Does anyone on this list really believe that Kennedy's assassination
was the work of one lone, deranged person? Or that his brother, or
Martin Luther King were the victims of individual acts? etc. etc. The
denial of conspiracy is so obviously ludicrous that I find that the
issue has used more messages in one day than any other in my ten or so
years on the list attests to the irrelevancy of the left on the
internet. I can't believe it.
Paul P
Sabri Oncu wrote:
Paul:
I do not, in any case, expect anything from the
likes of McDonoald-Douglas, Halliburton and Cheney
- except acceptance of Bush's conspiracy theory that
those bad 19 Arabs done the whole goddamn
operation under the direction of a man in cave.
Paul's claim that the above theory of Bush is also a conspiracy theory is a
claim I agree with wholeheartedly. This is no less a conspiracy theory than
that it is Al-Qaide in Iraq who is creating all these problems, without
which everything would have been nice and dandy, and all the Iraqis would
have lived happily ever after the USUK liberal democratic occupation.
The way I see it, Paul is questioning Bush's conspiracy theory.
Why is it that questioning Bush's conspiracy theory makes Paul a conspiracy
theorist?
Another interesting thing is that I do not remember the use of the word
"conspiracy theory" from the 1970s when I was growing up. Such a word did
not exist in our daily vocabulary in those days to my recollection. But I
remember that I started to hear the word quite frequently in the early
1990s, although it might have started to gain popularity earlier than that,
possibly in the late 1980s. However, I have no way of knowing this since in
those days I had been deeply immersed in mathematics, so had not had much
time to pay attention to what was going on in the real world.
It may be interesting to do a search on the word "conspiracy" in the
LexisNexis database to see if there is any change in the use frequency of
the word over the past few decades.
Best,
Sabri
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