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Originally Posted by Quentin
One cannot defame the U.S. government; as a matter of law, it simply isn't possible.
The government can't sue Jones, even if everything he has ever said about it is untrue.
As the court once wrote (in City of Chicago v. Tribune Co.): "no court of last resort in this country has ever held, or even suggested, that prosecutions for libel on government have any place in the American system of jurisprudence."
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Learn something new every day. I didn't know that.
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Originally Posted by Rochard
Our government lies to us all the time.
But they didn't lie to us about 9/11 - I'm pretty confident Bush didn't WANT to invade Afghanistan - and if there was a conspiracy the US government would have figured it out and exposed it. I also don't believe the FBI bombed it's own citizens, or that the US government was involved in any way - for what reason would the FBI bomb it's own citizens?
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I don't think the FBI bombed Boston (though some of the story is sketchy), but what you said is exactly why these theories run wild. Because lies have been told, we never know what is the truth. You, me, and even Quentin (who just schooled my ass) only know what we are told through media outlets and public documents. We're all "out of the loop" and have no idea what really goes on, good or bad. I like to use the analogy of a cheating wife. Once you catch her cheating, every time she is an hour late, you're going to be convinced she is sucking a cock somewhere even if she's not.
No one wants to believe their government would do such things, but history is full of examples where governments did exactly that. Thus the conspiracy theorists rage on and it is easy for guys like Alex Jones to make a damn good living doing what he does.