Conspiracy and the State of the Union by Jamey Hecht, PhD
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/061704_conspiracy_union.html
Peter Dale Scott: "If a nation decides to live by lies, it has chosen a course of intellectual stagnation, and ultimately of political decay."
The Assassinations, 1975 (ix).
John Newman: Let me introduce myself. I'm a conspiracy theorist.
JFK Lancer's 'November In Dallas' conference presentation, 1999
John Judge: Call me a conspiracy theorist if you like, so long as you call yourself a coincidence theorist.
Coalition On Political Assassinations (COPA) presentation, 2002
Philip Berg: Conspiracy is among the most common legal categories of crime - conspiracy to commit murder; conspiracy to commit fraud, conspiracy to provide material support to a terrorist act, and on and on.
International Citizen's Inquiry Into 9-11, Phase One:
San Francisco presentation, 2004
Greg Palast: People tell me they don't believe in conspiracy; I tell them, look - I have the minutes of the meetings! What more do you want?
Interview, in Election 2000 documentary "Unprecedented"
Kevin Costner's character "Crash Davis" in the film Bull Durham: "I believe Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone; I believe there ought to be a constitutional amendment outlawing Astroturf and the designated hitter…"
E. Martin Schotz: "One of the primary means of immobilizing the American people politically today is to hold them in a state of confusion in which anything can be believed and nothing can be known… nothing of significance, that is."
History Will Not Absolve Us: Orwellian Control, Public Denial,
and the Murder of President Kennedy
Michael C. Ruppert: I am not a conspiracy theorist. I deal in conspiracy fact.
From The Wilderness
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Ninth Circuit Model Criminal Jury Instructions 8.18 CONSPIRACY-KNOWING OF AND ASSOCIATION WITH OTHER CONSPIRATORS
A conspiracy may continue for a long period of time and may include the performance of many transactions. It is not necessary that all members of the conspiracy join it at the same time, and one may become a member of a conspiracy without full knowledge of all the details of the unlawful scheme or the names, identities, or locations of all of the other members.
Even though a defendant did not directly conspire with [the other defendant] [or] [other conspirators] in the overall scheme, the defendant has, in effect, agreed to participate in the conspiracy if it is proved beyond a reasonable doubt that:
(1) the defendant directly conspired with one or more conspirators to carry out at least one of the objects of the conspiracy,
(2) the defendant knew or had reason to know that other conspirators were involved with those with whom the defendant directly conspired, and
(3) the defendant had reason to believe that whatever benefits the defendant might get from the conspiracy were probably dependent upon the success of the entire venture.
It is no defense that a person's participation in a conspiracy was minor or for a short period of time.
A person may be a member of a conspiracy even though the person does not know all of the purposes of or participants in the conspiracy. United States v. Escalante, 637 F.2d 1197, 1200 (9th Cir.), cert. denied, 449 U.S. 856 (1980); United States v. Kearney, 560 F.2d 1358, 1362 (9th Cir.), cert. denied, 434 U.S. 971 (1977).
A single conspiracy can be established even though it took place during a long period of time during which new members joined and old members dropped out. United States v. Green, 523 F.2d 229, 233 (2d Cir.1975), cert. denied, 423 U.S. 1074 (1976). See also United States v. Thomas, 586 F.2d 123, 132 (9th Cir.1978) (holding that proof that the defendant "knew he was plotting in concert with others to violate the law was sufficient to raise the necessary inference that he joined in the overall agreement"); United States v. Perry, 550 F.2d 524, 528 (9th Cir.) (holding that the law of conspiracy does not require the government "to prove that all of the defendants met together at the same time and ratified the illegal scheme"), cert. denied, 431 U.S. 918, 434 U.S. 827 (1977).