Land of Oz

Lies

There's a big run in conspiracy theories these days, primarily about the government, but also about business, medicine and what-have-you. The surprise to me is why so many are surprised that people believe in conspiracies -- like 9/11. I mean why shouldn't people think there was a conspiracy going on. Personally, I don't think there was a 9/11 conspiracy - at least not in the manner of "our" government blowing up the Trade Center or shooting down Flight 93 with a spy plane.

However I do believe unquestioningly that our government lied about a LOT of the facts dealing with 9/11. Like the Iraq war for instance. If we supposedly invaded a country because of 9/11, why didn't we go into Saudi Arabia? That's were most the perpetrators came from and it's the birthplace of Osama. Supposedly we also invaded because of "weapons of mass destruction" and we still haven't found any of those. We've lost something like 2600 dead and have near 30,000 folks who've left various bits and pieces of themselves back there -- for what?

Lebanon had a democratically elected government and we're supporting an outside country who's trying to erase that vote. Pakistan and India parade their nukes around and we say, so what. North Korea bobbles themselves through another round of missile firing and again, we do nothing -- except say we aren't talking to them again, still or yet, whatever.

Let's face it, our government lies to us daily. Sometimes with good reason, a lot of times with no reason. They tell us they're lying and also tell us that they don't have to tell us why. And the stuff they do tell us is full of crap more often than not. They tell us it's for the people, but the only people getting anything out of it is the bigwigs - the peons are getting the shaft harder and faster than ever.

So why do people believe the worse when it comes to our government - gee, that's a hard one isn't it?