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In the course of my inquiries
into many of history's more recent controversies -- JFK, Waco, Vince
Foster, Oklahoma City, Ron Brown, TWA Flight 800, 9/11, Obama's birth,
the authorship of Obama's books -- I have come to see that when there
are actual conspiracies afoot, they fall into two general categories,
conspiracies of execution and conspiracies of concealment.
Conspiracies
of execution, at least on any kind of scale, are rare in American
history. The nature of our national character and the openness of
our political culture war against them.
Conspiracies of
concealment are another matter. When officials fail in their
duties and let, say, a president get shot, a plane get blown out of the
sky, or a hijacker fly into a building, their first impulse is to
conceal their mistakes. Such is human nature.
To me, a
"conspiracy theorist" is one who sees a conspiracy of execution where
none could logically exist or who confuses a conspiracy of concealment
with one of execution despite ample evidence to the contrary.
Given this
understanding, it is the rare "birther" who qualifies as a conspiracy
theorist. Few have conjured elaborate, impossible conspiracies on
the scale Oliver Stone did in JFK or the French leftist
Theirry Meyssan and others did with 9/11. [cont]
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