That's what makes them a conspiracy nut!

Ok. I guess you aren't interested in having a real conversation.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

Hmm, no, there are also people on the right who ridicule you. And the left has its share of conspiracy nutballs.

Well, not all conspiracy theories are created equal. Some are obviously ridiculous like the Roswell incident but when it comes to the FBI, CIA and other secretive government organizations there's no reason not to be suspicious of them, quite the contrary actually. For example, during the 60s and 70s, the FBI was engaged in a series of covert activities targeting so called anti-government groups mainly far left or communists but also white supremacist and civil rights activists. They encouraged these groups to engage in violent protests as opposed to peaceful ones, wiretapping and blackmail and even resulted in a few murders.

And that's just the stuff we know about. Supposedly the FBI stopped using these tactics in the 70s but you'd have to be mighty fucking stupid to believe that.

haha... "suspicious".... the next time I see a conspiracy nut who is only "being suspicious" and not, instead, making up insane, untenable bullshit will be the first time. That's what makes them a conspiracy nut!

Ok. I guess you aren't interested in having a real conversation.

haha... translation: I don't like this conversation!

I directly responded to your point. This may surprise you, but you are not the first conman to try to conflate "doubt" and "suspicion" with insane assertions. Go try that parlor trick on a child, or a dense adult.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

nutball: "9/11 was an inside job!"

normal person: "No it wasn't, and, if it was, you have to explain all of this______"

nutball: "What, it's wrong to be suspicious of the government? The government is ALWAYS honest, eh? They would never lie to us, eh?"

Rinse, repeat. Every single time. Cheap tricks that only work on stupid people.

 

[impuretrash]

Hmm, no, there are also people on the right who ridicule you. And the left has its share of conspiracy nutballs.

Well, not all conspiracy theories are created equal. Some are obviously ridiculous like the Roswell incident but when it comes to the FBI, CIA and other secretive government organizations there's no reason not to be suspicious of them, quite the contrary actually. For example, during the 60s and 70s, the FBI was engaged in a series of covert activities targeting so called anti-government groups mainly far left or communists but also white supremacist and civil rights activists. They encouraged these groups to engage in violent protests as opposed to peaceful ones, wiretapping and blackmail and even resulted in a few murders.

And that's just the stuff we know about. Supposedly the FBI stopped using these tactics in the 70s but you'd have to be mighty fucking stupid to believe that.

haha... "suspicious".... the next time I see a conspiracy nut who is only "being suspicious" and not, instead, making up insane, untenable bullshit will be the first time. That's what makes them a conspiracy nut!

Ok. I guess you aren't interested in having a real conversation.

haha... translation: I don't like this conversation!

I directly responded to your point. This may surprise you, but you are not the first conman to try to conflate "doubt" and "suspicion" with insane assertions. Go try that parlor trick on a child, or a dense adult.

It's your hostile and smug attitude that I don't like. Seems like most of the time it's a waste of time trying to engage with people on this forum.

It's not insane to theorize, especially when the circumstances of an event such as the Vegas shooting are so unusual. Why would a man who has everything commit a mass shooting and kill himself? Paddock just doesn't fit the profile, at all.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

Hmm, no, there are also people on the right who ridicule you. And the left has its share of conspiracy nutballs.

Well, not all conspiracy theories are created equal. Some are obviously ridiculous like the Roswell incident but when it comes to the FBI, CIA and other secretive government organizations there's no reason not to be suspicious of them, quite the contrary actually. For example, during the 60s and 70s, the FBI was engaged in a series of covert activities targeting so called anti-government groups mainly far left or communists but also white supremacist and civil rights activists. They encouraged these groups to engage in violent protests as opposed to peaceful ones, wiretapping and blackmail and even resulted in a few murders.

And that's just the stuff we know about. Supposedly the FBI stopped using these tactics in the 70s but you'd have to be mighty fucking stupid to believe that.

haha... "suspicious".... the next time I see a conspiracy nut who is only "being suspicious" and not, instead, making up insane, untenable bullshit will be the first time. That's what makes them a conspiracy nut!

