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This is not the Kasey Kaseem variety of Top 40.
While rational and normal people have been dwelling over how the world has changed over the past five years, a group of complete nutcases are sifting over the wreckage of their fractured imaginations and telling lies to themselves and other people.
The attacks of September 11 2001 were a calculated plan carried out by a group of International gangsters. (Osama and his gang.) Gangsters is the word I prefer to use.
These gangsters were predisposed to destabilize the world and bring the US into war.
They admit this themselves.

But why for the life of me are so called educated people, constructing such an outrageous conspiracy theory that suggests the US government planned the whole shebang?
My first thought is an extension of Bush bashing. Bush bashing, of course, is the fasting growing sport in the world. It started the day he was inaugurated, gained more competitors after S11 and grew even more when Bush was re-elected.
A vast majority of Bush bashers know nothing about domestic or International politics. They just join in because it is cool to bash any Republican President. Reagan was bashed from pillar to post in his first term, once again by people who had no idea about politics.

The S11 conspiracy theories seems to be more than bush bashing though.
The conspiracy theorists remind me more of a hysteria that took place in the mid-nineties.
I refer to those people who believed in Aliens.
Yep, you know the types.
Smoked too much pot, watched the "X-files" and were convinced that the "Truth is out there!".
These were the same people who were convinced about Y2K and the coming Global calamity.

I cannot definitively explain WTF is going on with these people, but it does appear to be some sort of Mass Hysteria.
Maybe Mass Hysteria is unavoidable.
When Orson Welles did his radio play version of H.G.Wells "War of the Worlds", Mass Hysteria broke out in many parts of the USA.
When the Beatles toured the world, Mass Hysteria broke out in cities throughout the world.
When the Danish "Prophet" cartoons were seen, Mass Hysteria broke out in many cities.

If Mass Hysteria is cyclical, how do we stop it?
Is Mass Hysteria unavoidable?
Is Mass Hysteria ingrained into the Human Psyche?

I'm not sure what the answer is to these questions, but I do know a couple of things.
Here are some tips to dealing with conspiracy theorists.

September 11 conspiracy theorists need to be talked to sternly and without compromise.

They must be reminded they are wrong and living in a fantasy world.

They must be reminded that believing S11 conspiracy theories, is akin to denying the holocaust.

Engaging them in arguments about the details of their conspiracy should be completely avoided, as it only encourages them more.

If you have a friend who is a "believer", don't tolerate their opinion. You are not doing them or the world a favor.

Tell them facts about Domestic and International politics, and try to explain the background of what Terrorists had been planning to do and have done.

If these actions cause more trouble, avoid that person.

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