Do you believe in government conspiracies?
344622
Not really.  I'm sure there have been some, but as a general rule, I do not buy into conspiracy theories.
1154616
I see a lot of people giving emotional answers talking about sickos, and how it couldn't be our government because "why would they do that?" or "how could they kill their own people?"\n\nWell, for anyone who doesn't believe the government could possibly think about killing innocent people to accomplish some goal they have that seems important to them, look up Operation Northwoods - an operation that was planned by the government to carry out false terrorist attacks and blame them on Fidel Castro and the Cuban Government as a pretext for military intervention in Cuba.  This one didn't actually happen, but it was planned out, so we know that people in the government put a lot of time and effort in thinking about it - and you can now see some of the declassified documents about it online.\n\n  Now, I'm not saying the government planned and carried out the 9/11 attacks for sure, because I don't have enough evidence to judge.  But I don't think it would be impossible, and I certainly don't think there is enough evidence available to disprove the hypothesis.  One thing that seems to be almost certain to me is that the details that the government gave us about 9/11 are not true.  So the question is, why aren't they telling the truth?  What are they hiding from us that is so important to keep secret that they would risk looking like they were involved by omitting hard evidence to the contrary?\n\nAs for reasons the government might have done it, only a few people necessarily needed to know about the plan, not everyone in the goverment, and if those few people were not good judges of morality, and had some cause to think it would be best for the country, some reasons that seem ridiculous to most may seem convincing to them.  For instance, to gain control of oil, or to increase the power of the U.S. government in the middle east, or to increase the profits of the defense industry, etc, etc.\n\nAmong the reasons that the government's details don't match the truth are:\n\n - 9 of the alleged hijackers have apparently turned up alive and obviously not guilty of the alleged hijackings, living in Saudi Arabia.\n\n - The towers fell so fast that physicists have said it is impossible that explosions and fire caused by plane crashes are the only cause of the fall (pointing toward some kind of secondary explosives that must have been the cause).\n\n - There has been a study done to determine the probability of successfully connecting a cell phone call while flying that indicates the calls from the planes were probably faked.\n\n - The towers were engineered to have multiple airplane impacts each, and burn for hours at high temperatures while retaining their structutal integrity - inconveniently, the manager of many of the construction projects in the towers was killed in the attacks.\n\n  I don't know for sure what kind of involvement the government had in the attacks if any, but I do know that they have been irresponsible in satisfying themselves with the conclusions they came to shortly after the attacks and not investigating further to see what really happened, after it has become obvious that their conclusions were clearly incorrect.\n\nFor more scientific information about the cause of 9/11 visit my sources.  Some articles you read about it will be exaggerations, or will seem like "liberal jibberjabber" but don't discredit all of the information simply because one part of it is wrong, or one of the articles goes too far.\n\nRemember, just because someone is talking about a conspiracy doesn't automatically make them wrong - conspiracies are not impossible.  The real conspiracy theorists in this case are the government officials who theorized the obviously false situation about the terrorists who simply flew the planes into the buildings and caused them to fall.
44944
As an individual and in my personal opinion. Yes it is a conspiracy.\n\nSince the public at large now has a means of sharing information and views it is becoming more and more difficult to con them.
805868
It might have been, too much of the evidence is gone now.\nNo, I do not believe the story the government told us.
1034077
AS A HUGE FAN OF ESPIONAGE AND CONSPIRACY THEORIES, I WOULD SAY DEFINITELY YES. AS FOR FAR-FETCHED CRAP LIKE ALIENS AND STUFF, I DON'T BELIEVE THAT.
442677
Yes. There is even a branch of 'government' that uses psychic attack to further its goals.
93746
I dont think well ever know exactly what our governemnt is doing, but with good watchdog organizations out there helping to keep an eye on them it is helping some. I wish there was a way to know more. There is too much secret shenanigans going on in our government that we dont know about untill the damage is done.
570719
I know of a story that is not so unlike yours.\n\nYou are so totally right. The United States government is not all that it says it is.
1097852
That's a tricky question because it has to do with top secret government things. The problem with those sort of things is that there is no evidence to prove it, but plenty of plausible evidence to support it. However, that kind of evidence never leads to a definitive yes or no answer.\n\nIt's all a gray area man, and it's really about what you believe.
1156195
You can't believe what government tells you.
267002
Yes, I believe in intelligence outside of our own shallow planet. As for UFOs I can say they are real..I have seen many objects both day and night, for all my life. I believe.
102672
Unless you are engaging in activity that could be construed as aiding and abetting terrorism, I think you are being overly paranoid.\n\nThe government is engaging in those activities, but it has more to do with data mining. The government has a program called Tempest that is capable of monitoring electronics within the nation, but it does not do so arbitarily. Tempest runs in the background. When certain key phrases come up (for instance, "I want to kill the President"), Tempest roars to life and signals agents that someone to watch out for has been identified.\n\nThe government does not just arbitrarily say, "I think I'm gonna listen in on Sam's conversation tonight and see what pops up." That is like finding a needle in a haystack.
403127
They absolutely do. And they are right to keep it secret.\n\nThink about it: If the gov't came out and said there were aliens out there which are way more powerful than us, there would be mass panic. No one would go to work. The economy would collapse.\n\nBy keeping the lies going they keep us all safe.
715280
There are tons of stuff the government keeps from the public.I think its a conspiracy.
96644
Yes they are.  No you can't trust them.  You may be interested in Republic Broadcast Network, www.rbn.com.  They really go into detail about some of the conspiracies these people are involved in including 911 and the OK bombing, etc.
1098051
Lol.\nI find it funny that people have become angered with you. The people that are angry, are the ones that think there was "not" a conspiracy. \nYet, they are mad at you, even though you said clearly, that you "didn't" think it was a conspiracy.\n\nWho gets defensive, and for what reason?\n\nThe conspiracy theorists are stating a possibility, not fact or any kind of "undeniable evidence". It doesn't hurt the majority to question itself once in awhile. That's basically all they are doing. Stating a possibility.\n\nNow, if we ask the majority, (people who do not believe in the conspiracy) why they get mad. Then they are trying to defend what may possibly be true. They have not made up their mind, clearly, but subconsciously.  \n\nThe truth is, the answer will never be known. The gov't has too much power to cover mistakes, and the public doesn't have enough money to research for conspiracy.
1032021
Seems a little iffy to me.  I'll have to hear some more actual facts first.  (Which is probably a pipe dream since, according to our present government, just about everything is a state secret related to "national security").