# Anatomy of a Conspiracy

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anatomy-of-a-conspiracy/176230>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [May 19, 2003, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anatomy-of-a-conspiracy/176230 "2003-05-19T13:11:26Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Razorsharp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/53a042/32.png) [@Razorsharp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Razorsharp)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2003, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anatomy-of-a-conspiracy/176230/61 "2003-05-22T16:44:22Z")

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> \*Originally posted by BrainGlutton \*  
> \*\*If Al Gore started this “Citizenship USA” program with the ostensible purpose of eliminating a “backlog” of aliens applying for citizenship, and if this had the predictable effect of “changing the political demographics of certain congressional districts,” and if that was Gore’s main purpose in pushing the program, then no, that would not constitute a conspiracy on Gore’s part. Nothing close to a conspiracy. Any political program or policy might serve more than one set of ends, and everybody knows it. Touting only the most publicly acceptable aspect is perfectly legitimate tactics. \*\*

Yeah, “if”, “if”, “if”…

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**Author:** ![Razorsharp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/53a042/32.png) [@Razorsharp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Razorsharp)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2003, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anatomy-of-a-conspiracy/176230/62 "2003-05-22T16:47:06Z")

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> \*Originally posted by SentientMeat \*  
> \*\*Incidentally, **Razorsharp** , what do you think of [this former BBC sports presenter](http://www.bridgeoflove.com/bookstore/bol/alice.html)? \*\*

Sorry, I am not familiar with him.

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**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2003, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anatomy-of-a-conspiracy/176230/63 "2003-05-22T17:37:22Z")

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Well, I say “if” because I do not know much of the background of “Citizenship USA,” including whether it really led to an increase of Democratic registered voters in certain districts, which presumably is what you’re complaining about. Have you never heard of a hypothetical? Never mind.

You’re still leaving us dangling, Razorsharp. Who exactly are these conspirators? Is George W. Bush (or whoever is doing his thinking for him) a member of the conspiracy, or against it? Is the “New World Order” a United Nations with teeth, or an American military world-empire? And what’s all this about “neo-communism”? Much right-wing literature I’ve seen blames the international corporations, not the international communists, for the NWO. Just look at some of the most important international organizations – the WTO, the World Bank, the IMF – and think about who, other than governments, controls them.

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