--- In [email protected], "peterklutz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip> > (3) Perhaps contrary to what many assume, the powers that be are not > really worried about conspiracy theories or there proponents. Why? > Because the end-result of conspiracies are an increased sense of > insecurity, which governments live off. In fact, 'fear' is a > response governments are more interested having than, for > example, 'respect' or 'love.' > > (4) For the same reasons as 3, governments (guilty or not) may > feel no need at all to put an end to conspiracy theories, but > rather enjoys keeping these alive - and people in a perpetual > state of psychological limbo.
While I don't buy into everything Peter says here, I'd suggest that one reason a government that's *innocent* of the crimes and outrages detailed in a particular set of conspiracy theories not only feels no need to put an end to them, but may actually encourage them, is because it's guilty of a *different* set of crimes and outrages that it very much does not want to have discovered. If the conspiracy theorists are kept busy chasing red herrings, the real crimes and outrages are much more likely to remain concealed.