Ok. I guess you aren't interested in having a real conversation.

haha... translation: I don't like this conversation!

I directly responded to your point. This may surprise you, but you are not the first conman to try to conflate "doubt" and "suspicion" with insane assertions. Go try that parlor trick on a child, or a dense adult.

It's your hostile and smug attitude that I don't like. Seems like most of the time it's a waste of time trying to engage with people on this forum.

It's not insane to theorize, especially when the circumstances of an event such as the Vegas shooting are so unusual. Why would a man who has everything commit a mass shooting and kill himself? Paddock just doesn't fit the profile, at all.

Simple: mental illness. No nutball conspiracy required.

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

If you haven't personally witnessed it, or have adequate evidence, what makes you believe?

All Conspiracies Are Plants Used by the Regime to Throw Us Off Track

They are slaves to the status-quo clear and present ruling class and its tools of unearned birth privileges, the anti-democratic Constitution, and its selfish control of the economy, the government, the media, and the class-biased universities. Yet they know we are going down the drain. They can't blame the Masters they worship, so they are suckers for any divine revelation about demons that the information-control upper class puts out there.

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

If you haven't personally witnessed it, or have adequate evidence, what makes you believe?

Adequate evidence of what?

Do skyscrapers have to hold themselves up or not? Do we need evidence for that? So we are supposed to believe a 200 ton airliner, including 34 tons of fuel, could totally destroy a 400,000 ton skyscraper in less than two hours without being told the distributions of steel and concrete down the buildings in SIXTEEN YEARS?

What does the word BELIEVE mean? Check the dictionary definitions. They are mostly stupid. To believe means to accept something as true or false without sufficient evidence.

Suspecting and Believing are not the same thing. But people do not use the word 'suspect' very much.

psik

The Big Lie Conspiracy: Getting a Job Just Because You Can Go Four Years Without an Adult Job

The WTC was built to sacrifice stability for more office space to sell. That is a conspiracy of greed that is right out in the open, as all real plots are. Second, airlines saving money by not installing secure cockpit doors. Most of all, because nobody objects to it, being too cheap to pay students salaries in college puts inferior people in superior positions, such as the "intelligence" agencies.

Americans carry both extremes in their captive minds: believing in the absurd things we are told from on high and believing in impossible stories about a secret group that is "picking on our wonderful Masters."

 

[JohnPrewett]

nutball: "9/11 was an inside job!"

normal person: "No it wasn't, and, if it was, you have to explain all of this______"

nutball: "What, it's wrong to be suspicious of the government? The government is ALWAYS honest, eh? They would never lie to us, eh?"

Rinse, repeat. Every single time. Cheap tricks that only work on stupid people.

You're just an establishment shill, aren't you ? Just a POS shill. Nobody can innocently be as ignorant as you pretend to be.

 

[Chuz Life]

Sometimes the conspiracy theory is more believable than the story the media/government is pushing. Also there are times that the "Official" story has too many holes in it and leaves you with more questions than answers

There does always seem to be a certain convenience to the omissions that the news reporters and networks decide to make.

 

[Muhammed]

Sometimes the conspiracy theory is more believable than the story the media/government is pushing. Also there are times that the "Official" story has too many holes in it and leaves you with more questions than answers

logic and common sense like that never registers with the OP and many of the others that replied after him.

the OP and the many trolls that replied after him,have the warped opinion that THIS absurd conspiracy theory of the governments is valid after all.

they NEVER can justify the absurdity in these pesky little facts here of the governments unproven theories.

Idaho Observer: The looniest of all 9/11 conspiracy theories

The looniest of all 9/11 conspiracy theories
. Curiously, most of the “outrageous conspiracy theories” to which he refers incorporate some extremely sound science, logic and witness testimony where the official version is lacking in those critical areas. The following is a rather clever and immensely sarcastic approach to the government's explanation of 9/11 -- which follows a pattern established by the “magic bullet theory” to explain the assassination of JFK and a Ryder truck full of fertilizer and fuel oil to explain the damage at the Murrah federal building in OK City.

