I know that question is open for any number of interpretations but I have one specific giant government conspiracy in particular that’s been bugging me.
Chemtrails.
I know cecil has a column about it, basically saying these people are crazy but it’s possible. I won’t lie, the column left me still confused. In my random web searches for crazy conspiracies (which I rarely believe), I’ve stumbled upon this theory that the government is “culling” the population by spraying disease and harsh chemicals in the form of airplane contrails and that we can find these “chemtrails” by the strange tic tac toe or X patterns the planes make in the sky.
Now, I went to a chemtrails believer message board and asked for some proof, not in the form of pictures, but reasons that the government would do this, proof that its working, blah blah blah, and I was called a “dipshit for asking questions”.
What’s the story? I see these pictures and they look wacky, but yet, I live in Chicago, a very densely populated city that, in my opinion, could USE some culling, and I’ve never seen them. Wouldn’t the gov’t want to spray the big big metropolis before Turtle Knob Kansas or some such place?
Why would the government want to kill us??? Without hardworking populace, they’d have nobody to tax. I’d hate to break it to you, but the “government” is made up of people just like you and me. They go to work, they do their best, and they go home. They’re not out to kill everyone.
Although in defense of the paranoid it should be stated that the federal government has admitted to releasing plenty of toxic/potentially toxic substances over an unknowing populace. The incident in mind happened in the early to mid 70s in Minneapolis and got a big write-up in the local rag City Pages a few years ago. Also consider the Tuskegee (sp?) syphilis project and the radiation experiments conducted on unwilling, often unwitting subjects (as documented on the Dept. of Energy website). So it’s not like the fedgov doesn’t have a history of this stuff. Their justification for these experiments? Military research, etc.
It appears the chemtrail supporters are not fighting ignorance but instead are nurturing it. This group must not have any answers to questions if they call people dipshit for asking questions.
First, like c_goat said, I think the gov’t needs us. In fact, they are us. If anything, the gov’t would want a larger population (more workers, more soldiers, more inventors, more voters, etc.)
Second, if someone wanted to “cull” a population, I would presume that they would target those considered to be undesireable. Chemtrails would be completely non-selective and would kill the desireables as well. (whatever that may be in some twisted person’s mind) Chemtrails would also contaminate their own air, water, food, etc…and such perpetrators probably would not want to harm themselves.
Even if some secret gov’t committee wanted to do this, what kind of mechanic would install such poisons? what kind of pilot would agree to disperse it? why wouldn’t these contaminants show up in all the independent environmental sampling that goes on across the country?
Usurer makes a point in that the gov’t has done some nasty things in the past thinking that it was for the good of the country, but I think this kind of behavior has been culled out through media attention, education, etc. Not that it’s impossible…just much more unlikely.
Usurer,Military research, etc
That’s exiting! Did you think of this yourself you did you find some Pentagon papers or something? Let us know.
Muffin, But does it need all the people?
I’ve heard, it does not need you. True? That’s why it kills everyone else. It is afraid that your brains might be contagious. Or that it decided to kill all the lawyers. Perhaps, just rumors. Relax. I will protect you.
IMO, the government works to keep the tax-paying populace fat and happy so that we buy more, improve the economy, and make more money which = MORE TAXES!!!
Plus, why would they want to destroy the people that work and fight to keep our country free and independent?