Conspiracy Theory

I downloaded this show from a couple years ago called Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura. I'd heard it was a pretty one-sided show. They don't go out there with the intention of proving or disproving a conspiracy theory, so much as they try to figure out ways to prove it could be true. This, as it turns out, is exactly the case.

There's a few things I noticed immediately when watching the show. One thing is that everyone on the show calls Jesse Ventura "Governor." I can't figure out if it's a vanity thing, or an attempt to make him seem more credible. Or maybe it's like when you're President of the United States, and everyone is supposed to call you "Mr. President" for the rest of your life, even after you leave office. The show does a lot of things to make Jesse Ventura look like one brave man trying to discover the truth. But even with the biased perspective of the show, he still comes off as one nut job hearing what he wants to hear from other nut jobs.

Speaking of the other nut jobs, in each episode, Ventura finds a number of "experts" with information about whatever conspiracy theory he's tracking. I noticed that the show gives the viewer very little in the way of biographical information regarding these so-called experts. They're usually just referred to as a "respected scientist," or "has been studying this topic for decades." Unusually, these people have been fired from their positions at prestigious places like MIT, and they always insist it was because they asked the wrong questions or found out too much. I had a feeling that the show wasn't telling the viewer too much about these peoples backgrounds, since there'd probably be something in there that would cause us to doubt their claims.

Then I watched an episode about the Bilderberg Group, and my suspicions were confirmed. In a nutshell, the Bilderberg Group is an annual conference of some of the most influential people in the world. And by influential people, I'm not talking about secretive figures pulling strings behind the scenes. Heads of State (including several Presidents), Royalty (including Prince Charles), and other very high-profile personalities have attended the conference. These conferences are closed to the public, and attendees never tell anyone what they discussed during the conference.

Obviously, this sort of situation is all but tailor-made for conspiracy theories. The most popular are that these people are secretly controlling the world. Jesse Ventura decided to one up this and say that not only do these people want to control the world, but to do it they plan on reducing the population of the world to a manageable number, something like 500,000 million people. One of the people who confirmed this plan for them was a man named David Icke.

For those of you who don't know who that is, David Icke is a conspiracy theorist who even other conspiracy theorists call "a little weird." He's a former football (that's soccer to us Americans) announcer from the UK. For the last decade or so however, Mr. Icke has made a living touring around the Commonwealth (though mostly Canada) giving talks about his pet theory. That theory, and I hope you're sitting down, cuz it's a doozy, is that the most influential families in the world are actually shape-changing alien lizards. People like the House of Windsor, the Rothschilds, and the Rockefellers (I'm glad Americans weren't totally cut out of the loop there).

For some reason, Governor Ventura and his "team of experts" forgot to mention this about him on the show. It was a bit of a watershed moment for me. It confirmed my theory about most of the people being trotted out as experts. Jesse Ventura claimed that his show would answer questions for me. Well, he did, just not in the way he expected.

-Long Days and Pleasant Nights