Conspiracies Exist

I was checking out some old posts on a friend's blog when I found one post where he sort of debunks (or at least takes a stand against) conspiracy theory. So, since I have been intimately aware of two genuine conspiracies in my life, I thought I'd "blow some whistles" here.

#1: Small potatoes, but it involves government employees: This was at a school that I attended. They had a dormitory that you couldn't live in unless you met certain qualifications. A student that I knew, plus their parents, grandparents, and multiple employees of the state conspired to fraudulently alter details on a student's record to allow them (the student, not the whole conspiracy) to live in the dorm.

#2: A larger one, which I exposed and busted after learning it embezzled thousands of dollars from the theatre circuit that I was working for at the time: It involved a famous musician who would rent out the auditoriums late at night. He would pay $300 to $500 per showing to watch movies after business hours at a variety of different theatres. All rental fees should have gone to the corporate office, but instead, a conspiracy was in place, with managers at multiple locations never reporting it and pocketing the cash. When I brought it to the District Manager, it resulted in 6 terminations between 4 locations. Several additional managers at those and other nearby locations quit within a month of my exposing it, implying to me that the conspiracy went much further than I had realized at the time.

So when someone tells you that conspiracy theories are a bunch of bunk, that those in power aren't corrupt, and that otherwise good people don't get tangled up in secret meetings and "off the record" negotiations, DON'T BELIEVE THEM. It happens every day.

Just ask George Carlin