Scary

Further proof of their genius.



Good catch Gary.

I do remember noticing how PD anticipated the next great enemy would be terrorism. Definitely a good call.

As for carte blanche for the NSA = the Patriot Act? Not exactly the same thing here, but conspiracy theorists do like to equate them, so I do agree there is some level of prescience here.

Bah, the Graham Act sounds a lot cooler.

Also, I'm not a fan of the PATRIOT-act. Scrap it, that's my policy.

-Fred

Also recall that Jackson Cross was not acting on behalf of the NSA. He was a rogue agent, using his NSA credentials and privileges for his own selfish ends.

Yeah. Imagine what a rogue agent could do with the patriot act?

Mr. Thomas Malloy wrote:Yeah. Imagine what a rogue agent could do with the patriot act?

Answer: He becomes a presidential adviser.

Yeah. Imagine what a rogue agent could do with the patriot act?

Not much, actually.

DrPaul wrote:

Yeah. Imagine what a rogue agent could do with the patriot act?

Not much, actually.

Oh, DrPaul, let them have their fun! If there is no fascist conspiracy afoot, it will of course be necessary to invent one to attribute to an opposing ideology; fictional representations of a police state depicted throughout all varieties of entertainment prove that such abuse of power, especially by the U.S. military, is easy and a common occurrence in actual life.

Yeah! Which is precisely why these "conspiracy theories" never get really seriously looked at. Because there is an entire conspiracy about "concealing all conspiracies by making them public knowledge", by making them part of movies, and tv shows. It makes everyone think it's a common thing, and not something we should take action against!

That and I grew up up with the X-files. I find real life conspiracy theories just too juicy and interesting not to read up on, even if a lot of them have holes bigger than the grand canyon. A LOT of X-files episodes are based on actual real life source material, even if the plot of the story itself is fictional. But you see because I do that, because I watch these shows, I'm doing exactly what they want me to do. Because I read up on, gawk and go "wow, I can't believe they did that" after watching, I'm perpetuating the "conceal all conspiracies by making them public knowledge" conspiracy theory. Can't you SEE?!?!?!

<---- the resident Archie Ellis

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I'm an X-Files fan, too. It don't get no better than this!

So Malloy, you're saying that the conspiracy is to make conspiracies look fictional, which makes people not take them seriously? Well, I say that the conspiracy is to make people think that conspiracies look fictional so that people do not take them seriously, so that conspiracy theorists think that they must be disinformation and hence real. How's that?!

Big X-Files fan, here! But I do recognize part of the power of the show is its ability to make imaginative (but fictional!) conspiracies look completely and utterly believable, and to make you want conspiracies to exist.

OMG! What have I spawned!

Jerry Dan wrote:So Malloy, you're saying that the conspiracy is to make conspiracies look fictional, which makes people not take them seriously? Well, I say that the conspiracy is to make people think that conspiracies look fictional so that people do not take them seriously, so that conspiracy theorists think that they must be disinformation and hence real. How's that?!
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That sounds like a conspiracy to me! I believe that any attempt to disprove a conspiracy theory, in fact, constitutes as a conspiracy in and of itself!

No not really. But seriously, in all honesty ... there are these theories. And then there is the truth. Isn't it possible that because of these theories actually exsisting, and because most of them (not all!) are based on logical thought, and hence have been read and comprehended by enough people to actually make it a "conspiracy theory", that there may be some shred of truth or half-truth or something like the same buried in there in some of the biggest conspiracies ever?

On a side note, I think we're setting the record for the most times the word "conspiracy" has been used in a thread on this board.

You guys are just plotting a Conspiracy-conspiracy to make conspiracy theories seem less conspiratory. Thereby you will make people believe more conspiracy theories! I'm on to your conspiracies!!

-Fred