Are gamblers more likely to believe in conspiracy theories?

[SECplayer]

It seems every major event that gets posted here there are always quite a few posters who believe it is some kind of conspiracy.

9/11
Boston Marathon
Basically any mass murder event
Anything that can be blamed on the government somehow.
countless others.

Even the plane lane landing in the Hudson River that just got bumped below had several that just knew it was really something else.

Just my odd observation from many years on this board.

 

[Willie99]

I believe in one, the JFK assassination


A few big conspiracies you left off your list;

the staged moon landing
Area 51
CIA spreading aids
the New World Order

or how about "dropping mind control chemicals from commercial flights"?

 

[festeringZit]

I believe in one, the JFK assassination


A few big conspiracies you left off your list;

the staged moon landing
Area 51
CIA spreading aids
the New World Order

or how about "dropping mind control chemicals from commercial flights"?

Willie, what's your theory on JFK? I don't think Lee Harvey was a lone gunman either... Though not sure exactly what went down... I've read all
the books. My uncle was one of LBJ's doctors, and he thinks LBJ had something to do with it.

 

[919]

There's is at least one joker here that thinks Sandusky is innocent.

 

[CHOPTALK]

I don't see the correlation

 

[festeringZit]

There's is at least one joker here that thinks Sandusky is innocent.

There are a few that think OJ is innocent.

 

[Willie99]

There's is at least one joker here that thinks Sandusky is innocent.

I don't see much support for Sandusky, by some people including myself defend JoePa

 

[Willie99]

Willie, what's your theory on JFK? I don't think Lee Harvey was a lone gunman either... Though not sure exactly what went down... I've read all
the books. My uncle was one of LBJ's doctors, and he thinks LBJ had something to do with it.

My best guess is a mob hit. The Kennedy's back-stabbed the mob after they helped him win in 1960 and they believed they bight a friend in the WH. Instead the Kennedy's sought out to destroy them. Jack Ruby was a terminally ill local mobster who somehow managed to gain access to Oswald and for some reason was compelled to killing Oswald.

The miracle bullet explanation is simply not plausible, that couldn't happen and thus that brings into question whatever else the Warren Commission concluded

Oswald firing three accurate shots from where he was in the Texas Schoolhouse Depository also highly improbable

 

[SheriffJoe]

Lyndon Johnson Admits To Walter Cronkite That He Knows Who Killed Kennedy

 

[ML Dog]

My best guess is a mob hit.

Good Call. "42 Gang", Sam Giancana (Chicago), Hol Killian and Carlos Marcello (New Orleans), Santo Traficante......more marginally. If you manage to locate discussion of the JFK Assassination that seriously explores Oswald's time in NOLA prior to JFK's murder then you've found a potentially productive discussion of this.

Surprisingly few, and even SERIOUS explorations of this incorporate focus of Oswald's time in NOLA.

The article linked to below is a better than average one but even it manages to completely leave out The 42 Gang and Giacana's connection to the guys in NOLA.

In my opinion the eventual Hit had to do with more than just The Kennedy Administration's relationship to The Mafia, some Personal Stuff even between Sam Giacana and JFK that involved a female, as crazy as that sounds but IMO that may have been a straw that broke the camel's back, the camel being Giacana who'd worked with CIA to assassinate Castro but that got all messed up and didn't happen...

...lotta possibilities really but your call of Mob Hit IMO is good.

"perfect storm". Of factions for whom JFK's murder could be beneficial.

Managing to use Oswald and then (and especially) Sirhan Sirhan to later do RFK are the massive flies in the ointment to a conclusion that MAFIA was completely responsible.

Were that the case, MAFIA-orchestrated ALONE and they managed to pull this off with these 2 dudes and again, especially Sirhan, the Genius of these accomplishments would be the most amazing Subterfuge ("Covering" of themselves) ever in history.

MAFIA, yeah IMO but "others" as well. US Government Intelligence, perhaps.

Whatever the case it is the strangest situation ever, by a wide margin.

Salvatore "Mooney Sam" Giancana

http://www.myneworleans.com/New-Orl.../The-Kennedy-Assassination-Fifty-Years-Later/

 

[Willie99]

Lyndon Johnson Admits To Walter Cronkite That He Knows Who Killed Kennedy

Wow, LBJ essentially stated he doesn't really believe the Warren Commission is the complete story,

 

[SheriffJoe]

Wow, LBJ essentially stated he doesn't really believe the Warren Commission is the complete story,

Watch his eyes when he says "or others that could have been involved"

I believe it was LBJ's last interview before his death. He requested certain portions of that interview be removed for "national security reasons" which only aired after his death.

 

[vitterd]

Don't believe in any real big conspiracy.....especially the big events.

Lee Harvey acted alone.

JoePa isn't even a conspiracy. Paterno fucked up big time. He knew for decades about Sandusky and did nothing about it. JoePa was judge and jury at state college....all he had to do is step up and do something to save kids from being molested......and he chose not to.

9/11....Boston marathon all happened just as we watched them unfold.

The only conspiracy that I believe is.....the NBA final minute( when the straight up winner is decided) the players and officials fuck with the line and try to make it land on a certain number. And the one game in NFL...Steelers/Chargers was a fix job from start to finish....especially at the finish

 

[mango]

Never was big on conspiracy theories. You usually have to ignore 99.999% of the evidence to believe one pretty much.

But I do now believe in refs fixing games after being on the wrong side of this:

 

[nuckers]

JoePa isn't even a conspiracy. Paterno fucked up big time. He knew for decades about Sandusky and did nothing about it. JoePa was judge and jury at state college....all he had to do is step up and do something to save kids from being molested......and he chose not to.

agreed, joepa should burn in hell. Putting a game before kids, he's a piece of shit of the highest order