"He’s correct in stating that some conspiracy theories are daft, and some promoters of wild beliefs do more harm than good."

It is my position that there are three types of conspiracy theorists:

1. Those who promote or support a theory based upon evidence and sound research. (The JBS, thankfully, is replete with these.)
2. Those who are indeed "daft", uneducated, gullible, or just plain contrary!
3. Those who intentionally mix legitimate truth with wild, off-the-wall speculation.

The first group is the most dangerous to the conspirators, as exposure is a death sentence to their ideas.

The latter group is the most dangerous to freedom, because they, by their wild and off-the-wall proclamations, cast doubt on the legitimacy of the truth they reveal in an effort to discredit the first group.

And what of the second group? Well, we all need a good laugh now and then.

rprew is 100% correct. The mixing of shreds of truths with blatant lies is also the way of the father of lies himself, Satan.

"Conspiracy" is just a pejorative word for "plan." It usually adds the element of some degree of secrecy outside those directly involved in seeking to implement it.

Anyone who believes historical events "just happen" and that leaders do not plan and seek to execute their plans needs their head examined.

And some plans are pejorative. Have no conspiracies ever happened in history? Are there none today? Who benefits from pooh-poohing the idea? Do you have eyes in your head? Is it connected to your brain? (Or are you entranced by media mantras, and have you no reasoning and study beyond NETWORKed "news"?)

They say the greatest success Satan has ever had was convincing the world he doesn't exist.

And these conspiracies are not really secret. Many of the conspirators openly admit their participation in it! Apparently, what Mr. Salcido would have us do is close our eyes, stick our fingers in our ears and say "LA LA LA, I'M NOT LISTENING"...

When I'm convinced that those who would rule us are now so arrogant that they don't much care whether they are exposed or not.

Mr. Salcido, my nephew, not only "talks the talk" about conspiracy and freedom, he spends hundreds of hours "walking the walk" to go along with his words. He just moved from San Francisco, California, where he was the Republican Party rep for his district. He also has volunteered many hours giving legal advice to homeschoolers and has lobbied for the rights of homeschool families. If you're going to pick on someone, choose someone who sits at his computer all day criticizing others, instead of good human beings out in the real world making a difference.

John F. McManus misssed Jerry's whole point. I have known Jerry for the past five years in California and have had many discussions with him on various "Conspiracy Theories". Jerry reads and knows what they are and that they are important to understand.

I am in law enforcement and know first hand that there is a push from my "higher ups" (My own Command Staff, FBI, CIA, Homeland Security etc.) and also from the media to paint "Conspiracy Theorists" as right wing terrorists. I also know in my own debates with people, if you start blurting out conspiracies before building up a sound foundation economic principles and philosophies, they will turn you off and think of you as some crazy kook. Those economic principles and philosophies will eventually get them to see how things should be and then they will begin see the conspiracies on their own.

John F. McManus quotes Sun Tzu to prove that it is important to understand your enemy. I agree it is important, but I do not think he understands his enemies. If John F. McManus is into "conspiracy theories" then he would know that his enemy is very smart and they have been very patient in deceiving us for the past 100 years or so in setting up a new world government. By blurting out conspiracy this and that you will fall right into their trap and be painted as one of those right winged terrorists making the liberty movement counterproductive. This is what the enemy wants.

In order for the Liberty movement to move forward we must patient and build up a foundation of sound principles with people. Then when we have economic government collapses, like the current one, people will wake up, just as I have. It is hard to fight a battle with so few.

"...there is a push from my "higher ups" (My own Command Staff, FBI, CIA, Homeland Security etc.) and also from the media to paint 'Conspiracy Theorists' as right wing terrorists."

And why do you suppose that is?

"...if you start blurting out conspiracies before building up a sound foundation economic principles and philosophies, they will turn you off and think of you as some crazy kook. Those economic principles and philosophies will eventually get them to see how things should be and then they will begin see the conspiracies on their own."

Which is why Mr. McManus and the JBS work so hard to educate people about these economic principles and philosophies.

"If John F. McManus is into "conspiracy theories" then he would know that his enemy is very smart and they have been very patient in deceiving us for the past 100 years or so in setting up a new world government."

If you knew John F. McManus (or followed the John Birch Society), you would realize that that is EXACTLY what the legitimate conspiracy theorists (including Mr. McManus and the JBS) have been telling people for a long time.

I thought you were in law enforcement. If we wait until our constitutional government collapses before exposing the conspiracies that are engineering this collapse -- what good have we done by keeping our mouths shut? By following your advice, we would be playing right into the hands of the conspiracy that you acknowledge exists.

As the conspiracy to destroy this country is becoming more and more obvious, we need to step up to the plate and work to expose it -- before the conspiracy SUCCEEDS and it's too late!

And while we are exposing the problem of this conspiracy, we also need to be educating people on the SOLUTION -- namely, a restoration of constitutional government, which we can effect by electing public servants who will actually follow their oath of office!

Even the police can call a "conspiracy" a "conspiracy" when evidence is there to see the pattern of conspiracy, right? And police even charge people with the crime of "Conspiracy" don't they? Would law enforcement be better off for not recognizing a conspiracy? For example when two or more conspire to defraud others, or to rob a bank, or to commit murder, conspiracy is a separate chargeable crime, isn't it? Does that mean policemen with "conspiracy theories" should be thought of as "kooks" and mere "conspiracy theorists" by the rest of us?

Wasn't it a benefit to Law Enforcement agencies when life-time criminal Joseph Valachi finally came forward and revealed "La Cosa Nostra" in 1962 to Law enforcement and the U.S. Senate so that you in law-enforcement finally understood you were up against an international, transgenerational, highly-organized, very secretive, criminal conspiracy? Everyone now knows about La Cosa Nostra today, right? Is that bad to believe that La Cosa Nostra is a conspiracy or to talk about it? Does it make one sound "kooky?" No. Today, it's common knowledge and recognized as "conspircy fact."

We have to recognize the enemy we are up against is COMBINED. As Edmund Burke said, if my memory is correct: "When bad men combine, the good must associate, else fall one by one an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptable struggle." Mr. Sill, the bad men have combined, in secret places, for the purpose of dominating the planet and regimenting our lives and we "good men" better recognize that, call it what it is, and organize to oppose them, or we will "fall one by one" and be held in contempt by our combined enemies for not calling them what they are: evil schemers, a secret combination of power-elites, a conspiracy against man and God.

“You have to understand that when you take a stand against the establishment, first, you will be attacked. There is an attempt to discredit. Second, [an attempt] to try and character-assassinate. And third, ultimately physical termination or assassination.”

It is unfortunate that the conspiracy "speculators" give fodder to the Machine.

I have published a response to this article here: http://www.connorboyack.com/bl...r-build-up