[lbo-talk] Democracy Now 5/26

[Joseph Wanzala]

so Chip do you and your colleagues give presentations at the American Bar 
Association cautioning prosecutors not to be too conspiratorial? After all, 
conspiracy is the most frequently deployed juridical instrument among 
prosecutors - and investigative journalists do essentially the same thing - 
connect the dots - to critique conspiracism would only be a good thing if 
you were going after prosecutors who nail people on bogus conspiracy charges 
all the time. When Jim Garrison investigated the Kennedy assasination, he 
was simply doing what he had been doing all his professional life up to that 
point, only that thusfar he had not gone after the government on such a 
matter. The only pupose of the entire construct of 'conspiracism' is shoo 
people away from political truths that skirt to close to the nerve center of 
power.


>From: "Chip Berlet" <cberlet at igc.org>
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>To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org>
>Subject: RE: [lbo-talk] Democracy Now 5/26
>Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 17:37:28 -0400
>
>
>Wanzala wrote:
>
>  So you [Doug]
> > obviously have
> > no point other than to attack 'conspiracism' which as far as
> > I can tell, is
> > a phenomenon which occurs chiefly in the mind of  Chip Berlet and his
> > dittoheads.
>
>The phenomenon of conspiracism has been studied in academia for decades.
>Norman Cohn and Michael Barkun are hardly my "dittoheads," but serious
>scholars who, along with scores of others, write about the phenomenon of
>conspiracy thinking and conspiracism.
>
>Chip Berlet
>
>
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