CONSPIRACY THEORIES

Last night I spoke with some ladies of a book club about Christopher and Michelle Fulton’s book, The Inheritance: Poisoned Fruit of JFK’s Assassination. A complaint was that the book presented “conspiracy theories,” and that caused a reader to not finish the book. 

“Conspiracy Theories are damaging,” was the comment. Yes they can be, but I find it better to understand them than to simply dismiss them out of hand. 

I started to study conspiracy theory in the mid 1970s. My father had told me some things and I started to do research into CIA/Drugs. I mentioned some of this to a friend, and they said, “Well, you’re a conspiracy theorist.” I thought what is that? And soon started an independent study into Conspiracy Theory, my first action was to go into every bookstore I could find and say, “Show me your conspiracy section.”

Every bookstore had a least one book. I read these, and soon discovered that I could find a book that blames all of our troubles on the Jews, on the Catholics, on the Mormons, on the Hippies, on the Secular Humanists, on the Masons, on the Fundamentalists, on the Muslims and on and on. They were “screeds,  a piece of writing, especially one that is boring or expresses an unreasonably strong opinion. It appeared to me that these books were designed to get folks into separate corners, sow mistrust and get folks fighting each other. 

I read these, looked at the bibliography, got those books, looked at their bibliographies and soon I was reading dusty tomes about history, banking, intelligence operations, the drug trade, psychological warfare,  and more. Conspiracy Theory is a very wide discipline.

When the Internet came along, I started an email list Conspiracy Theory Research List (CTRL) and a website CTRL.org

Here is our declaration and Disclaimer for the CTRL email list:

CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance not soap-boxing please!  These are sordid matters and “conspiracy theory” with its many half-truths, mis-directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought.
That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. ctrl gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi’s need not apply.

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I think we need to understand how the world works …

More later …