[Cowperson]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

Paging O.J. Simpson we need to refilm the mars landing scene.

Maybe when Lanny was golfing with OJ yesterday, looking for Nicole's killer, he was doing double duty looking for the 25,000 bodies he insisted (for six weeks) the government was hiding in the aftermath of 9/11.

"Conspiracy theories are one way to make sense of what happened and regain a sense of control," said Michael Barkun, a political scientist at Syracuse University who has written books on the culture of conspiracies. "Of course, they're usually wrong, but they're psychologically reassuring. Because what they say is that everything is connected, nothing happens by accident, and that there is some kind of order in the world, even if it's produced by evil forces. I think psychologically, it's in a way consoling to a lot of people."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...-2004Oct6.html

I also find it disgusting when conspiracy theorist and people that have a hate on for the U.S. government use thier lives and deaths as an asinine debating point to say that everything that America does is evil. - Captain Crunch.

From the same article above:

"It seems that since the end of the Cold War, the enemy is the United States government, the enemy is within," said Rick Ross, whose Ross Institute of New Jersey monitors cults and other controversial groups, many of which see manipulative forces working behind the scenes. "Instead of projecting conspiracy theories out, it's become internalized."

Also, this observation:

"The hardcore conspiracy theorists are totally committed," 9/11 Commission's executive director Phillip D. Zelikow said. "They'd have to repudiate much of their life identity in order not to accept some of that stuff."

"The question of whether American 77 hit the Pentagon is indisputable," Zelikow said. "One reason you tend to doubt conspiracy theories when you've worked in government is because you know government is not nearly competent enough to carry off elaborate theories. It's a banal explanation, but imagine how efficient it would need to be."

The more layers a conspiracy theory requires, the less likely it becomes. Most 9/11 conspiracy theories would require thousands of people not connected with government being involved.

Popular Mechanics looks at the various conspiracy theories surrounding 9/11, including issues surrounding Flight 93 (page 7 and 8):

http://www.popularmechanics.com/scie...e/1227842.html

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