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Anthony North: You could argue that any rational person will decide that conspiracy theories are bunkum. Whilst the US government and other organisations have indulged repeatedly in conspiracies - Bay of Pigs and Watergate come to mind - it is unrealistic to think that a large organisation could get away with even credible ones, never mind the alien and satanic conspiracies. Basically, big organisations leak like a sieve. So why do we believe so much in conspiracies? Us constitution: Maybe because SOME conspiracies are more real than we realise. Take, for instance, the US Constitution. In the mid-1800s, the ultra-individualist Lysander Spooner argued that the American Constitution was dead, anddeservedly so.
His argument was simple. A document that guaranteed freedom and happiness could not hold people together under a federal government. Spooner was not believed. But in the mid-20th century, a whole group of conspiriologists began to argue this was, indeed, the case. Their argument rested on the belief that, on 9 March 1933, President Franklin Roosevelt"s declaration of national emergency was never nullified. Just the slightest whiff of a ‘clear and present danger" allows the US President to automatically suspend rights to anyone he wishes. Further, bit by bit, dictatorial powers have been passed to the President, to the point that he can now do anything he pleases. He can seize property, send troops to battle, restrict travel and tap all forms of communication without any other authority, allowingpresidents to strut the world stage like Roman emperors. Om: With such a reality - a reality becoming starkly clear following US government powers following 9/11 - it is easy to feel that the US Constitution isn"t worth the paper it is written on. This feeling of conspiratorial powers is given equal credence by one of the most seemingly ridiculous conspiracy theories ever put forward - that of ‘OM". Based around the persistent belief in the East that the universe was created out of Chaos by the sound of ‘Om", the word has become the most popular mantra.
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