Conspiracy theories are very popular because of the sense of intrigue they generate. In fact, one of my favourite comic strips talks about them today. As the comic says, some of them are true and quite a few of them have some element of truth in them. The recent expose of Vanzara centred fake encounter drama has taken centrestage on our media. Could conspiracy theories be far behind?
What is missing, or not commented on, in much of the discussion around the fake encounters is the fact that this kind of multi-state co ordination of police forces can only be done by Central bodies. The one central body uniquely equipped to bring such co ordinated efforts to fruition is none other than the Intelligence Bureau.
Whether there is an element of truth in this theory is something we might never know, considering how closed our bureaucratic apparatus are.
YACT: Yet Another Conspiracy Theory
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I wish you had not trivialised it as conspiracy theory.
shivam,
the belief that ‘this kind of multi-state co ordination of police forces can only be done by Central bodies’ is a questionable notion-
read this:(’http://www.pucl.org/reports/AndhraPradesh/enc-ap-letter.htm)
On the night of December 1st 1999 three members of the Central Committee of the CPI (ML) Peoples War-Nalla Adi Reddy (Shyam, 44), Arramreddy Santosh Reddy (Mahesh, 40) and Seelam Naresh (Murali, 39) were killed in cold blood by the Andhra Pradesh special police shortly after they were arrested from Bangalore in a covert operation. H. J. Dora, the DGP of Andhra Pradesh announced on the next day that they were among the four persons killed in a fierce gun battle between the guerillas of the CPI (ML)(PW) and the police in the Koyyur forest area of Karimnagar district. Circumstantial evidence show that the three leaders were caught when they were in an unconscious state on the basis of information given by one Govinda Reddy, who was looking after their shelter at Sarakkigate in Banashankari area in Bangalore at around 12.30 PM. on the previous day…..’
they were grabbed in bangalore, with knowledge of the karnataka police, but were passed of as having been killed in an encounter a thousand kilometres away in karimnagar, andhra pradesh!
the frightening thing is police across states co-operate with each other on a routine, but informal basis, everyday on these kind of issues… and nobody but the police brass needs to know this (not even the minister). these issues come out in the open only when someone with the resources and the knowledge starts asking questions.
the frightening thing is, there is/was no conspiracy - only a normal everyday infraction. and apurva, i guess, is only trying to digest that through ‘normalizing’ it. yes, you’re mostly right too.
Shivam,
I am sorry. It sounds like a conspiracy theory to me and if I had thought it was stupid, I would not have linked to it.
One of the better argued conspiracy theories is this -
The video makes a lot of interesting points that are worth thinking about but it does not mean I will not call it a conspiracy theory. It is one and a good one too.
Unlike this video, which makes its case with a lot of photographic and factual evidence, Shuddhabrata asserts that such coordination cannot be possible without a central force and goes on from there to cast doubts on the IB’s role in the whole thing. But as kuffir points out, the police force of different states do cooperate informally. If the top cops of one state ask for assistance to capture a ‘terrorist’, would the police of the other states assist or desist? Just that blows irreparable holes into his theory.
Loose change II makes a perfectly credible assertion. The twin towers had a plane fly into each one, gasoline exploded and yet they both fell in exactly the same manner as Tower 7 which was ‘demolished’ later in the evening.
See for yourself.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6aPb-fy7XY
Most people catch themselves post rationalizing this conflict of evidence at this point. And who could blame them?
As for conspiracy theories. The assertion that Bin Laden, a diabetic man in a cave, in Afghanistan, is responsible for bringing the mighty United States to it’s knees, is to my mind fanciful and smells of, well conspiracy. Unless of course he did it on his own. A mad idea just as unhinged as those who would suggest the President of the United States could do it on his own.
As a London cab driver said to me out in the Far East earlier this year, while referring to the collapse of the towers in New York on 911.
“It was a bit neat wasn’t it”.
One always feels sympathetic to those who place all their trust in government. Europeans with the carnage of two world wars behind us are a lot more sceptical. A good post and one that deserves discussion in my book. But conspiracy theories should be left in caves with mystics of Islam.
Sorry not gasoline. It’s Kerosene. The stuff that burns at temperatures well below that at which steel melts :)
I urge you all to take a look at Loose Change. It’s very provocative.
Kerosene may burn at a temp. that cant burn steel, but the temperature is high enough for steel to loose a lot of its structural strength. Heres some real civil eng. information about large fires in large buildings.
http://www.popularmechanics.com/blogs/911myths/