It'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

It'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.