The Strange Minds Of The Conspiracy Theorists

To say that conspiracies don't take place, would be naive in the extreme. After all, how do we know what 'black' Government departments are up to out of sight of the press or any oversight body? Conspiracy theories, it can't be denied, are always great fun. The typical 'did he fall - or was he pushed?'

But some of the conspiracy theorists are off the wall. To even suggest that the 9/11 bombings of the Twin Towers and the Pentagon were all planned by the Government is little short of insane. We have to ask whether Mr. Bush had become so unhinged that his desperate need to start a war in Iraq caused him to blow up half of New york.

And Mr. Cheney and Mr. Rumsfeld were just as unhinged and in complete agreement? I think in this particular case, this particular conspiracy theory, the thing that's so insulting and downright cruel is demeaning the names of all the brave people on those flights, and indeed those in the offices; the police, the firemen, all those who rushed to rescue the wounded and help anyone they could.

That's what these conspiracy theorists should hang their miserable little heads in shame about.

Now, there's a popular radio show host, who shall remain nameless, who's convinced that Obama is a puppet of criminal bankers. When an interviewer spoke to him, this chap ranted on for two hours about all manner of alarming things. One was the fact that FEMA was running concentration camps, the firm of Halliburton had turned into child kidnappers, and that the Government was running a eugenics programme.

The interviewer thought it about time to at least ask for evidence of all this. With due dramatics, he was shown a national security memorandum -- which turned out to be a perfectly harmless policy report. The interviewer was a psychologist, and when he confronted this character about this simple report, the fellow became belligerent, and let forth with a garbled speech of which Hitler would have been proud, about psychologists being 'agents of social control.'

Incidentally, no less than 36% consider that the Government played some sort of a role in 9/11, according to a 2006 Scripps News/Ohio University poll. 42% think that the Government is covering up evidence of flying saucers, and 69% believe that the Kennedy Assassination was a conspiracy.

There's no question that it's exciting to watch a television programme about Area 51 and wonder whether there are indeed any alien craft somewhere deep in the bowels of the complex, and/or little green or grey men helping our scientists come out with incredibly advanced technology.

The Conspiracy theorists really want the Government to come completely clean with us. Tell us exactly what they're up to and spread every secret out on the table.

I don't know about you, but I think I'd rather remain in ignorance.