President Obama called a late night news conference to announce that Osama bin Laden is dead. He was shot in a firefight in Pakistan:
Osama bin Laden, the Saudi extremist whose al-Qaida terrorist organization killed more than 3,000 people in coordinated attacks on the U.S. on Sept. 11, 2001, is dead following a military operation in Pakistan and the U.S. has recovered his body, U.S. President Barack Obama announced Sunday night.
"Justice has been done," the president declared as crowds formed outside the White House to celebrate, singing "The Star-Spangled Banner" and "We Are the Champions," NBC News reported.
Obama said bin Laden, whom he called a terrorist "responsible for the murder of thousands of American men, women and children," was killed in Pakistan earlier in the day after a firefight in a military operation that was based on U.S. intelligence.
A terrorist, a dictator, a threat, all crucial variables to keep up the charade of protecting the citizens from the boogeyman, and in the process take all their rights away.
All of it so nauseating, so contrived, so pathetic, so transparent of what they're doing. All show, all an act, theatre, facade, stupidities.
Now, Obama will be held as the one who caught Osama. LOL What a world!
Wait, let me guess ... even Bush and Obama were in the dark, all fed disinformation by the Illuminati.
Hurray that we finally got him. I'm especially happy that U.S. special forces took him down in a fire fight, sustained no casualties, and recovered his body.
This is a great day for everybody in the whole world who isn't an evil murderous terrorist.
Yeah, first they landed on the moon and now they killed Osama Bin Laden!
What a joke the US became!
This is why once a person buys into a consiracy it is very difficult to change their mind.
Duly noted.
"Observe the process to "kill" Osama Bin Laden, who was dead from kidneys cancer several years ago"
http://www.ford.utexas.edu/library/speeches/760110e.htm#SEC. 5.
Last I check Osama Bin Laden was not a political head or employee of a government orginization recognized by the world.
I'm really not one for conspiracy theories (although I find them interesting to read), but something about this doesn't sit well with me.
*shrugs*
Whatever.... one psycho gone, 10 more will take his place and be worse.
And that is why the majority stupidly believe everything the mainstream media tells them, without questioning, simply thinking that they always tell the truth. If they say A is D, then A IS D.
Conspiracies, or anything outside the box of the conditioned world, gets attacked by the media ad nauseam, by including such information within the context of a tv show, film, movie, and then have the characters react to it in a politically correct way, that way conditioning YOU to act the same way.
Think for yourself. Don't let the idiot box do it. A is A. :oP
Try one! You'll like it!
http://gawker.com/#!5648275/obama-calls-assassination-program-a-state-secret
Executive Orders are not voted on in Congress. They have no judicial review ... and they are not law.
And hey..at least this is not a dupe post either.
:D
The 'official' line is not always 'all' of the truth, nor is it always true at all.
When someone asks logical questions like "how do 2 plans topple 3 buildings in a manner that all three fall identically?"..people who can not bear to consider the ramifications of that question ridicule and attack the person asking a perfectly sane, intelligent question.
Society has been conditioned to keep their questions and skepticism to themselves...lest they be shunned and mocked.
Conspiracy theory is not a disease, it is an understanding that sometimes rich and powerful people manipulate the truth to stay rich and powerful.
BTW, no I don't buy into the mainstream media; I don't believe everything they tell me; I tend to ignore them most of the time. But I'm also not going to listen to a handful of psych patients with blogs.
a. Those who are in on it.
b. Those who believe everything they're told by those who are in on it.
The funny thing to me is that the self-proclaimed free-thinkers all repeat the same arguments they read on each other's websites.
@Jim- did I dream the news posts that he nearly did go down yesterday (or the day before)? Or was he not close at the time? Can't find the report I saw yest about the attack in Libya...
Thanks for the patronising lecture, but I consider myself a skeptic and a freethinker, and I am always trying to improve my critical thinking skills.
I do not believe everything the media tells me (far from it), nor did I comment on whether I agreed or disagreed that OBL is dead, but clearly people who are so certain that OBL died years ago and the US government has covered it up without a shread of evidence are buying into a conspiracy theory.
Why is that nice? How can I feel better knowing that a person has died? Maybe because that person callously and cold-bloodedly orchestrated several different plots to kill people.
When I went outside that evening, after hearing the news, the world seemed just a little different. His death won't solve the world's problems, but it's a huge symbolic burden relieved. The world just got a tiny bit less insane, a little less diabolical.
To be truly skeptical is to employ critical thinking to assess all the available evidence as well as the quality of evidence before coming to a conclusion on a dubious claim, as well as the ability to change one's mind if new evidence is presented.
Conspiracy theorists on the other hand have already made up their mind and use confirmation bias to accept evidence that supports their argument while disregarding evidence that contradicts it as all part of the consiracy. This is not freethinking.
Osama Bin Laden was a follower of the ideology of Sayyid Qutb who conceived of the westernization of Islamic countries as a violation of their rights to Islamic culture, which in Islam justifies ascent to Jihad bil Saif (warfare).
There are few justifications for Jihad bil Saif but threats to the Islamic value system. Which Qutb perceived to be occuring with the growing westernization of Islamic countries and the gross interference by Russia and the United States.
Qutb and Bin Laden are dead, but Jihad bil Saif has been instigated already and that is what needs to be addressed, primarily by demonstrating to Islamic countries their autonomous right to reject western values and maintain their own.