Mickey Walker-March 28, 2010
Every time Jesse Ventura starts talking about how 911 was an
inside job, I cringe. You can tell
he is fluent and a thinker with a good grasp on issues. Yet he is quickly dismissed by the
mainstream press as a nutcase. It
is not popular to go around listening to those who cry ‘conspiracy. You look over your shoulder to see if
the Anti-Conspiracy Police is watching you as Ventura talks about secret
societies like the Bilderbergers who he says are seeking to poison our drinking
water, among other heinous acts. Ventura claims conspiracy
Whenever Alex Jones of ‘Prison Planet’ mentions how the
Federal Reserve, or the Bohemian Grove are all groups striving to bring about a
New World Order to the demise of the common man’s best interests, Jones is
swiftly demonized by the mainstream media as a crackpot and laughed off the
stage of credibility. Bohemian Grove Society
It is amazing how swift and how effective the
anti-conspirator clown horns, whoopee cushions and seltzer spray are brought
out and applied to anyone who probes into the mysterious groups such as the
dreaded Illuminati. This is the
big one. Illuminati and other Conspiracy Groups, an
‘Overview’ as seen through the eyes of a possible nut case
Illuminati. Even the name sends chills up the spine. This illustrious organization some say is comprised of
Rothschild’s and other powerful families in the world who control world banks,
the natural resources of countries, and in effect the world, itself. Laughable, the smart money will tell
you. Such conspiracy theory about
world domination and a ‘New World Order’ has no basis in reality or truth.
Yet during the years preceding WW I part of the Rothschild
family financed the Axis while at the same time some of their cousins financed
the Allies. Strange. But it proved to be a win-win for
everybody. Everybody that financed
the First World War, that is. For
the soldiers who died from Mustard Gas poisoning, well, they didn’t win; they
lost, so say the conspiracy nuts. And today, perhaps thousands of Americans
fear the New World Order and the notion that sinister and powerful forces are
afoot that mean the human race no good. The Internet buzzes with tales that perpetrate conspiracy theories. New World Order Conspiracy
Explained
For eons we have heard stories about how elite and powerful
secret societies control world stock markets, cause wars with the winners and
losers predetermined and just how the spoils will be divvied up later. But then that’s absurd, you say. Perhaps as absurd as George W. Bush
imagining that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction pointed at
American cities, maybe? He really
believed they did, I guess, and some Americans believed him. It seemed almost surreal how Rumsfeld,
Bush, and Cheney, right after the Twin Towers fell, began to target Iraq, even
though they knew that bin Laden was operating out of Afghanistan. “Iraq is the better target.” Rumsfeld told a shocked world. Wow. The conspiracy nuts must have gone bananas.
Equally absurd was Bush’s contention that Hussein and Osama
bin Laden had been in cahoots to bring down the Twin Towers. Or that you could sell a nation the
notion that artists’ drawings of evidence of weapons of mass destruction
facilities in Iraq would be as convincing as real reconnaissance photographs
taken from Blackbird surveillance planes or satellites. These proofs of hard evidence, not
unlike the hard proof of WMDs in Iraq, were not forthcoming. They just did not exist. Seems like somebody with ulterior
motives was building a case. But
for what purpose? Enter the
conspiracy theorists. Each one of
them has a different take on the question of why.
We had hard evidence that Intel that said Iraq had wronged
the United States was bogus. Bush
tried to convince Americans and the world that Saddam Hussein was trying to buy
yellow cake Uranium from Niger so he could build more weapons of mass
destruction. It does make you
scratch your head a bit and wonder at who the real fruitcakes really are, not
excluding our gullible selves who have come to believe most anything we are
told. Including that all conspiracy theory advocates are crazy and nut
cases. Remember how Bush barreled
ahead with this Niger Yellow Cake blockbuster in his state of the union address
after the CIA informed him the Niger Intel Report was bogus? Hmmmm. Bush squirms after
Iraq/Niger Yellow Cake Connection proves false
Many Americans believe that 911 was an inside job. I cannot believe that it was. So what moved bin Laden to kill
thousands of Americans on 911? And
if he truly hated Americans so much why hasn’t he continued his reign of terror
and blown up bridges in Cincinnati or a refinery or two in Texas or
Louisiana? Has our vigilance after
the fact proven to be that good in the face of an enemy that is sworn to
destroy us in suicidal madness, if necessary?
I read an article written by a conspiracy theorist who asks
the question, why have the terrorists let us slide for so long without one
incident? And has our security
been that good that we would have caught every real attempt by a furious
terrorist group like al Qaeda to blow us to bits? How could we, one might say, stop all the mad attempts to
destroy us? In truth we just don’t
have the manpower so here come the conspiracy theories.
