What scares those who scream "conspiracy theorist"

You mention the word dishonesty. Is it not dishonest to link people who are suspicious or skeptical of official narratives to those who are just plain weird?

It's a poipular tactic to insult persons as Flat-Earthers, Tin-foil hat wearers, Believers in Lizard people, alien abductions and all manner of other smears simply if they express doubt about something in the natural world. You're not innocent of this slick trick yourself.

The epithet "conspiracy theory" was coined by the CIA in the 1960's. It served to paint the little boy who said "The King is naked!" as insane. And it's served them pretty well.

Aligning someone who doubts a narrative with a kook who thinks that COVID was delivered via 5G towers is a brilliant way to cover your tracks or at least to keep people from asking legitimate questions. And before anyone jumps down my throat about COVID, I have no opinion on the subject. I am not a virologist, doctor, nurse, medic, immunoligist or epidemioligist. So my profession would not qualify me to speak candidly or even with veracity about pandemics or any manner of biological maladies.

And, again, before someone (and I won't say who) screeches in with the question/accusation "are you saying that COVID is a hoax and that it was man-made in a lab to cull the planet?" I would say..."please go away back to your crayons."

The exact same way that you call anyone who criticises Israel's crimes an "anti-Semite" or anyone who questions torture at Guantanamo as a "terrorist sympathiser"

This isn't dishonesty. There are those who don't believe what they are told. And the explanations, excuses and witholding of information only serves to fuel that suspicion. It seems only the stupid or the close-minded want to not step back and ask a question rather than dismiss it as the realm of a nutcase.

I challenge the official narrative proponents and champions of the governmental/popular to tell when the truth is told and when it's a pack of lies.

Ghaddafi's "viagra" story

Jessica Lynch

The Gulf of Tonkin

Saddam's incubator babies

Saddam's WMD's

Assad gassing Syrians.

Venezuelans eating flamingoes to stay alive.

uyghurs in death camps in China https://www.qiaocollective.com/en/education/xinjiang

Crimean Russians being forced to vote yes to an annexation against their collective will, with a gun in their mouths.

And these are just modern day lies. The US nuked Japan in 1945. Not to bring the war to a speedy end and to save lives but to send a message to the world that they were willing to kill indiscriminately to get their way. Not a lot of people know this but nearly a 1000 US POW's were in a prison near Nagasaki. The Japanese had given the details. No mind. They were expendable and incinerated in the bombing.

So America wants to protect lives and its own and bring wars to a quick end. They were given that chance time and again re: the whole Bin Laden / Taliban thing. "Supply proof that Bin Laden attacked your country and killed all those people and we will hand him over to stand trial". Except the offer was rebuffed.

These are just the iceberg tip of lies that are told on a regular, maybe daily, basis by powerful governments. Why should anyone believe them? Why is it such a stretch of the imagination that innocent people would be sacrificed if it served their purpose?

I have no doubt that the British Government would have a bullet shot into my face on the side of the road and then fabricate a story stating that I was either a terrorist OR that I was offed by the RA in a case of mistaken identity just to score propaganda points and label their adversary in this "heinous" killing. No doubt in my mind at all.

And I certainly have no doubt that those sitting aound a mahogany table in DC or Langley or wherever wouldn't give a fcuk about my death or anyone else's if it could be used for political or financial or geopolitical purposes.

Some people don't want to believe that. It makes them feel uncomfortable. They don;t like the thought of not being precious and protected. They like the thought of a foreign bogetman killing innocent people in order to get his way. The thought that their own "protectors" and the foreign bogeyman sing from the same hymn sheet is, mentally and psychologically, a bridge too far.

What difference does it make if the innocent numbered in the 10's 100's or thousands.? Does a bodycount really need to be a factor?

Iraq was attacked and destroyed by America and Britain. The estimates of civilian dead run close to 2 million. The Americans blithely say "we don't do body counts" .... that says it all.

So "we don't count the amount of people we have killed but if someone comes up with a figure that we don't like then we are going to cry "BULLSHIT"'

I'm not rambling in the slightest. That is your opinion and your position on what I posted. Historically you have displayed that any post longer than a few sentences is a rant or a ramble. It's the first thing you do to attempt to discredit, besmirch or invalidate. Your next cheap and shabby trick was to see who thanked my post and then sneakily attempt to align MY beliefs and opinions with theirs.

Nice try, PAL, but you're efforts are not only weak and underhanded, they are also childish.

If a paedophile thanked one of my posts would you say that I am in line with their thinking? If I posted something about ...any topic....the weather, food, architecture, poetry, music and it was thanked by the Pope would you try to align me to religion, despite the fact that I am an atheist?

Or is this just another "ramble"?

A good book you should read, BTW is Ray MacGinnis's:

And before any of you scoff and say "I'm not going to give a penny of my PUP to some grifter seeking to sell a book and make money", sure then I'll send you a second hand copy gratis. Read the book. It's pretty good. And if you are afraid that it will turn you into a tinfoiller/lizard/flat-earther, fear not. I've read the Bible and the Koran and Mein Kampf cover to cover. I'm still an atheist, a non-terrorist and a non-Nazi.