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7 Insane Conspiracies That Actually Happened

cracked.com — Seven shadowy plots crazy enough to come with a complimentary tinfoil hat, all of which actually happened.

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  • S4MF1SHER, on 03/05/2008, -18/+163Damn Scientologists!
    • SexyJenJen, on 03/05/2008, -37/+6Good article but from now on I am burying every article that is spanned over multiple pages. So ***** annoying.
      • vondrak, on 03/05/2008, -1/+23I would agree with you on principle but it's only 2 pages.
      • cawpin, on 03/05/2008, -11/+4Buried for starting an "actually happened" list with something that there is no evidence of in any way.
    • rpgmaker, on 03/05/2008, -19/+9FTA:"[conspiracy theories] and are by and large, total *****."
      I almost stop reading at that point for including 9/11 on it.
      • GreyICE, on 03/05/2008, -18/+36Why? The 9/11 conspiracy theorists are insane or deluded. No other explanation for their utter disregard of science, common sense, and evidence.
        • dudeguy1234, on 03/05/2008, -17/+11So 19 guys with boxcutters taking over planes which crashed into buildings and immediately vaporized themselves and their airplanes, including a plane that crashed into the ground and was somehow immediately vaporized except for 1 turbine which wasn't from the same type of plane of those flying? And no bodies were ever recovered? That's definitely not the deluded or insane story.
          • Gir53457, on 03/05/2008, -8/+10The turbine thing is made up and when planes crash into thing head on they explode. And jet fuel burns so hot it will vaporize anything. And the scrap would be so charred you would never be able to distingish them from say... Twisted chunks of metal from the tallest building in the world.
          • TheSabre, on 03/06/2008, -2/+8Yep. And a ***** crazy group of journalists thinking they know more about structural engineering than structural engineers IS deluded and insane.
          • cmackattack, on 03/06/2008, -0/+1"And jet fuel burns so hot it will vaporize anything."

            Except for paper, plastic, and biometrics apparently....finger prints, passports, etc..etc....or so they say...
      • card51short, on 03/05/2008, -6/+10www.ae911truth.org ^^^^

        "conspiracy theory" "insane" "deluded"
        Good points...debunked
      • dudeguy1234, on 03/05/2008, -1/+2sorry for the grammar in my reply to GreyICE
      • theholyraptor, on 04/07/2008, -0/+3well I thought the same thing, thought it was over the government spying not 9/11. It's fact the government spied on us illegally, the only thing left to debate on it is whether or not anyone will be charged. (I wonder how that will turn out.)
      • brycelb, on 03/05/2008, -7/+3Do any of you 9/11 zealots have a job? I am seriously asking. The amount of time that is spent on this is just astronomical. It's like having a career as a fiction writer. Only problem is Novelists go into their career knowing that they are making stuff up and don't try to claim otherwise.
    • LeeSoong, on 03/05/2008, -3/+15Hey Tom, nice hat.


      (don't mention his boots - you'll get tasered !)
      • SpaceMonkeyZero, on 03/05/2008, -2/+108 inch heels I bet. That way he can look a 5'10 actor in the eyes.
      • bitcloud, on 03/06/2008, -1/+3"why did you say that? you know what..

        you're... you're a jerk!"
    • MentalRay, on 03/05/2008, -4/+1Hey! They're normal in a freakishly scifi obsessed way.
    • ForestRangerBen, on 03/06/2008, -2/+2Anon wins again!
    • ophello, on 03/06/2008, -5/+1"if they are all telling the truth, it's strange that the CIA would only experiment on nocturnal conspiracy-nuts."

      WTF? Nocturnal? That radio show is on at night! Thats no excuse.
      WTF? Conspiracy-nuts? If they are telling the truth, ITS A ***** CONSPIRACY, MORON.

