Friday inquiry. Your fave conspiracy?

[nairiporter]

Tangentially relevant to the monthly topic, here's my question. Which is your fave conspiracy theory? I mean, they're so fascinating! Mostly for the way people can get sucked into the myth. But also for the elaborate story-lines and the awesome characters involved. :-)

So which is it? The JFK assassination? The Moon landing hoax? The 9/11 cover-up? Secret societies and the NWO? The Grail and Jesus bloodline story? The reptilian elite? CIA and AIDS? Chemtrails, mind-control, the Greys/Greens, etc?

Comments

[johnny9fingers]

Lockerbie.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdelbaset_al-Megrahi

[johnny9fingers]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_Am_Flight_103_bombing_investigation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_Am_Flight_103_conspiracy_theories

[mahnmut]

How very Anglo-centric of you!

[johnny9fingers]

Me, Anglo-centric? Never! :)

In my humble opinion, which is the correct opinion else I would think otherwise, all the other conspiracy theories may or may not be true; but this is a miscarriage of justice on top of everything else.

And, unlike almost every other conspiracy theory which abounds, the leader of the the Justice campaign's daughter was actually killed in the plane, and is a uniquely placed member of the "rational" part of the British establishment with an education at Eton, Cambridge University, and Birmingham University, and contacts to the Intel services from his days as an Army Officer in the Royal Engineers, before he took his Medical degree. But that's appealing to the qualities of the man, and not the evidence. (Now I know of a few loony American medics, but Jim Swire doesn't fall into that category.) However, unlike the families of American victims, he reappraised the evidence. Folk in the Intel services leaked stuff to him about this because worldwide the Intel community, and spook-watchers and folk on the periphery, knew (and still know) the score...

Collateral damage for political expediency. I can sometimes see the point to that. No-one has yet convinced me that it is an appropriate response in this case.

[jazzyjj]

I think I'd have to say the 9-11 thing. Kinda forgot about Lockerby. I mean, I definitely heard about the plane crash itself, but I didn't really pay much attention to the aftermath. But the 9-11 thing is definitely still fresh in my memory, as my parents always have on NPR and even in my mother's car we heard about it. Another fave conspiracy of mine? Although this one is local and I think it affects a few other places in addition to Illinois. That is, the voc/rehab system that has been in place now for like eternity. At least when my family and I moved out here in 1985 it was definitely a thing. That, and paratransit perhaps to a somewhat lesser degree than it used to be.

[mikeyxw]

I kinda liked the flight 007 conspiracies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Air_Lines_Flight_007_alternative_theories

I remember reading an article about it in a men's magazine (see, it's just for the articles) and I was convinced. Of course, at the time I believed that nothing evil in the world took place without CIA backing. That's what I learned in college after all.

The moon landing hoax just seems so weird and so resistant to subsequent events. You can go see rockets as they launch. I mean they're public, there's a viewing area, you can verify for yourself that they launch those things if you're so dedicated.

[asthfghl]

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-unsolved-case-of-the-attempted-assassination-of-pope-john-paul-ii

[abomvubuso]

The "Hitler is alive in Argentina" and "Nazis built bases on the dark side of the Moon" conspiracies.

[oportet]

I'll watch and finish any show, read and finish any article on D.B. Cooper without losing interest - not sure if that counts as a conspiracy though (if they're required to involve more than 1 person), maybe it's just a plain ol' mystery.

[nairiporter]

Mysteries can easily grow into conspiracy if you have the right inclination. :-)

[policraticus]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princes_in_the_Tower

[johnny9fingers]

Bolingbroke's men. But Richard was a hunchback. :)