[Wallace T.]

There is a disposition on the part of the top level of both political parties to maintain whatever had been initially determined as the reason for a given event in the immediate period following an event as a received opinion. Thus, it is "carved in stone" that President Roosevelt and General Marshall knew nothing about the impending attack on Pearl Harbor, that "lone nuts" killed the Kennedy brothers and Dr. King, that the Branch Davidians committed mass suicide, that two white supremacists blew up the Murrah Federal Building, etc. Furthermore, anyone who questions the received opinion is a crackpot.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

*** Furthermore, anyone who questions the received opinion is a crackpot.***


Not really. When such questions are raised the crackpots immediatly migrate to that position. the questions raised then become lost in a sea of rants fron the crack pots.

A very fine example is 9-11. Do a web search and you will see some real loonies claiming all sorts of "U. S. government complicity" in the attacks.