re: #219 jdoc1357

Something seems to be missing in this posting that seems vaguely important. Aren’t these major corporations required by the secret pseudo-court to lie to and mislead the public about the details of their participation in the top secret government spying program?

No. Gag orders (as onerous as they may be) are never a requirement to lie. That would be a prima facie violation of the 1st Amendment and if proven completely anathematic to the well being of any publicly traded company. They’d be destroyed overnight. There’s no way they would just blithely go along with such a scheme. The companies in question are massively multinational and rely on worldwide goodwill to function, and yet you don’t even ask yourself why they’d risk all that to comply without protest with what you yourself term a “pseudo-court.”

This is an example of a conspiracy theory growing so vast and antithetical to reality that it starts to create it’s own weather patterns in order to survive in the minds of believers. The system, as it were, has to be so obviously and intrinsically evil that the only people who could ever possibly be telling the truth are those trying to tear it down. Where cognitive bias forms a critical runaway reaction and objective reality is consumed in the process.