Shall We Conspire?

        To question the "official" line of any major American event is a sure method of earning one the title "conspiracy theorist". Rather nonsensically, the title is linked in the cultural mindset with buck-toothed dope smokers, racists, traitors, domestic terrorists, and any number of demeaning images. The profile of the stereotypical conspiracy theorist, complete with his tin-foil hat and stockpile of spam, has long been firmly embedded into the American cultural consciousness. The media has done its job well over the last 50 years. While some within that great bastion of truth known as the MSM (Mainstream Media) no doubt feel it is their sacred duty to protect and safeguard the institutions of America, no matter how corrupt or diseased are said institutions, there are still others who represent another agenda altogether. William Colby, one-time director of the CIA, once said that the CIA owns anyone of significance within the mainstream media. In his autobiography, David Rockefeller also thanked several mainstream news outlets for protecting the interests of both himself as well as other elites. There can be no question then, that the major media in this country hardly epitomizes the search for objective truth, especially where major history influencing events are concerned.    

While many may never give their suspicions voice, there is a large (and ever growing) percentage of the population who do question what they are told by the media's talking heads. Such individuals realize that something is wrong, though they may not be able to lay their finger upon it. They will undoubtedly take the mainline when confronted, or play devil's advocate, but inside there are questions...many questions.

Despite what those at the top of the pyramid claim, conspiracists (or critical thinkers) are far from being a fringe minority. We are, in fact, the majority. Though there have been "scholarly" papers written that attempt to equate an inquiring mind with some type of disease, conspiracy theorists remain alive, well, and growing in number with each passing year. Do we have our lunatics? Sure. Like in every group, there are the crazies--those who form theories using the most convoluted methods of connecting-the-dots known to man. The media and psychologists have a field day with the type, and attempt to cast a net that would label all those who question the reality they've been fed as lunatics. It is a simple psychological ploy as old as the sun, used by leaders the world over to control their citizenry: The common man must be silenced and belittled into subjection, humiliated by the "enlightened ones", or the priest class, those who have been given an endorsement and credentialed by the powers that be. Your mainstream news anchor or political official has become the voice of the gods, and we had better bow in subjection lest we be shunned.

What the honest conspiracy theorist represents is nothing less than the voice of the people. He stands in opposition to unquestioning acquiescence, viewing as his creed the avid pursuit of truth. By a process of elimination, he seeks to yank back the curtains of concealment and subterfuge one by one. Do his efforts always meet with success? No. Even the greatest detective can pick up and follow false leads, trails that lead him a merry chase only to abandon him no better off than before. But occasionally, via a disciplined search for evidence, he succeeds in revealing a hidden truth, a revelation that will commonly earn him the scorn of the media. Attacks against him are not marked by their systematic evaluation of his evidence, but rather by the schoolyard tactics of name calling and brain-dead dismissal. Ironically enough, when an occasional defense of the official line is mustered, it comes off looking like the most absurd conspiracy theory imaginable. Again, an ancient example of hypocritical accusations cast at a populace by their rulers, who themselves are guilty of the very sins they judge those "beneath them" of. It amounts to little more than mind-control, and We the People must cease to be cowed by it. To search for truth is no sin: it is not an act of terrorism and it is not unpatriotic. In fact, there exists no greater patriotism than to safeguard the purity and honesty of one's own government by holding it accountable to the truth. So, join the merry ranks! Become a conspiracy theorist.