CNN: Conspiracy Theorists Are Potential "Suicide Warriors" & Are Mentally Disturbed

Laugh all you want guys but the truth is that i don't see you guys in the US that good.
Looks like the beginning of straitjackets for many and sanatorium as a new home.....

I'd say the mojorities have begun to shift.... people are questioning the "truth".
Now action must be taken to sway the masses back under the umbrella of ignorance!

Propagate!

The 9/11 truth will be the breaker of will....

reply to post by Maxmars


well.. not unless our members have some definate credibility .. such as AE911.. & a few others..

because they are surely forgetting there are those in the field with decades of xp and knowledge..

but.. so it begins..

Before 1989, in my country we got the same - whoever would DARE to doubt the culture of worshipping Ceausescu (the communist dictator for about 25 years) would be labelled as mentally disturbed or enemy of the nation. Actually it went far enough to force people to mental home, of we had so called "re-education camps" for the ones that would come from a "healthy background" .

The problem with CNN and the rest of the MSM is that they are too politically focused. They do not know how to report a story without analyzing it's politics. So they are very constrained and restrained in their analysis; it's gotta have a political angle or they can't handle it.

CT'ers, however, are much more aware of every aspect of life and the universe. While CT'ers can and will look at a story from the political angle, that is not their first choice. And probably not their second, or third, either. That's why the MSM has such a hard time understanding them.

Originally posted by Asherah
You all just wait, the next person who makes some sort of a violent attack will not only be a "conspiracy theorist" but they will ALSO be accused of having "child pornography". This is how they work, and this is how they get people to turn against other people.

What is mentally ill, CNN, is reporting lie after lie, after lie to the American people.

As a citizen and tax payer of this country I have a right to question authority and will continue to do so, no matter how you choose to label me.

I agree;
every time they try to push some kind of agenda they always use the
"we have to protect the children" card

They're just trying to send a message.

Like another poster stated, they will soon start creating more stories and spinning others. Sooner or later, there will be another incident, and that perpetrator will be "into conspiracy theories", and will have "child pornography found on his computer".

All they're trying to do is make you, or anyone else that is "critical" of the government, to bite their tongues. Who would want to associate with a lunatic, child pornography lover?

It makes the average person tight lipped on the local level. They won't speak up about topics with their friends or family, because people will bring up, "Oh, that one guy talks just like you and he was into kiddie porn and #."

It's elementary. CNN is bogus, everyone that works there is a tool. I feel sorry for the people that have to keep that place afloat.

I am interested in what the ATS owners think of this???? Could this affect ATS in the future? How is ATS communicating with the authorities today about potential "terrorist nut-jobs"? Have they been contacted by X recently about this? What is their stance on "conspiracy theorists are deranged"?

Just try google news with "conspiracy theories". You can see the message is getting around.

Wow......this makes me so sick. I feel like tptb are setting us up for something.

So I guess this guy is what a true patriot is. A nice haircut and suit to go with eloquent wording that dissolves any argument that our government is full of liars, thieves and murders.

Boy I hope I dont ever see him in person.

Do you believe any of the conspiracy theories suggesting the U.S. government was somehow involved in 9/11? * 97153 responses

Yes. The government has left many questions unanswered about that day.
67%

No. These theories are absurd and disrespectful -- especially to those who lost their lives on 9/11.
27%

I'm not sure.
5.4%

reply to post by DjSharperimage

every time they try to push some kind of agenda they always use the
"we have to protect the children" card

I actually censored one of my own posts after previewing it lastnight about that very thing.

If what I think will happen actually does, I'll post what I've edited.

Right now I'd rather not give any ideas away. We're being setup as scapegoats, I don't want to make things easier.

So sad.

[edit on 7-3-2010 by [davinci]]

Well then.. This is just what Obama meant when he said "silence the conspiracy's".

Alot more will be coming from the PTB

I really hope people will soon understand that the T.V is not your friend. Only when gaming , Your best friend is the internet. The best source of information this world has ever seen.

They have a good system that is only good for them.

I have a good system that is only good for hemp.

This guy makes me truly sick, I even went as far as editing his wiki page.

SUCK ON THAT MR GOVERNMENT.

en.wikipedia.org...

I will continue to question authority until the day I die, once you lose your ability to question, you become one of them. Blindly believing anything you are told without the slightest disagreement. I, for one, will never become part of that delusional sh** stain on America's backside.

reply to post by DaRAGE


I agree, I think this is a reaction.

Most people in Western society are now generally aware that the true nature of this world is being actively hidden.

This broadcast of John Avlon's message really does look like a form of damage control. It's obviously a move designed to weaken the credibility of CT'ers, and I would say that it was pretty well done. But I would also say that it isn't going to make a gnat's difference.

The Soviet tactic was the same.
Anyone who seriously challenged the regime, especially with facts, was immediately "mentally disturbed" and had "grave personal problems".
Some people were counseled - by friends who actually had to report on them secretly - to ask medication.

Obviously they had political problems, not personal ones. Their problem was not schizophrenia inside, but evil power outside.

This guy Avalon is disgusting in his meta-communication and his carefully
spin-controlled talking. I would not buy a used car from him.

This whole thing is like restraining people then starting to call them "rope growers".

I wonder if that 1 guy at Tianamen Square was a "suicide warrior", or if the Chinese opposing the Communist regime are "Mentally Disturbed."
CNN and the MSM need to get a reality check.

reply to post by DjSharperimage

My earlier post was an immediate reaction. Now I've watched the video and read the OP.

