Tuesday 13th January

It has happened pretty quickly I must admit; only days after the atrocity I have received a few conspiracy theory explanations on Facebook.  It was the CIA; it was Mossad; the two attacks could not possibly have been linked – on was claiming to be from Al Queada and one on behalf of Isis and they are supposed to be fighting each other in Syria; the Policeman shot outside Charlie Hebdo offices was not finished off by a terrorist but by the Police.  And so it goes on.  With today’s technology, amateur video and the like we can all be Conspiracy Theorists.  And just as in most stories, many initial news reports may be found to be faulty and certainly inconsistent with what we later know.  I must admit when last Wednesday I watched in horror I thought the “hit-men” must have been professionals, probably hired by some terrorist group, but they looked very well trained indeed.

So what do we believe?  That it was all a set-up to demonise yet further Islam?  That it was all part of the Military-Industrial Complex, so that War will continue endlessly? That World Leaders are all either “in on the game” or too stupid to see through it?  Who knows, maybe it is all being controlled by Dick Cheney in America to protect Halliburton Oil.

I simply find it too incredible that with all the investigative journalists around we could all have been deceived.  There have been conspiracy theories around the Assassination of Kennedy, the death of Dr. Kelly, 9/11 itself and so on.  Maybe some of the conspiracy theories are true, or that at least many of the inconsistencies should be examined.  And we should always be wary of Official explanations, but at the end of the day who else can we turn to?  So, if you want to believe that the French Government either perpetrated or allowed others to carry out the murder of its own citizens in order to sow even more hatred against Muslims, okay go on and believe it.  I believe that History shows us more cock-up than conspiracy; that most things happen by accident.  Often the simplest answers are the right ones.