More Deconstruction

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In a message dated 10/21/2002 6:49:49 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
fqmorris at yahoo.com writes:


> To acknowledge that politicians, rich people and corporate leaders "work to
> further their own monetary & power interests, often in a conspiratorial 
> manner"
> is vastly different that believing in a vast and widely unified conspiracy
> theory such as some believe is embodied by the illuminati.
> 
And I have never expressed belief in the Illuminati Conspiracy.  Like I said, 
one false or ridiculous idea does not negate other theories that may have 
some truth to them.  Do I believe in UFOs?  No.  Do I believe that Lee Harvey 
Oswald was part of a conspiracy?  Of Course.  Do I believe that the 
incredibly powerful & influential people who meet each year as part of what 
has been called the Bilderberg Group have more on their minds than gourmet 
lunches?  Well, yes, I think there's a lot of "planning" going on there.  Now 
whether it's criminal or not, I'll leave that for the victims to decide.  
Historians may differ.  Is the Tri-Lateral Commission a conspiracy?  Depends 
on what you call conspiracy.  They believe they are insuring the success of 
the best & brightest of the power elite.  They are keeping the world order in 
place.  Some of us would no doubt be in sync with their motives, others 
opposed.  So be it.  But to deny that there is no influence being constantly 
peddled is simply nonsense.  It's comforting to believe that things happen by 
accident.  
Was the Tonkin Gulf a conspiracy?  Did LBJ & his advisors sit down in a room &
 decide how they were going to use the incident?  Yes.  They actually sat 
down together & decided to lie & fuck up the future of literally millions of 
human beings, just as the Hapsburgs sat down at Salzburg in 1848 while Vienna 
celebrated a new dawn of freedom & Hungary rejoiced.  Just as the railroad 
barons of the 1880's plotted to break the workers' associations in 
cigar-smoke filled rooms.  Just as McKinley lied when he said he talked to 
God about the Philippines.  He talked to Roosevelt, Lodge & Mahan.  
Most Americans don't want to think that they are pawns in a great game.  But 
the game is real, & its victims are legion.  Just because you're paranoid 
doesn't mean they're not after you.

whining like a whipped dog,

jbf
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