Peter Dale Scott, who has written so much about what is presented as government fact and the realities that lie hidden often well beneath the surface, coined the term Deep Politics to encompass this realm. The powers that be that reside in the highest echelons of government have sought to squelch any such inquiry as falling under the heading of conspiracy theory. To be a conspiracy theorist is to live in a wild world devoid of reality.
Initially using the conspiracy theory pejorative worked superbly as a means of denouncing anyone who dared suggest that the official theory of the John F. Kennedy assassination that a troubled former Marine loner holding presumably strong Marxist leanings was responsible for the assassination of a popular American president.
Initially any questioning of official dogma was considered crackpot theorizing by a substantial majority of Americans. Eventually as the white heat of analysis was put to the lone gunman theory more Americans, ultimately encompassing a majority, doubted an official theory that was embraced in the Warren Commission Report, the government's investigative conclusion of what occurred.
Initially using the conspiracy theory pejorative worked superbly as a means of denouncing anyone who dared suggest that the official theory of the John F. Kennedy assassination that a troubled former Marine loner holding presumably strong Marxist leanings was responsible for the assassination of a popular American president.
Initially any questioning of official dogma was considered crackpot theorizing by a substantial majority of Americans. Eventually as the white heat of analysis was put to the lone gunman theory more Americans, ultimately encompassing a majority, doubted an official theory that was embraced in the Warren Commission Report, the government's investigative conclusion of what occurred.
An official government investigation of 9/11 drew a pat conclusion that a group of Muslim extremists under the influence of Osama Bin Laden was responsible for everything that happened on that tragic day. Critics not only complained that the 9/11 Commission's conclusions contained the same kind of pat simplicity that embodied the Warren Commission Report into the JFK assassination. These critics pointed to the fact that not only was a commission not appointed until angry complaints were launched from family members of 9/11 victims, but also that the request for an independent query was squelched while the two key figures to testify, George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, would only do so in executive session and jointly.
With the current revelation that Osama Bin Laden, the alleged mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, was gunned down in Pakistan last Sunday night by a team of Navy Seals, those in the power vortex have already pointed out that those who question a rush to judgment and focus on the series of contradictory accounts relating to facts surrounding Bin Laden's death fall under the category of conspiracy theorists that will never believe anything that mainstream government and media figures report.
While much speculation has occurred on how the Pakistan government as well as residents within the affluent community in which Bin Laden had allegedly lived for as long as five or six years, were unaware of what was happening, another important question needs to be considered.
As someone considered so brilliant a strategist that he was responsible for bringing down the economy of the Soviet Union as well as severely damaging that of the United States had selected a spot for building a compound designed to protect him from those pursuing him in an affluent residential area under the shadow of Pakistan's equivalent of West Point. It was also an area inhabited by many of Pakistan's top generals.
Whether one chooses to believe that Pakistan's leadership was backing the United States or Bin Laden, the proposition makes no sense of building a compound in that area. Suspicion would emerge either way.
There is also the question of normal curiosity. Neighbors would have had every reason to be concerned, especially in a nation with the volatility of Pakistan, that those living in the compound were so concerned about their privacy that they would not allow trash to be picked up, burning it themselves,
They were also so concerned about privacy that, rather than allowing youngsters to retrieve balls that had gone into the compound, they would simply give them money to buy new ones.
Anyone incorporating the account of any Bin Laden type living under such circumstances into a James Bond style movie script would be scorned and ridiculed by reviewers and film viewers alike, but only in the event that it ever saw the light of day.
There is also the puzzling question of the world's most wanted man being gunned down in a compound shared by couriers and wives, but not bodyguards. This allegedly super brilliant world terrorist would hardly have been functioning without bodyguards.
There is yet another key issue that needs to be explained. Many of us recall those pictures we were shown of discarded needles from an Afghanistan cave where Bin Laden had temporarily hidden. Here was a sickly man who needed constant dialysis attention or he would die.
Now we are told without explanation to scrap the old theory that existed until the report of Bin Laden's assassionation. Oops, for years we thought he was this sickly man barely being kept alive through dialysis treatments and being forced to move from cave to cave in mountainous Afghanistan to escape death or capture. Now please disregard that theory, ladies and gentlemen of the world.
Failure to disregard what we seek to have you disregard makes you fall into the dangerous company of those perpetually bothersome conspiracy theorists in our midst.
With the current revelation that Osama Bin Laden, the alleged mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, was gunned down in Pakistan last Sunday night by a team of Navy Seals, those in the power vortex have already pointed out that those who question a rush to judgment and focus on the series of contradictory accounts relating to facts surrounding Bin Laden's death fall under the category of conspiracy theorists that will never believe anything that mainstream government and media figures report.
While much speculation has occurred on how the Pakistan government as well as residents within the affluent community in which Bin Laden had allegedly lived for as long as five or six years, were unaware of what was happening, another important question needs to be considered.
As someone considered so brilliant a strategist that he was responsible for bringing down the economy of the Soviet Union as well as severely damaging that of the United States had selected a spot for building a compound designed to protect him from those pursuing him in an affluent residential area under the shadow of Pakistan's equivalent of West Point. It was also an area inhabited by many of Pakistan's top generals.
Whether one chooses to believe that Pakistan's leadership was backing the United States or Bin Laden, the proposition makes no sense of building a compound in that area. Suspicion would emerge either way.
There is also the question of normal curiosity. Neighbors would have had every reason to be concerned, especially in a nation with the volatility of Pakistan, that those living in the compound were so concerned about their privacy that they would not allow trash to be picked up, burning it themselves,
They were also so concerned about privacy that, rather than allowing youngsters to retrieve balls that had gone into the compound, they would simply give them money to buy new ones.
Anyone incorporating the account of any Bin Laden type living under such circumstances into a James Bond style movie script would be scorned and ridiculed by reviewers and film viewers alike, but only in the event that it ever saw the light of day.
There is also the puzzling question of the world's most wanted man being gunned down in a compound shared by couriers and wives, but not bodyguards. This allegedly super brilliant world terrorist would hardly have been functioning without bodyguards.
There is yet another key issue that needs to be explained. Many of us recall those pictures we were shown of discarded needles from an Afghanistan cave where Bin Laden had temporarily hidden. Here was a sickly man who needed constant dialysis attention or he would die.
Now we are told without explanation to scrap the old theory that existed until the report of Bin Laden's assassionation. Oops, for years we thought he was this sickly man barely being kept alive through dialysis treatments and being forced to move from cave to cave in mountainous Afghanistan to escape death or capture. Now please disregard that theory, ladies and gentlemen of the world.
Failure to disregard what we seek to have you disregard makes you fall into the dangerous company of those perpetually bothersome conspiracy theorists in our midst.
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