(November 22, 2011 at 2:47 pm)Moros Synackaon Wrote:(November 22, 2011 at 1:31 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote: My friend Jon was murdered last week. He was active in Occupy Savannah. A local conservative blogger immediately connected his death to the movement, and the predictable comments about drug deals gone wrong and the protestors are little better than animals ensued. Now the fact is that Jon was walking home from a friend's house during the wee hours of the morning and got robbed and shot. It wasn't the best neighborhood. He was about seven miles from the protest. It had nothing to do with Occupy or drugs or protestors; except maybe in the sense that he might not have been in the wrong place at the wrong time if he hadn't been doing his activist thing. That's at least one commentator who picked up the ball and ran with it on the slimmest of suppositions. Take stories like this one with a generous helping of salt is my advice.
My current 'conspiracy theory' is that the Koch brothers and their shell entities are paying people via something like Amazon's Mechanical Turk to post comments on popular liberal news sites and blogs, because the general consensus and discourse utterly changed to something different within the first four weeks of OWS.
Now you can visit the San Francisco Chronicle, click on one article about OWS, find angry, vile and totally incoherent people blaming OWS for 'not getting a damn job', 'leeches' and the like, then click on another article (also about OWS) and find the OWS-fan club.
For the record, the OWS-fan club (posters I've lumped in the group) was the de facto "voice" for SFGate.com. Now it's... bi-polar, as if two distinctly different sets of people are posting,. Definitely not the usual crop of readers/commentators of the past few years.
If it seems obvious then it is probably true, nothing happens for no reason.
"conspiracy"... nah more like rational, intelligent thinking, and putting small pieces together to find the ultimate truth.
