tokeless wrote:Conspiracies can be useful to governments to hide what they are really doing, eg UFOs to hide covert technology. The US did this to great effect as they encouraged people to report unusual sightings.. they would then know if their stealth crafts were 'spotted' during test flights. Other useful things include the creation of the tinfoil hat accusations, which discredit the questioner or scrutiny. Personally I think 9/11 is the most evidence backed because science supports the belief that the official story just doesn't stack up to scrutiny. Considering the severity of the event, the reluctance of the Bush administration to really look or examine the details is very questionable. He was asked about an inquiry and he stated "I don't do inquiries, I just don't". He would only testify with Rumsfeld present and no media, recordings and nothing documented. The number of professional groups who have examined the evidence all conclude the official version doesn't reflect the science, yet no new examination.
And yet 9/11 is a classic example of how conspiracy discards plain incompetence. Example: The East German dissident who decided to land his light aircraft bang in the middle of Red Square Moscow. This was prior to the fall of the Berlin Wall when Gorbachev was general secretary of the Soviet Union. This amateur pilot managed to evade the entire Soviet defence system. None of the defence staff reacted, or bothered to co-ordinate. That is what needs to be understood. The simple fact was it was plain incompetence and Gorbachev sacked scores of military figures. Now, why are we then discounting the most obvious but harsh reality of 9/11. That is, defence was substandard. Exact same thing happened with cyber-security. Gary Mckinnon hacked into the Pentagon with ease some years ago, you may recall.
You see, every time something like that happens, conspiracy theorists almost always yell out, "It was planned!"
Think of Chernobyl. Accident or a planned event?
The Titanic? Did some group plan its sinking? Or did Captain Smith plain fail to slow down in icy waters? In fact, making the turn was also a massive blunder because that split the entire side of the hull.