      ***** this writer.
  • jakash, on 03/05/2008, -147/+12This is a bit too deep for Cracked.com,
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  • lexf, on 03/05/2008, -32/+1089I heard there was a conspiracy to digg this comment up for no reason.
    • bromac, on 03/05/2008, -11/+297I cannot confirm this, but I dugg you up. For no reason.
      • KingGorilla, on 03/05/2008, -1/+120Excellent. Proceed with Phase 2
        • bromac, on 03/05/2008, -1/+81Quiet, fool! There is no Phase 2.
        • CedEx, on 03/05/2008, -1/+61It's ok. Phase 2 is done. We did it, and we're not happy about it.
          • moskaudancer, on 03/05/2008, -5/+5Wait, if it's already done, where the hell are all the free kittens I was promised?
        • sarixe, on 03/05/2008, -3/+19Phase 2, commencing.
        • Vindexus, on 03/05/2008, -3/+19Phase 2) ???
        • blazes816, on 03/05/2008, -2/+29Dugg from the grassy knoll.
        • bjos144, on 03/06/2008, -8/+1Phase 1, digg up comment, phase 2 PROFIT!
    • CaptHuggyFace, on 03/05/2008, -7/+77Nicely done, sir.
      • linkin2, on 03/05/2008, -20/+8calling diggers "sir" is beyond stupidity..sir.
        • AlexBellisBrown, on 03/05/2008, -3/+18Anybody on digg with a profile picture of a cat should leave.... now.
    • michaelGregoire, on 03/05/2008, -3/+7Unfortunately the CIA's messing with my mind causes me to do the complete opposite of what I want to do. I wanted to digg you up for no reason, but I had every reason in the world to vote you down.
    • xerigen, on 03/05/2008, -16/+4Fox News debunked it by paying scientists, professors, and high ranking officials to say it wasn't true. Sorry, dugg you down.
    • zapperdude60, on 03/05/2008, -3/+29I heard there was a conspiracy to copy and paste your comment and get buried for it.
    • pat25fire, on 03/05/2008, -12/+7I saw what you did there.
    • picsectionpleez, on 03/05/2008, -4/+8I hate Cracked because they always want you to go through 2 pages to see the whole list.
      • jefbob, on 03/06/2008, -1/+1Whats worse is when your work blocks Cracked and then you can see the first page on duggmirror, but not the second.
    • magicaltrevor, on 03/05/2008, -2/+1I dugg you up, but I have no idea why. Stop messing with my mind!!
    • calon9, on 03/06/2008, -1/+9I am craving a McUltra right about now.
    • buhbyebot, on 03/06/2008, -2/+7Where am I? and why do I suddenly have the urge to say, "I like turtles"?
    • boogie606, on 03/06/2008, -2/+1make mine a shot of Jack Daniels please...
    • Shogi, on 03/06/2008, -10/+1Would you kindly digg me up?
    • Jacksong, on 03/06/2008, -4/+1So original. Love you babe.
  • Hobbes24, on 03/05/2008, -3/+13"a penny for the guy..."
    • theodenking, on 03/05/2008, -1/+26"Plus, England now celebrates Guy Fawkes night every November 5th."
      I guess this could be confusing for our friends across the Atlantic. So in case you get the wrong end of the stick, we burn him in effigy on November 5th.
  • thedez, on 03/05/2008, -3/+16You ain't hear nothin', understand?
    • jm4847, on 03/06/2008, -3/+2I gotta say, I sigh everytime someone expresses doubt over something important that is widely accepted people go "LOL TROOFER TINFOIL HAT!!!1!
      • jonnyeh, on 03/06/2008, -1/+1Like how the earth is flat? Seriously, don't sound like an idiot and people won't make fun of you.
        • Scarfy, on 03/06/2008, -1/+2The earth isn't flat?
        • kruptd, on 03/06/2008, -1/+2Ironic that you'd bring up Flat-Earth, considering it was truth for thousands of years until they discovered the Earth was round. Anyone claiming the Earth was anything but flat, as according to the bible, was deemed crazy and executed.
  • oo00mige00oo, on 03/05/2008, -4/+30stupid websense Enterprise wont let me see the article =(
    • Chromatik, on 03/05/2008, -3/+22You and me both... I'm on my lunch damnit!!!
      • oo00mige00oo, on 03/05/2008, -2/+15those Bastards!!!
      • Balloondoggies, on 03/05/2008, -14/+0lunch doesn't matter, don't read personal stuff on the company hardware
        • disabled4diggin, on 03/05/2008, -1/+19I bet you have a lot of friends in real life.
          • Balloondoggies, on 03/07/2008, -1/+0I have no more or less friends then anyone else, what makes you so special you can't follow the company policy? You are being paid to work, not play around on Digg
        • oo00mige00oo, on 03/05/2008, -1/+3 i think Balloondoggies works for websense!
          • Balloondoggies, on 03/07/2008, -0/+0no, I don't actually. But why would you want your employer knowing what sites you visit on your own time?
    • tomgibbons, on 03/05/2008, -0/+8I'm in the same boat but http://duggmirror.com will usually work. Cracked, however, have a thing about splitting up small articles into even smaller pages so you only really get to read about half of their articles this way.
    • uu2b, on 03/05/2008, -0/+5SSH Proxy usually helps getting around that pesky Websense. Putty + Firefox FTW!
    • burnin8r28, on 03/05/2008, -2/+7summary: the government is ***** up, Scientology secretly controls the world, Hitler is still alive, and V for Vendetta was a good movie if you paid attention to the plot.
    • jer2eydevil88, on 03/06/2008, -0/+4SSH Tunneling
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunneling_protocol
      http://souptonuts.sourceforge.net/sshtips.htm
      It's your friend.
    • encrypteduser, on 03/06/2008, -0/+1When tunneling through SSH don't forget to set network.proxy.socks_remote_dns to true (in firefox about:config) or you will be exposed!
  • mooseontheloose, on 03/05/2008, -58/+10Buried for not having real conspiracies on there. Why don't they mention the US experiments on UFOs in Roswell? Or the secret underground base in the Denver Airport. Or why there are coverups on the reports filed by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on what they really saw on their trip?
    • kotrin, on 03/05/2008, -2/+41or who shot first, Han or Greedo?
    • Railz, on 03/05/2008, -4/+57"Actually happened"
    • meruru, on 03/05/2008, -3/+43because this is a list of conspiracies that actually happened
    • CrazedLeper, on 03/05/2008, -5/+14UFO stories detract from many other conspiracy unravellings (not theories). Not that there aren't any UFO's but there are so many things in the skies that it's really not a stretch for someone to have a hard time *identifying* some of them.

      The Kennedy assassination, 9/11, Federal Reserve and many other conspiracies get a free ride because so many people *want* astronauts from other worlds to land here. Get over it; space is much too vast and hostile to reasonably justify any such expectations.
      • macweirdo42, on 03/05/2008, -1/+10Actually, there really was a UFO conspiracy, though not in the way that most people assume. The government set about attempting to debunk every reported UFO sighting back in the 50s and 60s, for fear that the Soviets might use UFOs as a cover for a nuclear attack. Not that it says anything about whether little green men (or bug-eyed, grey aliens) are real, but it's still fascinating that the government actually had a real UFO conspiracy.
      • ophello, on 03/06/2008, -4/+1"space is much too vast and hostile to reasonably justify any such expectations"

        "heavier-than-air flight is impossible"

        See how stupid you sound?
        • Syphon8, on 03/06/2008, -1/+5-The Universe-
          Rules: 1. You may not exceed C.

          See how stupid you sound?
          • bitcloud, on 03/06/2008, -2/+1we'll see how stupid he sounds when physicists overcome it...
          • ophello, on 03/06/2008, -0/+1you silly boy : your supposed rules are the kind that are broken. open your mind.
    • OwdenBowden, on 03/05/2008, -2/+5Han shot first.
      Greedo then pissed himself
    • jgzman, on 03/05/2008, -2/+9Because there is little to no proof those actually happened?
      I don not confirm or deny the occurrence of those events, merely the evidence of them.
      • blee456, on 03/05/2008, -5/+2..available evidence
        • brycelb, on 03/05/2008, -3/+2is this why all of these crazy theories are based on "made up evidence" If the conclusion we want is not supported, lets make ***** up. (see:9/11 truth movement)
          • jgzman, on 03/07/2008, -0/+1In their defense, the same method was used to support the war in Iraq
    • Chassit, on 03/05/2008, -9/+20It's comments like these that show how ***** stupid you konspiracy kooks really are.
      • macweirdo42, on 03/05/2008, -4/+12In Soviet Russia, conspiracy denies your existence!
      • CrazedLeper, on 03/05/2008, -7/+4Stupid sheep. Bow to the machine.
        • brycelb, on 03/05/2008, -2/+2At least your here to steer us in the right direction?
      • bitcloud, on 03/06/2008, -0/+4Are you from the USA yourself?

        the home of warrantless wiretapping? watergate? Insider trading? Enron? Guantanimo? Pre-911 Iraq war plans? Attorney general firings?
        I could go on.....
        • amirman, on 03/06/2008, -0/+2yeah, how do you think America could let that ***** just slide? conspiracy is a dirty word and if anything is labeled as such, even if it is true, is automatically ignored. it's sad.
        • Sethbacca, on 03/07/2008, -0/+1Did you just bring up Watergate with a list of current problems in our country? Holy *****, you gotta be a ***** nut to be including Watergate in any ***** list at this point, especially not in a list of current problems. Way to live in the 70's you *****.

          Lets play the Sesame Street song !! "One of these things is not like the other.."
    • carterbaldwin, on 03/05/2008, -4/+3Psh, everyone knows that we never went to the moon in the first place.
      • keeganspeck, on 03/06/2008, -1/+6It was shot in a soundstage on Mars.
    • ophello, on 03/06/2008, -1/+4Ok, none of you are really smart or qualified enough to say what DID or DIDN'T happen.

