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Fear factor: Conspiracy theories go mainstream
More and more so-called 'normal'
people believe outlandish stories
By LEAH MCLAREN
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What do you guys think of this stuff? Any conspriracy theorists in the house? Melon, please tell us all you know about the Bilderberg Group (you've got to have something on this).
Anybody here believe the moon is a space ship?
More and more so-called 'normal'
people believe outlandish stories
By LEAH MCLAREN
Click the link to read the full story. Here's what I found interesting:
This year, The New Statesman compiled a list of recent international opinion polls revealing that an extraordinary number of people believe that world events are being controlled by shadowy off-stage elements.
Among the revelations: A near-majority of the Arab world believes that Jews were warned of the World Trade Center attacks; an actual majority believes that the Princess of Wales was murdered because she had a Muslim boyfriend; more than 50 per cent of all black Americans believe that the Central Intelligence Agency approves of widespread drug use in their community because of its pacifying effect, and one-fifth believe that the AIDS epidemic was introduced by the CIA; 80 per cent of all Americans believe that the U.S. government is deliberately concealing the true explanation behind Gulf War syndrome.
Add to this the runaway success of Thierry Meyssan's book L'Effroyable Impasture (The Horrible Fraud), which insists that no plane crashed into the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001 -- rather, he says, it was a planned internal bombing by the U.S. government to control rogue elements within the military.
What do you guys think of this stuff? Any conspriracy theorists in the house? Melon, please tell us all you know about the Bilderberg Group (you've got to have something on this).
None of it comes as a surprise to David Bell (who didn't want his real name used -- don't call him paranoid), a 35-year-old Toronto financier, who is one of the seemingly growing number of "normal" conspiracy theorists out there -- people who operate in mainstream society, but hold highly unorthodox views about the world.
After reading hundreds of books about conspiracies on everything from the Order of the Knights of the Templar to who killed JFK (hint: it wasn't Lee Harvey Oswald), Mr. Bell says he is absolutely convinced that no plane hit the Pentagon, that the Bush family is a criminal organization, and that the moon is really a space ship. And that's just for starters.
Anybody here believe the moon is a space ship?