hollowdweller said:
That's a good question. I mean so many people have leaked stuff , like about the US secret prisons and the Abu Gharib photos, I really have a hard time thinking that if the US was somehow responsible that somebody wouldn't have stepped forward by now and exposed it.
You hit the major reason why I tend not to believe in conspiracy theories, HD...simply put, people are terrible at keeping secrets. They like to talk about stuff. If it's something that they did and they can't talk about, they'll talk about something that someone else did. I saw it constantly in the navy and I see it constantly in prison. (Although, frankly, the stuff that I heard in the navy was a whole lot less disturbing. Don't ask.)
But as Mr. Jiminez showed us, people love a good conspiracy! We have a history for finding things where there are none and if the evidence is iffy and/or the desire is there, one can argue pretty much anything...
JFK death: look at all those sealed records! The Magic Bullet Theory is easy enough to disprove but if nothing happened, why are the records sealed? (Satori says, LHO did it because he was nuts and Jack Ruby killed him because he was nuts. It happens.)
Moon landing: prove that it happened. And once you do, give me an hour or two and I'll photoshop a zombie invasion of Silverdale. Pics mean nothing. I haven't personally been to the moon...have you? (Satori says, while it can't be proven 100% -- much like the fact that the Earth is round can't be proven 100% -- I'm a believer regardless.)
Bruce Lee: Have you seen his body? I've seen his grave but I haven't seen a body. (Satori says, yeah, he's dead.)
Tupac Shakur: The government was out to get him. Didn't you listen to his songs? (Satori says, live like a gangsta, die like a gangsta. The government's got more important people to kill.)
Elvis: I can't really justify this one. He was on the way down and nobody lives forever. (Satori says, didn't you watch "Bubba Ho-Tep"? Of course he faked his death. He's still dead, but he didn't die like you think he did. Hail to the king.)
Marylin: This is another tricky one. I actually think something may have occured here. (Satori says, even sceptics have an occasional lapse of judgement.)
9/11: I've already covered this. (Satori says, the Mossad has instructed me that I'm not authorized to discuss it in depth.)
Pearl Harbor: I think FDR knew about it and let it slide. It would've been very difficult to get a largely isolationist nation involved in a foreign war without an attack on US soil. (Satori says, see? He did it again.)
Jimmy Hoffa: He disappeared for monetary reasons. He wasn't killed. (Satori says, hoist the BS flag -- Dave is a Teamster. Hoffa's buried under the end zone at Giants stadium. This is common knowledge in Jersey.)
Hitler: Kind of believable, when you think about it. Only a few very loyal supporters supposedly saw him die, and this at a time when most of the Nazi VIP's were attempting to escape and evade. The Russians picked up a charred corpse with a bullet hole in the skull and they were fairly close-lipped about just what they'd found for a long time...and they have a history of fibbing about things like that. What do you think? (Satori says, it wouldn't be surprising in the least if he'd made it out. He had look-alikes and he had a lot of allies in unlikely places, and if he'd made it to South America he probably would've been golden. Today he would, however, be the world's oldest man at 116 and someone probably would've heard about it by now. He's gone. Thank God.)
That pretty much covers the usual suspects. I intentionally omitted the Loch Ness Monster because it's bringing in a shipment of Aztec gold from the Bermuda Triangle and part of that is being diverted to my bank account, and the Illuminati are difficult to deal with in the case of pay disputes. (Even if you're a Teamster.)
