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• Tuesday, July 22, 2008 08:39 PM

  Way down the rabbit hole and deep into tin-foil hat territory

  You do realize that PROMIS is like 30 YEAR OLD software? With at least 20 years of Conspiracy Theory history now?

  Oooh, but it is super dooper groovy megapowerful sinister software! Kinda like Google but scarier! If you dig around the conspiracy theorist sites enough (one of my hobbies), you will eventually tumble to the idea that it was actually bought by bin Laden and used to like totally penetrate US intelligence! Or is that just disinformation put out to distract us from the fact that this totally groovy cool powerful piece of 30 YEAR OLD software was stolen and subverted and lined selected individuals' pockets and is like the ultimate fascist tool of all time?

  I would put Inslaw related parties definitely in the category of "reliable & disinterested" witnesses, oh yeah, after yea these 20 years of conspiracy babble.

  And how cool a name is "Main Core"? I mean Dr. Evil could not have come up with a cooler name. Super secret White House rooms and people turning white as a sheet at the mere mention of it? We are way past the X Files and definitely into the Y and Z Files, if not deep into the double naught files.

  Look, I'm no big fan of the Bushies, and fully believe that they would indeed subvert the Constitution and the state in every way they could. But a necessary and peculiar foundation for conspiracy theorizing is an unshakable belief in the near super-human competence, subtlety, and perfection of the conspirators. Nothing in recent history would lead one to conclude that any of those things are to be found in the Bush administration, nor in the FBI, CIA, NSA, or the rest of the alphabet soup; quite the contrary in fact.

  I for one have no doubt whatsoever that the NSA and friends have indeed been spying on us all and making up lists. Those lists so far, the No Fly one cited in the article for example, have demonstrated no competence, no effectiveness, no intelligence, and no point beyond bureaucratic inertia.

  If you want to go after the Bushies, there are plenty of real actual named people with real, provable blood on their hands; you don't need to get all Mulder/Scully to do it.

  Now where is the late lamented World Weekly News when you need it?

  —Canuckistan Bob Read Canuckistan Bob's other letters
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