I never know what to make of that Alex Jones, 911 truth, JFK type stuff.
I tend to be pretty skeptical toward most of it, but on the other hand I've looked into a few things where even the officially agreed upon history is every bit as sinister - like the USS Liberty, etc.
In the end I settle on a generalized feeling that those in power in our modern world, be they in the US or the EU or Israel or Russia, are all pretty damned ruthless and I'm not sure I'd put anything past them when it comes to maintaining that power, expanding it, solidifying it or just enriching them and their buddies.
Felt this way about Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld and I feel this way about Obama, Kerry and Clinton too.
It honestly wouldn't surprise me at all if 9/11, JFK, Bin Laden, etc were orchestrated in part or in whole. It also wouldn't surprise me if they weren't or if sometimes they just turn a blind eye and let things they could prevent happen because it serves their purposes.
But the problem I run into is that I simply am not able to tell whether these claims made by Jones and others have merit. I'd need to be an expert on fifty things to do so. And I have no doubt at all that he pimps plenty of pure bullshit even if some of it is true. How can I tell which things may be true or partially true? I cannot. So I just settle for a generalized cynicism and distrust of power.
I've seen enough universally agreed upon evidence of high level greed, corruption and unscrupulous willingness to shed the blood of subjects on the part of our leaders to know that they would not simply let things play out as they may when billions of dollars are at stake.
And as for "illuminati"? I doubt there is such a group, but I do NOT doubt for one moment that there is a loose inner circle of international power players who, while they may not meet in castles while wearing robes, are not about to just let world events take their course without them guiding those events to their benefit as much as they can get away with.
People like that aren't about to watch a nation like the US come to such power and prominence and wealth as the 1800's and 1900's rolled along and just sit back and let the rabble voters there determine its fate. When this country started to be an obvious source of global importance, people like that undoubtedly poured a lot of effort, time, and money into getting as firm a grip on the levers of power here as they possibly could.
To what extent were they successful? Is that struggle now over or is it ongoing? Do our votes count or is the outcome predetermined? Are those we vote for at a national level already paired down to only those these people would find acceptable anyway by the time we get a crack at "choosing" between them (so that they don't really care which one we elect) ?
No idea, but if I was a betting man I'd say the most pessimistic version of these possibilities is likely the closest to the truth.
Then again it wasn't THAT long ago since some presidents spoke warnings about these people - "military industrial complex" and JFK's speech about a conspiracy of international power brokers, so perhaps they only finally got complete control within the last few decades.
Or maybe I'm being way too cynical.
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