I don't believe in flying saucers.
I don't believe in a JFK conspiracy.
So people call me paranoid. What an irony.
What I believe is that people are not questioning their assumptions enough.
For instance, people who do have conspiracy theories are sarcastically said to wear tin foil hats. This itself betrays a lack of knowledge and an overdose of presumption. Let's take tin foil hats, by which people actually mean aluminum foil.
Like any other electrical device, the human brain may receive interference from radio signals and other transmissions. A faraday cage is an electrically grounded metal box which channels EM energy around its interior protecting any circuitry inside from being fried. Considering the fact that aluminum is the 4th best conductor of electricity after silver, copper, and gold, a 'tin foil hat' could easily function as a personal faraday cage against brain wave interference.
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| Tin foil hat scene from 'Signs' by M. Night Shyamalan (2002) |
The official story about 911 is that a group of Taliban led by Osama bin Laden, a wealthy civil engineer from Saudi Arabia, from a family intimately connected with the Saudi royal family and that owned the largest skyscraper construction firm in the world, conceived the plot to take down the World Trade Center. He was angry about American presence in Holy Land of Saudi Arabia during and after the first Gulf War.
Bin Laden conceived of a way to topple the buildings with very little money, getting people trained by simulators to control airliners and using box cutters to hijack 4 planes and fly them into US government and financial buildings.This makes perfect sense, from many angles. First, he was an engineer from a family well acquainted with tower construction. And he had the motive. He also had the financial means, which were minimal. A failed earlier attempt to take down the Trade Center towers had already been attempted in 1993 by Ramzi Yousef from the United Arab Emirates.
Osama's attempt was successful on September 11, 2001. The date was chosen for its importance in the history of Islamic westward expansion. Sept. 11, 1683 was the date in Islamic history when the farthest westward expansion of Islam was stopped. On that date a Mohammedan army nearly took Vienna before it was turned back by a Christian army under the command of the King of Poland.
Now the conspiracy theory is that all this was made up, and that the Towers were blown up by explosives planted inside the towers beforehand by the US government or CIA. It was an 'inside job' the conspirators demand. The most common argument given is that the story about the Taliban terrorists getting flight training on simulators in the US and using simple box cutters to hijack planes is too absurd to believe.
But the fact that it is absurd is exactly why it happened. Why didn't the CIA simply blow it up with explosives and made it look like Iraq. After all, it was Iraq that became the scrape-goat. People would certainly have believed the explosives story since it is just like what Ramzi Yousef had attempted in 1993. They could have simply improved on the placement.
There are many, many signs that this was not planned by the US government.
1. Were 911 planned by the CIA as a false flag to impugn Iraq, why wasn't the official story that Iraqis did it.
2. Why was it done while George Bush was reading a children's book, The Pet Goat, to a 2nd grade classroom? Why did he act puzzled? Had this been planned, he would have had a prepared speech and been somewhere to look commanding. It was several hours before he finally had a response prepared.
3. Why weren't Saud royal family members visiting the US warned ahead of time leave the country, as opposed to after it as they were, if the government knew in advance the attack was going to happen?
4. Four passports were discovered in crash sites. Conspiracy theorists claim these were planted. Why were none of them Iraqi passports (instead of Lebanese and Saudi) if the US intended to pin the incident on Iraq? Why would the US go to so much trouble to make the attack look like it was of Saudi origin, an American ally?
5. Why such a complicated and seemingly 'unbelievable' cover story. The whole idea for a cover story is to be highly plausible to people.
6. Why did the US force Saddam Hussein to destroy his his WMDs before of the attack occurred, if the US plan was to feign 'discovering' them later in Iraq? It would have made more sense to time the attack (if it were planned by US intelligence) while Saddam had these weapons, so that the US could seem to have saved the world when they got to Iraq and destroyed them all.
