An old story, probably apocryphal, is told of a lawyer in a murder trial.
Since the body was missing, although the murder evidence was overwhelming, the lawyer told the court right before the final judgment he has new, shocking information which will overturn the whole trial: the supposed murder victim is, in fact, alive and well, and will be walking right through the front door in ten minutes!
Ten minutes later, after nobody showed up, the lawyer admits he was lying but argued that since everyone in the room gazed avidly at the door for the appearance of a person supposedly murdered by his client, they ipso facto cannot have been convinced “beyond a reasonable doubt” of the defendant’s guilt. So, the man should go free.
Well, said the judge, “A for effort“, except for one thing. The defendant, alone among us all, never so much as glanced at the door these past few minutes. Your client knew all too well: the victim wasn’t coming back. The defendant knew that because he murdered him and must have hidden the body.
End of story.
Once one accepts the conspiratorial view of history as presupposition, one can then accept proof of various conspiracies. But to prove the very notion that quasi-government conspiracies are common in our own age, it is necessary to show that powerful insiders have no problem with the idea, no matter what they say to the cameras.
On a personal note, what finally convinced me to view the world differently wasn’t some anomaly but learning of (and also observing on a few occasions) the thoroughly unsurprised response of powerful and very wealthy people upon hearing of outrageous conspiracies. I may not know how the world works, but they sure do.
For example, Bobby Kennedy himself suspected Lyndon Johnson was behind the JFK assassination (yes, he hated LBJ, but the point is the very notion of conspiracy was not foreign to him, nor was he ashamed to voice the thought). There are other examples I can’t recall now.
Point is, the “usual suspects” themselves smell rats and do expect such goings-on. (Hmm, I wonder why…?)
(By the way, here’s an interesting list of strange deaths after Kennedy was shot, which may be related.)