I don't know if it qualifies as a conspiracy theory, but I'm pretty darned sure that Schlabby is up to something....

 winter wrote: 
Linen bunchin' up on ya again?

 oldslabsides wrote: 
Exactly my point.

Nothing personal, Dave, but this conspiracy theory stuff always irritates me. And I'm irritable enough today as it is. 

 

 winter wrote: 
Well, there's certainly evidence and junk that somebody thought that one up.  Implemented?  Not so much.

 oldslabsides wrote: 
People think up all kinds of crazy stuff. It's logical to think it might be carried out when there's, you know, evidence and junk. Otherwise it's just that whole self-confirming faith thing again.

 winter wrote: 
I'm sayin' that such things are fomented.  That being the case, it stands to reason at some point some might actually be carried out.  I know, I know - I can't prove a negative.  Not tryin' to prove anything - I'm jus' sayin'.

 Lazy8 wrote: 
It does beg the question about whether similar military strategies were ever carried out.

*edit* And how would we know, anyway?

 oldslabsides wrote: 
Spell it out. So far, you're jus' implyin'.

 oldslabsides wrote:
...what, exactly?

 oldslabsides wrote: 
Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men.

Lamont Cranston

 Lazy8 wrote: 
I'm jus' sayin'...

 oldslabsides wrote:...a 47 year old military plan that was never implemented, drawn up by men long dead, is trotted out to justify every paranoid fantasy that anyone can think of.

but, sometimes...