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Why Syzygy

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Tue Aug 20, 2013, 03:47 PM Aug 2013

JFK -- & the origin of the term, "Conspiracy Theory" [View all]

http://www.globalresearch.ca/jfk-assassination-marked-the-end-of-the-american-republic/5346419

.... "In January 1967, shortly after Jim Garrison in New Orleans had started his prosecution of the CIA backgrounds of the murder, the CIA published a memo to all its stations, suggesting the use of the term “conspiracy theorists” for everyone criticizing the Warren Report findings. Until then the press and the public mostly used the term “assassination theories” when it came to alternative views of the “lone nut” Lee Harvey Oswald. But with this memo this changed and very soon “conspiracy theories” became what it is until today: a term to smear, denounce and defame anyone who dares to speak about any crime committed by the state, military or intelligence services. Before Edward Snowden anyone claiming a kind of total surveillance of internet and phone traffic would have been named a conspiracy nut; today everyone knows better." ...
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And the CIA used its mind control rays to make everyone begin using the term. Bolo Boffin Aug 2013 #1
um . Why Syzygy Sep 2013 #2
"today everyone knows better" - problem is, they don't . . . ConcernedCanuk Sep 2013 #3
Yep... MrMickeysMom Sep 2013 #4
The way I read it .. Why Syzygy Sep 2013 #5
Um... No William Seger Sep 2013 #6
facepalm.... MrMickeysMom Sep 2013 #7
Why, are you going for the record? William Seger Sep 2013 #8
It happened, beefcake Why Syzygy Sep 2013 #9
Bullshit William Seger Sep 2013 #10
Wikipedia regarding the NSA? MrMickeysMom Sep 2013 #11
Ignoring contrary evidence is what "conspiracy theorists" do William Seger Sep 2013 #12
That's a laugh... MrMickeysMom Sep 2013 #13
Wow William Seger Sep 2013 #14
William, you keep amusing yourself... MrMickeysMom Sep 2013 #15
The "majority of Americans" believe in ghosts William Seger Sep 2013 #16
What's that? MrMickeysMom Sep 2013 #17
That article gives a true date for the origin of the term "Conspiracy Theory". greyl Sep 2013 #18
OK, it originated as a neutral term in the 19th Century Ace Acme Nov 2013 #19
Per Ngram, "Conspiracy theorist" is not used until around 1980 KurtNYC Nov 2013 #20
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