Is it realistic to believe in conspiracy theories in politics?

Question

do you believe in conspiracy theories like the CIA being involved with JFK death?

Answer 1

No, it just strokes the ego's of the individuals involved in creating the conspiracy theory.

Answer 2

All conspiracy theories are not baseless. They exist because there are questions that need to be answered and nobody is willing to put the matters to bed.

Between me and you, the CIA killed JFK, the FBI killed Martin Luther King, Bush blew up the Pentagon and killed 3000 Americans when the towers crashed down, the South African Apartheid government shot down Samora Machel's plane, Mandela and Thabo Mbeki killed Chris Hani, the current South African goverment killed Laurent Kabila, the English Monarchy killed Princess Diana, the Masons rule the world and the ever illusive Illuminati are still at large.

Whether its realistic or not, I dont know but these questions need answers. Who's willing to run through the gauntlet. Only time can tell.

Answer 3

To be honest the government has the perfect means of getting away with any crime it wants. US government policy seems to follow on from the Big Lie, which was used effectively by Adolf Hitler (see link below).

Basically if you are going to commit a crime and lie about it you have to make the truth so unbelievable that people believe the lie instead. Let's say the US govt did carry out the 9/11 attacks (I'm not saying they did or didn't at this stage) - truth of that is too huge for the majority of people to fathom. They feed a large lie (the bigger and more unbelievable the better - more people will believe it) that 19 terrorists with only flight simulator training managed to Hijack 4 passenger jets and hit 3 buildings with them.

The trouble is that in the 21st century people have access to more sources of and can pick through lies and deceit. That is were the conspiracy theory safety net comes in. The words conspiracy theory have long been associated with crack pots and lunatics and that stigma still applies. So when somebody looks at the evidence for example of the video confession of Bin Laden and sees that the guy in video looks nothing like Bin Laden, is right handed while Bin Laden is left handed (according to the CIA) and wears jewellry contrary to his beliefs, then the government simply puts out those two little words. "Conspiracy Theory" Investigative journalism goes up in smoke, the credibility of any counter accusations against the government sink and the government is safe.

The government reinforces its claims that Bin Laden did it by puts out recordings (in arabic or Persian and helpfully translated by government translators) testifying to the fact that Bin Laden planned and carried out the attacks. Ask yourself how many people in the West speak Persin or Arabic? How many will bother to translate the orignals IF they ever got their hands on them? News organisations simply act as feeders for the govt. They feed these snippets of information under blockbuster headlines hoping to catch an extra thousand viewers.

We live in an age where investigative journalism is rapidly becoming a thing of the past. Look how we were fed the Big Lies of WMDs and swallowed them whole. Thank God for conspiracy Theorists - they are the only ones with the balls and guts to dig through the surface and look at the facts in detail. They are the investigative journalists of today and the imposter journalists of CNN, the BBC, etc are nothing more dummy actors reading words off a script.

Answer 4

I think by using the term 'conspiracy theory', you slap a label on a way of thinking that many will reject. Its become a term associated with whackos and crazies.

I do believe that much goes on in politics that is not fit for public consumption, and would fall under the category of covert. But focussing time and energy on them is futile...and that energy could be better spent doing something positive in this life. Aside from interesting dinner conversation, I think that discussing the political agendas of 9/11 and Global Warming are ridiculous...unless there is some way that a person can DO SOMETHING about them.

Answer 5

Nope, I'm pretty sure the mob offed JFK and his brother because they went after the bosses and the infra-structure. The mob rigged the election in the south through their union ties and as payback for the favor JFK's little brother Bobby went after them big time. They still didn't think it was funny when Bobby tried to run for prez later.

Answer 6

Of course!

Conspiracies do exist and many horrible things have happened due to conspiracies.

Just remember that this whole thing about 19 terrorists hi-jacking jet-planes and flying them into the twin towers is nothing but a conspiracy theory. There has been absolutely no concrete proof that this is the actually way it occurred.

Answer 7

I believe in questioning status quot. Conspiracy's are unbelievable in that I don't believe that politicians have the ability to stop talking and keep secrets. Cover up is different then conspiracy and even then we always find out.

Answer 8

No. People need to find big explanations for things they don't understand. There's nothing today's American loves more than a good scandal. It's less scandalous if someone who openly hates us caused 9/11 than if the man we elected to be President (well, I didn't, but most of you did) planned and executed such an act. They believe it because it's interesting and cool, just like the movies.

Answer 9

Why not? Without freedom of thought there can be no such thing as wisdom. Look at the CIA's history, wouldn't you agree its ignorant to think they wouldn't do something like this if they felt it was in the nations "best interests?"

Answer 10

No, conspiracy theories come from morons most of the time.

Here's a small version of Penn Jillett talking about conspiracy theorists http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7501020220921158523&q=penn+and+teller&hl=en