"conspiratorial"

[Terrance]

"As journalist Michael Parenti has pointed out (Land of Idols, St.
Martin's Press, 1994), politicians & corporate leaders naturally work to
further their own monetary & power interests, often in a conspiratorial
manner. To
believe otherwise is to believe in....."

The key word here is "conspiratorial." 


Politicians & corporate leaders **naturally** work to further their
own monetary & power interests. Only a fool would argue that this is not 
the case. But this fact is not conspiratorial. Unless you want to define
conspiratorial as the natural cooperation of business and political
interests. But why conspiratorial? 
It's natural and a given fact. Conspiratorial implies a plot,
machination, collusion, intrigue, cabal. And each of these nouns denotes
a secret plan to achieve an **evil** or **illegal** end. 

"conspiratorial" can mean an agreement to perform together an illegal,
wrongful, or subversive act. 

For instance, HR Clinton conspired with futures traders to illegally and
wrongfully steal money from the American public. Furthermore, she
illegally and wrongfully used those stolen monies to pay for the
advancement of her husband's and her own political careers. 

HRC and President Clinton were never prosecuted for their crimes.
President Clinton was impeached for his conspiratorial acts and crimes
as
president. 

"conspiratorial" can mean an agreement between two or more persons to
commit a crime or accomplish a legal purpose through illegal action." 

Ronald Reagan as president of the United States conspired to sell arms
to Iran and send the monies from those sales to the Contras. Reagan was
not impeached but others who conspired with him were imprisoned for
their conspiracy and crimes.

One reason why the conspiracy theorists abuse the word (conspiratorial)
is because they simply don't have the facts and they want to accuse
people or institutions of illegal activities. Without the facts and only
a bunch of apparent connections they string together a theory that
amounts to little more than their own political agenda. 

The conspiracy theorists also undermine the good hard investigative
works of organizations and individuals who actually put together fact
based criticisms, accusations, legal actions. The conspiracy theorists
leach off these good works and while stretching the facts to support
their far fetched connect-the-dots theories undermine the sources they
suck the truth from. Conspiracy theorists should stop trying to make
infernos out of political & corporate cesspools.  But these Stencils are
usually Harvard boys with their pants down around their argyle sox
looking for a horn to blow and they simply can't believe that they owe
their own privileged lives to the unchosen ghosts still haunting their
seven gables. Maybe they should try their hands at fiction or poetry and
stop stretching our suspensions of disbelief like cabals over troubling
waters. Coleridge, of course,  was trying to explain how great poetry
multiplies its own power to summon images and emotions by getting the
audience to do some of the
imaginative work. But conspiracy theory leaves no job for the
imagination. It preaches through the fog, it paws at us, it plunders
pundits and pawns off its dark deep and desperately designed plots tying
the audience up in knots while it administers shock therapy and Lucy In
The Sky With Coal Tar. 

"We're all in it together, kid." 

B/T uttle