      You have a BELIEF of what happened. Beliefs are CHOSEN DELUSIONS.
      • Syphon8, on 03/06/2008, -2/+2I believe the nucleus of a hydrogen atom contains 1 proton.
        • ophello, on 03/06/2008, -2/+1cavemen BELIEVED that banging two rocks together makes a spark. do they understand friction? or chemistry?

          you have no idea what protons are made of, why they are there, why they have mass, and whether or not the higgs boson accounts for mass. you know what your professors tell you, nothing more.

          scientists know very little. we know less than they know. therefore, you know next to nothing about how the universe works, and you are less than qualified to account for the details of quantum physics. but you cant see it.
          • Syphon8, on 03/06/2008, -0/+2Protons are made of two up quarks and a down quark.

            Not knowing the backing cause of a statement does make it true. Banging two rocks together makes a spark, no matter the cause. You dumbass.
  • bromac, on 03/05/2008, -9/+237Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you.

    Hi, NSA. How's the internet datamining going today? Give me a call, I'm sure you know my number.
    • CaptHuggyFace, on 03/05/2008, -2/+59You forgot to type "bomb" in your post. You're welcome.
      • Knucklecallus, on 03/05/2008, -4/+56And "George Bush will be slaughtered with a thousand knives by islamic arab terrorists who hate the western world at 2 tomorrow morning while he is sleeping in his bed in the white house." They would beat you and throw you into a cell that smells like pig intestine if you put that in your post. But it is ok for me to say that, because I am saying what you are not allowed to say. See, its like a public service.
        • Memitim, on 03/05/2008, -3/+26Meh, you'll probably get your cell in Gitmo for "inciting terrorism" or some *****.
        • dezmo, on 03/05/2008, -1/+35nah, they don't pay attention to stuff like that, but say something like, "Does anyone have a Cloverfield bootleg?" and they'll, hold up, someones at the doo
        • FluffyWolf, on 03/06/2008, -1/+7Yes it is perfecly ok, it is not like you are sending covert messages in open plaintext under the pretense of making a sarcastic joke about it, just to fool the clueless NSA agents.
          ...oh and by the way, 10-4.
        • bitcloud, on 03/06/2008, -1/+3haha yes... nice reference

          "did you know it's illegal to say... I WANT TO KILL THE PRESIDENT!"
      • JasonMaloney101, on 03/05/2008, -1/+20Bomb-bomb-bomb, bomb-bomb-bo-bomb!
      • Lutremi, on 03/05/2008, -4/+29Bomb
        Osama Bin Laden
        Sadam Hussein
        Al Que...sadilla
        Iran
        Iraq
        Screw Bush
        Plutonium
        Uranium-238
        Israel
        Pakistan
        Mahmoud Achmadinijead
        • quiksliver, on 03/05/2008, -2/+25I hope you live in Canada
        • Samostorm, on 03/06/2008, -1/+14Mmmmmmmm Al Quesadillas.
        • Locke23, on 03/06/2008, -1/+7It was nice knowing you
        • Scarfy, on 03/06/2008, -1/+4My God, he must be using some new code-language developed by the terrorists...
      • PURPLEDRINK, on 03/05/2008, -8/+4Bomb
        Osama Bin Laden
        Sadam Hussein
        Al Que...sadilla
        Iran
        Iraq
        Screw Bush
        Plutonium
        Uranium-238
        Israel
        Pakistan
        Mahmoud Achmadinijead
      • HPMNick, on 03/06/2008, -3/+9Hey, quit it.. You might expose our plot against the whitehouse...
        I am going to have to inform my al qaeda superiors about this
  • architerp, on 03/05/2008, -75/+3Buried for being a Cracked.com article
    • michaelGregoire, on 03/05/2008, -1/+16Riiiiiight...because you're above the truth.
    • macweirdo42, on 03/05/2008, -1/+10I smell a conspiracy.
    • carterbaldwin, on 03/05/2008, -1/+12Buried for being pretentious.
  • leerayIG88, on 03/05/2008, -12/+2Bigfoot is actually fake.
  • logego, on 03/05/2008, -3/+75While reading the article, I couldn't help but think about the two radiation experiments, below...

    U.S. Radiation Experiments
    http://www.raven1.net/hradexco.htm
    http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/313/7070/1421

    Israeli Ringworm Project (Radiation Experiments)
    http://web.israelinsider.com/views/3998.htm

    Did a little googling and turned up an interesting thread here on 'Google Answers' regarding other conspiracy theories that turned out to be true, including Project Echelon:
    http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=46 ...

    And this site: http://conspiraciesthatweretrue.blogspot.com

    Truth is stranger than fiction...
    • kingmanic, on 03/05/2008, -1/+12For a long time the NSA was 'No such Agency'. They were the #1 employers of mathematicians and probably one of the most effect US intelligence agencies.
      • yeti22, on 03/05/2008, -1/+8"No Such Agency" was just a nickname, it was never the official name of the organization. But its existence was classified for a long time; not sure when it was declassified.
        • kingmanic, on 03/05/2008, -0/+6I know. It was a vague shadowy government agency. The "no such agency" was a joke regarding what other agencies said when you asked about the NSA.
      • TheSabre, on 03/06/2008, -0/+2Or as my coworker - a former NSA software developer - calls them now... "no secrets anymore"
    • paperclipsNsoup, on 03/05/2008, -3/+34Conspiracy #8

      President George Bush is actually a reptilian alien that feeds on low approval ratings
      • macweirdo42, on 03/05/2008, -15/+3You're thinking of Ron Paul... At least, I think you're thinking of Ron Paul. All I know is that I had this bizarre dream where Ron Paul was a reptilian space alien. I ***** you not.
      • GreyICE, on 03/05/2008, -4/+1#9 George Bush's brain was eaten by a reptilian alien at the age of 6.
    • UnstableMind, on 03/05/2008, -1/+18Holy *****, from the Project Echelon Link:

      "Many prominent writers and drug figures were first exposed to
      LSD under this program, including Ken Kesey of the Merry Pranksters,
      Timothy Leary, Allen Ginsberg, Baba Ram Dass (Richard Alpert) and
      future 'Unabomber' Theodore Kaczynski. A source on this is the book
      "Acid Dreams" by Bruce Shalin and Martin A. Lee."

      Ted Kaczynski, WTF? I wonder if this has got something to do w/what he did or how he ended up.
    • TicoTico, on 03/05/2008, -0/+6Another conspiracy that actually happened is operation paperclip: Nazi Germany scientists were pardoned and hired to work in key positions in NASA and project MK Ultra
    • burnin8r28, on 03/05/2008, -0/+1while I read this article I thought of the Spanish inquisition...kind of unexpected
  • dkern, on 03/05/2008, -8/+102Why wasn't Gulf of Tonkin on the list?
    • kawigamog, on 03/05/2008, -25/+30...or pearl harbor.

      or, even if you believe the official story, 9/11.

      9/11 was the result of a conspiracy, be thoses conspirators muslims or neo-cons.
      • GhostyBoy, on 03/05/2008, -2/+20Why would you bury that?

