Hi, Drysdale!
Hello all.
New guy here, I've been a Randi fan for awhile and read the weekly articles for 5 yrs or more probably I think, but have never visited the boards till about a month ago roughly after my wife watched a supposed documentary on the
9-11 conspiracy. She recorded it and I started watching it but just could'nt take it. Guess I'm too skepitcal when there's a lot of leading questions involved like, looks like it could be explosions, does'nt look like it should do this
etc,etc,etc. Soo, I came to the board to see if there was a topic and lo and behold I found this monster. Took me about a week to catch up and now I drop by here every day. You guys are on top of it with more knowledge than I could've asked for. Great rebuttals to the conpiracists and that was a excellent debunking of that cockamamie film Gravy.
Someone else touched on it earlier about the interview with Damion, er, I mean Dylan and beat me to it about all the imagining.
Only thing he left out was "I'd like to imagine there is a conspiracy" which pretty much wraps it all up.
I thought about posting on the loser change site but I'd get banned anyway so what's the point really.
Anyway, you guys are doing a great job and I have this thought that's occured to me that maybe can be bounced around.
If Gore would have won the presidency instead of Bush would the losers still be pursuing this? There seems to be a lot of consipatorial references to the Bush regime as a whole. Dont want to detract from the topic at hand but this has occured to me. What's your view on that?
And without getting into my political views I'm not a Bush fan or apologist so let me get that out of the way before I get attacked for being one.
Welcome aboard, Drysdale, and thanks for sharing your views.
As far as the Gore/Bush question goes, my view is that if Gore had presided over the same situation and scenario, he would have been hit with similar and different conspiracy theories from similar and different sides of the plate.
The right wing would probably accuse him (and Hillary Clinton) of continually weakening America's defenses. The left wing would blame the moneymen as before. The nutters would blame the Masons, Trilateralists, Jews, Warburgs, Rothschilds, World Wildlife Fund, Britain's Royal Family, etc., ad nauseum, as before...but connect the dots differently.
Instead of all this stuff about Halliburton and Bush's oil connections to the Saudis, we'd hear about Gore's business links and his connections to the Saudis or whoever. We might also hear that big business set it up to wreck Gore's environmentalist agenda.
But a lot of it would be similar. Remember that to conspiracy theorists, the events don't matter or really change. What matters is that there is a conspiracy, the same dark guiding hidden hands are running it, and all the outcomes are merely the planned unfolding of their conspiracy.
When the Soviet Union fell, ending 50 years of wacky alarmist rhetoric from the extreme right, a researcher asked Richard Girnt Butler what the collapse f the Soviet Union meant. Butler, head of Aryan Nations, shrugged and said, "They closed a branch office that wasn't doing too well."