So its hardly surprising that the events of Sept. 11, 2001, have spawned their fair share of these ludicrous fairy tales. And as always, there is -- sadly -- a small but gullible percentage of the population eager to lap up these tall tales, regardless of facts or rational analysis.

One of the wilder stories circulating about Sept 11 (and one that has attracted something of a cult following amongst conspiracy buffs) is that it was carried out by 19 fanatical Arab hijackers, masterminded by an evil genius named Osama bin Laden, with no apparent motivation other than that they “hate our freedoms.”

Never a group of people to be bothered by facts, the perpetrators of this cartoon fantasy have constructed an elaborately woven web of delusions and unsubstantiated hearsay in order to promote this garbage across the Internet and the media to the extent that a number of otherwise rational people have actually fallen under its spell.

Normally I don't even bother debunking this kind of junk, but the effect that this paranoid myth is beginning to have requires a little rational analysis, in order to consign it to the same rubbish bin as all such silly conspiracy theories.

These crackpots even contend that the extremist Bush regime was caught unawares by the attacks, had no hand in organizing them and actually would have stopped them if it had been able. Blindly ignoring the stand down of the U.S. Air Force, the insider trading on airline stocks (linked to the CIA), the complicit behavior of Bush on the morning of the attacks, the controlled demolition of the WTC, the firing of a missile into the Pentagon and a host of other documented proofs that the Bush regime was behind the attacks, the conspiracy theorists stick doggedly to a silly story about 19 Arab hijackers somehow managing to commandeer four planes simultaneously and fly them around U.S. airspace for nearly two hours, crashing them into important buildings, without the U.S. intelligence services having any idea that it was coming, and without the Air Force knowing what to do.

Many believe that Bush was involved in the 911 attacks. However the main propagators do not believe their inside job conspiracy theory. They were very good at it and the Dems got the most weak-minded people to believe their bizarre stories by brainwashing them with the repeated messaging technique. By 2006 the Dems got a full one third of the US population to believe that george Bush was complicit in the 911 attacks.

This was devastating to the USA because it was enough for the Democrats to ride the truther wave into control of congress in the 2006 mid-term. The result was that Bush was lame ducked and had no power to mitigate an economic collapse. And it got them Obama into the White House.

Obama then proceeded to strengthen Al Qaeda. Al Qaeda had established an Islamic caliphate in Benghazi and other cities in eastern Libya. Libya sent it's army to Benghazi to wipe out Al Qaeda. Al Qaeda's biggest weakness was that it had no air force. Obama filled that void by ordering the US Air Force to essentially become AQ's air force and bombed the hell out the Libyan Army on it's way to Benghazi. They were decimated and never made it. Benghazi is still AQ's Islamic caliphate to this day.

The 911 truthers caused a lot of fucking damage to the USA.

Trump already has congressional authorization to use military force against 911 truthers anywhere in the world, even inside the United States. And I think he should do it.

 

[MisterBeale]

Sometimes the conspiracy theory is more believable than the story the media/government is pushing. Also there are times that the "Official" story has too many holes in it and leaves you with more questions than answers

logic and common sense like that never registers with the OP and many of the others that replied after him.

the OP and the many trolls that replied after him,have the warped opinion that THIS absurd conspiracy theory of the governments is valid after all.

they NEVER can justify the absurdity in these pesky little facts here of the governments unproven theories.

Idaho Observer: The looniest of all 9/11 conspiracy theories

The looniest of all 9/11 conspiracy theories
. Curiously, most of the “outrageous conspiracy theories” to which he refers incorporate some extremely sound science, logic and witness testimony where the official version is lacking in those critical areas. The following is a rather clever and immensely sarcastic approach to the government's explanation of 9/11 -- which follows a pattern established by the “magic bullet theory” to explain the assassination of JFK and a Ryder truck full of fertilizer and fuel oil to explain the damage at the Murrah federal building in OK City.

So its hardly surprising that the events of Sept. 11, 2001, have spawned their fair share of these ludicrous fairy tales. And as always, there is -- sadly -- a small but gullible percentage of the population eager to lap up these tall tales, regardless of facts or rational analysis.