        Both sides of the 9/11 debate agree that a conspiracy took place. And the Pearl Harbor thing is pretty well-known as well.
        • dkern, on 03/05/2008, -5/+11The Pearl Harbor Conspiracy was never a popular conspiracy theory until after 9/11. After 9/11 the gloves were off and everything became conspiracy. I could have posted the conspiracy about "Reptilians ruling the world masquerading as humans" which was very big in the 1970's. At face value in regard to this article- Gulf of Tonkin was a huge conspiracy proven to be factual event which nearly toppled the government upon proof. Most other conspiracies are not as widely researched and held in much esteem.

          I do not really believe that Peal Harbor conspiracy has any real merit for no other reason than information was harder to come by or spin in those days. I am a man of pure facts and truth when studying a conspiracy- and even though our government and piss-poor administration and congress are more than capable of this kind of deception- there is no hard evidence to prove it- and I have searched. The whole moon landing in the 1960's has more validity than Pearl Harbor. This is not to say the conspiracy of these events did not happen- I just haven't found any real fact that they had either.

          There is no question about the Gulf of Tonkin incident- as it is not a conspiracy- but a complete fact and just because it is a fact and not a conspiracy does not give any more weight to every other conspiracy out there.
          • cmackattack, on 03/06/2008, -1/+4"The Pearl Harbor Conspiracy was never a popular conspiracy theory until after 9/11."

            Sorry, that's just false information..along with a number of your other comments...
      • petebot, on 03/05/2008, -3/+5you just blew my mind...
    • orxor, on 03/05/2008, -2/+11What about the Federal Reserve, the difference being there is that it actually succeeded and people learned to accept it. I imagine if it failed we would be reading about a crazy plot by the most wealthy individuals in the US to control the money supply.
      • dkern, on 03/06/2008, -2/+5The Federal Reserve Bank is not a conspiracy- its is fact. And yes it should be shut down and the participants wiped off the face of the Earth. But then you have to ask yourselves why pick on them when there are still Enron formers in positions of power. Its really quite ridiculous and completely cannibalistic- but this doesn't mean every conspiracy has merit just because of the vile, cruel, arrogant nature of man is more than capable of each accusation.

        Gotta be careful here. I am not anti-semitic and nor am I bigoted in any way- I am an equal opportunity misanthrope looking for a role model and have yet to find one! Thats the ***** truth of it!
    • Hangly, on 03/05/2008, -0/+10Hell, most of the wars we fought last century were based on a ***** pretext.
    • tryangles, on 03/05/2008, -2/+12Um, beacuse the facts of this incident makes the Jews look bad.
      • Groovemaster, on 03/06/2008, -2/+11Your comment is antisemitic. Even a hint of a suggestion of any possibility of Jews being capable of doing anything wrong is basically the same as saying you love Hitler.

        Never let it happen again.
  • TheLastProphet, on 03/05/2008, -4/+45Maybe it should be called: 7 Conspiracies that can be proven... or which the evidence has made it to the light of day.
    or 7 Conspiracy Facts.
    I think Sibel Edmonds is sitting on more than 7 right now.
  • Newportbeachguy, on 03/05/2008, -34/+115Prescott Bush just looks like a ***** jackass
    • kingmanic, on 03/05/2008, -9/+64Kinda makes Both Bushes presidencies seem very consistent with the family ideology. The US has rarely been more fascist as now.
      • purpl3hazze, on 03/05/2008, -3/+8What are you talking about?
        The US govt. has significantly grown in power throughout its history during wartime. If you think its fascist now, you don't know what fascism really means. Think about WWI, thousands of people using freedom of speech were jailed for opposing the war... or even during the Civil War when Lincoln took away habeas corpus. Anyway the point is that the US constitution has always been restored after the wars, although the powers of govt. may have significantly increased.
        • RX8SaxMan, on 03/06/2008, -6/+5How dare you use logic, facts, and reason on Digg! Ban him!!!
        • kingmanic, on 03/06/2008, -0/+3'rarely' is a qualifier. I did in fact consider that the US has been more oppressive in a number of different occasions.
        • kruptd, on 03/06/2008, -0/+4Uh, what was your point? Protesters are still being jailed by the truckload, and now they're pushing to make it illegal except for certain designated 'Protest Zones'. Couple that with the blatantly unconstitutional bills being passed, a president war criminal, the pardoning of his pals indicted of fraud etc., and all the conspiracies(the proven ones at least, with evidence that actually managed to slip out)

          And don't forget, he's the grandson to a senator that conspired with big corporations to set up a fascist dictatorship.

          Now take a second look. How close is he to achieving that goal? People are already talking about him playing his Martial Law card.
    • catsaregrey, on 03/05/2008, -5/+121That's not Prescott Bush, that's Peter Sellers as Dr. Strangelove.
      • Wizardo55, on 03/05/2008, -0/+25Glad someone noticed, but then again Newportbeachguy could be sarcasm. Probably not though.
        • tightscrummy, on 03/05/2008, -0/+16Clearly you've never spent any time in Newport Beach.
          • misterhat, on 03/05/2008, -5/+2***BLOG SPAM WARNING***

            Have you ever seen the website www.thedirty.com? It shows everything wrong with Newport Beach/America.
          • misterhat, on 03/06/2008, -3/+1Also, that place has NSFW links and has terrible design. I also am not affiliated in any way.
    • tightscrummy, on 03/05/2008, -9/+2Then you would be a double ***** jackass with sprinkles on top and room for cream?
    • BevansDesign, on 03/05/2008, -3/+9Runs in the family.
      • canyoodiggit, on 03/06/2008, -0/+2And by the transitive property via colbert, stewart, and o'brien our prez is a NAZI
    • Ramble, on 03/05/2008, -4/+47My God you idiot have you never seen Dr. Strangelove?
    • Monarch818, on 03/05/2008, -4/+7When doesn't a George Bush look like a Jackass?
    • johnmatias, on 03/06/2008, -0/+5Prescott Bush was also a huge supporter of Adolf Hitler... scary thought, isn't it?
  • DiggMyComment, on 03/05/2008, -41/+6You are getting sleeeeepy, veeeeery sleeepy. You will do exactly as i say, wooooOoOoOoooOooOOOooohhhhhhhh. Follow the instructions in my username.
    • Knucklecallus, on 03/05/2008, -1/+12You forgot the Down part in your name that comes right after Digg
    • notahappycamper, on 03/05/2008, -0/+8burried as innacurate. i'm not getting sleepy.
    • amirman, on 03/06/2008, -0/+1i'm getting sleepy but i dugg you down. isn't that interesting...
  • Jade10145, on 03/05/2008, -7/+62Where's the "Digg is actually contorlled by a minority of users, thats why you can never get the story you submitted popular" conspiracy.
    Or the "How the ***** has some else ALWAYS submitted a story before me" conspiracy?

