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I have always considered myself a decent guy. The measure of my decency is based on my mockery of those who believe that the United Nations army in dark helicopters is preparing to take over the United States. I also measure my decency against that of those who believed that the CIA was behind the September 11 attack.
I have watched my own share of thrillers and spy movies. I know there are conspiracies being carried out by individuals, government agencies and mobs even as I sleep. But I have never seen the world from that prism. I do not think life on this earth is predominantly controlled by conspiracies and similar nefarious activities. I pride myself as one who believes more in the manipulation of events by the Supreme Being than by mere mortals like me.
I believe if anyone is playing a dice with people on earth, it is the one up there.
Yet, I could not help but think that the death of Kenneth Lay, founder of Enron, may just be another of those manipulations by the founder of the-more-you-look-the-less-you-see Company.
What if Kenneth Lay simply staged his own death? What if he is now on the Alps of Switzerland sipping wine? What if he is, again, laughing at the foolishness of those of us who trust the statement from the Sheriff’s Office and the coroner of Pitkin County.
For one, I know that George Bush’s Kenny Boy did not want to go to prison. Secondly, he wasn’t facing a small number of years in prison. He was potentially facing a lifetime. Thirdly, what remained of his assets was at the point of being seized by the government.
Essentially, Kenneth Lay and his family faced a riches-to-rags reversal of role. And from what I have heard from my rich friends, it was one position everyone who had drank from the fountain of riches abhors.
I feel ashamed thinking like this, but that is an indication of the amount of distrust Enron has put into me. As a human being who will one day die, I feel sorry for what coronary artery disease does to people. I feel sorry for Kenneth Lay’s family, especially his 12 grand children.
But still, I want a DNA test to ensure that the man in the grave is really Kenneth Lay.
With Enron people, you never know. With Enron people, you never can be too cautious. And with Enron people, the only closure acceptable to me is the closure that is widely open.
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CIA
You dismiss the notion of CIA involvement entirely, suggesting it would be indecent to consider it, even though whistleblowers from the FBI (Coleen Rowley, Sibel Edmonds) suggest some US intelligence entities have some things to hide.
You seem to be someone who has no idea of who the CIA is–especially not the Clandestine Services (CS) that has had no oversight for decades. You should study history. Google for ”CIA crimes” and you will get 5 million hits.
On Feb 10, 1936, the German Gestapo is placed above the law. Similarly, while CIA agents for decades have been doing various crimes with impunity (such as drug trafficking, as evidenced by the Iran-Contra hearings), Bill Clinton signed into law in December 2000 what was known as Section 308, which officially made CIA agents above the law.
”Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” — Lord Acton in a letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton in 1887
DECENCY
You appear to be someone who is against having a truly independent investigation.
You do not know absolutely that you are correct. This is an arrogant statement, something a wise person would not say.
Ask yourself: If someone committed a crime against you or your loved ones, would you need absolute scientific ”proof” to answer who? what? where? when? why? and how? before demanding a detective look into the matter?
Answering the questions ”Who had the motive? means? opportunity?” concerning the crime, you can generate a list of possible suspects, and such persons and groups were friends or employers of the detective(s) put on the case, would you demand an investigation independent of these suspects? You are damn right you would.
Only a dishonest person or criminal would not support a truly independent, well-funded investigation with subpoena power so that the would-be whistleblowers (like those at the FBI who claim that the day, the means (planes) and the targets of 9/11 were known beforehand) can tell the world their story for it to be verified.
You should reconsider your definition of decency.
”CONSPIRACY THEORY”
My Rule: Do Not Use the Term ”Conspiracy Theorist”
You are using a loaded, prejudiced term when you use ”conspiracy theory” or ”conspiracy theorist.” It is akin to the sorts of terms that disparage minority groups. (It has not been scientifically shown that people who suspect and inspect a conspiracy are somehow less intelligent than the rest of the population, but this term gets used as such to keep the population from thinking.)
If people want to use prejudiced propaganda-like term against a minority–as do racists, sexists and homophobes–then keep using that term. If they want to think things through and develop a more intelligent society, then they should avoid that term, demanding the same of other and that people drop the attitude of superiority. (Acting like jerks often has the effect of making people who have knowledge to tune out.)
History is full of smaller and larger conspiracies, so ridiculing someone because they are concerned about conspiracies taking place in one’s own time, belies a lack of knowledge of the past.
In any case, the ”conspiracy theory” moniker is meant to stop people from thinking. Resist the urge to ”non-think” that way.
(It’s ridiculous anyway to use that term in relation to 9/11 because everybody agrees more than one person conspired to commit crimes on 9/11.)