Conspiracy Facts vs. Coincidence Theory

To anyone older than the age of 15 in the United States, it should be obvious that the term "conspiracy theorist" is used as a term of derision.

When someone suggests that some Muslim in a cave in Afghanistan is responsible for the destrruciton of 9-11 - including the collapse of WTC7 - they are treated normally.

But when someone suggests that it was an "inside job" - or that, as is obvious from Paul Thompson's work, that the US had many, many warnings before 9-11 that an attack was imminent - that the government let the attack happen ... that someone is treated sneeringly, derisively, with the term "conspiracy theorist", and its companion terms, "tinfoiler", "wingnut", and batshit insane.


Similarly, if someone takes the trouble to read James Garrison's book, "On the Trail of the Assassins", about the JFK assassination, and discovers that there is far more to the history of November 22, 1963 than one Lee Harvey Oswald (who, incidentally, was noted to be a terrible marksman by his drill instructors in the US military) shooting President Kennedy ... and then suggests in public that factions within the US government are responsible for the Kennedy assassination ... again, out comes that term, "conspiracy theorist".

Though we know now, via Michael Collins Piper's book
http://www.amazon.com/Final-Judgment-Missing-Assassination-Conspiracy/dp/0974548405