[cardguy]

I KNOW THIS IS 'OLD NEWS' BUT I HAVEN'T GOTTEN ROUND TO WATCHING THE CLIP UNTIL NOW!

You all know this.

But as a quick recap. Back in March, 2001 - the spin-off show from 'The X Files' called 'The Lone Gunmen' aired its pilot episode.

The plot was that the US government would hijack a passenger plane, fly it into the Twin Towers and then blame it on a foreign dictator as a way of propping up the arms industry.

It is a famous clip. But I hadn't gotten round to watching it until the other day. And a few other people I know - who knew of the clip - hadn't actually seen it as well.

So - for those who have yet to see the clip - it is well worth watching.

I am not a 9/11 'truther' myself - but there is something a little chilling watching the clip and knowing it was broadcast 6 months before 9/11.

[soup]

I saw a special on PBS about terrorism in the late 1990s that did a dramatization of a terrorist driving an airplane into WTC.

This tactic and plan was well known before it happened.

I also saw a PBS special warning about the mortgage crisis before it happened.

[RawGod]

It's been claimed that the CIA worked with the makers of the X-Files and possibly suggested or massaged story lines. The idea being that once something had been presented in mainstream entertainment as pure "woo-woo" fantasy, people are inoculated against believing that something similar could actually be real. Mix in a real conspiracy among all the aliens, and people put them all in the same category.

Quite a plausible disinformation strategy if you ask me - clearly the assassination of JFK has nothing to do with aliens or bigfoot, yet some people have been conditioned to dismissively lump them together.

[Rutting Elephant]

(03-02-2014 03:56 AM)RawGod Wrote:  

It's been claimed that the CIA worked with the makers of the X-Files and possibly suggested or massaged story lines.

If this were true, the film X-Files: I Want to Believe wouldn't have sucked so hard as to ruin a brilliant franchise. Unless it was like the Joker heist where he kills off his own crew.