The writer Alan Moore (Watchmen, V for Vendetta), has
said, “Conspiracy theorists believe in a conspiracy because that is more
comforting. The truth is far more frightening - Nobody is in control.” I am
inclined to agree with him.
Time magazine’s list of the top ten conspiracy theories
includes such classics as Area 51 and the Aliens, 9/11, and of course, the Moon
Landings.[1]
The Moon Landings theory is the only one that might hold water, except that the
Americans went to the moon six times (alright, claim to have gone to the moon
six times). If you fake one landing you might get away with it, despite the
number of people you would need to have complicit in the hoax, but six is
beyond credible. Unless – and I’ve not seen this suggested – it was only the
first one that was faked.
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| Apollo 11 on the moon. Picture: NASA |
The USA contributes more than its fair share of conspiracy
theories, but Britain does quite nicely (perhaps it’s to do with the English
language?) with Paul McCartney’s alleged death in 1966 being the most popular,
followed by the frankly bonkers idea that the Royal Family - among others - are
blood-drinking, flesh-eating, shape-shifting extraterrestrial reptilian
humanoids, hell-bent on enslaving the human race. Other apparently
reptilian would-be overlords are George W. Bush, Henry Kissinger, Bill and
Hillary Clinton and Bob Hope, allegedly. Why Bob Hope, I wonder? It’s no
coincidence that the most popular conspiracy theories have emerged during and
since the Cold War. That, and McCarthyism in the US during the 1950s, seems to
go hand in hand with the birth and nurturing of these theories.
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| Bob Hope - not an alien reptile. |
A major proponent of the reptilian infiltrator theory is
David Icke, who I remember from his football playing days with Coventry City
and Hereford United (his career was cut short by rheumatoid arthritis), and his
time as one of the hosts on Grandstand, the BBC’s foremost sports show. At some
point in the 1980s, Icke began his journey from journalist to conspiracy
theorist. He now appears to be one of the world’s major promoters of conspiracy
theories.
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| David Icke |
Like so many conspiracy theories, this one is predicated on
the idea that ‘they’ want to control and enslave ‘us.’
‘They’ are – among others – the Bilderberg Group, the Illuminati,
the Freemasons, George Soros, and lately, Bill Gates. Generally, we are talking
about the so-called ‘elite’ for whom the rest of humankind is simply fodder.
Supposedly, ‘they’ are using the coronavirus to control ‘us’,
with both the virus itself and the measures that ‘they’ have put in place to
supposedly inhibit the virus’s spread. This theory seems to have a good deal in
common with the chemtrail theories that were once very popular. Throw 5G into
the mix, and what was actually the missing piece in the chemtrail theory falls
into place.
So far as I can see, this is the way it works. Bill Gates,
either on his own, but more likely in conjunction with others, has created a
flu-like virus called COVID-19. The virus is released, creating fear and
despondency, killing hundreds of thousands of people. Governments rush to
impose restrictions on people’s liberties (lockdowns), taking away many of
their rights – temporarily, they say - in the name of controlling the virus by
controlling the liberty of the populace. These restrictions will, however, stay
in place long after the virus has gone. In this way, ‘they’ use governments to
control ‘us’ in the guise of protecting us.
Simultaneously with creating the virus, Gates and his
cronies have developed a vaccine. This vaccine has a dual purpose. Aside from
making Gates and the big pharmaceutical companies even richer than they already
are (and we know that they are already seriously rich), it is the next step in
controlling us, because the vaccine comes equipped with nano-technology. Once
inoculated, every human is carrying the seeds of their own enslavement.
On their own, the nanites are harmless, benign. In fact, some
branches of the conspiracy theory would have you believe that the vaccine is
nothing more than a placebo, since COVID-19 is actually a hoax, that there is
no virus, and that the numbers of people dying from the alleged coronavirus are
merely normal flu victims, the urgency and severity of the flu that is going
around simply being overstated by governments. The whole point of the exercise
is to get the world’s population inoculated, at which point the next stage in
the process is initiated.
5G is key to the next stage. The conspiracy theorists who
believed that chemtrails were seeding the atmosphere, and subsequently the
population, with chemicals that would be used to control us always had it in
mind that there would be something that would activate the chemical cocktail.
Usually, this was some sort of radio wave or microwaves. Then along came 5G and
that became the trigger. Once inoculated and seeded with nanites, 5G activates
them and allows governments to subdue, subjugate, and control their populations.
Presumably, dissent is dealt with by instructing the nanites to kill the
subject.
Conspiracy theories are rarely consistent, usually because
as soon as one strand is challenged, the advocates have to come up with some
other set of circumstances that supports their theory, thus the coronavirus/5G
conspiracy theory has other strands in which 5G is spreading and accelerating
COVID-19, or is, in fact, the cause.
The Bill Gates angle in this theory is amplified by the
false allegations that the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is also the Center
For Global Human Population Reduction. The picture that purports to prove this
has been digitally manipulated. It’s true that Gates has spoken about limiting
population growth, but not by killing off vast numbers of people.
According to David Icke, the ‘false’ pandemic is being
driven by turning other patients visiting hospitals into coronavirus
patients. His claim is – like all such – completely unverifiable. There’s no
original message, none of the parties is named, the hospital isn’t named, and
there’s no explanation of what alternative treatment was sought by the patient after
leaving the hospital. A broken foot is not something you can just shake off, or
treat at home, after all.
For conspiracy theorists, denial of their theories is proof
that they are right. This works on the basis that their theory wouldn’t be
denied if it wasn’t true, especially if no proof is offered to show it isn’t
true. Of course, it’s sometimes difficult to prove a negative, to prove that
the conspiracists are wrong, but on the occasions when proof is offered, the
conspiracists turn this to their advantage by making some wild claim that
allows the rebuttal to reinforce, even if it slightly alters, their theory.
It’s easy to be flexible when the only proof you need offer is the product of your
own febrile imagination.
Many conspiracy theories – the earth is flat, NASA didn’t go
to the moon, even the Royal Family are alien reptiles – are, to quote Douglas
Adams in another context, “mostly harmless.” That isn’t the case with the coronavirus/5G
theories which, whether it’s activists burning down 5G masts or assaulting telecom
engineers, or spreading the virus by denying its seriousness, is potentially
killing people.
The truth is out there, but it doesn’t belong to the
conspiracy theorists.
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