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Conspiracies from Jesus to JFK
Upon hearing the word conspiracy, most people automatically turn off. The subsequent information is relegated to the trash heap and the messenger is instantaneously discredited. Used as a pejorative, conspiracy theorist, is just as powerful.
We are a nation based on empiricism, a nation founded on enlightenment principles favoring science over dogma, at least we think of ourselves this way. If there was a conspiracy afoot in a free society their would be consensus in opposition, therefore when conspiracy theories are proffered and we find them contrary to established belief we scoff, but why? Conspiracies are as old as time.
Looking through a different lens Americans may see conspiracies more clearly. Once emancipated from temporal, cultural, and religious bias the reality that conspiracies have been effecting human events since our inception is irrefutable. The most famous of all is arguably Judas Iscariot's nefarious plot to the arrest and crucify Jesus of Nazareth. Rarely does anyone contest this was in fact a conspiracy.
Perhaps the Ides of March will proffer up a more formidable example of our modern notion of conspiracy theory or what many prefer to call conspiracy fact. Julius Caesar was the victim of a massive conspiracy of over 60 men. After stabbing Caesar 23 times the conspirators justified their actions not as an attempt at a coup d'état, but tyrannicide. Their "patriotic" endeavor, albeit grounded in just cause, sowed the seeds of Rome's collapse.
Fast forward 1600 years and we find the 1605 gunpowder plot of Guy Fawkes, a conspiracy, which has garnered much attention is recent popular culture and one, which was verifiably aimed to kill not only the King of England, but the entire upper house of parliament!
Modern examples of conspiracy fact are innumerable, but many are well known, heavily corroborated and in hindsight are highly palatable. For example, it is easy to believe the Reichstag fire was perpetrated by Adolf Hitler due to decades of investigation and dramatization that have painted the Nazi's as warmongering xenophobic occultists bent on world domination. The initial tragedy, however, was the inebriation of the German people by a potent political cocktail. Impoverished by the Treaty of Versailles, defenseless due to a lack of countervailing democratic institutions, and under assault by a charismatic cult of personality under Hitler and his Nazi party the Germans were convinced to give up their rights and liberties for a new German millennia. The burning of the German congress was a superbly successful conspiracy which provided the legal basis for the deaths of tens of millions and it occurred just 60 years ago.
There are some insane conspiracies throughout history, they effect all nations and the United States is no exception as the the Business Plot (you though Bush Jr. was bad) of 1933, the Tuskegee Experiments (got syphilis?), the CIA's MKULTRA project (super spies anyone?), Watergate (presidential paranoia), and the Iran/Contra affair (selling drugs for freedom is fun!) can attest. There are, however, no conspiracy theories as famous as the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
Yesterday it was reported that his wife, Jackie Onassis, may soon speak from the grave and finally finger Lyndon B. Johnson and southern businessmen as conspirators in her husbands assassination. Why is this relevant? As Alex Moore from Death and Taxes notes:
In order to function properly conspiracies need only a few willing and influential actors, the right timing, official narrative, and copious amounts of credulity to win decades of influence.
JFK and 9/11
Speaking on Operation Neputne's Spear, there was about "25 minutes where we really didn't know what was going on." - CIA Director Leon Panetta
Mohammad Bashir is a confirmed (according to Samaa) resident of Abottabad,
a neighbor of the supposed bin Laden compound. His cousin Sahab Jamrez Khan
and many other residents are all witnesses to human remains being strewn about
the compound after the helicopter suffered an explosion prior to take off.
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| What can we learn from our experience with JFK and OBL? Image Source: Time Magazine |
"The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings. We decided long ago that the dangers of excessive and unwarranted concealment of pertinent facts far outweighed the dangers which are cited to justify it. Even today, there is little value in opposing the threat of a closed society by imitating its arbitrary restrictions. Even today, there is little value in insuring the survival of our nation if our traditions do not survive with it. And there is very grave danger that an announced need for increased security will be seized upon by those anxious to expand its meaning to the very limits of official censorship and concealment. That I do not intend to permit to the extent that it is in my control. And no official of my Administration, whether his rank is high or low, civilian or military, should interpret my words here tonight as an excuse to censor the news, to stifle dissent, to cover up our mistakes or to withhold from the press and the public the facts they deserve to know."
