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What is a Conspiracy? by Evan Palmer
2006-09-09 18:16:00
Planning & actingtogethersecretly - usuallyin a unlawful orharmful plotThis old-style vanilla definition is from a "Concise Edition" of a Webster's New World dicitonary 1975 long before more recent neocon rewrites which add that key pejorative term - "theory" as in mere speculation or guess.The term "conspiracy theory" being part of a continuing propaganda campaign to denigrate dissent and the arduous work of moving towards criminalizing it. Hate laws fit into this as well as they introduce judicial grounds for thought crimes - something that harkens back more to a medieval inquisition than to the Magna Carta.Let's look at this bland definition - "planning and acting" - that occurs all the time and can apply to any number of organizations including an ordinary family."Planning and acting together" introduces the additional requirement that some outward coordination must happen, the actions of more than one person is needed. So all the actions that are the result of a single person...
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