One of the wilder stories circulating about Sept 11 (and one that has attracted something of a cult following amongst conspiracy buffs) is that it was carried out by 19 fanatical Arab hijackers, masterminded by an evil genius named Osama bin Laden, with no apparent motivation other than that they “hate our freedoms.”

Never a group of people to be bothered by facts, the perpetrators of this cartoon fantasy have constructed an elaborately woven web of delusions and unsubstantiated hearsay in order to promote this garbage across the Internet and the media to the extent that a number of otherwise rational people have actually fallen under its spell.

Normally I don't even bother debunking this kind of junk, but the effect that this paranoid myth is beginning to have requires a little rational analysis, in order to consign it to the same rubbish bin as all such silly conspiracy theories.

These crackpots even contend that the extremist Bush regime was caught unawares by the attacks, had no hand in organizing them and actually would have stopped them if it had been able. Blindly ignoring the stand down of the U.S. Air Force, the insider trading on airline stocks (linked to the CIA), the complicit behavior of Bush on the morning of the attacks, the controlled demolition of the WTC, the firing of a missile into the Pentagon and a host of other documented proofs that the Bush regime was behind the attacks, the conspiracy theorists stick doggedly to a silly story about 19 Arab hijackers somehow managing to commandeer four planes simultaneously and fly them around U.S. airspace for nearly two hours, crashing them into important buildings, without the U.S. intelligence services having any idea that it was coming, and without the Air Force knowing what to do.

Many believe that Bush was involved in the 911 attacks. However the main propagators do not believe their inside job conspiracy theory. They were very good at it and the Dems got the most weak-minded people to believe their bizarre stories by brainwashing them with the repeated messaging technique. By 2006 the Dems got a full one third of the US population to believe that george Bush was complicit in the 911 attacks.

This was devastating to the USA because it was enough for the Democrats to ride the truther wave into control of congress in the 2006 mid-term. The result was that Bush was lame ducked and had no power to mitigate an economic collapse. And it got them Obama into the White House.

Obama then proceeded to strengthen Al Qaeda. Al Qaeda had established an Islamic caliphate in Benghazi and other cities in eastern Libya. Libya sent it's army to Benghazi to wipe out Al Qaeda. Al Qaeda's biggest weakness was that it had no air force. Obama filled that void by ordering the US Air Force to essentially become AQ's air force and bombed the hell out the Libyan Army on it's way to Benghazi. They were decimated and never made it. Benghazi is still AQ's Islamic caliphate to this day.

The 911 truthers caused a lot of fucking damage to the USA.

Trump already has congressional authorization to use military force against 911 truthers anywhere in the world, even inside the United States. And I think he should do it.

That sounds like nonsense. You'll have to back that shit up with some supporting evidence, or I'm going to have to call you the conspiracy theorist.

The only folks that congress has authorized military force against, are terrorists, not "truthers."

To my knowledge, "truthers" having unorthodox opinions about who are the real perpetrators of various crimes against the American people, which mean American citizens having the freedom of thought and speech, does not make one a terrorist.

Go for a soak.

If it were, the grand daddy of all conspiracy theorists, Oliver Stone, would be in Gitmo right now.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

nutball: "9/11 was an inside job!"

normal person: "No it wasn't, and, if it was, you have to explain all of this______"

nutball: "What, it's wrong to be suspicious of the government? The government is ALWAYS honest, eh? They would never lie to us, eh?"

Rinse, repeat. Every single time. Cheap tricks that only work on stupid people.

You're just an establishment shill, aren't you ? Just a POS shill. Nobody can innocently be as ignorant as you pretend to be.

You are clearly insane and your penchant for believing magical nonsense long ago went waaaaaay past your religious cult.

 

[Muhammed]

Sometimes the conspiracy theory is more believable than the story the media/government is pushing. Also there are times that the "Official" story has too many holes in it and leaves you with more questions than answers

logic and common sense like that never registers with the OP and many of the others that replied after him.

the OP and the many trolls that replied after him,have the warped opinion that THIS absurd conspiracy theory of the governments is valid after all.

they NEVER can justify the absurdity in these pesky little facts here of the governments unproven theories.