    With my time with digg, day to day I believe more and more that these two are real.
    • uptwolait, on 03/05/2008, -1/+4Based on when these particular conspiracy stories occurred, I'd say you've had ample time to post this up earlier.
    • CrazedLeper, on 03/05/2008, -2/+5Hey, don't blame minorities. EVERYBODY KNOWS that after hundreds of years of vicious persecution, the media *solved* the problem of racism in one generation with propaganda--or did it?
    • dcollins, on 03/05/2008, -0/+1Its not a conspiracy, but its true. All you need is a largely read personal blog with a digg-it button at the bottom. Presto! Front page...
    • rbdkx, on 03/06/2008, -0/+1I know, I make a website myself to submit it...and someone still beats me!
  • republicker, on 03/05/2008, -1/+6....and many more
  • Knucklecallus, on 03/05/2008, -20/+43"But hey, at least the US learned a very important lesson about overthrowing the governments of unfriendly Middle Eastern countries."

    Did they?
    • meruru, on 03/05/2008, -1/+86Sarcasm Knucklecallus, Knucklecallus sarcasm. Glad you two finally met.
    • paperclipsNsoup, on 03/05/2008, -9/+1Yeah, it'll fool the public until that president is out of office
      *see George W. Bush V. Iraq
  • soulpatch, on 03/05/2008, -35/+1there's more "cracked" links on this site than anything else. this is sly marketing on thier part. BURIED - so i'm not a tool like the other lemmings that push all the other "cracked" links.
    • michaelGregoire, on 03/05/2008, -0/+5...another one that's above the truth
    • Buddhist, on 03/05/2008, -0/+4IT'S A CONSPIRACY!
    • JoeDiggsIt, on 03/06/2008, -0/+1I would cry conspiracy too if so many of the articles weren't so damn funny.
  • CrazedLeper, on 03/05/2008, -15/+50#7: "medley spilled the beans to a congressional committee in 1934. Everyone he accused of being a conspirator vehemently denied it, and none of them were brought up on criminal charges. Still, the House McCormack-Dickstein Committee did at least acknowledge the existence of the conspiracy, which ended up never getting past the initial planning stages."
    -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------->
    So did they stop wanting it? No, they regrouped, reorganized and took over in a silent coup in 2000. Nobody noticed--except for conspiracy nuts.


    "Though many of the people who had allegedly backed the Business Plot also maintained financial ties with Nazi Germany up through America's entry into World War II. But at least the United States never ended up becoming a fascist dictatorship "
    --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------->
    It is no coincidence that the son of Prescott Bush went live with "new world order" near the end of his 1st term as president (he had 2 more, vicariously, through the dope currently in the chair) and his son presided over 9/11. All the maneuvers since then have purposely placed the US teetering on the edge of fascism. One more false-flag event and it's all over. Planning for 10/12 is underway.
    • dcollins, on 03/05/2008, -11/+4I'm afraid im going to have to bury this for being laced with troofer dust.
      • CrazedLeper, on 03/07/2008, -0/+3Mockery is not evidence. Ridicule is not interesting. Stupidity is not welcome.
        • jawnboy, on 03/07/2008, -0/+2I hate having to post a me too type comment, but that was ***** well said.
    • Hangly, on 03/05/2008, -2/+3You could argue the real coup d'etat happened in 1963. 2000-2008 is just some organizational finishing touches.
      • jawnboy, on 03/07/2008, -0/+2Exactly, it didn't take them 60 years to regroup, it took them 60 years to consolidate power to the point where they really are beginning to not care what the people find out. They regrouped in less than a year and were more careful after that.
  • sparkleanimesh, on 03/05/2008, -60/+1Such a *****. Feel free to dig me down guys, but this article too looks like a propaganda.
  • Bobo44, on 03/05/2008, -24/+1TLDR
  • cababika799, on 03/05/2008, -3/+54Smedley Butler is quite possibly the greatest man to have ever lived! And his name was SMEDLEY!
    • DeepFriedFetus, on 03/05/2008, -8/+8He supported FDR, which is hardly a "great" thing to do. Look at where FDR has gotten us with his shortsighted, big government "solution", Social Security. That's right, its broken and is being dumped on our children.
      • allisonaxe, on 03/05/2008, -1/+9i'd argue that it wasn't FDR that broke it.
      • tinotheelf, on 03/05/2008, -2/+7Yes, I would've much preferred the fascism over the New Deal.
    • vadmspartan, on 03/06/2008, -0/+5He also wrote about the dangers of war-for-profit before it became popular and earned 2 Medals of Honor. Pretty great achievements.
  • SOS84, on 03/05/2008, -17/+64From the article

    In 1933, group of wealthy businessmen that allegedly included the heads of Chase Bank, GM, Goodyear, Standard Oil, the DuPont family and Senator Prescott Bush tried to recruit Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler to lead a military coup against President FDR and install a fascist dictatorship in the United States. And yes, we're talking about the same Prescott Bush who fathered one US President and grandfathered another one.

    Prescott Bush may have failed in creating a fascist dictatorship but his grandson succeeded quite well.
    • ontain, on 03/05/2008, -4/+16sadly they did get the Federal Reserve Act passed and now control the money.
    • HoratioHellpop, on 03/05/2008, -8/+7So the USA is now a complete fascist state. Tinfoil, meet you head.
    • Hangly, on 03/05/2008, -1/+5You should look into George Sr.'s involvement in the JFK assassination. He may not have been a major player, but there's no way he wasn't aware of it.
    • tryangles, on 03/05/2008, -0/+6Oh Poo! -there is no way this is true, this must be written by them damn freedumb hatin liberals. They aint true mericans, because true mericans don't get fooled!
    • Syphon8, on 03/06/2008, -6/+3Thank you for making light of fascist dictatorships. I'm sure the Jews of Germany in 1945 would sympathise with you.
  • DiggyWiggy, on 03/05/2008, -5/+21"charges of government surveillance are […] by and large, total *****." Is this a joke?
  • gapingass, on 03/05/2008, -22/+4I need anal punishment!!
    • CrazedLeper, on 03/05/2008, -1/+5Don't you have a broom? How 'bout a meat tenderizer? Combat boot?
    • Buddhist, on 03/05/2008, -0/+5I didn't know Goatse had a Digg account.
    • GhostyBoy, on 03/05/2008, -0/+6Hey dude, have you ever heard of Myspace? Check it out, you'll fit right in.
    • erad222, on 03/06/2008, -0/+2Am I the only one who dugg him up?
  • erkokite, on 03/05/2008, -1/+31"Paranoid schizophrenics from coast to coast like to call in to recount their harrowing tales of psychic violation at the hands of the CIA."

