Poor CTists...

[Nihilanth]

I have a confession to make. I'm really into conspiracy theories. Not from the belief standpoint; God no. No, I used to be intrigued with the CT crowd. I had a collection of websites that I got off crank.net, and I'd go to them all the time and check out if the voices told them anything new about how the world worked.
The relationship I had with the CT people was the same kind anthropologists had with those tribes in Africa they're so keen on studying, I think. You know how nobody wants those tribes to get "modernized" or whatever, so they can keep studying? That's what I would do. I mean, making fun of them was fine, because they got so ANGRY...but whenever someone was like "Hey, I should e-mail them and set them straight on some things." I'd be like "Are you CRAZY!?! You can't do that! Who knows when we'll have another such specimen to study!" And then they'd tell me that maybe I wouldn't be trying to study people over the internet if I'd just come out of the damp cave I call my room once a week, so I stopped even spreading the word about it.
But, see, the point is, I don't really like CTists anymore. It's not that it's gotten old, but it's just that, since the 9/11, Loose Change thing, EVERYONE'S a CTists. Seriously, I've switched jobs recently, and just about everyone I worked with at both places believed that the US, for some reason, thought it was an AWESOME idea to launch their own terrorist attack against themselves. It's like if those same anthropologists came back to civilization, stepped off the plane and found that everyone in America was suddenly worshipping the sun and crafting spears for the harvest dance. Now that everyone's bought into the CT thing, it's stopped being so cute.
What I'm wondering is, anyone else felt the same way, once upon a time? That CTists were just adorable little scamps that you'd sometimes send e-mails to, posing as a government agent and saying "We're onto you, Mr. Jacobs"? Man, what the heck happened?

 

[Bell]

I don't think everybody who thinks that the gubmint was involved in 9/11 one way or the other, is a true CT. A lot of people hear these stories and think, yeah, I'd figure, the gubmint could do that, they are bad. They just assume, but never bother to investigate upon it.

Then there's the real troofers. They're the ones that investigoogle and analyse tons and tons of pictures and YouTube videos, misquoting people, making false allegations and whatnot and scream bloody murder. They are the ones demanding answers, but when answers are provided to them, they ignore it and repeat the question. Over and over and over again.

 

[jhunter1163]

I think that a lot of CTists take things that have other explanations and twist them to fit their reality. Like the claim that the CIA/FBI orchestrated the 1993 WTC bombing. I've listened to the tape of the guy talking to his FBI handler and in my opinion, it's the worst handling of an informant in history. I think it's fair to say that the bombing probably could have been prevented for $2,000. The informant was asking for some money for some expenses he'd incurred, and the handler didn't want to pay him. There's some back-and-forth, and the end result is the informant gets pissed and hangs up. The handler can't get back in touch with him, and a few weeks later the bomb goes off.

In the CTist mind, this is definite, no-doubt-about-it proof that the FBI orchestrated the bombings. The FBI NEVER just screws up, does it?

I don't have a direct link to the tape, but contact Mike Levine at www.expertwitnessradio.org and he'll send you a link. BTW, Levine is quite a guy. He's a 25-year DEA guy who's now used as an expert witness in various types of cases. He's not a CT-he's firmly in the LIHOOS (Let It Happen Out Of Stupidity) camp. The only guy on WBAI I'll listen to. Well, him and Ralph Schoenman. Schoenman makes me laugh ranting on about the police state and so on, when in fact if the USA was really a police state he'd be the first one to disappear.

ETA: I also like the very British girl who they have on in the morning. If she'd talk about her underwear choices, WBAI would be #1 in the morning drive.