seriously, how did the salisburyboys get their delusions in those days?

did they have wackjob conventions? a wackjob newsletter? a wackjob secret society?

[Edited on October 12, 2005 at 12:39 PM. Reason : *]

10/12/2005 12:38:43 PM

the had publications

10/12/2005 12:40:59 PM

didn't you see Mel Gibson in Conspiracy Theory? They sent out wackjob newsletters. duh.

10/12/2005 12:41:01 PM

also...

see gun shows

10/12/2005 12:41:21 PM

didnt those three guys on the x-files have a newsletter

[Edited on October 12, 2005 at 12:43 PM. Reason : ]

10/12/2005 12:42:21 PM

Conventions, gun and knife shows, and poorly xeroxed newsletters.

10/12/2005 12:43:01 PM

HAM radio.

those people are fucking batshit.

10/12/2005 1:08:51 PM

i'd say definitely by secret newsletters and stuff, like in the movie conspiracy theory. after that by word of mouth i would think.

10/12/2005 1:14:16 PM

they hacked the chips the government put into their head and it was streamed right to their brain

10/12/2005 1:26:41 PM

someone involved with the conspiracy couldn't handle being involved

so the freaked out and freaked out the freaked conspiracy theorists

10/12/2005 1:29:42 PM

some of them decoded secret messages that the CIA sent through their televisions.

10/12/2005 1:30:10 PM

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"did they have wackjob conventions? a wackjob newsletter? a wackjob secret society?"

yes

10/12/2005 1:39:10 PM

damn i hit them all

10/12/2005 1:43:31 PM

well, they couldn't wait around for the illuminati to invent the internet

[Edited on October 12, 2005 at 1:55 PM. Reason : (@)]

10/12/2005 1:54:48 PM

What do you mean when you call someone a "conspiracy theorist"? What is the definition? Is that just merely a term for someone who questions the "official" version of an event or issue? A term for someone who is just investigating the facts to determine if the "official" story is true?

Is it really crazy to question the "official" version of things? Especially after the government and mainstream media has been caught lying to us repeatedly? The lies about Iraq's WMDs are just the latest big lie in a long history of lies.

The term "conspiracy theorist" began to be heavily used after the JFK assassination. It was strategically used in the media to attempt to discredit those who questioned the official story that Oswald alone had killed Kennedy, and believed that there was at least another shooter (ie, a conspiracy to kill JFK).

It is obvious to any informed person that the official story on the JFK assassination is a lie. There clearly WAS a conspiracy to kill JFK. One of the biggest smoking guns is the film showing that Kennedy was hit in the head from a shot that came from in front of him.

Approximately 75-80%+ of the American public now believes that the government is lying about the JFK assassination and that there was a conspiracy to kill Kennedy. Are they all just "whacko conspiracy theorists"?


[Edited on October 12, 2005 at 2:24 PM. Reason : 1]

10/12/2005 2:13:32 PM

i define it as someone who acts like you, ie a wackjob.

10/12/2005 2:16:44 PM

Can you even explain WHY I'm supposedly a "wackjob"? Is there any reasoning behind the label? Or is it good enough for you to just throw out these names and labels to try to discredit me, and hope the smear sticks?

[Edited on October 12, 2005 at 2:20 PM. Reason : 1]

10/12/2005 2:20:25 PM

reasoning with the unreasonable and trying to be rational with the irrational is not an exercise i engage in, thank you.

btw, you discredit and smear yourself with every thread and almost every post.

[Edited on October 12, 2005 at 2:24 PM. Reason : *]

10/12/2005 2:23:28 PM

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"reasoning with the unreasonable and trying to be rational with the irrational is not an exercise i engage in, thank you."

I'm not buying it. You can't at least give me one reason why I'm supposedly this "wackjob"?

10/12/2005 2:26:08 PM

alright i'll throw you one bone:

prisonplanet

10/12/2005 2:27:45 PM

they used zines
and the guys at kinkos, nationwide, laughed at them as soon as they left with 60 staple-bound copies of "The Weekly Truth"

10/12/2005 2:29:56 PM

Did they have kinkos back then?

10/12/2005 2:38:24 PM

THEY'VE HAD KINKOS SINCE THE DAWN OF TIME

10/12/2005 2:49:45 PM

Actually, a lot of it came from European churches.

