Boston Marathon Terror Attack - Part 2

[Victarion]

This picture makes my blood boil. I want 15 minutes in a room alone with that ****er.

I wish you'd let me join you.

 

[bullets]

Oh god. All of my Facebook "friends" are going on and on and on about how all this is staged because they haven't seen footage from the 7/11 or then cops dash cams. It hasn't even been 48 ****ing hours!! Smh

My boss believes a lot of conspiracies. He still claims Sandy Hook was staged. I don't say anything , but it aggravates me. Luckily I don't have anybody like that on my friends list.

 

[Sawyer]

I honestly wonder if there's anything more to these types of early conspiracy theories than just sheer irrationality. At a certain point, it's like a friend of yours dropping their pen and then claiming that someone who wasn't in the room threw on an invisibility cloak, ran in and knocked it out of their hand... it's just nonsense.

 

[bullets]

I just think people want there to be a conspiracy. Maybe it helps them cope because the world is irrational sometimes. The cops didn't chase themselves around Watertown the other night.

 

[JJJ's Ulcer]

My boss believes a lot of conspiracies. He still claims Sandy Hook was staged. I don't say anything , but it aggravates me. Luckily I don't have anybody like that on my friends list.

Your boss?! Damn. You wonder how goobers like that get to be the boss of anything.

 

[Marx]

Anyone else hear what Neil Diamond did?



http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-b...d-sox-crowd-singing-sweet-212132530--mlb.html

 

[bullets]

Your boss?! Damn. You wonder how goobers like that get to be the boss of anything.

There's actually so many other issues at work ( poor management ) that people look past it. They all think he's weird. Sometimes he'll tell us a strange origin to a holiday. It's only a matter of time before someone religious gets offended. It's awkward , but gives me more motivation to look for another job.

 

[Project862006]

According to Wikipedia most people in the world, either don't know, or don't believe the US government's official account of the events.

Then again if studying poll data has taught me anything it's that most people don't know the difference between their ass and a hole in the ground.

 

[redhawk23]

I just think people want there to be a conspiracy. Maybe it helps them cope because the world is irrational sometimes. The cops didn't chase themselves around Watertown the other night.

Even if you believe those in power are absolutely evil and will stoop to anything, it is still a comforting thought for people to believe that somehow, some way, someone is in control of everything.

 

[cherokeesam]

People --- especially people who are spoonfed Conspiracy Theory 101 by Alex Jones --- tend to have a kneejerk reaction to any major event as "zomg false flag."

And on the other side of the coin, there are a lot of people --- people who are far too complacent and put way too much faith in their own government --- who are quick to shoot down *any* conspiracy theory as nutjobs.

Me, I try to look for all the angles first before swallowing the official story on either side. Around here on the rez, a popular bumper sticker reads: "Sure, you can trust the American government --- ask any Indian."

That being said, anybody including Alex Jones who believes *this* event is a vast conspiracy needs to pull their heads out of their asses and shake the cobwebs out of their brain.

 

[terry78]

Every successful thing that has happened in Obama's terms have all been government setups, is the basic mindset of a few nuts. Same thing was happening during Bush's term.

 

[KalMart]

It's like life is just too boring for some folks.

 

[SuperT]

The conspiracy theory loons are certainly out in full force for sure. Did you see that the Twitter accounts for 60 Minutes & 48 Hours were both hacked and had to be disabled? Some loon was posting pictures of the supposed "real" perpetrators of the bombing.

I already had to defriend a girl on Facebook who I though was one smart cookie (in law school) but she's been ranting and raving and posting multiple paragraph long statuses about the cover since Friday.

Good gracious.

 

[Darthphere]

I know its been said a million times but the worst thing about conspiracy theorists is the hypocrisy behind it. "You have to keep an open mind and question everything!" Everything except your conspiracy theory and its "rock solid" evidence apparently. When all you read is Alex Jones and related websites, how exactly is that keeping an open mind? You just keep reading what you want to believe.

I actually read these conspiracy theories. I watched Loose Change and honestly, they bring up some decent points but nothing that IMO really challenges the official story.

 

[Thundercrack85]

Most conspiracy theories are fairly idiotic.

The 9/11 one in particular bothers me, because they often make the most ridiculous assertions. Like how a plane didn't really fly into the Pentagon. Despite the fact that multiple people saw it fly into the Pentagon, people onboard actually contacted their loved ones right before it happened.