    Hehehe. I like the not so subtle knock on the C2C radio talk show. For the record though, MKULTRA was very much real.
    • MKinSJ, on 03/05/2008, -1/+6hence the name of the article
    • Hangly, on 03/05/2008, -0/+2If "mind control" didn't work, advertising wouldn't work either. And based on the trillions businesses continue to pour into advertising you have to conclude that it does work.
  • hockey, on 03/05/2008, -5/+16After learning that the cake is a lie I don't think I can ever put my trust in ANYTHING again.
  • ronaldinho, on 03/05/2008, -0/+32Dugg for the Tuskegee experiment and Operation Snow White, those are pretty *****-up

    While I'm at it, it sure seems Scientology will be a mainstay on Digg for months to come......
    • Memitim, on 03/05/2008, -0/+10I hope so. Their greatest aspiration at this point is to slip back under the radar.
  • batshitcrazy, on 03/05/2008, -35/+75#8: 9/11. Being dugg down doesn't make it untrue
    • capiCrimm, on 03/05/2008, -12/+4being dugg up, however, does.
    • SuperCow1127, on 03/05/2008, -4/+42I don't see how anybody can say 9/11 wasn't a conspiracy. A group of Saudi Muslim fundamentalists, with funding from Saudi royalty, and after years of careful preparation and planning, flew three hijacked commercial jets into major American landmarks. Sounds like a conspiracy to me.
      • dudeguy1234, on 03/05/2008, -12/+3Yeah, because planes vaporize on impact leaving no traces all the time right? Oh wait! No! This did just happen to occur multiple times on the same day (9/11), has never happened before or since, and is completely absolutely 100%......FAIL
        • GhostyBoy, on 03/05/2008, -0/+7It kind of pisses me of that so many truthers insist on being complete dicks about it. Having an attitude problem isn't going to convince anyone, they will just think you are an *****.

          Just lay out your argument in the most well-presented manner you can. People will make their own judgements.
      • GhostyBoy, on 03/05/2008, -5/+16The schools of thought are something like this:

        1. Inside Job, neo-cons planned it, controlled demolition

        2. Al-Qaeda hijackers. The administration knew and let it happen on purpose.

        3. Massive unprecedented failure of epic proportions, absolutely no one in command did their job, hijackers got unbelievably lucky multiple times and the President was asleep at the wheel.

        4. We did everything right, and we did nothing to invoke it, but those terrorists with boxcutters outsmarted us. They did it because they hate our freedoms. They are evil, we are just.

        4 is just stupid. 2 or 3 seem highly likely, and they are pretty reasonable to believe. But for me it has to be 1, because WTC1, 2 and 7 all collapsed at nearly free fall speed directly into the path of most resistance. Occam's razor suggests controlled demolition.

        Debunkers will say that the fires burning for nearly an hour caused the collapse, but let's be real: How on earth could muslim terrorists possibly plan for that? Can you even imagine what scientific, engineering and piloting sophistication one would need to plan to knock the towers down 45 minutes after the initial impact with the resulting fires?

        And then what about building 7? Clearly they could never have planned for the resulting debris and fire to take down building 7 as well, so are we to assume it was just a lucky coincidence for the terrorists that WTC7 also collapsed at nearly free fall speed, directly into the path of least resistance?

        I've heard a lot of different "debunking" theories about this, but most seem pretty unlikely and a bit of a stretch. Mostly people just resort to name calling, and I usually don't bother to engage them.

        Anyway, that's my reasoning for suspecting controlled demolition. I'll likely be buried into oblivion, but it seems to me pretty sound and simple logic.
        • tinotheelf, on 03/05/2008, -2/+8Sorry, I still think #1 is crazy. 2 or 3 it was. I lean towards 2.
          My feeling is that the attackers had no idea that the buildings would collapse. "Let's fly a couple of planes into the WTC and kill everybody on the plane and a couple floors of the building and make everybody really scared" is a pretty good terrorist attack. They just lucked out and wound up with the best terrorist attack of all time.
          NOTE: I do not support terrorism, my uses of the words "good" and "best" are from the attackers' POV.
      • zeabu, on 03/05/2008, -1/+3And, their ties with Bush...

        I would almost believe "loose change".
      • slickmick, on 03/12/2008, -0/+19/11 was an obvious inside job. Look forward to lots of crow-eating from the truth-mockers in the future.
    • Dbeneath, on 03/05/2008, -5/+3http://youtube.com/watch?v=BzGd0t8v-d4

      Chomsky says it better than i could.
      • GhostyBoy, on 03/05/2008, -1/+5I like Chomsky, but this is a pretty argument that he makes. He addresses no specific evidence, and he even says, in reference to the "inside job" theory he actually says "even if it was, who cares?". This is a silly statement. If it was an inside job and people knew about it, they would completely freak out.

        But after enough public pressure from the 9/11 families and others Chomsky finally did sign the petition for a new independent investigation of 9/11, so I say he's cool with me.
        • Locke23, on 03/06/2008, -1/+1Chomsky is sort of a nutcase sometimes
    • GhostyBoy, on 03/05/2008, -6/+7Building 7 side by side with a controlled demolition:

      http://youtube.com/watch?v=73qK4j32iuo
      • allisonaxe, on 03/05/2008, -1/+7have you ever seen the inside of a building that was rigged for a controlled demolition? they have a tendancy of being filled with explosives, something I'm pretty sure all the people who went in to work that day would have noticed.
        • Gratefuldead, on 03/05/2008, -2/+4which happened to be....
          Salomon Smith Barney 1,202,900 GRND,1-6,13,18-46 Financial Institution
          IRS Regional Council 90,430 24, 25 Government
          U.S. Secret Service 85,343 9,10 Government
          C.I.A. N/A N/A Government
          American Express Bank International 106,117 7,8,13 Financial Institution
          Standard Chartered Bank 111,398 10,13,26,27 Financial Institution
          Provident Financial Management 9,000 7,13 Financial Institution
          ITT Hartford Insurance Group 122,590 19-21 [Insurance]
          First State Management Group, Inc 4,000 21 Insurance
          Federal Home Loan Bank 47,490 22 Financial Institution
          NAIC Securities 22,500 19 Insurance
          Securities & Exchange Commission 106,117 11,12,13 Government
          Mayor's Office of Emergency Mgmt 45,815 23 Government
        • GhostyBoy, on 03/05/2008, -1/+2Gratefuldead: It seems to me a logical conclusion that the entire thing could have been orchestrated from Building 7. They were right next door, and it's the headquarters for the CIA, IRS, Secret Service...which would be the immediate suspects for an inside job. Really not that far fetched if you consider it.
        • Hangly, on 03/05/2008, -1/+4What about those days in the months leading up to 9/11 when the building was evacuated to do electrical work? That happened.
          Every last detail fits. Don't assume x is impossible because you never heard of y happening. Check first to see if y actually happened.
        • jawnboy, on 03/07/2008, -0/+1You have obviously not seen the inside of a building rigged for controlled demolition. They are not "filled with explosives" they are rigged with many small charges engineered to cut the single structural member that they are assigned to, each individual explosive is actually quite small. I have no knowledge whether Building 7 was rigged, I am just saying your statement is false.
      • Syphon8, on 03/06/2008, -0/+3I'd be more impressed with a side by side comparison of an uncontrolled demolition and WTC 7 hilighting the differences. Oh wait, there are none.
    • Curlz31, on 03/05/2008, -2/+8The fact that they left building 7 out of the 9/11 Commission report is proof that there is a cover-up.
    • Shenanigans, on 03/06/2008, -5/+3How can anyone take "*****'s" comment seriously?
    • LxRogue, on 03/06/2008, -6/+2Where do all these whack jobs come from?
      Go back to your caves truthers.
  • quaxon, on 03/05/2008, -1/+9no montauk project? that is the craziest one ive heard of that is probably true.
  • sharkd, on 03/05/2008, -0/+48von Stauffenberg would have killed Hitler, had the briefcase been placed on the other side of the conference table's leg. Instead, it burst Hitler's ear drum and explosively de-pantsed him.
  • ThrstForKnwldge, on 03/05/2008, -7/+33I see Prescott Bush's grandson is carrying on with the plan to install a fascist dictatorship. George's grandpa would be very proud of him.
  • pimpofpixels, on 03/05/2008, -13/+114Dugg for illuminating Bush's Nazi heritage.
  • exomni, on 03/05/2008, -2/+69I've told various people about 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, and 7, and they all laughed and told me I was a tin-foil hat wearing nut.
    • ThrstForKnwldge, on 03/05/2008, -5/+18Typical dumbass response when confronted with truth they didn't hear about on the news. Tell them to turn off the news and google it cause google shall set you free.
    • patch6, on 03/05/2008, -4/+23That is why people are voting for their own enslavement, they don't understand history, or operate on a completely biased version in which government is filled with angels.
    • smotpoker, on 03/05/2008, -1/+11What MORONS!
      Don't they know the difference between tin and aluminum? SHEESH!!
      ;)
    • tillerman00, on 03/05/2008, -1/+13Mainstream society is so ignorant and dumbed down that those who are called "tinfoil hat wearers" should feel honored to be excluded.
    • GhostyBoy, on 03/05/2008, -1/+6I got the same reaction trying to tell people about MonSanto and the genetically modified seeds that they are forcing into Afghanistan's agriculture. Calling someone a "tinfoil hatter" is mostly just a code for plugging your ears and singing "lalalala everything is peachy keen."
    • mooseofshadows, on 03/05/2008, -1/+7They would have laughed at you for 4, too, if it weren't for V for Vendetta.

      You know, making awesome graphic novels and movies about things that are semi-relevant to these topics could probably cure this ignorance...
    • Hangly, on 03/05/2008, -0/+10Ridicule has been the most effective tool for suppressing dissent since the days of the European monarchs. Probably before that, too.
    • wojtyk, on 03/07/2008, -0/+0That's probably because you were wrong about 8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16...1017,1018, and 1019.
  • johanm, on 03/05/2008, -2/+20dugg for the quote "But hey, at least the US learned a very important lesson about overthrowing the governments of unfriendly Middle Eastern countries."
  • angusm, on 03/05/2008, -3/+10"A plot to destroy the Houses of Parliament with an Infernal Device? While his Majesty is present, no less? To be carried out by some shadowy band of Papists? In verity, good sir, I do believe that you must be an habitual wearer of head coverings made from finely-beaten metal. By God's beard, I never heard such a preposterous idea in my life!"
  • lpse2000, on 03/05/2008, -0/+11Smedley Butler, he received 2 Medals of Honor.
  • digggggggggg, on 03/05/2008, -2/+65"Tea was spilled, crumpets were dropped and monocles everywhere popped out in shock"

    You just can't make this stuff up.
  • cJw314, on 03/05/2008, -0/+1mirror? denied via filtering.

    Hey firewall - t(>.
  • uptwolait, on 03/05/2008, -0/+12Pics, or it didn't happ....oh, you got pics? Nevermind.
  • nickels, on 03/05/2008, -4/+26http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods

    How did this one go unmentioned?
    • BohicaTwentyTwo, on 03/05/2008, -4/+10Didn't actually happen.
    • CrazedLeper, on 03/05/2008, -6/+5Perhaps because it never got beyond the written phase --until 9/11. So why was 9/11 not mentioned?
    • noangelcame, on 03/05/2008, -1/+2Actually parts of Operation Northwoods were eventually used,.. except they were used against the Vietnamese in Gulf of Tonkin.
      • Hangly, on 03/06/2008, -0/+3Northwoods was a plan to commit false-flag domestic terror as a pretext for war. I seem to recall something very similar that happened recently.
      • BohicaTwentyTwo, on 03/06/2008, -0/+2Which part exactly?
    • LittleRadar, on 03/05/2008, -0/+2I'm glad someone brought that up, I was wondering myself.
    • jeexbit, on 03/06/2008, -0/+1I came in here to ask the same exact question...
      • ssn697, on 03/06/2008, -0/+1Too funny. That cracked.com article just not in depth enough for you, eh?
  • BohicaTwentyTwo, on 03/05/2008, -6/+11The next time a cabal of industrialists try to take over the US government, maybe they shouldn't ask a communist to lead their army.
    • adooga, on 03/05/2008, -2/+10*The next time a cabal of industrialists tried to take over the US government, they didn't ask a communist to lead their army.
      Fixed that for you.
      • nakani, on 03/05/2008, -0/+3I'm pretty sure Smedler Butley held communist-leaning political beliefs. Doesn't make him any less of a badass, tho, he was a leading critic of war profiteering "War is a Racket"
        • adooga, on 03/06/2008, -0/+1I wasn't referring to Smedley.
        • BohicaTwentyTwo, on 03/06/2008, -0/+2Oh Smedley was definitely a badass, and the fact that he had communist leanings doesn't detract from his two Medals of Honor. It just seems ridiculous that when the Business Plot went looking for a military leader to overthrow FDR, they went to a retired general who was FDR's biggest supporter. I think this was less an attempt to make America fascist, but more a bunch of drunk Wall Street exec. venting over a president they didn't like. Think of it as FDR Derangement Syndrome (FDRDS). That's why they also call it the Cocktail Putsch.
    • Hangly, on 03/06/2008, -1/+1Hey, Hillary is DOWN with the NWO. There's no reason communists and fascists can't be good friends, so long as they don't hang out together socially.
  • Hetman, on 03/05/2008, -0/+9"As far as anyone can tell, they were unable to succeed in finding a way to control the way people act or think. Though we'd probably say the same thing if they had succeeded. " That is priceless. And that experiment also helped spread LSD through america so that is not a bad thing either.
    • taibofatty, on 03/05/2008, -0/+0The hippy movement of the 60's might not of ever happened if it wasn't for MKULTRA. Ken Kesey was pretty much responsible for introducing the west coast music/hippy scene to LSD. The world would be a much different place if it wasn't for that.
    • mcm020, on 03/06/2008, -0/+2That article failed to mention that the CIA slipped their own LSD. They also tested the acid on guys who were buying hookers. Pretty interesting stuff.
  • Mootabolife, on 03/05/2008, -7/+1"The lesson here? Fascist or not, you don't ***** around with guys named Smedley or Dickstein"
    should read:
    "The lesson here? Fascist or not, you don't ***** guys named Smegma or DickENstein"
  • ciaran036, on 03/05/2008, -26/+119/11 WAS an inside job. Watch this: http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=55474814 ...
    • Ramble, on 03/05/2008, -6/+16Someone's not had his meds today.
      • CrazedLeper, on 03/05/2008, -6/+4Tin foil keeps the stupidity out. That's why they keep telling you not to use any. Why do you keep listening? Perhaps it's too late.
      • ciaran036, on 03/06/2008, -1/+1No I'm not on medication. Are you?
    • krytz86, on 03/05/2008, -4/+139/11 was not an inside job, and you are a dumbass.
      • CrazedLeper, on 03/05/2008, -7/+2And your opinion is based on? Wait, I know. The MSM force-fed you a story for a couple of weeks and for desert you ate "Let us never tolerate outrageous conspiracy theories about the events of September 11th..." Obviously, you have done zero research. Looks like you're the dumbass.
        • krytz86, on 03/06/2008, -1/+5My opinion is based on the lorryloads of evidence in its favour. Paranoid, moronic, dumbass.
      • ciaran036, on 03/06/2008, -2/+2If everyone had an attitude like yours we'd still all think the world was flat, and we'd still actually believe the Bible...
        • erad222, on 03/08/2008, -0/+1Let people have there opinions. Jesus Christ you don't have to try and convince everyone you tool.
    • malex, on 03/05/2008, -5/+5It goes without saying that the reactions to the September 11th attacks were beyond incompetent... and I can even believe that individuals within in the administration knew something was going to happen and allowed it to advance a political agenda. What I don't get is why so many people think the towers were imploded. To even conceive of such of an conspiracy, you have to find the following conversation plausable:

      Project for a New American Century Member: "Hey, you know what need? We should arrange for some of bin Laden's boys to hijack some planes and crash them in New York City."
      Skull and Bones Member: "I like it... but it lacks something. Can't we do something more... dramatic? And exponentially more complicated?"
      PNAC: "How about hire a team of demolition experts and engineers to wire the towers with explosives to implode at the exact same moment?"
      S&B: "Perfect! Be sure to have Bush in a room full of preschoolers starting blankly for 10 minutes and you've got a deal."
      • PoopOnPaul, on 03/05/2008, -3/+2Well played sir
      • CrazedLeper, on 03/05/2008, -3/+5Why don't you Google that report (it's online, hidden in plain sight) and look at the last page. Look at all the individuals and the organizations they represent. After reading the list, ask yourself this question: If I wanted to fake an attack on the scale of 9/11 would these be the people I would need to help me?

        They had 10 years to plan 9/11. They are highly motivated and resourceful beyond limit (for all intents and purposes). Your little narrative provides no reason they couldn't have pulled of 9/11 as a false-flag event.
    • noangelcame, on 03/05/2008, -3/+4The reason why people believe the Twin Towers and WTC7 were brought about by controlled demolition,. is because WTC7 showed all the characteristics of a controlled demolition, and none of the characteristics of a fire initiated gravity driven collapse.

      The Twin Towers showed characteristics of controlled demolition starting from the top down., and none of the characteristics of a fire initiated gravity driven collapse.
      • Killwize, on 03/06/2008, -0/+2...people are blinded by hate. You gotta' let it go. They wonder how Hitler was able to come to power. 1930s Germany and America today are quite the same!

        Eventually People will resize what the government said happened, did not. Just not right now, people need it to justify their reasoning,
    • ciaran036, on 03/06/2008, -1/+2If you don't agree with me, please try and explain how without the use of 'dumbass', 'retard' or any word or phrase that does not mean any sense.
      • erad222, on 03/06/2008, -2/+2ITT: Tinfoil hat gets butthurt over the fact no one believes him.
        • Killwize, on 03/06/2008, -1/+2Hua. I believe him. I think he is piss off because the general public (you) wont even begin to believe him unless they see it on Fox News.
          • erad222, on 03/06/2008, -1/+1LOL. Make more generalizations over the Internet. I've done my research and I've done my homework. Terrorists attacked the World Trade Centers that day. Move on.
          • ciaran036, on 03/06/2008, -0/+1people are more likely to believe someone who does not use words like 'butthurt' and make nonsensical comments like 'Tinfoil hat'. I do not wear a tinfoil hat and my anus does not hurt. Why try and criticise something you can't even explain?
          • erad222, on 03/07/2008, -0/+1They're Internet terms bud. I'm sure you've run across them before, so stop worrying about it.
      • Killwize, on 03/06/2008, -0/+2@ Ciaran. It just gets hard not to lash out like that when no one will give a serious look at the situation.
  • drlha, on 03/05/2008, -1/+35It might be worth mentioning that yes, the British do celebrate "Guy Fawkes" night every year, but that it isn't a celebration of Guy Fawkes at all, but rather a celebration that The Gunpowder Plot was averted. In fact part of the celebration involves throwing effigies of Guy Fawkes on a bonfire, not something that is usually done for a hero.
    • ZigVicious, on 03/05/2008, -3/+2BECOME AN HERO!!
    • buhbyebot, on 03/06/2008, -0/+5My Irish friends celebrate Guy Fawkes. ;)
    • daizaru, on 03/06/2008, -0/+1Ah, beat me to it.

      Leave it to Cracked to sacrifice accuracy for the sake of humor. There's almost one bum fact in each article that kills the "fun" of them for me.
  • suzywang3000, on 03/05/2008, -14/+3I hope Ron Paul is paying that poor black lady to dress up like Gumbo and hold his sign...
    • jpt62089, on 03/05/2008, -2/+9Err... She is dressed up as the Statue of Liberty. You do know what that is right? The big statue that the French gave us. The Statue that lost its head in Cloverfield.

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_of_Liberty
    • smackafiyah, on 03/05/2008, -0/+3God I hope you're from the US, or at least high school educated
    • MaddieCakes, on 03/05/2008, -0/+9Gumbo is a stew, retard. Stop drinking your thermometers.
      • suzywang3000, on 03/05/2008, -4/+0i meant Gumby - sorry for confuse.
        • dudeguy1234, on 03/05/2008, -0/+1i'm hoping (s)he's trying to be funny.
        • endrid, on 03/06/2008, -0/+1Sorry for the confusion... Hey I can't speak Chinese so it's all good.
  • MetalLizard, on 03/05/2008, -0/+4They should have mentioned operation NorthWoods: http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=92662

    The United States government wanted to attack cities American cities, blame it on Cuba, and go to war. It came close to going into effect... Imagine, if these are the things that are unclassified, what in the HELL could still be classified? I hate thinking about it.
  • GCarden, on 03/05/2008, -0/+4That has got to be one of the most awesome Ron Paul supporters pictures out there
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