10/12/2005 3:01:23 PM

Newsletters and the New York Times.

10/12/2005 3:22:32 PM

Even Penn and Teller have proclaimed that oswald alone shot JFK, so I believe it.
They did the demonstration on camera how a head shot with a riffle will lurch INTO the gun, NOT the direction of the bullet.

I understand physics is complex and people of lesser intelligence cannot grasp that a head getting shot by a gun will act differently from a head getting hit by a bus. So just go with it, you're only making yourself look stupid.

10/12/2005 4:19:35 PM

It's common sense that a human head is going to move away from the direction of the bullet after impact...NOT towards it. That's absolutely ridiculous.

The impact of that bullet left a gaping hole in the back of JFK's head. Clearly, the exit wound was to the back of the head.

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"So just go with it, you're only making yourself look stupid."

No. You're the one making yourself look stupid.

[Edited on October 12, 2005 at 4:26 PM. Reason : 1]

10/12/2005 4:24:55 PM

No - you are

10/12/2005 4:26:26 PM

I should disbelieve my own eyes?

Look, do what I did. Take a mellon from the food market, get a riffle, set it on top of a flat surface so it can move freely and shoot the damn thing.

Now, when I did it I didn't bother taping it up so the mellons tended to just explode about half the time. But if you do it like Penn and Teller did and encase the mellon in clear tape you will get the desired effect every single time I imagine.

What happens is after the bullet has finished travelling through the head, the liquid contained inside has been pressurized. The head becomes a jet engine spraying brain juice out the exit wound, pushing the head backwards and easily overcoming the minute momentum emparted by the bullet on the head.

10/12/2005 5:22:23 PM

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"the exit wound was to the back of the head"

This is pretty well-established, and it's what damns every non-conspiracy theory I've heard on the matter.

So really, how can anyone figure Oswald acted alone?

[Edited on October 12, 2005 at 5:25 PM. Reason : I'd really like as much of an explanation as possible.]

10/12/2005 5:23:56 PM

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"This is pretty well-established"

In what way? This is the first I've heard of it.

10/12/2005 6:07:53 PM

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"No. You're the one making yourself look stupid."

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"No - you are"

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"No. You're the one making yourself look stupid."

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"No - you are"

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"No. You're the one making yourself look stupid."

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"No - you are"

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"No. You're the one making yourself look stupid."

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"No - you are"

10/12/2005 6:10:19 PM

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"Newsletters and the New York Times"

yeah, should've read reliable stuff like the National Review, right?

NY TIMES HATES MAH BOY DUBYA! THAT ONE GUY MAKING UP STORIES MEANS THEY ALL DO IT!

[Edited on October 12, 2005 at 6:50 PM. Reason : .]

10/12/2005 6:49:32 PM

haha you responded to GGMon

10/12/2005 7:00:19 PM

there was never actually a time that was pre-internet. they have been rewriting history to make us think there was.

10/12/2005 7:28:51 PM

You guys don't even know.

Real conspiracy theorists won't even use the internet.

10/12/2005 7:33:36 PM

^ That's one heck of a conspiracy theory you got going on there.

10/12/2005 8:27:10 PM

imagination?

10/12/2005 8:59:54 PM

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"Is it really crazy to question the "official" version of things? "

id just like to point out that no one thinks your crazy for questioning the official version
we think you are crazy for your obviously errant conclusions that you blindly defend with such great zeal

10/12/2005 9:18:43 PM

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"your obviously errant conclusions that you blindly defend with such great zeal"

Such as what? Give me one example of these "errant conclusions."

10/13/2005 8:17:52 AM

just click message boards
then click my topics

just read them from there, id rather not sit here and type stuff out

10/13/2005 8:28:36 AM

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"how did conspiracy theorists get info pre-internet"

the BBS (butteten board systems locally hosted, anyone could dial in...usually only locals did though bc of long distance costs)

course thats when model speed was measured in buads

anyone remember the midnight BBS...the fifth dimension????

all local boards that your model would dial into..they had cool stuff aside from boards, like RPGs .... those go back as long as modems...which was way before the internet

[Edited on October 13, 2005 at 9:44 AM. Reason : -]

10/13/2005 9:43:24 AM

modem... not model
baud... not buad...

10/13/2005 3:31:21 PM

^^I used to dial into a BBS and play some games, when I was like 10

10/13/2005 3:56:33 PM