Some ask, ‘Why haven’t we caught bin Laden by now?’
Those who cry conspiracy say that if we do then it’s ‘game
over.’ That we need him as much as
Reagan needed the Evil Empire in order to borrow and spend about 3 trillion
dollars to build up our military so we could bring Russia to her knees. But are we really letting bin Laden
live so the game can go on? That
would be a conspiracy, wouldn’t it? Of course. It would be a
tale told by a fruitcake, a conspiracy nut.
Some of these theories go over the edge of reason. Like 911 was staged so that America
could be softened up to where a Unitary Executive could control a heretofore
democratic nation by changing our very Constitution to suit his dictatorial
needs of expediency. So here comes Bush pouring kerosene on the flames of
conspiracy theory nuts. Like
instead of wiretapping and filing permission 5 days after the fact with the
FISA Courts (which would make it legal and right), well, it was just too much
trouble to do it right. Perhaps
the president needs all the expediency he can muster when there are terrorists
lurking behind every bush. And
Obama has sought to strengthen the changes Bush brought about to give the
president even more power and the Constitution less.
Changing the Constitution is easy as pie: ask Karl Rove. All you need do is tell Junior he can
affix a “signing statement” of his own to any bill passed by Congress, and he
does, and you create instant Legislative Branch proxy and authority right in
the White House itself to make laws. But I’m certain it was not contrived and it was purely accidental
because to think otherwise would be like them nutty conspiracy theorists who
think the president might have notions of changing the Constitution and
nullifying the separation of powers given us by our founding fathers. The conspiracy nuts must love it.
The conspiracy theorists made a big deal out of the Patriot
Act, too. They said that it wasn’t
right for the Executive Branch of government to round up people and hold them
without no habeas corpus or to try them in a military tribunal court instead of
a regular court here in America. You see, suspected terrorists don’t have the same rights as you or I
because they ain’t Americans, get it? Why, we need to hold them as long as we want and even water board a few
here and there just for good measure, like, where’s the conspiracy in
that? It’s only right (just
kidding). And if we change the law
of the land to deal with terrist scumbags, the government would never take away
our rights as Americans. Right? In a speech last year Obama said that we
needed to make a new set of rules governing the (lack of) rights of military
combatants in Guantanamo. Wow. New rules, eh? Bill Maher would be proud. Conspiracy, anyone?
Then there’s the persistent “Birthers” who want Obama to
produce his birth certificate to prove he is a natural born American. I’m with Bill Maher. I think Obama should indeed comply when
Sarah Palin produces her high school diploma live on Fox News. And of course, many say Obama is a
Muslim. All that I have read and
diligently searched overwhelmingly proves Obama is no Muslim, nor is there a
Muslim conspiracy at which he is the leader to bring America under a Muslim
theocratic form of government (Sheesh). This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but eat up with the
dumbass.
The Tea Baggers say Obama raised our taxes and is going to
destroy our Treasury. Actually,
Obama cut taxes for over 90% of Americans, and I for one, realized it with
great delight and surprise when Turbo Tax spit out remarkable and unexpected
tax cuts for me just a month ago. Try it, you’ll like it. As
to the charge that Obama is going to destroy our Treasury, I say, pshaw! He can’t ‘cause Reagan and Bush II
already did that. Reagan borrowed
and spent and added 3 trillion dollars to the National Debt. Then after Clinton’s shining example of
how a big-spending Democrat can produce a surplus with a surplus of jobs, Bush
II slam-dunked it all into the mud. He borrowed and spent off and on-budget to where another 4 trillion
dollars got added to the National Debt. Anybody counting? That’s 7
trillion between the two of them. And danged if W didn’t add insult to injury during wartime and with a
heavily-bankrupted Treasury to boot, by giving a 2 trillion dollar tax cut to
the upper-crust taxpayers like Warren Buffet who didn’t even need it.
My, my, the myths, the conspiracy theories and lies people
love to tell. Makes for a good
story. Like when Glenn Beck said there were 2 million tea baggers at the
Capitol demonstrating against Obama for his one-year spending programs. Duh, by an honest count there were not
even 10,000 tea baggers there on that day. But Beck didn’t mention one word about the 7 trillion
dollars Obama’s recent predecessors like in Reagan and Bush Ii added to the
National Debt. And that Glenn
Beck, is something to truly cry about. But don’t. You might just
run out of Vicks Vapor Rub during your Fox News rehearsal. Glenn Beck rehearse crying
on cue with Vicks