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garybeck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-22-04 11:16 PM
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Conspiracy theories
conspiracy

con·spir·a·cy ( P ) Pronunciation Key (kn-spîr-s)
n. pl. con·spir·a·cies

An agreement to perform together an illegal, wrongful, or subversive act.

A group of conspirators.

Law. An agreement between two or more persons to commit a crime or accomplish a legal purpose through illegal action.

A joining or acting together, as if by sinister design: a conspiracy of wind and tide that devastated coastal areas.


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so can someone tell me how we jumped from simply investigating a crime that involves more than one person, to being tin-foil-hat-wearing freaks of nature?

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Must_B_Free Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-22-04 11:19 PM
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1. the freepers did it
Edited on Wed Dec-22-04 11:20 PM by Must_B_Free
they discovered that tinfoil helmets protect you from the mind rays projected by the black helicopters of Clinton's Zionist Occupied Government.

Then, when Bush was selected, they decided Zionism was a good idea because Christian prophecy would never happen until Jewish prophecy is fulfilled.
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Merlot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-22-04 11:30 PM
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2. huh?
Usually I love a good conspiracy theory...
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Must_B_Free Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-23-04 02:06 AM
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9. the freeps invented tinfoil and black helicopters
that was their conspiracy theory against Clinton and Zionists.

then they mysteriously transformed into christian zionists under Gee W...
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Merlot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-23-04 10:29 AM
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10. well, that clears up a few things
In the 80's I knew a guy who smoked a lot of pot and said to watch for the black helicopters, because someday they were going to be rounding up anyone who did drugs and put them under lockup.

In the 80's the repub war was on drugs. New times, new repub war...
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NGU Donating Member (272 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-22-04 11:33 PM
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3. It is not just the Freepers
We are turning on our own. Some of my friends who voted Kerry are proving that they are use fair weather Democrats. They tell me that I am holding onto the election too long. The reality is that they are too comfortable in front of their TVs to fight for their children's futures.

NGU
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Up2Late Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-22-04 11:37 PM
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4. Carl Rove & Co.
The other day I saw a great new term for the "Right-wing Wackos" that call us Conspiracy Theorists. Check it out:evilgrin:

Coincidence Theorists :bounce:

Wha'd ya think?
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texpatriot2004 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-23-04 12:33 AM
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5. I like "coincidence theorists" although I find conspiracy theories
quite interesting.
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Merlot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-23-04 10:35 AM
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11. "There are no coincidences in politics"
That's a quote possibly from Franklin Roosevelt. I'm sure he was in a position to know.

Anything that is odd, or the timing is just to perfect doesn't happen by accident. Someone is always pulling the strings. So if we are "coincidence theorists" that means we investigate everything behind that seemingly benign "concidence" to find the truth.

Works for me.

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texpatriot2004 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-23-04 12:36 AM
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6. I think that's what the people in power like to call the people who
question them. I am not sure how they apply that term logically. I mean, as you suggest, rationally, it doesn't apply to us investigators. If they can label us, you know crazy whacked out conspiracy theorists it's a way of minimizing, dismissing our findings.
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libertypirate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-23-04 12:47 AM
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7. We are really a conspiracy possibility
we are kinda beyound theory... I mean does anyone doubt that more then one person fixed this election.
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Up2Late Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-23-04 01:21 AM
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8. I Think you would call us -- Conspiracy Investigators
:hippie:The name calling is part of the "Five Rule to staying out of Prison"
or you could call it the O.J. Defense (example: Mark Furman)
:think:
1) Admit Nothing
2) Deny everything emphatically
3) Demand Proof
4) Make Counter Accusations
5) Assault the accusers character

If you like "Conspiracy Theories," or as I like to think of it,
"Spin Free News" Check out these web sites, It will blow your mind all the stuff "they" are keeping from us:

<http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/>

<http://www.fromthewilderness.com/>

<http://globalresearch.ca/>

Most of these sites have links other great sites too
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