7. It is not unbelievable that terrorists could learn to fly in simulators. All they had to do was steer, as they had no need to learn how to take off or land, the hardest parts of flying.
8. Osama bin Laden himself admitted to having planned the attack.
Nothing in the conspiracy theory makes any sense.
Furthermore the near religious-flavor to the unquestioned conviction that 911 was an inside job bodes poorly for those that hold it. Everything points to their opinion, nothing against it. Also, all of the conspirators are left-leaning, making them automatically suspicious of the administration at the time. Thus the bias seems politically motivated.
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Now again here are some signs that the government invented the coverup.
1. Why did the 'Roswell incident' occur within a few miles of where Operation Paperclip scientists were being held at White Sands Proving Grounds in New Mexico?
2. Why did the Air Force itself release the Roswell story to a local newspaper claiming that they had 'captured a flying saucer?' It was an RAAF (Roswell Army Air Field) press release after all. Isn't that suspicious?
3. Why has no person ever been discovered who says he was contacted by the Air Force about a sighting during the period of Project Blue Book? Everyone is relying on the Air Force ledgers. There are 12,618 contacts, all anonymous. Why have these people not manifested? Why has no one guessed that this investigation never actually occurred, but was a PsyOp?
4. Why does media push only two possibilities, the coverup or a bunch of kooks? Why not a third option?
5. Why do the Discovery Channel, History Channel, and Disney Corporation push alien visitation?
6. Why doesn't media stress that the US was working on the B-2, based on a Nazi design, in New Mexico from 1946 until 1989, precisely the time that the UFO craze was at its height, and kept inflamed?
7. The CIA is expert at crafting public opinion through deception. Hence the most common public opinions would be the ones they ought to be reasonably expected to provoke. According to a US News survey (6/28/2012), most Americans believe the government keeps UFO secrets. According to Huffington Post () nearly half of adults surveyed were open to alien visitation, leaving 16 percent who indicated that they weren’t sure on either side of the ET issue.
8. Potential motives for various branches of the intelligence community to wish to perpetuate belief in UFOs. One is to question God. One is to mask work on the B-2 and other top secret projects. One is to fool the Soviet Union into thinking the US has alien technology (the crazed has died down since the end of the Cold War).
9. All photographs for flying saucers from the 1950s have been proved fakes.
10. The Phoenix lights were shown to be flares.
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75% of Americans believe the JFK assassination was the result of a larger conspiracy. There are many versions of who was behind it, including Lyndon Johnson, the CIA, Fidel Castro, and the Mafia. I have already spent more than enough time debunking these theories. See More clever than Baba and Baba on the JFK assassination.
So now here is the irony. Conspiracies are so implanted in people's heads that to many to question these conspiracy theories implies you are tin foil hat nutter. I question many conspiracy theories. I question especially any conspiracy theory considered doctrinal and a test of your gullibility. I think that the people who are so sure that the constantly promoted conspiracy theories are true are in fact themselves overly credulous. I am truly shocked that group-think is increasingly passed off as 'skeptical thinking.'
What does this have to do with Baba? A lot! Baba said that Kennedy was killed by Lee Harvy Oswald acting alone, just as all official reports say. It amazes me that about three quarters of Baba lovers I've talked to about this topic continue to hold the popular notion in spite of what Baba said. This is the same percentage as the general public, showing more influence by the culture on Baba's followers than his own words. Baba also said that flying saucers are not from other planets. Yet again and again I hear Baba lovers turning to even more wacky interpretations to save their beliefs, such as astral aliens, subtle aliens, time traveling aliens, etc. Finally is the issue of 911, which naturally Baba could not have commented on. But here is a quote from his Discourses.
The transition from external conformity . . . to the life of inner realities . . . involves . . . freeing the mind from the inertia of uncritical acceptance based upon blind imitation . . . and bringing the results of critical and discriminative thinking into practical life.Discourses, Volume III Page 117 § Qualifications of the Aspirant: I
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