- John F. Kennedy, New York City, April 27th 1961
Conspiracies from Jesus to JFK
Upon hearing the word conspiracy, most people automatically turn off. The subsequent information is relegated to the trash heap and the messenger is instantaneously discredited. Used as a pejorative, conspiracy theorist, is just as powerful.
We are a nation based on empiricism, a nation founded on enlightenment principles favoring science over dogma, at least we think of ourselves this way. If there was a conspiracy afoot in a free society their would be consensus in opposition, therefore when conspiracy theories are proffered and we find them contrary to established belief we scoff, but why? Conspiracies are as old as time.
Looking through a different lens Americans may see conspiracies more clearly. Once emancipated from temporal, cultural, and religious bias the reality that conspiracies have been effecting human events since our inception is irrefutable. The most famous of all is arguably Judas Iscariot's nefarious plot to the arrest and crucify Jesus of Nazareth. Rarely does anyone contest this was in fact a conspiracy.
Perhaps the Ides of March will proffer up a more formidable example of our modern notion of conspiracy theory or what many prefer to call conspiracy fact. Julius Caesar was the victim of a massive conspiracy of over 60 men. After stabbing Caesar 23 times the conspirators justified their actions not as an attempt at a coup d'état, but tyrannicide. Their "patriotic" endeavor, albeit grounded in just cause, sowed the seeds of Rome's collapse.
Fast forward 1600 years and we find the 1605 gunpowder plot of Guy Fawkes, a conspiracy, which has garnered much attention is recent popular culture and one, which was verifiably aimed to kill not only the King of England, but the entire upper house of parliament!
Modern examples of conspiracy fact are innumerable, but many are well known, heavily corroborated and in hindsight are highly palatable. For example, it is easy to believe the Reichstag fire was perpetrated by Adolf Hitler due to decades of investigation and dramatization that have painted the Nazi's as warmongering xenophobic occultists bent on world domination. The initial tragedy, however, was the inebriation of the German people by a potent political cocktail. Impoverished by the Treaty of Versailles, defenseless due to a lack of countervailing democratic institutions, and under assault by a charismatic cult of personality under Hitler and his Nazi party the Germans were convinced to give up their rights and liberties for a new German millennia. The burning of the German congress was a superbly successful conspiracy which provided the legal basis for the deaths of tens of millions and it occurred just 60 years ago.
There are some insane conspiracies throughout history, they effect all nations and the United States is no exception as the the Business Plot (you though Bush Jr. was bad) of 1933, the Tuskegee Experiments (got syphilis?), the CIA's MKULTRA project (super spies anyone?), Watergate (presidential paranoia), and the Iran/Contra affair (selling drugs for freedom is fun!) can attest. There are, however, no conspiracy theories as famous as the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
Yesterday it was reported that his wife, Jackie Onassis, may soon speak from the grave and finally finger Lyndon B. Johnson and southern businessmen as conspirators in her husbands assassination. Why is this relevant? As Alex Moore from Death and Taxes notes:
"This is historically important, because it’s the first official tie to an establishment member on the inside admitting to suspicion of conspiracy.
The Warren Commission’s report that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone was really a promise to the American people: “Of course there was no conspiracy—your government would never betray you and kill your leader.” That piece of propaganda, submitted in September 1964, fractured America between those who would put their trust in the state establishment against all logic and those who believed the state had participated in assassinating its own leader and lied to cover it up–an irrevocable stain on democracy."
JFK and 9/11
In the pantheon of conspiracy theories there is nothing as well documented as the attacks of September 11th, 2001. Because the 9/11 attacks came on the heals of the information revolution everything was recorded virtually in high definition and stored for posterity.
The heavily criticized and revised online movie Loose Change has received tens of millions of views and has been called the first internet blockbuster. Websites from Alex Jone's Infowars.com (which seemingly predicted 9/11) to whatreallyhappened.com enjoy millions of hits per day and guard massive stores of information debunking the official story of the 9/11 attacks. In depth investigations like Inside Job by Jim Marrs and Synthetic Terror by Webster Griffen Tarpley provide every alternative angle to the official story.
The success of these movies, websites, and books have led to movements like 911truth.org and wearechange.org, which are active in not only exposing inconsistencies in the official narrative, but have started to physically confront and record government abuse in every theater. However, the main driver pushing so many to believe the most atrocious attack in American history may have come from our own government is because JFK is believed to have been the first casualty. His wife's newly revealed suspicions lend unparalleled credence to this belief.
