Re: Conspiracy Theories v Cover Ups
Posted: Thu Sep 19, 2013 6:25 pm
Hondo wrote:Which is why after 50 years it becomes harder and harder to believe that there is a conspiracy because the horsepower and money required to keep everyone quiet until now and on an ongoing basis would be enormous. You'd need a secret "Minister to Maintain the Conspiracy" and a huge team keeping thousands of people under observation. Each new person brought into the team would add to the number in the know and exponentially the number of conspirators keeps growing over time. All this in the modern age of wiki-leaks, the internet, emails, instant news, etc, etc. There would be so many communication avenues to keep plugged that I think it would impossible.therisingblues wrote:To put it another way, if you accept there was at least some conspiracy (impossible not to), you'd then need to go pretty high up the power ladder to find people with the means to have kept it tight for so long, in other words, it has to be a big, well organised conspiracy with boot loads of power behind it.
It's the same argument made against why a Moon landing conspiracy would be impossible to keep secret for this long.
I heard somewhere that the FBI and CIA have been reverting back to paper files like the old days because electronic information was simply too hard to control.
So if you yourself accept that it being kept secret for so long requires extraordinary effort on the part of the conspirators and the fact that it would likely have to involve every President since 1963 then I think you have to at least start to question whether in fact there is a conspiracy.
That highlighted bit above is what is behind the reluctance of doctors to embrace the on line health records proposal put forth by the Australian health bureaucracy.
Especially so, because government records are prone to leaks and the health bureaucrats want to be able to mine the data for their own purposes...