Anti-Conspiracy
Kooks
If you get up one morning, stub your toe on a table, spill your morning
coffee on your shirt, get a flat tire on the way to work, and have to fix it
in the rain, that's called bad luck. The likelihood that a group of devious
villains snuck into your house and moved your table a few inches to where
they knew you would kick it, and then somehow sabotaged your coffee mug so
you'd drop it, then did something to your tires to make them go flat ten
minutes later, and then somehow made it rain, is pretty darn slim. And if
you think all of that happened, I'd probably agree that you're a conspiracy
kook.
However, it is not only possible, but quite common, for people to be "kooks"
in the other direction: to not recognize conspiracies when they are obvious.
For example, billions of dollars are spent by people conspiring to get you
to buy a certain car. The car companies spend piles of money on crafting
propaganda (advertising) to manipulate your feelings and emotions, because
they want your money. Their magazine ads, TV ads, radio ads, the slogans
they use, the images they choose--it's all a "conspiracy" to get your money.
It happens to be a perfectly legal and moral conspiracy, at least most of
the time, but it's still a lot of people CONSPIRING to get money for
themselves.
The same is true of just about everything you buy, everything you see in the
media, and everything you read. There are thousands of groups very
deliberately trying to persuade you to give them your money. There are,
after all, TRILLIONS of dollars at stake, and almost everyone would like to
have lots of those dollars for themselves. So of course companies "conspire"
to get you to give your money to them. I can't imagine anyone being ignorant
enough to not realize that.
Another indisputable fact is that some people are not particularly honest or
nice. We've all seen the example of the used car salesman doing his little
psychological tricks and deceptions to dupe some poor guy into buying a
lemon. And when two or more people cooperate on coming up with such a scam,
that is, by definition, a conspiracy. It's as natural for bad people to do
it as it is for good people to do it, if not more so. (Enron comes to mind.)
When there are BILLIONS of dollars at stake, it's naive to NOT constantly be
on the lookout for conspiracy, deception, and trickery. (The Wachowski
Brothers' version of "Speed Racer"
expresses this nicely.) Just about everyone has heard the saying, "Follow
the money," yet people often seem to forget to do that. In any news story,
ask yourself, who got money and power as a result of this?
Right now we have a HUGE example, involving numbers almost too big to even
comprehend. Almost everyone talks as if the proposed $700,000,000,000
"bailout" is Congress irresponsibly bailing out lendors who, due to bad
planning, gave out loans that couldn't be repaid. Lots of people object to
the bailout, as well they should, but in doing so, they assume that the
government's version of events is what really happened.
Suppose some very rich and powerful bankers were either buddies with those
in Congress, had some blackmail leverage against them, or came up with some
other bribe or deal which would involve Congress giving them lots of money.
If Congress announced, "We're going to impose a new tax on everyone, so we
can give billions of dollars to our rich banker friends," I don't think the
public would be too thrilled about it. So how would they do it?
When deciding what "conspiracy theories" might be true, I like to use this
simple test: What would YOU do if you were a nasty crook?
It's a safe bet that anything I could think of, or anything you could think
of, the nasty crooks already have thought of. For example, if I was a crook
and I was in Congress (but I repeat myself), and I had some slimy deal with
big bankers--foreign and domestic--that they'd do something for me if I gave
them a huge pile of money, here's one thing I could do: Have them plan ahead
to give out millions of loans, including to people who can't possible repay
them--in fact, ESPECIALLY to those people. Once there is a nice big
collection of people in debt that they'll never get out of, the bankers and
the government can both say, "It's a crisis!"
Then, in the name of saving the country from economic catastrophe
(intentionally caused by us crooks), I send BILLIONS of dollars to my banker
buddies and call it a "bailout." Where do I get the money? I take it from
the people, of course, not only today, but in the future. The "bailout" is
backed by my promise to keep right on taxing the poor working slobs for
years to come. So in reality the scheme is a tax on everyone in the country,
with the money going right to my rich and powerful buddies. But as long as
it doesn't LOOK like that, and as long as most people think the "crisis" was
accidental, and don't think it was a conspiracy between me and my banker
buddies, they might get upset, but we'll get away with it anyway.
So is that what the "bailout" really is? It's hard to know what all happens
behind closed doors, but if you ask me, the above scenario is a lot MORE
likely than the banks and congress, with all their experts and advisors,
going along for years having no idea that the lendors had made
$700,000,000,000 in loans that would never be repaid, and then suddenly
realizing it all at once. Now THAT is a kooky theory, but it is what the
media presents as indisputable fact. This is no bailout, nor is it any
emergency solution for some unforeseen crisis. It is a calculated,
premeditated and preplanned way for a bunch of control freaks, in this
country and elsewhere (don't forget the Saudi and Chinese bankers) to get
lots more money out of the peasants. And they're sure that all of you will
just put up with it. Yeah, you'll complain, and you might even whine to your
congressman, but they couldn't care less about that. They get your money
anyway. And the best part is that, if you suggest that any of the above is
what really happened, most of your fellow fraud VICTIMS will ridicule YOU
for it, because they're too gullible, or just too stupid, to use simple
logic, taking into account human nature, to figure out what is really going
on around them.
Larken Rose
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