Bin Laden was Killed Twice
The success of these movies, websites, and books have led to movements like 911truth.org and wearechange.org, which are active in not only exposing inconsistencies in the official narrative, but have started to physically confront and record government abuse in every theater. However, the main driver pushing so many to believe the most atrocious attack in American history may have come from our own government is because JFK is believed to have been the first casualty. His wife's newly revealed suspicions lend unparalleled credence to this belief.
Bin Laden was Killed Twice
Speaking on Operation Neputne's Spear, there was about "25 minutes where we really didn't know what was going on." - CIA Director Leon Panetta
The raid on the compound in Abottobad, Pakistan in early May is, from any perspective, the exclamation point to this bizarre post Cold War saga. After trillions of dollars spent on executing the worldwide War on Terror, ostensibly in response to 9/11 and under rollback (a geopolitical stratagem popularized in the Cold War), the US military's elite SEAL Team 6 unit finally took out America's Most Wanted and dumped him into Indian Ocean.
Three months later, literally days before 18 SEAL Team 6 members lost their lives in the bloodiest attack in the War on Terror, a moving narrative from the New Yorker was released describing in unprecedented detail every step of the official narrative, which allegedly killed Osama Bin Laden. The compelling story made no apologies for violating state sovereignty of a foreign ally or for killing an unarmed treasure trove of information (OBL). Most importantly Nicholas Schmidle stuck to the very uncontroversial series of events already admitted, more or less, by the White House and Department of Defense spokesmen.
The narrative posed by the New Yorker, however colorful and intricate, is merely an amalgam of public knowledge and the confidence of one "special operations soldier who is deeply familiar with the bin Laden raid." The new details avoided ambiguity and previous contradictions. It admitted false reports in the mainstream media and offered information which integrated surprisingly well with the explosive revelation (video below) that covert agents (whomever they were) assaulting the compound never made it out of Abottobad alive.
According to this anonymous government agent, the raid team used Pashto speaking soldiers whom told the local residents "to turn off the lights and stay inside" and whom purposefully blew up the stealth helicopter with C4 explosives and thermite grenades. The special operations soldier even went as far as to say "...I'm sort of glad we left the helicopter there. It quiets the conspiracy mongers out there and instantly lends credibility. You believe everything else instantly because there's a helicopter sitting there."
There is an extensive list of reports claiming the death of Osama bin Laden over the years from reporters to heads of state, but unfortunately no body has ever been claimed to have been found until the US government dumped it into the sea. But how did they remove the body if the only helicopter to touch ground never left? The following testimony has not been mentioned let alone refuted by any western journalist:
According to this anonymous government agent, the raid team used Pashto speaking soldiers whom told the local residents "to turn off the lights and stay inside" and whom purposefully blew up the stealth helicopter with C4 explosives and thermite grenades. The special operations soldier even went as far as to say "...I'm sort of glad we left the helicopter there. It quiets the conspiracy mongers out there and instantly lends credibility. You believe everything else instantly because there's a helicopter sitting there."
There is an extensive list of reports claiming the death of Osama bin Laden over the years from reporters to heads of state, but unfortunately no body has ever been claimed to have been found until the US government dumped it into the sea. But how did they remove the body if the only helicopter to touch ground never left? The following testimony has not been mentioned let alone refuted by any western journalist:
Mohammad Bashir is a confirmed (according to Samaa) resident of Abottabad,
a neighbor of the supposed bin Laden compound. His cousin Sahab Jamrez Khan
and many other residents are all witnesses to human remains being strewn about
the compound after the helicopter suffered an explosion prior to take off.
Conspiracy theories and government transparency have an inverse relationship. This is not to say each theory has a corresponding cover up, the relationship is not necessarily causal, but the more our government creates secret armies, spends four times as much on defense as its closest "adversary", and preemptively attacks foreign nations conspiracies whatever their stripe will find believers.
The validity of the OBL conspiracy, as of right now, hinges on Bashir's testimony. If in fact what he says is true 9/11 and Osama bin Laden are merely chapters in a war that has been waged on the American public since Vietnam. Who knows, like JFK, it may take 50 years for alternative theories to be taken seriously.
The validity of the OBL conspiracy, as of right now, hinges on Bashir's testimony. If in fact what he says is true 9/11 and Osama bin Laden are merely chapters in a war that has been waged on the American public since Vietnam. Who knows, like JFK, it may take 50 years for alternative theories to be taken seriously.
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