Idaho Observer: The looniest of all 9/11 conspiracy theories

The looniest of all 9/11 conspiracy theories
. Curiously, most of the “outrageous conspiracy theories” to which he refers incorporate some extremely sound science, logic and witness testimony where the official version is lacking in those critical areas. The following is a rather clever and immensely sarcastic approach to the government's explanation of 9/11 -- which follows a pattern established by the “magic bullet theory” to explain the assassination of JFK and a Ryder truck full of fertilizer and fuel oil to explain the damage at the Murrah federal building in OK City.

So its hardly surprising that the events of Sept. 11, 2001, have spawned their fair share of these ludicrous fairy tales. And as always, there is -- sadly -- a small but gullible percentage of the population eager to lap up these tall tales, regardless of facts or rational analysis.

One of the wilder stories circulating about Sept 11 (and one that has attracted something of a cult following amongst conspiracy buffs) is that it was carried out by 19 fanatical Arab hijackers, masterminded by an evil genius named Osama bin Laden, with no apparent motivation other than that they “hate our freedoms.”

Never a group of people to be bothered by facts, the perpetrators of this cartoon fantasy have constructed an elaborately woven web of delusions and unsubstantiated hearsay in order to promote this garbage across the Internet and the media to the extent that a number of otherwise rational people have actually fallen under its spell.

Normally I don't even bother debunking this kind of junk, but the effect that this paranoid myth is beginning to have requires a little rational analysis, in order to consign it to the same rubbish bin as all such silly conspiracy theories.

These crackpots even contend that the extremist Bush regime was caught unawares by the attacks, had no hand in organizing them and actually would have stopped them if it had been able. Blindly ignoring the stand down of the U.S. Air Force, the insider trading on airline stocks (linked to the CIA), the complicit behavior of Bush on the morning of the attacks, the controlled demolition of the WTC, the firing of a missile into the Pentagon and a host of other documented proofs that the Bush regime was behind the attacks, the conspiracy theorists stick doggedly to a silly story about 19 Arab hijackers somehow managing to commandeer four planes simultaneously and fly them around U.S. airspace for nearly two hours, crashing them into important buildings, without the U.S. intelligence services having any idea that it was coming, and without the Air Force knowing what to do.

Many believe that Bush was involved in the 911 attacks. However the main propagators do not believe their inside job conspiracy theory. They were very good at it and the Dems got the most weak-minded people to believe their bizarre stories by brainwashing them with the repeated messaging technique. By 2006 the Dems got a full one third of the US population to believe that george Bush was complicit in the 911 attacks.

This was devastating to the USA because it was enough for the Democrats to ride the truther wave into control of congress in the 2006 mid-term. The result was that Bush was lame ducked and had no power to mitigate an economic collapse. And it got them Obama into the White House.

Obama then proceeded to strengthen Al Qaeda. Al Qaeda had established an Islamic caliphate in Benghazi and other cities in eastern Libya. Libya sent it's army to Benghazi to wipe out Al Qaeda. Al Qaeda's biggest weakness was that it had no air force. Obama filled that void by ordering the US Air Force to essentially become AQ's air force and bombed the hell out the Libyan Army on it's way to Benghazi. They were decimated and never made it. Benghazi is still AQ's Islamic caliphate to this day.

The 911 truthers caused a lot of fucking damage to the USA.

Trump already has congressional authorization to use military force against 911 truthers anywhere in the world, even inside the United States. And I think he should do it.

That sounds like nonsense. You'll have to back that shit up with some supporting evidence, or I'm going to have to call you the conspiracy theorist.

The only folks that congress has authorized military force against, are terrorists, not "truthers."

To my knowledge, "truthers" having unorthodox opinions about who are the real perpetrators of various crimes against the American people, which mean American citizens having the freedom of thought and speech, does not make one a terrorist.

Go for a soak.

If it were, the grand daddy of all conspiracy theorists, Oliver Stone, would be in Gitmo right now.

https://www.congress.gov/107/plaws/publ40/PLAW-107publ40.pdf

SEC. 2. AUTHORIZATION FOR USE OF UNITED STATES ARMED FORCES. (a) IN GENERAL.—That the President is authorized to use all necessary and appropriate force against those nations, organizations, or persons HE DETERMINES planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001, or harbored such organizations or persons, in order to prevent any future acts of international terrorism against the United States by such nations, organizations or persons.


