Now, back home, the marketing of conspiracy was on a roll

Now, back home, the marketing of conspiracy was on a roll. Mgestic, an interactive computer game revolving around a conspiracy involving corporate intrigue, was available. For $10 a month, tens of thousands of online players would receive screaming phone calls at midnight, faxes, anonymous emails and instant messages from mysterious informers directing them to research strange alien conspiracies and nefarious government activities. Majestic was suspended on September 12, 2001. The invasion of the United States on September 11th was the mother of all conspiracies. Immediately there were those who began spinning scenarios of an inside job, an American version of the Reichstag Fire, carried out in order to justify the rise of a police state in the guise of security procedures. In any case, political opportunism has been providing the same results. That Halloween, | was invited by producer Andy Meisler to be a panelist at the taping of a new TV series, 7he Conspiracy Zone. Although the plot behind the 9/11 terrorists was certainly a topic of conversation in the Green Room— “Do you think this is the endgame?” --the official subject that evening was the assassination of Robert Kennedy in 1968. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015269