What conspiracy was ever true?

Question

With all the 9-11 conspiracy theory nut jobs....made me wonder...What conspiracy THEORY was ever proven true?

Other then Bush hit the hurricane button and caused Katrina.....

Answer 1

I knew Bush caused Katrina. If you look at photos of the hurricane hitting New Orleans you can see someone on the levee with a shovel and it looks just like Karl Rove.

Answer 2

The problem with a TRUE conspiracy theory is that most people are going to say, "oh... well of course that's true... that's no conspiracy theory at all", and forget that there was a time BEFORE the theory was proven true when people who talked about it were thought to be nutjobs.

But here's one to get you thinking. Once upon a time a bunch of burglars were discovered breaking into a hotel which housed the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee. While SOME people whispered that this was part of a secret conspiracy of wiretapping and intimidation authorized at the highest levels, the president's press secretary denouced such rumors and even mocked the crime as a "third-rate burglary". Most Americans at the time thought the connection was ridiculous.

The name of the hotel and succeeding scandal was WATERGATE.

When you're done thinking about that one, you might want to look into the Operation Mockingbird (CIA influencing media with propoganda), Tuskegee Syphilis Study (public health service purposely infecting and preventing treatment of people), or the Manhattan Project (top scientists secretly gathered to develop super-weapons). All of these one-time conspiracy theories were all proven to be completely and indisputably true. Links below, if you're interested.

And that's just for starters!

Answer 3

I am shocked at the quality of the answers from those who provided serious answers. Obviously MANY conspiracies are true!

May I recommend a book to you all: "Rule By Secrecy" by Jim Marrs is a book I call the "Grand, unified conspiracy theory" since it pretty well succeeds in its goal of covering all the conspiracies and secret organizations that have ever existed.

Its a great, thought provoking book you'll enjoy if you like knowledge that is rather disturbing.

I also recommend "Confessions of an Economic Hitman" the author has slipped my mind, but it is an excellent, quick read that will change your perception of how the world functions and why the rest of the world in large measure hates our GUTS!

Answer 4

Conspiracies are prosecuted all the time in the federal courts. RICO was enacted to take out difficult, extensive conspiracies. Think Mafia.

Al Qaeda conspired against the US to bring down the towers, the Pentagon, and at least one other government building.

Scooter Libby, Vice President Cheney's chief of staff, Cheney and others were investigated for conspiring to reveal the name of CIA agent Valerie Plame.

As far as the public perception of conspiracies goes, I think when people have a feeling that something is not right, it often isn't. Far fetched urban legends and unsubstantiated conspiracy theories may float around the blogosphere and the lunchroom. But usually when people smell a rat they are right; they are just wrong when they try to guess too many details with too little information.

Answer 5

43: Wow. Thanks for the Irish information. I guess all that proves is that the Irish are "go getters" I wonder how well that would be received if he had used another race and other numbers...you aren't allowed to do that...not p.c. and all....It's a conspiracy! Ha ha ha...be careful...I'm Irish and, after a lengthy conversation with big foot and the little gray men, I have been informed that I will be the next president. I will not be pushing the hurricane button, but I do plan on hitting the idiot button, in hopes of ridding America of all unsubstantiated conspiracy theorists.

I believe in keeping our eyes on our government, but most of the theories (yes I have read the books and articles about them) are so ridiculous as to be laughable.

Answer 6

Capitalism and Congressional Democracy require conspiracies to function.

Board rooms of businesses are secret, and decide which products will come out, where to build stores, what prices will be, what environmental impact products will have, who will be hired and fired.

In order to pass and make laws, congress members negotiate in secret. The president's staff meets in secret. Judges deliberate in secret. The information is not publicly available and it's been made even more secret by the Bush administration.

Tons of information about 911 is being kept secret. The iraq war planning was kept secret, especially the part where they intended it to last two generations. The gulf of Tonkin incident was a fabrication planned in secret, there was watergate, and don't forget the Iran-Contra situation, which resulted in arms being sold to murderous rebels in south america, and fanatical regimes in Iran and Afganistan.(and that happened to sway the election in Ronald Reagan's favor)

And these are just the well known ones. The government has experimented on citizens, crashed economies and governments of other countries.

If you even want to ask a question like this, you should be honest with yourself and admit that you don't know much about history. But everyone has to start somewhere.

Answer 7

The Irish politician theory is absolutely true.

It doesn't take a rocket scientist or a Army Private to see it.

Start at the top or the bottom and check the names and ethnicity of elected officials.

The Irish represent a 14% minority in America, Yet hold more than 1/2 of all elected and appointed Government positions Nation Wide.

Some categories have a higher percentage. Like President.

Bush ... Irish
Clinton... Irish
Bush... Irish
Reagan... Irish
Carter... Irish
Ford... Irish
Nixon ... 1/2 Irish
Johnson... Irish
Kennedy... Irish
Eisenhower... Not Irish
Truman... Irish
FDR... Not Irish

This is a 80% Irish heritage of US presidents since WWII I am not saying it is a secret conspiracy; but it is very interesting.

Hey And I like Cornedbeef and cabbage as much as the next guy.


Go big Red Go

Answer 8

The truth is worse than the fiction.. Bush builds conspiracies and terror mongering all the time. People swallowed the lies that have caused death, destruction and lead the world to chaos, we give up their civil rights without a whimper. His lies bankrupt our Nation and subject our Country to worldwide contempt. Ha, conspiracy theories are small potatoes next to the Bush's Great Lies!

Answer 9

The FBI's COunter INTELligence PROgram of 1956-1971 secretly investigated and disrupted dissident organizations in the US. Hoover's program investigated Martin Luther King Jr., the Black Panther Party, the CP USA, the KKK and the Nation of Islam, among others. In 1971 the FBI office was broken into and files related to the program were leaked to the media, forcing Hoover to call the program off.

In 1947, something crashed in Roswell, New Mexico. The US Government claimed it was a weather balloon and destroyed all evidence. It wasn't, but it wasn't an alien spacecraft either- in 1994 the Air Force revealed that what crashed was a spy balloon that was part of 'Operation Mogul' to spy on Soviet weaponry.

After nuclear fission was discovered in 1939, physicists such as Albert Einstein worried that Germany would develop a bomb based on the new knowledge. The United States seized tens of thousands of acres of private land across the country with two weeks notice in order to secretly develop nuclear weaponry. The project was unveiled to Japan in 1945.

Should I go on??

Answer 10

Are you kidding me? Many conspiracy theories have been proven true. The Heart attack gun ended up to be true. The NSA tracking phone calls ended up to be true. People used to think the Illuminati was fake, until it ended up to be true. Even the MAFIA was thought to be fake. And guess what? The CIA has hired them before to kill enemies..... Do some research...

Answer 11

The government's foreknowledge of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and withholding of that foreknowledge from those who could have prevented it is convincingly laid out by John Toland in his book "Pearl Harbor," and takes for its source material official documents and interviews with those who participated in the events and the trials of Adm. Kimmel and Gen. Short, who were the scapegoats for this particular SNAFU. The conspiracy occured in the attempt to cover up this foreknowledge and failure to pass on the knowledge to Kimmel and Short, who needed to know and were denied the information by higher-ups.

There is also evidence that diplomatic policy at that time was designed to aggravate Japan into declaring war on the US, when there were many other diplomatic solutions available. Some think that the Japanese were goaded into attacking the US, and that the Pearl Harbor attack was "allowed," in order to convince even the isolationists that war was inevitable and necessary, but that FDR and his advisers were so shocked by how effective and devastating the attack really was that they regretted this policy ever after (but still had to cover it up.)