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Sorry, But if you are the type who get pleasure out of imagining that you have figured out some grand conspiracy, you are not going to like what I have to say. In spite of the popular perception giant conspiracies do not happen.

The fact is, acting alone, Lee Harvey Oswald shot President Kennedy, Governor Connally, and police officer Tippit in November of 1963, Oswald was a loser in life and did it for his own twisted politics and to boost his ego.

In 1969 man did indeed land on the Moon, in fact 12 people have walked on the Lunar surface. For most people this a stating the obvious but believe it or not you do have some saying it was all fake. Despite  the fact that recently a NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) had snapped photos of the landing sites.

On September 11 2001, disciples of a Islamist theocrat Osama bin-Laden crashed hijacked aircraft along with themselves and hundreds of other passengers into the World Trade Center and Pentagon. Massive fuel fed fires eventually caused the building to collapse. Why do this? Because of twisted religious fundamentalism, they believed America to be the great devil. George Bush, the CIA, the NWO or the Jews did not do it. The Council of Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission are nothing more than a social clubs of otherwise powerful people. The so called “Illuminati” are nothing more than the imaginary boogie men of the rationally challenged. The Jewish conspiracy books Protocols of the Elders of Zion are fabrications concocted by bigots.

The popular idea of a ruling inner circle of humanity who grandly orchestrates great events from behind the scenes seems to excite a lot interest from the general public. Movie makers play up to this all the time, the hero thwarts the evil governments plan, saves the days and gets the girl. Ha, If only real life were like that. Problem is, believers of insider conspiracy theories see themselves as the hero, a Quixotic syndrome, an illusory reassurance of their own virtue. Conspiracy give us hope when we feel powerless, all we have to do is kill one big dragon and all will be well with the world.

With that said small conspiracies by alienated misfits can often be quite successful at changing history. The assassination of Lincoln was a successful conspiracy of a few. The assassination of an Austrian Archduke in Serbia in 1914 started World War One. Two homeless kooks cause near panic in Washington DC by playing snipers. Two guys, Timothy McVay and Terry Nichols blew up theMurrah Federal Building with a crude but powerful ammonium nitrate truck bomb.

There are some very important reasons immense conspiracies do not happen, the greatest being the bigger they are the less likely they are to succeed, and more likely they are to be exposed. As Benjamin Franklin once said “Three men may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.” The more people who know, the more likely it is someone will blab, and people do talk, be it for money, fame or just because they found god on their death beds. Knowing this propensity for man to blather, anyone who entrust an important secret to anyone else is a fool. Best you could hope for is that the secret is kept hush-hush just long enough for the plan to be achieved. People who are in the position to orchestrate any sort of covert action know this, and take it into account. KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid), keep the numbers of operations small so to prevent failure in any one act from spoiling the entire enterprise.

Conspiracy mavins ignore the fact that the average working Joe who supposedly implement these actions must have super human dedication to their jobs. Imaging if Jack Ruby really was induced by the mafia or the CIA to shoot Lee Harvey Oswald, rather than by his own anger over JFK’s assassination. Why would Ruby be willing to spend the rest of his life in prison, and not squeal or blab about his place in the event? Hell, the mafia doesn’t command that level of silence from it’s own family members, a narcotics-trafficking charge and a few years of possible jail time has sent many a mobster singing to the cops. You would have to believe such conspiratorial behavior presupposes one heck of a sense of integrity and dedication on the part of all participants. Not to mention brilliantly effective coordination among far flung henchmen. To accept these big conspiracy theories, one must honestly feel that there are large numbers of people willing to suffer, die, kill, lose their wealth and reputation, and yet still keep silent in order to protect the good name, wealth, and power of some greedy individuals, even to the point of keeping mum on their death beds. Sorry but people just aren’t that dedicated. I dare say most people are basically good, if enticed to join in a plot to kill a popular president like JFK or a large number of fellow Americans they would run, not walk to the authorities or the press, even if it is only to save their own skin. People are not that stupid, they would know that to get involved with this crime would be far too great a risk not only legally but from fear of being silenced as material witnesses to a major crime.

The conspiratorial mind set also provides a coinvent cover for ignorant bigoted people. They make the villains of these imagined conspiracies to be the educated wealthy, the Illuminati, bankers, business people. I wish I had a nickle for every 9/11, JFK, UFO loon muffin who has called me a government agent. Conspiracy thinking is greater among uneducated who may be inclined to believe it’s the “elite” who are keeping them down, rather then their own lack of education and gullibility. And while we are demonizing lets not forget the ever popular “Jews”. One of the first clues that 9/11 was orchestrated by someone other than Arab terrorist is the rumor, “No Jews died on 9/11″. Other times it is pure political rhetoric, all republicans are fascist, all Democrats are pinko Commies. A bad case of Bush derangement syndrome as caused many a good liberal to buy the 9/11 Truth nonsense, and after a black man became President many a conservative caught Obama derangement syndrome and jumped on the Birther bandwagon.

With that said, powerful people, movements, and institutions can carry out manipulative deceptive acts and nefarious agendas with success. But even they know these acts can not be kept secret for long, The Gulf of Tonkin Incident is all but ignored, Iran Contra meant only a small amount of jail time in Club Fed for Oliver North who gladly took the blame and didn’t effect President Reagan at all. For the people who did these actions the benefits far outweighed the inconvenience when the plots were exposed, they knew it would be eventually come out. Far cry from events like JFK and 9/11 were the benefits are so small and the risk astronomical. We are talking treason and mass murder here, something the you won’t be able to minimize with large amounts of Spin Doctoring.

Let’s not forget it is conspiracy theorist who have carried out the worst evils. Nazi propaganda was based on the fantasy of a conspiratorial nature of Jews. Socialist paint a conspiratorial view of individual capitalism, Jonestown and Waco were driven by madmen who taught a conspiratorial view of government, Many Muslims see the rest of the western world as infidels out to get them.

So the next time someone tries to get you to drink the conspiracy Kool-Aid, ask yourself if YOU would get involved with the proposed conspiracy or if  YOU would keep quiet about it if you knew of it. Chances are you would not, and chances are neither would anybody else. Chances are the proposed conspiracy is just 100% pure bullshit.