(September 17, 2013 at 9:43 am)Doubting Thomas Wrote: The conspiracy theories about the Navy Yard shooting are being made up as we speak, I'm sure. Especially with the early reports of looking for two other suspects (one of whom was located and identified, and ruled out as a suspect) and various erroneous news reports (since news outlets are more concerned with being first with an item than accuracy), then there's all sorts of conflicting information which always gives rise to conspiracy nuts trying to cast doubt on the official story.
Of course, if they do try to claim this as a false flag operation, little good it would do since no new gun control legislation is likely to arise from this, either.
Oh yeah, you know the conspiracy nuts are spinning this straw into pure, high quality bullshit even now.
I advocate a healthy distrust of government and think that one should be skeptical of official claims, but these false flag conspiracy theories drive me crazy. I have at least three co-workers who remain convinced that the Sandy Hook shootings were of this nature, and no amount of reasoning will budge them from their belief.
Of course, the conspiracy loons are often the same people who will tell you that government fucks up everything it touches -- yet somehow it manages to repeatedly pull off these improbable operations that would collapse in a second if anyone leaked to the press (which of course never happens in D.C.).