 

[The Apocalypse]

Most conspiracy theories are fairly idiotic.

The 9/11 one in particular bothers me, because they often make the most ridiculous assertions. Like how a plane didn't really fly into the Pentagon. Despite the fact that multiple people saw it fly into the Pentagon, people onboard actually contacted their loved ones right before it happened.

I was never really a conspiracy theorist but the whole 9/11 thing bothers me. There was no plane rubble, the footage shows no plane and the size of the whole isn't big enough to be a Boeing plane. But regardless, conspiracy or not, people lost their lives and that's the sad part of it all.

 

[SpideyVille]

I think the thing about conspiracy theories is that they almost seem so crazy that you almost wish they were true. There is something twisted about it because, in the case of 9/11, having terrorists hijack planes and kill thousands of people is bad enough, but to say and believe that the government was behind it all is even worse because that would imply that you want to believe that they are so evil that they will their own just to feel justified in fighting others.

But I also feel like its a way that people try to blame the government simply because they are unhappy with what they do.

 

[Thundercrack85]

Oh for God's sake.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped....jpg/800px-Flight_77_wreckage_at_Pentagon.jpg

http://rense.com/general32/phot.htm

Do you know what happens when a plane full of fuel flies into a building? It becomes part of the rubble, with **** thrown all over.

 

[Harry_Lime02]

Most conspiracy theorists are either bored fantasists who think the world isn't interesting enough as it is, or people who like to go against the grain for attention. Being skeptical is one thing, ignoring logic and common sense is another.

 

[Nell2ThaIzzay]

There is one fundamental flaw with every conspiracy theory:

Why would the people behind the conspiracy put all the evidence of their conspiracy on TV, in music, in magazines, or on dollar bills.

Then there's also the fact that you're expecting a government that you deem completely incompetent to suddenly become brilliant masterminds on a global scale.

 

[Thundercrack85]

Well, there are real conspiracy theories. UFO's, human experimentation (the cat is kind of out of the bag on that one), the CIA brainwashing people, the Gulf of Tonkin incident, etc.

But saying a plane didn't crash into the Pentagon, when a **** load of people saw it, and pulled out the wreckage (including the black box)? Not to mention you know, the people on the plane telling people it was hijacked.

 

[roach]

I tell people all the time that the government is incapable of creating conspiracies...it's too big and people nowadays question everything...I mean if they did 9/11 as an excuse to go to war with Iraq why didn't they just conspiracy up some WMDs????

I had gotten into an argument with an ex friend because he was already claiming a conspiracy theory the day of the attack. He kept telling me to have an open mind and he researched the facts...I asked him "So you went to Boston and compiled evidence first hand or you just found a website that you agreed with?"

Most conspiracy theorist rely on non professional opinions. "It sounded like a missile." or "The WTC look like a controlled demolition." Popular Mechanic did a report on 9/11 and used experts to debunk all the conspiracy theories.

 

[IamtheBatman]

I was never really a conspiracy theorist but the whole 9/11 thing bothers me. There was no plane rubble, the footage shows no plane and the size of the whole isn't big enough to be a Boeing plane. But regardless, conspiracy or not, people lost their lives and that's the sad part of it all.

On the 9/11 conspiracy I always go to the pancake collapse. But, this marathon isn't a conspiracy its actuality.

 

[Thundercrack85]

Well, It's usually a mixture of incompetence and greed. Look at the Iraq War. I actually believe that war was started on faulty intelligence. People like Dick Cheney then just took advantage of it and profited from it.

Though if anyone came up to me and told me it was all a lie, done for the sake of putting money in the pockets of certain people in the Bush administration, I'd probably listen, since it doesn't seem like too much of a stretch.

 

[danoyse]

I was never really a conspiracy theorist but the whole 9/11 thing bothers me. There was no plane rubble, the footage shows no plane and the size of the whole isn't big enough to be a Boeing plane. But regardless, conspiracy or not, people lost their lives and that's the sad part of it all.

I was in NYC on 9/11, my friend's mom was in DC and on the phone with my dad when the Pentagon was hit.

They were planes. We all ****ing saw them. Anyone who suggests to you otherwise is a clueless jackass with nothing better to do.