Mr. Feshchuk goes on to state that “in the mind of the conspiracy theorist, every government decree is suspicious… … there is no such thing as a lone gunman, a benevolent Jew or punctuation.” Again, chances are that there are fringe radicals that legitimately act this way, but since you can find fringe radicals out there of literally every flavour, what use in exemplifying them? Oh yes, because it allows us equate people who are upset with proven lies and desire governmental accountability with flat-earth basement creepers and thus discredit them in front of the uncritical multitudes. This sets up his next logical flaw. He equates doubting “government decree[s]” with racism (believing all Jews are crooked) and then goes on to say that the most probable of a “theorists” claims are still south of a Hollywood plot involving Kathy Bates to turn him gay. This is an easy way to win an argument if your audience is asleep; avoid your opponent’s questions entirely by equating him with fringe psychotics, calling him a quack and saying that the patently absurd is more probable than his position. You don’t have to address his position at all; just make a big empty clown suit and throw mud at it. The construction of a straw man to attack is the earmark of a desperately weak position… or a faulty intellect.

The article in question is Scott Feschuk’s effort in November 2009’s issue of MacLean’s entitled Am I the only one who’s seeing this? (the juxtapositional benchmark that I referred to is Mark Steyn’s commentary on the dangers of political correctness with regards to the recent Fort Hood incident). If you distill his exercise in ad-hominem attacks–pardon, his article, he makes the specious pronouncement that anyone who expresses doubt in any “official story” is a radical conspiracy theorist, and thus, by turns, a friendless shut-in, mentally unbalanced, and a sophomoric writer to boot. Let us pick this article apart and see what merit it has once the smoke clears and the mirrors are put away. Mr. Feschuk begins with the uncontroversial statement that a minority of people attribute calamity to “the shadowy hand of sinister forces beyond their sight and comprehension.” Clearly this is true. There are multitudes of conspiracy theories out there and the only limit to the fringe’s absurdity is the limit of human imagination.

Everyone knows that the Twin Towers were brought down by a cabal of OPEC insiders at the behest of Donald Trump who decided that there was no longer anything larger than his hair allowed in New York's inner sanctum. And EVERYONE knows that those OPEC insiders hired a bunch of gay Iranians who thought that they were making a statement about ABBA, tolerance for monkey on monkey love, and sexual reprogramming.

In short your well thought out words have NOTHING on my weak evidence! NOTHING!

Many of those on that commission have since come forth to say the commission was a joke, hamstrung by people who refused to testify and people who flat out lied. While they stop short of claiming government complicity (self preservation is a powerful motivator) their statements are enough to cause the questions that are deemed to be conspiracy theories.

The recent inquiry in the UK into the Iraq war has backed up the claims of others that the war was being planned before the events of September 11. Read that again for full impact. The US government was planning the war before the stated reason for going to war ever happened. If you study a lttle US history, you'll find we're full of all kinds of little tricks like this.

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This article portrays conspiracy theorists as nutcases, and yet we have the worlds premier globalist admitting that he is part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States in order to create a one world government. I suspect that you don't know enough about this man to understand the scope of what he is saying. Before replying, if you do, I would encourage you to read his bio on Wikipedia.

In 2002, David Rockefeller authored his autobiography “Memoirs” wherein, on page 405," Mr. Rockefeller writes: “For more than a century ideological extremists at either end of the political spectrum have seized upon well-publicized incidents such as my encounter with Castro to attack the Rockefeller family for the inordinate influence they claim we wield over American political and economic institutions. Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as "internationalists" and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure – one world, if you will. If that's the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it."

Let me repeat. The above is from his self authored book. David Rockefeller is probably the most powerful man in the world. And he is personal friends with all the other most powerful people in the world. Read his bio on Wikipedia. Shocking isn't it?

I enjoy conspiracy theorists/theories but I also remember they are barking mad.

Don't get me wrong, I'm repelled by most of the media. But rather than complain of conspiracy, or worse yet, media bias, I just tune it out. Nassim Nicholas Taleb claims that one realizes an immediate net increase in information after completely tuning out the media. I'm inclined to agree. You may not actually know more, but tuning out the noise enables one to think more clearly. (That hasn't actually worked for me yet either, but I remain hopeful.)

Rather tongue in cheek to declare that humans are to blame for screwing up the world while decrying everyone to just ignore what is an obtuse use of secrecy by those with guns and the power to 'lead' the world. This tripe is merely pandering apathy.

Just sayin'…

Isn't that the truth eh?
But you're not going to find open discussion about this on this thread I'd suspect…

Most Canadians need to see the world a little more and stop blaming Americans for every damn little thing that they personally perceive as a big deal, when in reality it's just their personal little bug-a-boo.

Just endless pandering to the American negativity that has gone on for decades from this neck of the woods, that the small minded love to feed on.

- Ray McGovern, former Chairman of the CIA's National Intelligence Estimates (NIE) "I think at simplest terms, there's a cover-up. The 9/11 Report is a joke."

- Bill Christison, former Director of the CIA's Office of Regional and Political Analysis. "I now think there is persuasive evidence that the events of September did not unfold as the Bush administration and the 9/11 Commission would have us believe. … An airliner almost certainly did not hit The Pentagon. …The North and South Towers of the World Trade Center almost certainly did not collapse and fall to earth because hijacked aircraft hit them."

- Mel Goodman, former Division Chief of the CIA's Office of Soviet Affairs and Senior Analyst from 1966 – 1990. "The final [9/11 Commission] report is ultimately a coverup. I don't know how else to describe it."

For more info see the article "41 U.S. Counter-Terrorism and Intelligence Agency Veterans Challenge the Official Account of 9/11" http://patriotsquestion911.com/#Articles

Macleans, your pro-muppet agenda has gone on for far too long!