Just to add more fuel to the fire I wanted to throw a few more thoughts out there.
Even if a conspiracy theory is wrong, belief and the pursuit of any and all conspiracy theories ought to be encouraged. Otherwise, who will be there to take action when a real one exists? In these dying days where notions such as revolution and noncooperation have become things of the past, apathy has sadly become the norm.
But as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. -- who would be arrested today as a terrorist under the so-called "Patriot Act" -- once said:
"History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people."
I think the bigger problem with issues such as amalgam fillings, pharmaceutical companies, et al is not the governments so much as the corporations which own them (primarily in the corporatist, tyrannical land of the unfree, the U.S. empire).
On that note, here's some more food for thought. I just love quotes <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />.
The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the large centers has owned the government of the U.S. since the days of Andrew Jackson.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.
-- Thomas Jefferson to Horatio Gates Spafford, 17 Mar. 1817, cited in Papers 14:221 (1).
Unless you become more watchful in your States and check this spirit of monopoly and thirst for exclusive privileges you will in the end find that the most important powers of Government have been given or bartered away, and the control of your dearest interests have been passed into the hands of these corporations.
--President Andrew Jackson, Farewell Address, March 4, 1837 (2).
What you ... seem unable to understand is that you seldom find real loyalties in commerce. When did you last hear of a clerk giving his life for the company? Perhaps your deficiency rests in the false assumption that you can order men to think and cooperate. This has been the failure of everything from religions to general staffs throughout history. General staffs have a long record of destroying their own nations ... what nonsense you belive! Men must want to do things out of their innermost drives. People, not commercial organizations or chains of command, are what make great civilizations work. Every civilization depends upon the quality of individuals it produces. If you over-organize humans, over-legalize them, suppress their urge to greatness -- they cannot work and their civilization collapses.
-- Muad'Dib
