posted 02-05-2003 09:32 PM
HEY FOLKS...LOOK AT HOW THE MAINSTREAM CORPORTE NEWS ARE SO MAD ABOUT PEOPLE THINKING FOR THEMSELVES INSTEAD OF BELIEVING EVERYTHING THESE SCHMUCKS PUT TO PRINT AND VIDEO....THEY ARE GOING NUTS BECAUSE YOU ARE SEEING THROUGH THEIR AGENDA. CONGRATULATE YOURSELF... EXPECT TO SEE MORE OF THE FOLLOWING.....
HOW DARE YOU THINK FOR YOURSELF!!! YOU MUST BE A "CONSPIRACY KOOK"!!! SHUT UP YOU COMMIES!! 
Conspiracy theorists come out of woodwork after disaster
By Hector Saldaña
San Antonio Express-News
Web Posted : 02/04/2003 12:00 AM
Although officials have all but ruled out terrorism and sabotage as the cause of the destruction of the Columbia space shuttle, conspiracy theorists have taken to the Internet and radio with their own analyses.
Officials continue scouring for clues amid the Columbia shuttle debris spread across Texas.
At www.infowars.com, there is speculation linking the disaster to an alleged 1962 government death plot scenario revolving around astronaut John Glenn as a basis to attack Cuba.
The loss of the Columbia also has been called a political "distraction."
"It will serve the dual purpose of unifying the country behind President Bush as he grandstands (for war with Iraq)" is just one of the messages visitors can read posted at infowars.com.
At www.biblestories.com, owner Michael Sanders is prepared "for the nutters to come out of the woodwork."
It's no better at www.unsolvedmysteries.com. And on Saturday, a phony Nostradamus stanza circulated the Internet with imagery of "the first blue star (Israeli Ilan Ramon) a child of the Holy Land among the seven shall perish as the ship descends heaven sky."
But it's not only on the Internet where debate rages against NASA's "company line," as conspiracy theorists like to say.
San Antonio psychic Ambrosia Rodgers says she was queasy about Columbia's latest flight and "didn't feel too awfully good about it." She doubts NASA officials are being truthful.
Former Lockheed aerospace engineer John Thomas Maxson, an Iowan who considers himself a Challenger space shuttle disaster whistleblower and who is the author of the self-published book "Betrayal of Mission 51-L," believes NASA is not being forthcoming.
"There are too many political coincidences here to be ignored," Maxson says.
Talk radio hosts Ricci and Trey Ware at KTSA-AM and Chris Duel at WOAI-AM are braced for the conspiracy calls that will eventually come.
"It's inevitable," says Duel.
Trey Ware thinks it's "too early yet" for the conspiracy crowd.
However, Rush Limbaugh spent a good part of his Monday radio show quelling conspiracy talk with an impromptu physics lesson on the dangers of space re-entry.
Trinity University history professor Char Miller calls rampant speculation and conspiracy doom-and-gloom a symptom of the "uncontrolled media" that the Internet has become.
"Conspiracy theories that operate, not only around events like the tragedy with the Columbia, but also the Kennedy assassination and other events in human history are driven by an attempt to understand what we can't understand," Miller says. "Americans seem particularly driven by making order out of disorder."
Miller says that conspiracies have been around since long before today's post-Watergate suspicion of government. But the Internet, which is "startlingly free of intellectual control" is a new factor in the dissemination of urban myths.
"What the Internet provides is the rapid movement of ideas, impossible even 15 years ago," he says. "It is an uncontrolled set of ideas. It gives free vent to people that is unprecedented in human history and in scale. Ideas fly out of there ... and take on a life of their own."
News junkies deserve factual information, argue those, like Maxson, who don't consider themselves conspiracy buffs.
In 1986, Lockheed launch pad aerospace engineer Maxson considered himself "on the inside and knew the facts" of the Challenger disaster. Today, the 67-year-old retiree monitors TV and radio news accounts of the ill-fated Columbia and acknowledges he is "out of the loop."
But he smells a rat.
Maxson claims to have monitored the voice communications of Columbia astronauts who sounded "a little tense." The self-published author says the computer-controlled banking of the space shuttle was causing its crew "audible consternation."
"I don't think (NASA) is at all being open about this. NASA owns all the data, and they're going to make sure they own all of the debris," said Maxson, emphasizing that his opinions are "purely speculative."
"There is no reason that by now their technical people could not have put together a report," he adds. "(NASA) knows what's going on."
KTSA talk show host and private pilot Ricci Ware says the conspiracy theorists haven't taken to the radio airwaves en masse quite yet, "probably less than it would have been before 9-11 because now everybody wants to believe our government."
"NASA has done a magnificent job of being straightforward," Ware added. "I believe that there probably was a problem on take-off and some tiles got bumped."
Ware accepts that NASA and the Columbia crew "might very well have known for those two weeks that they were going to have a rough time."
But he considers much of the Internet conspiracists "full of bull." "You've got a certain element out there that looks for a conspiracy in anything," says Trey Ware.
hsaldana@express-news.net
AGAIN....GREAT JOB FOLKS!!!
THEY ARE GOING..CrrrrrAZY!
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