The Tinfoil Hatters Never Dissapoint

[KFC]

Nice to see that the deep thinkers believe that the US may have caused the Iran earthquake.

In a way, it is a strange form of Bush worship to ascribe such godlike powers to the man. He can cause space shuttles to explode, planes to fall from the sky, and has added earthquakes to his repertoire.

I should haver known that he triggered the recent SoCal earthquake to make Arnold look bad.

[mopinko]

1. tinfoil hats

where does this term come from? i have never heard it till i found du.

[FDRrocks]

2. Generic reference to paranoid conspiracy theorists...

Tinfoil hat... like the government is broadcasting brainwashing signals or whatever into your head and you wear tinfoil to deflect the wave... or something like that. Some people really do wear tin foil hats... no kidding. The world is a strange and diverse place.

[joefree1]

3. Tinfoil hats protect your thoughts

from Aliens. DU even has a smilie for it :tinfoilhat:

As in the recent Mel Gibson movie when he and his son put tin foil on their heads to protect from alien brain scans (comic moment). What was the name of that movie?


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[nostamj]

6. uh, "Conspiracy Theory" !!!

duh. ;-)

[joefree1]

14. No. It was Signs.

Thanks Bertha Venation. Nostamj, you get a spanky :spank:

[Bertha Venation]

7. "Signs"

(I think)

[plaguepuppy]

16. Conspiracy Theory (the movie)

The incident with the tinfoil hats may be from Signs, but there's also an interesting connection to Conspiracy Theory. In that movie Gibson played a whacked-out con theorist who in fact is actually an amnestic "leftover" from the MKULTRA program. He gets in big trouble because one of the ideas in his crackpot newsletter turns out to be on the mark - about a plan to use the space shuttle to cause an earthquake (in Turkey as I recall). It almost gets him and all his dozen-or-so readers killed.

I suspect the technology does exist somewhere, but not that it was used in Iran (or Cambria).


http://www.plaguepuppy.net/public_html/video%20archive/BillHicksElite.mp3

http://www.plaguepuppy.net/public_html/Lone%20Gunmen/The_Lone_Gunmen_Episode_1.htm

[Capn Sunshine]

4. Common symptom

by those afflicted with paranoia/schizophrenia is to believe radio waves are being beamed at you by malefactors. The paranoiac response to this is to wear a head covering/hat lined with tinfoil. I have seen pots worn by these folks also.

By the way, many of them believe that Dean is unelectable.

[DuctapeFatwa]

9. It used to mean crackpot. Now it means "disagrees with me"

me being the speaker in any given case.

One of its most common uses today is as a pat dismissal of any suggestion that "evildoers who hate freedom" might be a less than comprehensive explanation of the 9-11 events.

[Terwilliger]

10. comes from the idea that wearing a tinfoil hat will...

keep your thoughts hidden from the aliens who are trying to penetrate your mind

[Bertha Venation]

5. beg pardon?

Someone actually believes that the U.S. caused the earthquake in Iran?
:tinfoilhat: indeed!

[RBHam]

8. I don't believe it either, and I'm a 9-11 skeptic

But the thread you speak of was more of a "what if" the theoretical application of creating seismic events wasn't just theoretical anymore. William Cohen talked about it, and Kucinich even proposed a bill outlawing it. So, somewhere, some members of the Military are no doubt experimenting with the theory.

But why target a poor Iranian village? Why not Tehran? Or their nuclear plants?
y'know...

[BigDaddyLove]

24. Practice?

Maybe whomever is behind the earthquake needed to run the machine through a couple of trial runs to see if they could actually get the ground rumbling prior to unleashing it upon North Korea.

:)

[JailForBush]

11. It's quite a leap equating causing earthquakes to causing planes to

fall out of the sky. A genuine conspiracy theorist - or, shall I say, a CREDIBLE conspiracy theorist? - might speculate that this thread is merely another lame attempt to ridicule conspiracy theorists, which in turn is a great strategy for discouraging people from asking questions.

[Yupster]

17. Best thing about conspiracy theories

is they can't be questioned because anyone who questions it must be part of the conspiracy.

[JailForBush]

19. It works both ways. N/T

[seemslikeadream]

12. If you would like to make one for yourself

http://zapatopi.net/afdb.html

[Padraig18]

13. The conspiracy just keeps getting bigger and bigger.

Their mailing list must look like the Publisher's Clearing House Sweepstake's contestant's list, by now...:eyes:

[Capn Sunshine]

15. YOU MAY ALREADY BE THE VICTIM OF A CONSPIRACY!!

LOL:silly:

[Padraig18]

18. LOL!

:tinfoilhat: firmly in place. :P

[Robb]

21. I'll try not to take

...any of this personally. :P

FWIW, I blame Michael Jackson for the earthquake in Iran. I mean, just look at him... :silly:

[Junkdrawer]

20. There are silly conspiracy theories ergo ALL conspiracy therories...

are silly. It that your reasoning? :shrug:

[plaguepuppy]

25. Cogito ergo bum

And rich people never get together in private to plan things, and never ever do anything naughty or unethical to get even yet richer.

Some prescient conspiracy theorizing by the late Bill Hicks, circa 1993:
http://www.plaguepuppy.net/public_html/video%20archive/BillHicksElite.mp3

[mopinko]

22. thanks

for the most entertaining explanation! you deserve a :beer:

[Wonk]

23. "Some" Tinfoil Hatters, not "The" Tinfoil Hatters. Your brush is too broad

Just because some folks think the moon landing was staged (etc.) doesn't mean all conspiracy theories are false.

[Junkdrawer]

26. Limbaugh uses the "broad brush" tactic all the time...

by the poster's same logic, I guess that makes hime a Limbaugh fan. :evilgrin:

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