Commentary from the liberterrain…
When is conspiracy not a conspiracy?
The Ft. Worth Star-Telegram's Crime Time blog tells us, "Another Texas oil and gas executive pleads guilty to fraud."
Seems that Western Pipeline owner John Arthur Apple Jr. of Lewisville schemed with others to induce people to invest in his company's oil and gas projects and then misappropriated their money.
That's fraud. But in telling the tale the blogger used "co-conspirators" once and "conspirators" twice, and a press release from the FBI Dallas Division noted, "Apple pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit securities fraud."
Two questions come to mind. One is this:
Why is it that when government charges people with conspiracy the general public simply nods and approves, but when people charge government with conspiracy that same public chortles and guffaws and calls those people conspiracy nuts?
When theories deviate from "mainstream" or official government accounts of what happened at the Twin Towers and the Pentagon during the 9/11 attacks they're dismissed as conspiracy theory nut jobs.
So when Ron Paul publicly states that he disbelieves the government’s story about 9/11 and welcomes an investigation into it, that makes him a "9/11 Truther" and all libertarians, by extension, conspiracy wackos.
The slam works because most Americans are Pollyanna worshipers of government who just can't fathom that their own politicians would ever engage in conspiracies against them.
Yet more evidence keeps emerging that Franklin Roosevelt and his ruling cronies deliberately maneuvered Japan into attacking American forces in the Pacific so he could drag Americans into World War II, making the thousands who died at Pearl Harbor, the Philippines, and other locales merely expendable chaff.
That wasn't a conspiracy?
Lyndon Johnson and his administration cohorts lied about the Tonkin Gulf incident to launch a full-fledged undeclared war in Vietnam, turning thousands more Americans into insignificant battlefield fodder.
That wasn't a conspiracy?
Abe Lincoln and fellow Republicans maneuvered the Confederacy into firing the first shot at Ft. Sumter, a pretext for launching America's dirtiest, ugliest and deadliest American-killing war.
That wasn't a conspiracy?
The other question that comes to mind is why none of these conspirators are ever charged with conspiracy to commit felony fraud and prosecuted for it.
Maybe because it's the conspirators themselves who write the conspiracy laws and deliberately exclude themselves from the definition of conspiracy.
Making government itself a conspiracy.
(Murray Rothbard on conspiracy history)
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