CONSPIRACIES & CONSPIRACY THEORY

(Robin Ramsay, Lobster magazine).

CIA mind control experiments of the 1950´s & 60´s have been declassified... Studies in electromagnetic fields are still classified... Timothy McVeigh and others claim to be mind-controlled and claim to have 'implants'... You can get your body debugged for $3,000... Schizophrenics are crazy about ALL they say and think... They are DIFFERENT to people who 'hear voices' of intelligence personnel... Microwave beams can transmit words into someone´s head... 1970´s report on 5p piece sized implants... Implants now hair-strand size... No evidence... How can an implant in your teeth control your mind?... Swedish photocopies are not evidence... But CIA/NATO could be TRYING to do it... Oklahoma? Not likely that the feds did it... But it could have been military incompetence... ETC. Why is 'conspiracy' on the increase? Widespread availability of computers is one answer. It´s cheaper to do magazines now. The machinery to spread information. New theories are getting around faster. Secondly, what is real? In America there are millions of TV channels, right-wing radio stations, the National Enquirer... People don´t read. They believe in God/the Rapture. Fantasy and fact - can people distinguish? The National Enquirer is not meant to be taken seriously, or is it? Thirdly, the approach to the Millenium...? This is probably not an answer, as it is of concern only to religions. The existence of real conspiracies. JFK, George Wallace, domestic surveillance, Operation Phoenix etc etc etc. The information emerged in the 1960´s. Revelations post-Warren Commission, post-Watergate: the Iran-Contra affair etc. The military-industrial complex. Clinton is in power now, so there are conspiracy theories about him (Whitewater, Arkansas cocaine...), but are most of these theories Republican revenge?