Uncommon Sense Conspiracy: Michael Hasty

[teryang]

Uncommon Sense Conspiracy and other Theories
by Michael Hasty
Online Journal, 24 September 2004

<In his eyewitness account of "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich," author William Shirer, who lived in Nazi Germany throughout most of the 1930s, described a phenomenon that will, in 2004, seem disturbingly familiar to Americans who dissent from the policies of the Bush regime.>

<Shirer then recounted how, in conversations with his German friends and strangers he would meet in cafes and beer halls, "I would meet with the most outlandish assertions from seemingly educated and intelligent persons. It was obvious they were parroting some piece of nonsense they had heard on the radio or read in the newspapers.
"Sometimes one was tempted to say as much, but on such occasions one was met with such a stare of incredulity, such a shock of silence, as if one had blasphemed the Almighty, that one realized how useless it was even to try to make contact with a mind which had become warped and for whom the facts of life had become what Hitler and Goebbels, with their cynical disregard for truth, said they were.<snip>

<But the great irony in the media's rejection of "conspiracy theory" is that the metanarrative requires mainstream news consumers to subscribe to a far less credible "coincidence theory."<snip>

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[Francesca]

1. this describes a recent office dispute to a tee

I work for my husbands family (my mother works with us as well) and they are all Republicans as are most of my coworkers. One of them in particular mentioned to me he had never voted before but has decided to vote this round for Bush...to make a long story short we had quite a row. Some of the "facts" he spewed at me were the following.

1) He claimed a clear connection between Hussein and Bin Laden DOES exist.

His evidence when I countered was that he saw footage of them with his own eyes on one of the prime time channels laughing it up while watching the twin towers fall. I told him he was mistaken and that this was not possible for a number of what I consider pretty concrete and difficult to argue with reasons. He laughed at me and said I was in denial. Frankly I wanted to rip my hair out..

2) He claimed that not only did we find WMD's in IRAQ but we found Nuclear materials.

I asked him what parallel universe he came from and had to leave work for some personal time out as there was not one person in the vicinity who did not agree with this morons claims. I consider myself well informed but find that being well informed/clever and articulate is absolutely useless with certain Bush supporters.

Your above comment really hits a mark with me. As I have been feeling increasingly frustrated with the repetitive parroting of these messages. I am really tired of being accused of supporting terror as well (which I hear about once a week from my conservative Italian family) Really I could go on and on and on.......

[Miss Authoritiva]

2. Coincidence theory can take you only so far.

As the Bush people are finding out, you can only sail along so far with the coincidence theory, too. One coincidence too many and a pattern starts to form. And once a pattern starts to emerge, with or without the mainstream media's help, even the public starts to notice. Once the public takes an interest, then those in power have to decide how to handle the public's growing eagerness to assign blame and apportion responsibility.

A coincidence theory can't support too many linkages. Usually, by the third link, people get too suspicious. Just look at the number of links in the Kennedy assassination and the 9/11 attacks. No wonder public opinion has remained unsettled about those events.