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Ya gotta smirk that these kooks!
From dailydemocrat.com
by Tom Barnidge
April 10, 2011
Excerpts:
Birthing another conspiracy
An acquaintance of mine is certain the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks were an inside job. He thinks our government secretly orchestrated the most horrific assault ever witnessed on American soil to justify a military incursion into the Middle East.
He also believes John F. Kennedy's assassination was pinned on Lee Harvey Oswald to cover up a broader plot and Franklin D. Roosevelt bypassed the chance to prevent the Pearl Harbor attack because it cleared his path to declare war.
Dislodging a belief from a conspiracy theorist's head is like pulling Excalibur from a stone. Facts are discarded as lies. Logic falls harmlessly to the ground.
The latest event to be questioned by Doubters & Disbelievers Inc. is the shooting death of Osama bin Laden.
Why would they trust an announcement by President Barack Obama? They're not even convinced he's a citizen.
They want to know why the body was so quickly buried at sea. Why were no photos of the corpse released? Never mind that al-Qaida has acknowledged his death.
Once a conspiracy theorist latches on to a conclusion, there is no letting loose.....
.....A regular dose of skepticism is healthy. I take one every morning before breakfast. Conspiracy theorists chug the whole bottle, lick the cap and then accuse the government of emptying it.
It's a shame all these kooks can't be neatly profiled, so we could round them up and ship them to Area 51. Still, they do share several commonalities, according to psychological experts.
They often are [a] insecure or discontented persons who need a tangible enemy toward which they can vent their anger; uncomfortable with questions that have no simplistic answers; [c] distrustful of others, especially the government; and [d] eager to resolve contradictions when facts are at odds with their beliefs.
Thus, through the years, we've heard that aliens landed in Roswell, N.M., and federal authorities have their spaceships under lock and key; NASA was unable to send men to the moon, so it faked the lunar landing in a TV studio; and the CIA controlled blacks by introducing crack cocaine into urban communities.
You'd think a government this brilliantly manipulative could find a way to balance the budget occasionally.
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"Life is not a problem to be solved. It is a mystery to be lived".
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