Before I get into my very special conspiracy theory, let me give a little background on how I see the business of conspiracy theory.
First of all, ignore the ninnies who say you shouldn't be doing it. They're full of crap.
Most detractors of "conspiracy theory" are either so naive they can't fathom the harsh realities of the world, or they're cynical operatives who're trying to discredit you because you're getting too close to the truth.
There are wise people among the detractors of conspiracy theory. There is a case to be made that politically, we as a nation cannot afford the divisiveness of such grave accusations. We must not imply that Bush betrayed us to the terrorists or that the Bush Administration is Al Qaeda.
It's true, there are short-term political risks to this type of discussion, but in the long run, we'll be glad we started openly discussing theories on the exact nature of the treason, war crimes, and terrorism of the Bush Cabal sooner rather than later.
No one should have any problem with us doing "conspiracy theory" in general, just with specific conspiracy theories. We should attack the weakest, most implausible theories and support the plausible, strong theories.
Those who are worried that our search for truth is going to diminish the carefully cultivated public image of Daily Kos, you can share space with us or you can watch as the political center of gravity moves elsewhere.
It's an evolutionary process for conspiracy models to improve through a collaborative effort. So, the strongest theories ought to survive. When they can plausibly explain what happened, they gain credibility. This is the way it should be.
We have to recognize, there are disinformation specialists who are trying to throw us off the trail with bad conspiracy theories. They're mixing truth with fiction which is contrived to lead us astray. There are also dumb, yet persuasive people (I may fall into this category), innocently leading us astray with their imagination.
We need to be like scientists, advancing our best theory, not as a conclusion but simply as our best model for explaining the phenomena. We accept that our conspiracy models will continue to evolve.
People who become religious zealots about their particular theory should be marginalized. Science is about accepting what you don't know, and not trying to claim to know what you don't know. Religious convictions are for the faithful, not for those scientific truth-seekers who tentatively advance models to explain mysterious phenomena.
Another very important point - Don't take your conspiracy theory in an anti-semetic direction. Obviously, this does not mean that individuals who happen to be Jewish are exempt from suspicion of complicity in the conspiracy model. Just don't use conspiracy theory to advance a racist agenda.
Conspiracy theory is just that, theory. If your theoretical model is implying some kind of collective accusation toward "The Jews", it's because you have an agenda against Jews, and that's not theory, thats an agenda. You're not seeking truth, you're pushing your lie.
If you present for public consideration, specific facts incriminating a group like the "Neocons", who are bound together by explicitly shared ideology, you're doing fine. You can talk about AIPAC's money at work in the US, but you can't credibly discuss the "Jewish Lobby" without sounding like you have an agenda. The fact is, AIPAC is not really a "Jewish Lobby", it's actually flush with cash from militant Evangelical Christian TV preachers who love to interfere with Israeli domestic politics and foreign policy. One could easily make the case that these corrupt "Christian" puppet masters are using corrupt Israeli partners to disenfranchise the Israeli people, just as they do to the American people. So please, don't blame "The Jews" in your conspiracy theories.
Remember the lesson of Mel Gibson, George Allen and Trent Lott. If you're harboring secret racist attitudes, your cover will be blown. We will notice and we will take you down.
Having said that, you have a duty not to ignore the facts, even if they happen to have dangerous implications. But if the implications are too extraordinary, you better tread with caution, triple-checking your facts and narrowing your focus down from wild extrapolations.
Now, considering all the different ways people take Conspiracy Theory in an irresponsible direction, does Markos deserve to have his balls busted for cracking down on conspiracy theorists on DailyKos? I don't think so.
The effect of his crackdown has raised the standards for conspiracy theory. You better put some deep thought into your theory, or else we don't have the time to waste on your newbie-wanker conspiracy theory.
On the other hand, I think that after the latest terrorist scare was revealed to be without substance, those of use who theorized that it was only a propaganda effort from Bush's psyops cabal have been vindicated. Those who recommended this recent diary, "Please Stop with the Conspiracy Theories" which indiscriminantly discouraged "conspiracy theory" on the British threat can now heed our warning to not to throw out the baby with the bathwater.
Now, hopefully I've prepared you for the Grand Unified Conspiracy Theory of Terrorism and 9/11...
I will now present to you, a conspiracy model for your consideration. Hopefully, this will help explain certain phenomena.
I'm going to present it as if I believe it, with persuasive rhetorical stylings. That's just for effect. I want to create a sense of immersion into the theory. I'm not really hoping to convince you, only to stir up some thought and to challenge widespread and long-held assumptions on these subjects.
Al Qaeda(tm) is a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of BushCo(tm)
Basically I'm saying Bush's rogue psyops team is indistiguishable from Al Qaeda in it's strategy, tactics and purpose. Bush is Al Qaeda. Al Qaeda is BushCo. Bush is Bin Laden's evil twin. Bush is Zarqawi. Cheney and Bush may have initiated the planning of the attack. At the very least they anticipated the attacks and suppressed defense.
Now they perpetrate psyops campaigns on the American public, they use entrapment schemes to manifest fake terror events. Just look at the way the Pakistanis worked with British and American spooks to manifest this latest terror threat.
It's almost like the Bush psyops terrorist event planners tell their terrorist operatives they need a shoe bombing. Richard Reid is then manipulated into making his lame attempt. He's a very programmable nutcase like the guys who killed Kennedy and Dr King. The CIA has done lots of work in the area of manipulating soft-headed people for use as disposable, living weapons. Richard Reid was a completely incompetent, suggestible boob, who failed because he didn't have the know-how.
