The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, constructed in 1977,
contained regional offices for the Social Security Administration, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the United States Secret Service, the Department of Veterans Affairs vocational rehabilitation counseling center, the Drug Enforcement Administration (D.E.A.), and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF). It also contained recruiting offices for the US Military. It housed approximately 550 employees. It also housed America's Kids, a children's day care center.[1]
He had a traumatic event and PTSD as well as a history of domestic violence and intense relationship and family turmoil.
“One possible factor was turmoil in Yeakey’s personal life. He had been married, with two young daughters, but he and his wife, Tonia, divorced in late 1995. In court records, Tonia wrote that Terry had beaten her, choked her, and threatened to shoot her, himself, and one of their daughters
She had repeatedly applied for protective orders against him, and in February 1995, about 15 months before Terry’s death, a judge had ordered Terry to have no contact with Tonia, “except regarding visitation and the welfare” of their daughters”
This man had the means and motivation for his death.
His exwife saying they were on good terms before his death is just absurd revisionism. You’re not on good terms if you have a protective order against someone.
This is all reeks of 9/11 truther types and paranoid conspiracy against the federal government. Usually these things find their way into people on transfer payments (SSI/disability). My theory is they want more, but can’t get more, so they find real or made up reasons why the government is evil instead of a faceless uncaring bureaucracy.
I wonder, if we really thought about it, what fraction of conspiracy theories are at least partly true? Maybe 2%? 5%? If this were an option I would buy it. Not because it’s likely to be true but it’s a hell of a lot more likely than 0%.
I would think way less than 0.1%. conspiracy theories are firmly in the domain of the bullshit asymmetry principle. When the real reasons many people engage in conspiratorial patterns of though are examined, it's generally unrelated to persuing truth and has much more to do with seeking community and acceptance.
There are many genuinely insane conspiracy theories, but there are many that start as a seed then are investigated and found to be true.
NSA's prism project was regarded as complete bullshit until it wasn't. US Gov adding poison to alcohol not meant for drinking. MKUltra was confirmed. Epstein's island. Surveillance of John Lennon and Hemmingway. Climate change. Tobacco causes cancer. Vietnam war was started by a false flag.
To completely disregard that powerful people conspire to hide the truth is also disregarding meaningful opportunities to make the world a better place. Looking further back in history, it is easy to find many examples of people doing horrible things for money and power.
Candidly, if you truly believe that less than 0.1% of popular conspiracy theories are true then you should have very low confidence in your beliefs about anything.
A minute fraction of conspiracy beliefs being true implies that viral nonsense constitutes a very large fraction of human thought - (which may be true!) - but which would then imply that most of your thoughts are also probably viral bullshit.
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[ 6.0 ms ] story [ 44.9 ms ] thread“One possible factor was turmoil in Yeakey’s personal life. He had been married, with two young daughters, but he and his wife, Tonia, divorced in late 1995. In court records, Tonia wrote that Terry had beaten her, choked her, and threatened to shoot her, himself, and one of their daughters
She had repeatedly applied for protective orders against him, and in February 1995, about 15 months before Terry’s death, a judge had ordered Terry to have no contact with Tonia, “except regarding visitation and the welfare” of their daughters”
This man had the means and motivation for his death. His exwife saying they were on good terms before his death is just absurd revisionism. You’re not on good terms if you have a protective order against someone. This is all reeks of 9/11 truther types and paranoid conspiracy against the federal government. Usually these things find their way into people on transfer payments (SSI/disability). My theory is they want more, but can’t get more, so they find real or made up reasons why the government is evil instead of a faceless uncaring bureaucracy.
NSA's prism project was regarded as complete bullshit until it wasn't. US Gov adding poison to alcohol not meant for drinking. MKUltra was confirmed. Epstein's island. Surveillance of John Lennon and Hemmingway. Climate change. Tobacco causes cancer. Vietnam war was started by a false flag.
To completely disregard that powerful people conspire to hide the truth is also disregarding meaningful opportunities to make the world a better place. Looking further back in history, it is easy to find many examples of people doing horrible things for money and power.
A minute fraction of conspiracy beliefs being true implies that viral nonsense constitutes a very large fraction of human thought - (which may be true!) - but which would then imply that most of your thoughts are also probably viral bullshit.