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Originally posted by goBigtime
Unless of course whoever did it, intentionally left a well-stocked trail for conspiracy theorists to follow and be entertained and occupied by.... anything to keep your eye off the ball.
I mean come on... the orange jumpsuit, the white chair, the thing with his dad giving the gov a hard time, the rumor (or is it fact) that he was working around the prison, the cheesiness of the video when they swap to the second camera.
If you're looking for a good conspiracy... could it get any better than that?
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That's certainly true. In only two short weeks, Nick Berg's murder has sent waves of paranoia rippling through the Undernet. Theories ranging from the plausible to the lunatic are replicating at Tribble-like speed. This thing is already nearing JFK proportions, and with good reason. The whole mess is fast devolving into a bad kind of strangeness.
But to me, it seems more like incompetent blundering than screwing up on purpose. Like they were in a rush. Like they had something coming up that they had to deal with.
Like the growing Abu Ghraib prison scandal. Today we learned that there are literally thousands more photos, including depictions, smiling soldiers messing around with corpses, of rape (both homo and hetero) including the rape of young boys, a series of photos showing a guy being slowly beaten to death, etc.
The timing isn't proof of anything. But it sure was convenient. And considering public reaction to the Berg tape - with right-wing nuts and their followers calling anybody who doesn't think the brutal murder of one individual isn't sufficient grounds for all-out genocide - it worked like a charm.