Actually it's entirely up to the president to determine whether truthers or anyone else belongs to a terrorist organization that attacked America on 9/11.

Public Law 107-40 is kinda scary if you think about it.

 

[MisterBeale]

Sometimes the conspiracy theory is more believable than the story the media/government is pushing. Also there are times that the "Official" story has too many holes in it and leaves you with more questions than answers

logic and common sense like that never registers with the OP and many of the others that replied after him.

the OP and the many trolls that replied after him,have the warped opinion that THIS absurd conspiracy theory of the governments is valid after all.

they NEVER can justify the absurdity in these pesky little facts here of the governments unproven theories.

Idaho Observer: The looniest of all 9/11 conspiracy theories

The looniest of all 9/11 conspiracy theories
. Curiously, most of the “outrageous conspiracy theories” to which he refers incorporate some extremely sound science, logic and witness testimony where the official version is lacking in those critical areas. The following is a rather clever and immensely sarcastic approach to the government's explanation of 9/11 -- which follows a pattern established by the “magic bullet theory” to explain the assassination of JFK and a Ryder truck full of fertilizer and fuel oil to explain the damage at the Murrah federal building in OK City.

So its hardly surprising that the events of Sept. 11, 2001, have spawned their fair share of these ludicrous fairy tales. And as always, there is -- sadly -- a small but gullible percentage of the population eager to lap up these tall tales, regardless of facts or rational analysis.

One of the wilder stories circulating about Sept 11 (and one that has attracted something of a cult following amongst conspiracy buffs) is that it was carried out by 19 fanatical Arab hijackers, masterminded by an evil genius named Osama bin Laden, with no apparent motivation other than that they “hate our freedoms.”

Never a group of people to be bothered by facts, the perpetrators of this cartoon fantasy have constructed an elaborately woven web of delusions and unsubstantiated hearsay in order to promote this garbage across the Internet and the media to the extent that a number of otherwise rational people have actually fallen under its spell.

Normally I don't even bother debunking this kind of junk, but the effect that this paranoid myth is beginning to have requires a little rational analysis, in order to consign it to the same rubbish bin as all such silly conspiracy theories.

These crackpots even contend that the extremist Bush regime was caught unawares by the attacks, had no hand in organizing them and actually would have stopped them if it had been able. Blindly ignoring the stand down of the U.S. Air Force, the insider trading on airline stocks (linked to the CIA), the complicit behavior of Bush on the morning of the attacks, the controlled demolition of the WTC, the firing of a missile into the Pentagon and a host of other documented proofs that the Bush regime was behind the attacks, the conspiracy theorists stick doggedly to a silly story about 19 Arab hijackers somehow managing to commandeer four planes simultaneously and fly them around U.S. airspace for nearly two hours, crashing them into important buildings, without the U.S. intelligence services having any idea that it was coming, and without the Air Force knowing what to do.

Many believe that Bush was involved in the 911 attacks. However the main propagators do not believe their inside job conspiracy theory. They were very good at it and the Dems got the most weak-minded people to believe their bizarre stories by brainwashing them with the repeated messaging technique. By 2006 the Dems got a full one third of the US population to believe that george Bush was complicit in the 911 attacks.

This was devastating to the USA because it was enough for the Democrats to ride the truther wave into control of congress in the 2006 mid-term. The result was that Bush was lame ducked and had no power to mitigate an economic collapse. And it got them Obama into the White House.

Obama then proceeded to strengthen Al Qaeda. Al Qaeda had established an Islamic caliphate in Benghazi and other cities in eastern Libya. Libya sent it's army to Benghazi to wipe out Al Qaeda. Al Qaeda's biggest weakness was that it had no air force. Obama filled that void by ordering the US Air Force to essentially become AQ's air force and bombed the hell out the Libyan Army on it's way to Benghazi. They were decimated and never made it. Benghazi is still AQ's Islamic caliphate to this day.

