Conspiracy Theories

[kmo]

The use of the term "conspiracy theory" to paint someone as a lunatic without actually bothering to find fault with the specifics of their ideas is a pet peeve of mine. Given that we're so close to September 11th, that odious phrase, "conspiracy theory," and the laziness and dishonesty that go with it have really been stinking up the memetosphere

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[mungojelly]

What I find odd about the 9/11 conspiracy movement is that there's this air about it as if 9/11 (were it proved) would be the first heinous thing the U.S. Government ever did! God, let's make the circumstantial case. Apparently for many people it still needs to be made. People are rejecting conspiracy theories on 9/11 based on a general presumption of innocence that they grant to the U.S. Federal Government! That shows that we have a major education gap!! Tuskegee came up in the corporate media cycle during the primaries (brought in quite forcefully, if senselessly, by Reverend Wright) and that too was treated with the "conspiracy" kid gloves (anyone who says that is craaaaazy), even though it's simply accepted history. But you just can't believe in the things that happened, or care, or you're part of the psychic tumor they're trying to remove.

I have a countermeme to what Keith Olbermann has recently & brilliantly entitled "9/11tm", the use of 9/11 as a totemic brand name for militarism and oppression. What I am doing is to respond on some level every time I encounter the date 9/11 with the story and the memory and the soul of the man Salvador Allende. He was martyred on 9/11 you may know, killed in a coup supported by the CIA. The eleventh was the date by the force of Allende's will: Since he knew of the plots against him, the twelfth was the date on which he was calling for a referendum to prove that the people still supported him, that they still supported the mandate they had given him in his democratic election. Rest in peace, Salvador Allende, and long live your memory!

a link for them what care

[kmo]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvador_Allende