I think this is a common thought of conspiracy theorists. They see random things, trace a pattern in them, and think this pattern is a sinister conspiracy. But they they have to explain why the pattern actually shows up so often in the public pronouncements of the members of the conspiracy, and they have to say it's either some kind of esoteric communication or else some sort of gloating about their power. But it doesn't really make sense.
(Matt had some friends that were worried about similar government conspiracies. They had heard somewhere that a few recent "disaster preparedness exercises" planned by the US government had turned out to be real disasters, like 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina, and they heard about a disaster preparedness exercise coming up that would simulate a response to a nuclear strike near Portland, so they wanted to get out of Portland to avoid the real nuclear blast that was coming. The biggest thing I didn't understand is, if they thought it was a government conspiracy to cause actual disasters, then why would the exercises be announced in advance?)
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Date: 2010-04-07 07:13 pm (UTC)(Matt had some friends that were worried about similar government conspiracies. They had heard somewhere that a few recent "disaster preparedness exercises" planned by the US government had turned out to be real disasters, like 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina, and they heard about a disaster preparedness exercise coming up that would simulate a response to a nuclear strike near Portland, so they wanted to get out of Portland to avoid the real nuclear blast that was coming. The biggest thing I didn't understand is, if they thought it was a government conspiracy to cause actual disasters, then why would the exercises be announced in advance?)