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I don't watch TV. Not much into movies either. My impression of what the USG routinely does to particularly bothersome people is based on a history of those kin
by geomark 11y ago
I don't watch TV. Not much into movies either. My impression of what the USG routinely does to particularly bothersome people is based on a history of those kinds of people having convenient accidents. As long as it actually looks like an accident most Americans accept that it was and quickly forget about it. And the wet workers in secret government are good at staging accidents. I would say that kind of end would be a stronger deterrent to future leakers than any legal consequences.
- lsc 11y agoIt's a common conspiracy theory, in part because it's a good one. It's very difficult to disprove, and it's easy enough to find troublemakers who have died in accidents. Accidents are, by their very nature, caused by unusual events... so it's easy to see a conspiracy where there isn't one. Of course, the flipside of that coin is that if the government was skillfully staging "accidents" it would be very difficult to prove. Personally, I think that snowden showed that we... well, our government isn't competent enough to pull that sort of thing off cleanly. Someone would let a powerpoint deck slip somewhere, and word would get out. but... like I said, it's a good conspiracy theory, 'cause it's so difficult to prove either way.