Quote Originally Posted by vostro
[...] Speaking of that, you wouldn't believe what I uncovered about No. 2 pencils - You're all being lied to!!
LMAO! They are control rods that need to be readily accessible to any aliens walking among us that happen to be carrying slightly unstable suitcase-sized nuclear reactors, right?????


vostro, I admire your pluck in walking into the conspiracy forum and stating what you have. For the most part, I agree with you, too. They're all nuts! I do, however, think that you are being a bit naive with what kind of secrets the government is capable of keeping.

I think if you change the statement in your original post about not being able to keep a secret from "the government cannot keep a secret" to "any large group of people cannot keep a secret," many things change.

Yes, the government is a large group of people. So yeah, the government as a whole cannot keep a secret. Buuut... (and I can't quite believe I'm about to say anything that would side with the conspiracy theorists out there!) The government is not one big monolithic entity. It is comprised of thousands of subgroups, departments, civilian, military, covert ops, etc., etc.

Do you really think that these small (and some very powerful) groups cannot keep a secret, at least in the short to mid term (5 to 20 years)? The members of some of these various departments don't get into those positions by blabbing. There are people and groups within the government that do things that we never hear about. And the key is that the rest of the government doesn't hear about those things, either.

Please note that I do not subscribe to just about any of the rampant conspiracy theories out there. But I do believe that the various arms of our government do things, especially in other countries, that the general public does not know about.

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