GDQ: Conspiracy Theorists, Right Wing Wackos and other jerkoffs who are NOT welcome at GDQ
I'm sick of seeing liberty-loving Americans lumped in with, or actually referred to as, "conspiracy theorists." As if maintaining a viable, sustainable, non-invasive government---and demanding that government (i.e. the individual people in the government) be held accountable for its actions---makes one a "conspiracy nut."
No. No, no, emphatically NO. Merely because one is vehemently opposed to, say, illegal search & seizure, or illegal taxation, or the monumentally idiotic waste of those illegally-absconded tax dollars, does not in any way suggest that we are of the opinion that our ham-fisted government was responsible, either directly or indirectly, for the 9/11 disasters. Indeed, the very concept that any arm of our government is even remotely capable of pulling off such a perfectly orchestrated attack is laughable (their best and brightest spend trillions of dollars and still can't even figure out how to make foam stick to a rocket). Seriously, c'mon, considering the sheer number of people who would necessarily have been involved, and without so much as one single person ever stepping forward and confessing, after 5 years of gnawing guilt and regret....
No, it just didn't happen that way. And few liberty-loving people believe it did. What a fair number of us do believe is that our government---after spending billions of dollars in creating that gigantic new behemoth of a bureaucracy, Homeland Security (and its retarded child TSA), and billions more sending thousands of young Americans to their graves, and tens of thousands of Arabs young and old to theirs, alienting the most of the planet in the process; and after doing everything short actually setting fire to our constitution itself in their counterproductive "war on terror," bankrupting us in the meantime---is simply too inept to conceive and carry out such an astonishingly simple plan.
And even if they were capable of such an elegantly simple operation, and then keeping mum about it, most of us still don't believe that even King George is capable of ordering such an atrocity (at least against his own countrymen). No, while those at the uppermost echelons of the American power structure are, often as not, evilly inept, they are rarely evil for evil's sake. They do not pursue evil ends out of principle, cultural animosity, nor even a twisted christian fundamentalist jihad (as, say, a bin Laden might); and they therefore have nothing to gain from killing thousand of Americans. And while it is a debatable issue as to whether or not King George is religiously deluded---enough to attempt to start an Armegeddon---I'm inclined to believe that those around him, those who have used him as their strategic pawn-king, are merely utilizing him to further their own insidiously-deep-rooted interests in what Eisenhower called "the military industrial complex."
Yet even this military industrial complex, in my humble opinion, falls far short of any sort of long-term, top-tier, organized effort to bilk the American people out of two-thirds of their hard-earned pay. Not when you have Boeing courting one senator over here, Halliburton colluding with Northrop over there, the Pentagon playing a vicious game of tug-o-war with The Office of Naval Research way up there (away from prying eyes), and all blackmailing one another and stepping on each other in a decidely disconcerted effort to get a slice of that precious federal pie.
No, it is my sincere belief, as a liberty-loving, non-conspiraphile, American, that one need not resort to conspiracy theories in order to explain the ever-growing evil of ever-growing government. Indeed, it speaks for itself.
Jefferson
No. No, no, emphatically NO. Merely because one is vehemently opposed to, say, illegal search & seizure, or illegal taxation, or the monumentally idiotic waste of those illegally-absconded tax dollars, does not in any way suggest that we are of the opinion that our ham-fisted government was responsible, either directly or indirectly, for the 9/11 disasters. Indeed, the very concept that any arm of our government is even remotely capable of pulling off such a perfectly orchestrated attack is laughable (their best and brightest spend trillions of dollars and still can't even figure out how to make foam stick to a rocket). Seriously, c'mon, considering the sheer number of people who would necessarily have been involved, and without so much as one single person ever stepping forward and confessing, after 5 years of gnawing guilt and regret....
No, it just didn't happen that way. And few liberty-loving people believe it did. What a fair number of us do believe is that our government---after spending billions of dollars in creating that gigantic new behemoth of a bureaucracy, Homeland Security (and its retarded child TSA), and billions more sending thousands of young Americans to their graves, and tens of thousands of Arabs young and old to theirs, alienting the most of the planet in the process; and after doing everything short actually setting fire to our constitution itself in their counterproductive "war on terror," bankrupting us in the meantime---is simply too inept to conceive and carry out such an astonishingly simple plan.
And even if they were capable of such an elegantly simple operation, and then keeping mum about it, most of us still don't believe that even King George is capable of ordering such an atrocity (at least against his own countrymen). No, while those at the uppermost echelons of the American power structure are, often as not, evilly inept, they are rarely evil for evil's sake. They do not pursue evil ends out of principle, cultural animosity, nor even a twisted christian fundamentalist jihad (as, say, a bin Laden might); and they therefore have nothing to gain from killing thousand of Americans. And while it is a debatable issue as to whether or not King George is religiously deluded---enough to attempt to start an Armegeddon---I'm inclined to believe that those around him, those who have used him as their strategic pawn-king, are merely utilizing him to further their own insidiously-deep-rooted interests in what Eisenhower called "the military industrial complex."
Yet even this military industrial complex, in my humble opinion, falls far short of any sort of long-term, top-tier, organized effort to bilk the American people out of two-thirds of their hard-earned pay. Not when you have Boeing courting one senator over here, Halliburton colluding with Northrop over there, the Pentagon playing a vicious game of tug-o-war with The Office of Naval Research way up there (away from prying eyes), and all blackmailing one another and stepping on each other in a decidely disconcerted effort to get a slice of that precious federal pie.
No, it is my sincere belief, as a liberty-loving, non-conspiraphile, American, that one need not resort to conspiracy theories in order to explain the ever-growing evil of ever-growing government. Indeed, it speaks for itself.
Jefferson
posted by Jefferson | 9:24 AM
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