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Apathy, Conspiracy's Best Friend

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A first question in crime investigations is, who benefits? For starters, Larry Silverstein netted over $500 million on the insurance settlement. Plus, vital records pertaining to thousands of investigations of organized crime, and corporate fraud (tax fraud, stock fraud, etc.), involving Enron and many others, including the Securities and Exchange Commission's primary inquiry into how investment banks divided up hot shares of initial public offerings amid the high-tech bubble. In WTC 7 were offices of the IRS, FBI, Securities and Exchange Commission, US Secret Service, and Department of Defense. How amazingly handy for very powerful people, all those cases being closed because evidence was destroyed.

The institutional and official reason for the collapse of WTC 7: We're not quite sure....

As I mentioned earlier, the entire body of conspiracy theories has been salted with absurdity. Who might be doing the salting? Who stands to gain? Certainly not proponents of truth, but conspirators who want to see accurate explanations of what really happened on 9/11 tainted by any association with such as dead celebrities, aliens, and monster technology. They want to spread the word that any conspiracy theory is too absurd to be believed. And don't expect the public to discern between truth and absurdity; that requires critical thinking, especially since the official mainstream explanations themselves are so drenched with absurdity; so drenched with suspension of the laws of physics, outrageous coincidence, impossibilities, Rube Goldberg adjustable time frames and key omissions.

So what might happen if high treason in the highest official positions were finally admitted? What if our leadership confessed that, as Japanese legislator Yukisha Fujita argued during the debate over Japan's withdraw from the Global War On Terror, that the attack of 9/11 were an inside job to justify aggression in Afghanistan and beyond? Incredibly and astonishingly, perhaps next to nothing would happen...because so many Americans finding comfort behind the great wall of institutional and official lies would be blasted from their comfort zones and subjected to severe cognitive dissonance were the wall torn down. Also, critical thinking would be essential, demanding actual meaningful participation in governance.

Obviously, our entire system of governance needs profound corrections just to get anywhere near functioning as touted. How much would it matter that our corrupted system, besides delivering 9/11, the anthrax fiasco, endless theater wars for resources disguised as a GWOT (notice how all the terrorist hot spots represent a road map of not only the greatest remaining reserves of fossil fuel, but also the pipeline routes to get the energy to western markets?) That WWIII is being seriously considered as a way to revive our sold-out economy.

On and so on, and for what? In a moment of Bush cockiness, the absolutely fundamental truth was publicly shared: In 1992, when asked what Iran-Contra was really all about, George Bush Sr. replied that it was done for "...the continuous consolidation of money and power into higher, tighter and righter hands." Indeed, that's the core reason for just about everything civilization is doing, war being the ultimate consolidator.

Feudalism, lords and serfs...the old Dark Ages may seem bright compared to all wealth and power being concentrated in a mere handful of hands. It's called the New World Order.

Back to a basic institutional and official definition of conspiracy theory: Secret military, banking, or political actions aimed at stealing power, money, or freedom from the people -- doesn't that sound like exactly what has all but ruined our democratic republic? Can you think of anything of national importance that is NOT somewhat, mostly, or entirely conspiracy -- anything directly related to military, banking or political actions regarding power, money, or freedom of the the people that is NOT conspiracy? (Please send any list of suspects to: randicles@pobox.com) Think critically about that.... Seems conspiracy is about all we have, institutionally and officially. Oddly, people who insist that lying is all government and mainstream media do, choose to...want to believe the biggest whopper of all time -- the official story of 9/11.

The biggest crime in our history has not even been investigated, simply whitewashed. We are allowing the treasonists of 9/11 to go unpunished by chronically labeling as conspiracy theory any truth that contradicts the official story. Is it any wonder that neocon plans for global hegemony set in motion by their new Pearl Harbor (9/11) is a sure prescription for more and greater treason? We are seeing in the current financial meltdown metastasizing globally -- seeing especially in the USA the greatest upward transfer of wealth in history. The federal government's exposure pertaining to bailing out financial institutions most responsible for the meltdown currently hovers at $24.7 trillion (lucky for them the common folk have no way of relating to so much money).

But ultimate responsibility for this runaway -- consolidation of money and power into higher, tighter and righter hands -- is ours for allowing the perpetrators of 9/11 to walk free without so much as an investigation. So, as dictated by the global financial elite, we are now undergoing the controlled demolition of the middle class -- terminal consolidation of wealth and power into the few hands at the very top.

Superhuman power and cunning? You betcha, especially when compared with the hundreds of millions of common folk who, above all, just want things to be allright so they can tell Kareem he is very tall, and continue being too apathetic to save their own country.

In 1787, Alexander Tyler of the University of Edinborough wrote that all democracies go through eight stages, two hundred years being the average time frame. The stages are:

From bondage to spiritual faith;
From spiritual faith to great courage;
From courage to liberty;
From liberty to abundance;
From abundance to complacency;
From complacency to apathy;
From apathy to dependence;
From dependence back to bondage.

We are running a little late, just now being embedded in the apathy stage after about 216 years. And as far as the bondage stage hurrying toward us...that's the New World Order.

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