Going home recently, I sat down beside an apparently pleasant women who willingly made room for my bag in the space between us. Such is not always the case and usually means the person is nice. We chatted a bit while organizing jackets and reading material for the hour-plus ride ahead of us, all very low-key. One of us said something about the high price of homes where we live (over sixty miles from a major urban/work center). As we were about to turn to our books, she said something about soon we'll need wheelbarrows full of money just to buy milk, like the Weimar Republic in Germany in the '30s. I should have known to keep my mouth shut but allowed myself to say "oh?" and she was off and running. She asked whether I realized that Hitler used the term "terrorists" to describe the Jews, which shows that we're at the beginning of our own holocaust. And don't I realize our government legally can (and does) enter homes without an owner's permission and puts and removes things on and from the computers? Don't I realize that we bombed the World Trade Center ourselves (a) for oil and (b) to gain international good will? Don't I realize that Ossama bin Laden is a CIA operative which is why he doesn't do more and hasn't been killed? Don't I realize that both WTC buildings imploded and vaporized because "they" wired the buildings before they bombed them? Don't I wonder why #7 came down too since it wasn't bombed (safety apparently not being a good answer). I quietly asked who "they" are at some point; her answer was to smile and recommend "alternative news sources". She asked whether I realize that five companies run everything in the U.S.? And don't I wonder why the WTC debris was cleaned up so quickly and sent to China (huh?)? She said there are books that prove our spies have infiltrated every government in the world and that we change economies and political situations whenever we feel we need to. I'm reluctant to write down everything she said lest some search engine somewhere pick up on it and I get attention from readers I totally do not want. Let me say that I agree there are many unanswered questions about many things but I don't believe a government could be in control of many governments and activities yet clearly not have things their (our) way. Nor that a government would be so cavalier with its citizens and soldiers unless it was horribly evil. Do people who believe these things think our government is satanic? If so, why are they here?

As she was getting ready to leave, she smiled and said I'd been in the presence of a real true genuine conspiracy theorist. (No kidding.) Mind you, I've been called a conspiracy theorist because I feel sure there was more to the plane explosion over Long Island than broken parts. Ha. If they only knew. ("They"??!)

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