Tuesday, July 17, 2007
Conspiracy theories – Break out the holy hand grenade!
Last Friday, the BBC published a story about how some Iraqis believe the British army has let loose man eating Badgers and are catching and killing the poor things. It just so happens they are indigenous of the area.
I would have loved to have been at the press conference when a British major said “We can categorically state that we have not released man-eating badgers into the area.” Could he have possibly said it with a straight face?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6295138.stm
And just in case anyone reading this might think I am wrong to laugh at this; that if people are so traumatised as to think such a thing, it isn’t funny; let me just remind you about the number of idiots in this country who insist that 9/11 was an inside job. Conspiracy theories are everywhere and always have been. Most are annoying or pathetic. A very few have some substance.
Some time back, I saw some students by the New York Stock Exchange with a banner proclaiming 9/11 to be an inside job. They were trying to hand out leaflets. A couple of people stopped and I heard one of these morons saying “there’s compelling evidence…” I interrupted: “There’s compelling evidence that about 20 years ago, a brother and a sister became rather too familiar!”
(Thanks to Joel for the idea for the headline. It is a bit like Monty Python’s Killer Bunny)
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I would have loved to have been at the press conference when a British major said “We can categorically state that we have not released man-eating badgers into the area.” Could he have possibly said it with a straight face?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6295138.stm
And just in case anyone reading this might think I am wrong to laugh at this; that if people are so traumatised as to think such a thing, it isn’t funny; let me just remind you about the number of idiots in this country who insist that 9/11 was an inside job. Conspiracy theories are everywhere and always have been. Most are annoying or pathetic. A very few have some substance.
Some time back, I saw some students by the New York Stock Exchange with a banner proclaiming 9/11 to be an inside job. They were trying to hand out leaflets. A couple of people stopped and I heard one of these morons saying “there’s compelling evidence…” I interrupted: “There’s compelling evidence that about 20 years ago, a brother and a sister became rather too familiar!”
(Thanks to Joel for the idea for the headline. It is a bit like Monty Python’s Killer Bunny)
