I haven’t been following the case of MH370, the missing Malaysian plane, as closely as perhaps I should have. It’s major news, and everybody’s talking about it. Normally, I am one who does tend to speculate out loud on these things. I have very definite opinions on who was behind 9/11 (Cheney, certain members of the Bush family but not George W. – except perhaps after the fact, because why tell the stupid guy – and building owner Larry Silverstein, plus a few others. Rumsfeld is certainly twisted enough, but might, like W., fall under the “don’t tell the stupid guy” rule), and who killed JFK (all LBJ had to do was let certain people, i.e. Brown and Root, inc., know that, as President, he would be friendly to their interests), and who killed Marilyn Monroe (the Kennedys).
But as the plane is still missing there is almost a complete lack of information, so it’s hard to form an opinion. It could just be a plane crash. They do, occasionally, happen. Or there may have been some kind of skullduggery or sabotage involved. That happens, too.
What I don’t like is when the crazy theories come out, and then it becomes easy to shut down all the more reasonable suspicions just by saying “Oh, another conspiracy theory. I heard it got sucked into a black hole, ha ha.” That’s bullshit. Not all ‘conspiracy theories’ (which is, itself, often a misnomer) are equal. Here is a quick guide for separating the reasonable ones from the crazy ones.
1. You can put anything involving the supernatural into the crazy category. They did not fly through a time portal, re-appearing in WWII.
2. You can discount any theory with aliens. While I strongly believe that there are intelligent life forms elsewhere in the galaxy, I doubt very much that they would bother disappearing an aircraft filled with humans. You can’t rule it out entirely, I suppose, but it falls on the wrong side of Occam’s Razor. Mechanical failure is more likely, by a factor of about a thousand.
3. It was not sucked into a black hole. Learn something about relative distances, morons.
4. You can discount any theories about an international Jewish conspiracy. There are about 15 million Jewish people in the world and, it’s true, some of them are quite wealthy. But, the wealthy ones are more likely to conspire with other wealthy people, whether they are not of the Hebrew persuasion, than with non-wealthy Jews. I am half Jewish and nobody’s ever let me in on the conspiracy, I can tell you that much.
5. It is perfectly reasonable to suspect governments, large business interests, criminal or terrorist organizations, somebody with a grudge, or a suicidal pilot. Mechanical failure can destroy a plane. So can people.
My guess is, with regards to this particular flight, we’ll never know. But, I’d be happy to be proved wrong.
