I am amazed that this thread is the first time I have heard about it. I was a young teenager at the time and wasn’t much interested in international news. It’s odd I haven’t heard of it since. Was there ever a movie made about it?
It might have been a case of one charismatic but unhinged leader and a couple of followers. That’s not unheard of- the Manson Family and the DC snipers are examples of that kind of thing.
There is an alternate theory that it was the Britsh Foriegn Service that actually ran The Dismissal.
Given the way the EU has turned out, I’d say they might be right.
Hahaha! Funniest thing I’ve read all day.
So that’s why the Conservatives abolished pennies! A pre-emptive strike!
I am amazed no-one from the Middle East has checked in. The Middle East actually has no history at all, all it HAS is a great steaming heap of conspiracy theories, strata after strata of them. I mean the Sykes-Picot Agreement (which actually was a real thing that pretty much was a conspiracy), and which got the ball rolling, is obviously a cunning misdirection ploy by (take your pick)…
Especially Lebanon, where it has been taken to a whole new level: it is commonly accepted that all the conspiracy theories are propagated by conspirators, in order to to mask their own particular conspiracy in the background noise. And if that’s not meta enough, there are those who denounce that particular meta conspiracy theory as itself the work of a conspiracy, determined to mask The Truth about whatever pet conspiracy the wingnut you’re arguing with subscribes to (and yes you will argue about it, because if you live there long enough you will become a conspiracy theory wingnut yourself).
US 9-11 Troofers are mere babies at this kind of thing, really.
All of the rioting during the G20 meeting in Toronto was caused by RCMP agents provocateurs.
Then there’s South Park’s version: the US government is behind the conspiracy theories that they are behind every conspiracy theory, because they’d rather look evil but competent to the 1/4 of Americans who are “retarded” and believe in conspiracy theories no matter what. That’s fantasy-US.
Dudley Do-Wrong?
No movie that I’m aware of but there have been several TV specials about the case. Here’s a recent dramatization:
I will admit I haven’t heard of half of these.
Probably three lesser known CT’s though:
- Ned Kelly survived the shoot out and is buried in - take your choice,
- Simpson (of the Donkey fame) was not awarded a VC because of British Military incompetence or Australian or something (despite never being recommended for one)
- Azaria Chamberlain’s body was disposed of by persons unknown returning from Alice Springs.
However, looking back, I think only the second could be classified as a CT. The others are pure bullshit.
There has obviously been some buyer’s remorse, which Angela Merkel could arguably do more to alleviate, but I don’t think anything has happened that would suggest that their concerns about Germany’s actual motives have been validated.
Forgotten the York U cave already.
Declan
What happens when you have evidence in a CT which cannot be easily explained away?
A liver biopsy done on Elvis in 1975 was recently compared to a biopsy done at the autopsy…and the DNA didn’t match.
The two biopsies are from two different people.
(so…they…say…;))
Obviously, the CIA took some time out between assassinating Zachary Taylor and instigating the Pig War to take over Sweden. After all, we couldn’t let it fall into the hands of the CABAL, could we?
Missed this before - when it comes to conspiracy theories, Northern Ireland is an entirely different thing from the Republic.
Conspiracy theories reflect the people’s relationship with the government. In the Republic, the government is close by, everyone’s met their TD or went to school with his kid or works with his cousin - half the time that’s why people voted for him/her in the first place. The government is accessible, easy to demystify and to take the piss out of, and because of the accessibility it’s *relatively *accountable, on a personal level. (You can ring the leading radio talk show with your problem, for example, and know that the relevant government department is going to hear about it.) Plus the country is small enough that the government has never done anything with worldwide impact, like say invading someone, so it’s harder to see it as this huge dark powerful force. Even conspiracy theories like the Knock airport one hinge on Ireland being some other country’s bitch, not on Ireland being the master villain.
In the North, it’s not the same. Their central government is on an entirely different island; and it spent a long time, well within living memory, ruling them often oppressively, sometimes brutally, and with little or no regard for their civil rights. Their relationship with government is entirely different, far more distant, charged with much deeper mistrust and darkness. And worldwide, their central government is capable of, and has done, a lot more hardcore shit than ours (wars, invasions, Empire, etc). I’m not at all surprised that they have a lot more conspiracy theories up North. Some of which, as thelurkinghorror said, aren’t theories at all.
Go to your room.
I guess I am part of the conspiracy. Not only have I been there, I gave a talk at the university there. And I know someone who lives there.
You were hallucinating. The conspiracy involves powerful airborne psychotropic medications.
Well, clearly. You can’t do a biopsy on a corpse, so the biopsy done at his autopsy was done on one of the attending physicians.