A Conspiracy Theorist’s Proof

Man has struggled throughout time with proving that what exists in his mind also exists in the world outside his mind. When the idea relates to a physical object or a law of motion, the proof might be difficult, but still possible. Man was able to prove that the world is not flat, for example, and with time could even prove that the sun is at the center of the universe and that it is possible to split an atom. These ideas existed in man’s mind before they were proven, and the proof came because the physical world allowed man the opportunity to test his hypothesis.

But what of ideas that relate to an abstraction? How can I prove that there is an afterlife, or that a forgotten dream I had ten years ago was a premonition of what happened to me yesterday, or that an abstract concept such as God is not just an idea but reality? St. Anselm (1033-1109) attempted to prove such an abstract concept in his ontological proof, by which he formulated that if an individual can 1) understand the concept of God as an omniscient and all-powerful being, and 2) if the belief in God truly exists in one’s mind, then 3) God must exist in reality because if he did not exist in the outside world he would not be omniscient, and would not exist in one’s mind as a perfect being. Even if St. Anselm’s proof leaves doubters skeptical, he succeeded in addressing an abstract hypothesis in rational terms that led, at least in theory, to a proof of what had existed in his mind. His theorem, however, leaves many with the feeling that the argument is impressive in thought, but has God really been proven? We yearn for hard proof, something we can see, feel, touch.

But what if St. Anselm could relate his knowledge of God to an observable act in the future, a sign that the being he was acquainted with in his mind actually was present in the world and could be observed through signs foretold by those who knew Him? What if a crazy preacher that you see on the street corner each day were to say “you must believe me, I know of what I speak. This perfect being that I have described will appear at one pm this Saturday in Central Park - he will rise out of the lake at this time and grow to a height of sixty feet… he is a bearded figure, and will be wearing a white robe.” What then? You might continue to dismiss him, but if you do show up at one pm on Saturday and God does rise up from the lake in a figure sixty feet tall, hasn’t the madman made his point? He has, for his abstract concept has been revealed in an observable form.

Our government’s secrecy leaves many in the position of wondering and hypothesizing: what is really going on, why does it all seem like a staged production, a script closely followed? Specifically, those who are certain that Bush and Cheney were responsible for 9-11, that it was a US based covert operation, an engineered attack that would serve as the justification for a radical shift in foreign and domestic policy, are dismissed as paranoid conspiracy theorists. The air force that did not fly despite over an hour’s warning of an attack in progress? Hogwash, the Bush defenders say. The pre 9-11 stock option trades in American Airlines and United Airlines that were never investigated? Bull, couldn’t be true. The suppressed FBI investigations into the flight schools before 9-11? No way, not our government, not the FBI. The fact that at least five of the nineteen hijackers were trained at US military installations? The military would never allow it, comes the rejoinder. The fact that the head of Pakistan’s intelligence service, the ISI, was in DC the week of the attack meeting with US intelligence officials, and was later directly connected to a $100k payment to Mohammed Atta, leader of the hijackers? Come on, they say, the CIA would never condone something like this… do you really think the government would kill 3,000 of our own citizens in order to advance policies that enrich and empower a small circle of Bush supporters?

One who believes in the hypothesis that Bush and Cheney were truly behind 9-11, as supporters of a masterful covert operation that used our enemy to further the interests of a small circle of neo-conservatives, is relegated to the position of trying to prove the abstract. For if all of the relevant information, if not already destroyed, is classified under the veil of national security, perhaps forever, and if there are no whistle blowers from the circle of conspirators, how does one go about proving it? The answer is that like the orator on the street corner, I can say “come with me, and I will show you the beast, I will prove the horror that is the Bush administration.” I will prove it by telling you the future, for I know that what I have seen in my mind is true, and I will show you by foretelling what is to come.

The two events that will reveal the truth will take place in the coming months in 2004. Specifically, between May and the end of October, President Bush will miraculously “capture” Bin Laden, who has been under surveillance since the start of the Afghan war, held as a trump card for just this purpose, an electoral surge. The other event that will occur between May and October is a second engineered terrorist attack in the US, coordinated by the security apparatus under Bush, similar in magnitude to 9-11, designed to terrify the US public into ceding more authority to the President and reelecting the incumbent based upon a state of national emergency. These two events will be the proof that behind the face of propriety, lapel pins, and patriotism set forth by the Bush administration, lives a beast that is willing to lie, terrorize, and murder in order to achieve its desired ends.

What exists in my mind is the truth, and the events shall unfold as I have described them.