The 911 truthers caused a lot of fucking damage to the USA.

Trump already has congressional authorization to use military force against 911 truthers anywhere in the world, even inside the United States. And I think he should do it.

That sounds like nonsense. You'll have to back that shit up with some supporting evidence, or I'm going to have to call you the conspiracy theorist.

The only folks that congress has authorized military force against, are terrorists, not "truthers."

To my knowledge, "truthers" having unorthodox opinions about who are the real perpetrators of various crimes against the American people, which mean American citizens having the freedom of thought and speech, does not make one a terrorist.

Go for a soak.

If it were, the grand daddy of all conspiracy theorists, Oliver Stone, would be in Gitmo right now.

https://www.congress.gov/107/plaws/publ40/PLAW-107publ40.pdf

SEC. 2. AUTHORIZATION FOR USE OF UNITED STATES ARMED FORCES. (a) IN GENERAL.—That the President is authorized to use all necessary and appropriate force against those nations, organizations, or persons HE DETERMINES planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001, or harbored such organizations or persons, in order to prevent any future acts of international terrorism against the United States by such nations, organizations or persons.


Actually it's entirely up to the president to determine whether truthers or anyone else belongs to a terrorist organization that attacked America on 9/11.

Public Law 107-40 is kinda scary if you think about it.

IOW, we should be thankful you aren't president?

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

Belief in a conspiracy theory allows you to believe you know more than every one else while actually knowing less.

It's the lazy way to a superiority complex.

Incompetence and Dysfunctional Qualifications Are Never Criticized

Not only that, but the dupes only "know" what they are told and can't fit in new evidence, even though it would fit in with their fantasy, unless informed by their assigned gurus. For example, 9/11 was previewed on February 23, 1973---so a conspiracy sheep could chant, "The Gubmint must have known it was coming."

The WTC was the only complex in the country that would collapse if hit by an airplane or even a hurricane or a bigger bomb in its basement. "The Gubmint must have known where the attack would take place."

September 11, 1683 was the peak of the last jihad. If Osama had been in charge of the Turkish forces back then, Islam would have conquered all of Europe. So these slaves of the status quo infer that the nerd bookworms and preppy fraternity drunks in the C"I"A must have know that, too. What a joke to expect anything from that ilk.

What is a totalitarian insult to intelligence is that conspiracies imply that the intelligence agencies are staffed by High IQs. So the mind-slaves get that ruling- class point across. But the way people get into high positions of responsibillty in Terminal America is defective and must be changed if we are to survive.

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

If you haven't personally witnessed it, or have adequate evidence, what makes you believe?

Adequate evidence of what?

Do skyscrapers have to hold themselves up or not? Do we need evidence for that? So we are supposed to believe a 200 ton airliner, including 34 tons of fuel, could totally destroy a 400,000 ton skyscraper in less than two hours without being told the distributions of steel and concrete down the buildings in SIXTEEN YEARS?

What does the word BELIEVE mean? Check the dictionary definitions. They are mostly stupid. To believe means to accept something as true or false without sufficient evidence.

Suspecting and Believing are not the same thing. But people do not use the word 'suspect' very much.

psik

House Made of Straw

Not "a 400,000 ton skyscraper" perhaps, but certainly this 400,000-ton skyscraper. The WTC had a unique construction, which architecture student Mohammed Atta knew all about when he flew a plane into it.

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

Some things seem weird but can be believable, and some things are just way out there and make no sense. One conspiracy theory about 9/11 that I find interesting yet disturbing is the "False Flag" Theory. The "False Flag" theory is covert operations that are designed to appear as If they are being carried out by other entities. In this case the government attacks its own country by flying planes into the twin towers, pentagon, and who knows where that other plane was heading and blames it on al Qaeda. That could actually be possible and give us a reason to invade Iraq and Afghanistan.

To say the least, some conspiracy theories do get the mind wondering, yet are very disturbing.

Minds Trapped in a Celluloid Bubble

The Hollywood conspiracy writers already beat you to it with the Geena Davis movie, The Long Kiss Goodnight, made in 1996.