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Once Upon a Paranoid Time (In America) - Part Two: None Dare Call it Coincidence

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And yes readers, as much as I hate to disillusion you and disturb your doubtless hard-earned, richly deserved, but ultimately misplaced, sense of benevolent-minded complacency, these "Dark Forces" etc. indeed do exist, the evidence infinitely more sub stantial than circum stantial. They are rendered even 'darker' by the fact they have actually convinced themselves they know what's best for the rest of us, and made more subversive by virtue of the fact that they have been able to pull the wool over the eyes of most of us all this time.

To stretch the latter metaphor, one suspects that privately they indeed do refer to The Masses as The Sheeple, with more than a "nudge, nudge", a "wink, wink" 'n a "say no more". Any continued rejection of this reality surely means one may need to get out more and 'get a check-up from the neck-up' while you're at it. And I ain't necessarily talking about yours truly, although as already hinted, I'm not rejecting the possibility I might benefit from -- nor indeed be averse to -- additional psychological scrutiny and/or enhanced pharmacological intervention albeit for completely separate reasons. And those pithy old one-liners about "you don't need to be paranoid, but it helps", or "just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they are not out to get you", are especially apposite herein methinks.

With all of this in mind then, if you have come this far, one now hopes most readers will never look a conspiracy theorist in the eye again without feeling a compulsive urge to apologise for all the times they dismissed them and their ilk as "bull-goose, loony-toon, screw-loose, time-rich, whack-jobs" with a preference for Comalco headwear, or some variation on the theme. I would consider that no minor civic service, a thank you of sorts to Uncle Sam for all the good things he has done for us, one I feel sure he would sure he would appreciate. Or not! And if not, hopefully by the end of Part Three, we will have achieved my objective in any event.

Meanwhile, Back at "The Farm"

OK, I have to go now. The phone's running hot again. That'll be the Langley Gang calling. Can't keep the Spy v Spy mob waiting. I'm hoping they'll magnanimously provide some more conspiracy theories for me to digest, ponder, expand on and proliferate. Or they may just want to experiment with some new and innovative, enhanced-interrogation techniques.

In this latter respect however I'm not sure that I'll be of much assistance to them as I don't know much about anything really, but I expect that's unlikely to be of any great concern to them. If as the saying goes, "practice makes perfect", as recent revelations would indicate, they need all the "practice" they can get (or not)! And who better to "practice" on than a 'fly-in-the-ointment', 'pain-in-the-ass', "counter-subversive hypothetician" like your humble scribe?

Not that I'm volunteering mind you. I'm too old for that sh*t!

Stay tuned for the aformentioned Part Three then. Oh, one more thing. If perchance "Part Three" doesn't materialise and you never hear from me again, I invite all and sundry to begin authoring your own theories (hypotheses?) of my ultimate fate, regardless of what my autopsy report or death certificate says. The more outlandish, outrageous and over-the-top the better. Like John Judge would I expect, I'd be happy to leave behind a lasting legacy that was coloured and flavoured by all manner of popular conspiracy theories as to the specifics of my untimely demise and the motivations behind it; what better way to achieve a measure of immortality I say?

I urge readers though not to believe a goddamned word of anything that comes out of the mouths of the intrepid Gang down on The Farm in Virginny! We should well and truly know by now their track record for telling the truth is full of potholes, and their moral universe pitted with black holes! Their truth in war and - now just as much it seems - in peace is almost always escorted by a Praetorian (body) Guard of lies, armed to the teeth with everything from Reaper drones, Enhanced Sniper Rifles and TASER Shockwave and more or less equal parts ulterior motive and extreme prejudice!

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