I Am Not A "Conspiracy Theorist"

Certain phrases are uttered, like incantations, to ward off persons and ideas that threaten to roust the majority from its unreflective slumber. One such phrase is "conspiracy theorist," which refers to a person who believes that major events such as the JFK assassination, the moon landings, the Oklahoma City bombing, and 9/11 were inside jobs or hoaxes that contradict the official narrative. As someone with an open mind, I'm willing to listen to anyone's arguments on these or other subjects rather than reject them out of hand. Debate doesn't frighten me, as I'm confident in my ability to reason and to separate fact from fiction. Most people, however, are deathly insecure and have long since abandoned the habit of thinking, preferring to have "experts," bosses, bureaucrats, and politicians do it for them.

Theorizing about "what really happened" has never been the purpose of my blog or any other writing I've done. I read the same news everyone else does and have no pipeline to esoteric information beyond the reach of the general public. All I do is apply critical thought and historical frames of reference to what is right in front of everyone's eyes. For example, and as any regular reader of this blog knows, I submit there are several astonishing and disturbing things about modern life that are in plain view and require no conspiracy theories to observe:

• The federal government operates outside the Constitution with regard to taxing, spending, immigration, domestic regulation, criminal law, foreign affairs, war, spying, and a host of other issues. This is acknowledged by even the most elite judges and law professors, who view it as a good thing.  

• The United States was founded as an independent republic but now operates as an invasive, belligerent, radical, global empire determined to re-make the world in its own image, with no regard for national sovereignty or (foreign) human life.

• The nuclear family of husband, wife, and children is a fundamental building block of Western society that has been seriously compromised.

• The notion that the only prerequisite for sex is that the parties consent to it -- all other considerations be damned -- is a radical one that no civilized society has long endured after adopting.

• Faith in God and Jesus Christ is another fundamental building block of Western society that has been seriously compromised.

• Most Americans today lack basic shared notions of good and evil, right and wrong, or historical memory, signaling the destruction of society in any meaningful sense.

All the facts you need to consider these sorts of contentions are at the local library in government-approved books. If you prefer to shoot the messenger and label me a "conspiracy theorist," the only thing you have revealed is about yourself -- and it's not good.