Conspiracy 101

[lavender]

 

[p_p_man]

From The Village Voice

WASHINGTON, D.C., MAY 11—The FBI's announcement yesterday that it withheld files from Tim McVeigh's defense lawyers raises once again not only the prospect of a wider conspiracy, but questions about whether the government itself was trying to cover up events leading to the the Oklahoma City bombing.

Even the merest hint of evidence being witheld has to beg the question WHY?

 

[Darowyn]

The thought has crossed my mind that matbe every single conspirator is actually a government agent, set to spy in secret on other mythical conspirators. The entire history of the secret services seems to demonstrate this kind of inability for the left hand to know what the right hand is doing and for most of their time to be taken by interdepartmental feuding.
There was a report from Ireland recently that many of the "IRA bombings & shootings" were carried out by MI5 agents working in deep cover. I'm no supporter of the IRA- but it is certainly plausible. The secrecy mind-set sees this sort of thing as mere collateral damage. "It's a shame if its your parent or child that gets collaterally damaged",they say, "but that's the price of my freedom to play James Bond"
It seems that things were always like that. G.K.Chesterton wrote a novel about it in the '20s "The Man Who Was Thursday"
Just thought I'd throw that into the pot. If you like conspiracies, "I blame the government" is always best!
I'm trying to be detached and ironic about this (as usual) but I really do think that there is something very dangerous about instutionalising paranoia in the way that the security services do. And the damage to innocent people makes me angry.
Cheers
Dave