I'll begin with a few comments about the latter.

First, what do Avlon's CV and the antecedents of his wife have to do with the issue? And what is so sinister about them, anyway? He is a political centrist, a moderate, in other words, who believes that extremes of both left and right are foolish and dangerous. This is a perfectly valid ideological position--it is what the Greeks called the Golden Mean: 'nothing to excess'. It happens to be my own position, more or less, though I tend to be a bit to right of centre in economic terms, and left of centre in social ones.

Obviously he is politically engaged, has been for years, and is connected to a political family. Since when have these attributes been crimes, or even indictments?

They are not, except in the mind of one kind of person: a conspiracy theorist. Someone whose connexion with reality is so twisted that he or she has come to see a simple middle-of-the-road position as somehow wicked or wrong.

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Now to the video itself.

I agree heartily with what the commentator says. Distance lends perspective by making trends more easily visible, and from my perspective, several thousand miles distant from the USA, it is all too clear that a wave of conspiracist hyteria is washing over the country, sweeping ordinary people along with it as public discourse is hijacked by ranting, hate-filled anti-authoritarian conspiracy theorists. On ATS, one is ideally positioned to see it happening--both the mentally unbalanced conspiracy 'thought leaders' and the hysteria victims they make out of ordinary, usually quite normal people are strongly represented among the site membership.

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Paranoia and hysteria have always been well represented on the extreme right of American politics, but they have never dominated mainstream discourse in quite the way they now do. I think there are three reasons for this.

1. First, American society has (not for the first time in history) reached a point where massive intervention by the state is necessary in order to keep the country on the rails--the laissez-faire approach so beloved of Americans is not working. Thus the state has recently obliged to impose significant restrictions on citizens' privacy and freedom of movement to protect them against terrorism (even though the 'war against terrorism' is, itself, something of a overreaction necessary to placate terrified, hysterical voters); it has been obliged to intervene massively in the economy in order to stabilize it; and it will soon be obliged to intervene on an equally huge scale to avert the catastrophic environmental consequences of overconsumption, in particular, climate change.
   
   These huge interventions have understandably caused great resentment, even among ordinary, well-adjusted people. For mentally unstable political naifs, however, they are evidence of a massive conspiracy by the government, or some shadowy force behind the government, to take away from patriotic Americans their freedoms (and their precious guns). This resentment--which is, at bottom, resentment at being forced to become a bit more like the rest of the world in order to survive when you are no longer the dominant force in it--is the first of the three causes I mentioned earlier.
   
   
2. The second of these causes is the internet. Conspiracy theorists are, or were, rare and marginal in any real-world community, their mad ideas given short shrift by the majority of levelheaded, normal citizens. But the internet clusters like-minded conspiracy theorists in a nongeographical way, giving them and their theories a visibility and apparent importance they would not otherwise have. ATS itself is an example of how this works. The internet allows conspiracy theorists to exchange ideas, helping them refine their delusions through consensual convergence. This makes the theories more persuasive to ordinary people ripe for hysterical upsweep. And of course, the internet allows conspiracy theorists to organize--to whatever degree these inveterate, antisocial loners are capable of organizing at all.
   
   
3. Finally, there is the immediate, precipitating circumstance: a black man in the White House. This, sadly, appears to be more than many white Americans can stand; it honestly seems to be driving large numbers of them over the edge.

Given this historical conjunction of factors, something like the present epidemic of conspiracist hysteria was probably inevitable.

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America's historical decline, which began in the 1990s, deserves to be long and slow, as decorous and magnificent in its way as Rome's. The antics of paranoid conspiracists, however, seem to threaten a catastrophic implosion in which the country destroys itself in a paroxysm of self-hating, hysterical violence--America running amok, gashing and maiming itself. A terrifying thought, since it is quite likely to take a big chunk of the rest of the world along with it.

But I remain hopeful. Most Americans are, I believe, wholesome, sensible people. And the internet, though something of a rogue technology at the moment, will surely be better understood as time goes on, enabling us to see apparently salient fringe ideas and groups in their true perspective. Good sense will prevail, as it has always done in the past; American democracy and cultural heterogeniety will ensure it. At any rate, let us hope so.

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Yes, this post is intended to provoke. It is intended to provoke thought. If it does that among a few thoughtful ATS members, I shall be satisfied. If it provokes reasoned and thoughtful argument, I shall be more than satisfied; I shall be delighted. It will, of course, provoke more or less abusive rebuttals from the many hysterical, mentally unstable conspiracy theorists among the membership. I shall not care about them, nor shall I respond to their ravings.

apparently they still eat "one mans freedom fighter is another mans terrorist" cerials for brakfast ,

who ever came up with that slogan still must be makin millioons,..

the thing that "homegrown" terrorist still are in the mind of the media puts me to even more belive that 9/11 inside job , media is just barking at the wrong tree.

So what happens when the majority of people become vocal about their suspicions on the real truth of things? How will they report that?

reply to post by Astyanax


"Mind Firmly Closed"

Obviously, sir.
A closed mind is a terrible thing. I agree with you on some thing's, but you come off as just another sheep. Sorry man.
Keep believing what you're told.
Ignorance is bliss.

edit for spelling.

[edit on 7-3-2010 by Dank513]