Then everyone had to take their shoes off. Next they do one on liquid bombs. Now we have to leave our liquids. The purpose is to make the terror threat tangible and real to people so they can't forget about it.
Regarding the London train and bus bombings, were there identified parts of terrorists that were recovered? Maybe Bush and Blairs terrorists just left some bombs without actually dying in a suicide bombing. It was a few opportunistic terrorists from the IRA who had been assimilated into Blair's cabal, much like Nazis were assimilated into the CIA. They left a few bombs here and there, and then you've got your latest Al Qaeda attack.
I wouldn't put it past Bush's terrorist operatives to bomb civilians and blame Al Qaeda. Al Qaeda seems to be an extension of Bush's foreign policy apparatus. Look how people keep dying for the Enron cover up. Look how the british weapons expert was found dead. Remember the British agents caught by Iraqi security forces with trucks loaded with explosives? What if Bush and Blairs winged monkeys are responsible for the bombing of the Golden Domed Mosque. Suppose Bush & Blair started the civil war as an exit strategy. I strongly believe the Zarqawi psyop campaign is part of this wedge strategy to divide Sunni from Shiite. Bin Laden mourning Zarqawi? It's only audio, of course. Another fake.
So the GOP betrayed us to the terrorists. What's new or shocking about that? What the Fuck is so suprising about that? The GOP is where the white supremecists went - you know, the terrorists who lynched black people, bombed and burned black churches?
They supported the Apartheid regime in South Africa - blatant terrorism and racism. They supported Saddam AFTER he gassed his own people. They supported Pinochet - a terrorist who had people tortured. Now we have a policy of TORTURE. Of course the GOP are in league with Al Qaeda! How can they not be? This is not hyperbole or tin-foil hat stuff.
We have to face down these terrorists, just like we always have had to, since the days of slavery.
Reagan betrayed the American hostages by dealing with Iranian hostage-takers to keep the hostages just long enough to ruin Carter. Iran let them go as soon as Reagan won the election. It's already known that they steal elections, start wars and perpetrate Pysops/Propaganda campaigns on American soil. Why is it so unbelievable that the Bush Cabal is actually planning terror attacks on America?
The GOP has always been cut-throat, terrorist-loving, America betraying shitstains. Back in the days of the American Revolution, the equivalent of the GOP were working with the British against the revolution. America has always had it's traitors and terrorists.
Why should we let Anne Coulter be the only one throwing around accusations of Treason?
The old protection racket is big business. It's always been this way. Bush is Al Qaeda. The GOP are terrorists as they've always been. The corporations still use terror to coerce people to give up what they have.
The East India Company - slavery, terrorism, piracy. Coca-Cola has it's own terrorists. Shell Oil. They've murder union organizers.
The only difference is that now the corporations are terrorizing modern Americans like they've terrorized people ever since the first pirates became organized enough to offset risk among share holders.
These days, the media is acting like Pravda, working hard on behalf of the terrorists to terrorize Americans.
If it's so hard to imagine the Bush Cabal perpetrating acts of terror, just think about how the CIA is it's self a terrorist organization, literally. Think of the history of the CIA in Latin America. Think of all the Nazis imported into the CIA after WWII.
Think of all the American investors in the Nazi venture. Think of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Think of the slaughter of the Natives in the Americas. The mass murder of Mayan villagers by Reagan's fascist proxies, trained in the art of terror at the School of the Americas. All this mass-murder is hard work. Wars are not started innocently or accidentally. It's hard work to convince people to give up their lives on behalf of abstract concepts. It takes a lot of organized, methodical deception.
Terrorism is old news. The only new thing is that now it's playing big on home soil. It's glitzy now, like a big-budget Hollywood Blockbuster. No need to be dazzled by it. What happened on 9/11 is still nothing compared to Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
We, the Netroots are under the spell of the corporate-owned media to a much greater degree than we realize. If only we knew what these people were actually doing to the world...
IT's almost as if we've forgotten the answers to these questions:
What country were fifteen of the 9/11 hijackers from?
Saudi Arabia
Who is withholding 28 pages about Saudi Arabia from the Congressional Report on 9/11?
George Bush
Which american president visited the father of Osama Bin Laden?
George Bush Sr.
Who led a company that was funded by a brother of Osama Bin Laden.
George Bush
Who considered the family of Osama Bin Laden to be "above suspicion" and failed to detain them after 9/11?
George Bush
Which Bush cabinet member shook Saddam Hussein's hand after he gassed his own people?
Donald Rumsfeld
Who's lies about weapons of mass destruction are costing american lives in iraq?
George Bush
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Additional food for thought:
Falwell and Robertson agree [with Osama Bin Laden] that God lifted his veil of protection of America on 9/11. The Pastor of Westboro Baptist Church says "Thank God for IEDs". He attacks America's armed forces as a "Faggot Army".
Rabbi Moishe Friedman, the ultra-orthodox Jew who embraces the Hitler and the Holocaust as God's punishment of wayward and sinful Jews, also agrees with this idea of God's wrath against the secularists.
So, again, I ask - Is it really so unthinkable that Christian fundamentalists who, like their Islamic fundamentalist counterparts, hate gays, hate Jews, subjugate women and detest liberal, secular America would be working together to terrorize us back into 16th century?