“How To Create Conspiracy Theories”

In another powerful article VDH brings attention to, among other things, how the Democrat leftocracy has focused on the January 6th riot at the Capitol where the only person killed was an unarmed woman illegally attempting to enter a corridor through a door with broken glass panels as opposed to the months of murder, mayhem and destruction by the Marxist, anti-American, anti-black conservative, anti-Semitic and anti-white Black Lives Matter activists along with their confederates in the equally anarchic and violent Antifa mobocracy during the summer of 2020.

How To Create Conspiracy Theories

By: Victor Davis Hanson, July 24, 2023:

It is easy to birth conspiracy theories.

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All that is required is chronic government stonewalling of reasonable requests for transparency. Then add in high officials serially lying under oath, along with the blatantly unequal application of the law. Institutionalize arguments from authority of politicians and bureaucrats who refuse to adjudicate arguments empirically.

Include the weaponization of investigatory and intelligence bureaucracies. Finish with the transformation of an obsequious media into a mouthpiece of the state. And presto, you end up with a skeptical, cynical public that learns to believe the very opposite from what it is told by elites.

January 6th

Curiously. some conservative politicians, media and politicos often remark of their surprise that so many of the Trump base insists that the January 6 riot at the Capitol was in part a federally driven conspiracy, or perhaps just a mere “demonstration” gone awry.

But whether true or not, why would some not believe that—given the efforts of the state to hide and warp facts?

Consider what drives rational people to embrace supposed “conspiracy” theories around the so-called “insurrection?”

One reason, of course, is that there was evidence of FBI informants present on January 6. Do not take the word of conservatives for such suppositions.

Instead, remember what award-winning New York Times’s reporter and keen follower of right-wing political activity, Matthew Rosenberg said of January 6, albeit in an ambush interview conducted by Project Veritas:

The left’s overreaction — the left’s reaction to it in some places was so over the top. They were making it too big a deal … that gave the opening for lunatics in the right to be like, ‘Oh, well, nothing happened here. It was just a peaceful bunch of tourists,’ you know, and it’s like, but nobody wants to hear that.”

Rosenberg then remarked that he spotted numerous FBI informants among the crowd milling around the Capitol. Or as he put it, “There were a ton of FBI informants among the people who attacked the Capitol.” Cannot the FBI refute such allegations?

Apparently not. Given such speculation, one would expect that FBI Director Christopher Wray might at least categorically deny such inflammatory accusations.

Yet in congressional testimony when asked whether the FBI had inserted informants among the protestors, sphinxlike Wray merely shrugged, “So I really need to be careful here talking about where we have or have not used confidential human sources.”

Then there is the mysterious case of Ray Epps, initially sought by FBI “as a person of interest” for allegedly inciting demonstrators to break the law and enter the Capitol.

But then oddly Epps was de facto exempted for some 30 months from arrest—even as hundreds who urged no such action were indicted and convicted of “illegal parading” or unlawfully “demonstrating in front of the Capitol”—misdemeanors that ended up resulting in felony-type sentencing.

In one video clip, as Epps attempts to gin up the stationary crowd to move illegally into the Capitol, he is met with “conspiratorial” accusations from skeptical bystanders calling out: “Fed! Fed! Fed!”

Epps filed suit against Fox News for defamation on grounds that anchor Tucker Carlson had tied him to efforts to incite January 6 violence. Yet then suddenly Epps announced that he believes he will soon be charged, after all, by the government for his role in the January 6 protests.

If true, such an arrest was long anticipated, since Epps is caught on tape, unambiguously, on more than one occasion, urging demonstrators to enter the Capitol unlawfully (e.g., “We need to go to the Capitol”).

If one would like to hatch an Epps conspiracy theory, then one could do no better than quoting another Ray Epps braggadocious claim that he had texted to his nephew: “I orchestrated it.”

It did not help the Left’s construction of a January 6 “insurrection” theory that it serially misled the country about the actual loss of life. At first, Democrats insisted, falsely, that Officer Sicknick’s tragic death was due to protestor violence. Yet an autopsy revealed that he died a day later from a stroke.

Then Democrat leaders pivoted to claim that any law enforcement officer present on January 6, who for any reason subsequently committed suicide, was to be counted a victim of protestor violence.

All the while, the media kept largely quiet about the fact that the only unambiguously violent death that day was that of military veteran Ashli Babbitt. She was unarmed as she was shot unlawfully entering the Capitol through a broken window.

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ed

8 months ago

These people deserve death. Nothing more….nothing less.

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Stephen Honig

8 months ago

Reply to  ed

The unholy three!

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TRM

8 months ago

Want to start a conspiracy theory? Have Trump tell a lie and let the Trump echo chamber take it fro there.

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H Defoe

8 months ago

Reply to  TRM

This site is an echo chamber for any Trump lie. Many brainwashed bigots on here still repeat his lie that he won the 2020 election that he tried to steal.

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WhiteySupreme

8 months ago

Reply to  H Defoe

How about the lie that a devil worshiping child sniffing scumbag career criminal like Joe Biden got 81 million votes? More than any US president in history? Who’s lying now?

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WhiteySupreme

8 months ago

Reply to  TRM

Cite some examples. I’ll wait…..

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Laddyboy

8 months ago

Did you FORGET the WOMAN who DIED on the Steps of the Capitol Building because the “police” REFUSED to allow the men attending her?!!!!

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WhiteySupreme

8 months ago

Anyone reached out to black supremacist and J6 ringleader Bennie Thompson for a comment? He must be really stupid not to have known all these details.

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Duane Hayes

8 months ago

4 people were murdered by the Capitol Police on Jan 6, Ashli Babbitt, Kevin Greeson, Benjamin Phillips, and Rosanne Boyland

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