RE: atheists and "conspiracy" theories
May 2, 2012 at 5:27 pm
(This post was last modified: May 2, 2012 at 5:28 pm by Cyberman.)
(May 2, 2012 at 5:14 pm)Thor Wrote:(May 2, 2012 at 4:43 pm)Bgood Wrote: Why is it so impossible that the U.S and British governments have copied this kind of hoax?
Uhhh.... because the US and British governments aren't dictatorships.
Case in point and nominally relevant:
Brian Haw was a peace campaigner who set up camp in Parliament Square, opposite the main entrance to the Palace of Westminster, our Houses of Parliament, in the months pre-9/11 2001 to protest the UK and US foreign policies. He remained encamped there for the next ten years until his death last June, a loud and painful thorn in the side of the Government each day throughout.
In 2005, special legislation was enacted in Parliament and, among other things, was intended to get rid of Mr Haw's embarrassing (to Ministers) reminder of their own actions by making it illegal to demonstrate within a mile surrounding the Palace of Westminster. Unfortunately for them, the new law was ruled illegal in the case against Mr Haw, as he was already set up when it was enacted. In practical terms, this meant that Brian Haw, the one man the Government wanted to remove, became the only man in the world legally allowed to protest outside Parliament.
As Daily Mail pundits might say: you couldn't make it up.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
