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KittyWampus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-11-04 09:58 PM
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Conspiracy Comes In 2 Flavors: Tinfoil & Organized Crime
Edited on Thu Nov-11-04 09:58 PM by cryingshame
When mediawhores say those who want to investigate Voting Irregularites and the possiblity of Election Fraud are "conspiracy" types... it might pay to distinguish between the two types of conspiracy charges.

#1. Tinfoil: far-fetched theories based on over active imaginations with little factual basis. Think alien corpses being held in Roswell.

#2. Organized Crime: plausible theories based on know facts. Think Racketeering. Why are there RICO laws if people didn't conspire to break the law?

E-voting terminals and tabulators have KNOWN flaws and security holes.
The companies that make e-voting equipement have known political ties.

And for those who can't believe that politicians and civil servants would EVER conspire to break the law... remember that aides from Orrin Hatch's office hacked into Democratic computers to steal information.

What ever happened to those people anyway?
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glitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-11-04 10:03 PM
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1. I imagine they were promoted. Probably worked on the RNC campaign
And let us never forget the organized crimes of BCCI, Iran Contra, S&L. And more.
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demgrrrll Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-11-04 10:11 PM
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2. I had forgotten about the Hatch hackers. Damn good question.
There is a reason that conspiracy theories flourish. People are trying to make sense of something that seemingly does not make sense at all.
Some theories are obviously wild and off the mark and others just SEEM wild and impossible. The term is also used to make fun of people and to get them to back away from a story.
We need explanations. When no reasonable explanation exists we seek to re-balance and regain our equilibrium with some sort of story theory or explanation. Something to grasp and hold on to, something that at least seems to hold a particle of truth. It is comforting to know how something awful happened. People want to know what is going on so they can make sense of the world around them

It does not make sense that Bush was elected. It does not make sense to me so I continue to search for theories which will explain the unexplainable.
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