Hearing should not mean believing
Conspiracy theories provide alternate views to government answers

During Spring Break, a show was aired called “Conspiracy Theories.” The shows main subject was primarily about whether or not the moon landing ever happened and if a man has ever walked on the moon. It also showed how the government may have led so many people to believe that, in 1969, a man had actually set foot on the moon, when in reality it probably never happened.

The show had a lot of facts and information to back up the theories. Well, at least there was enough information to make people wonder, “What else has the government been trying to hide from us?”

Think about it for a second — we still do not know for sure who shot John F. Kennedy. It has been almost 38 years since his death, and no one has come out and said what really happened.

Was it because they only had one man in custody and they told everyone there was no possible way there could have been a second gunman on the grassy knoll?

Or was it because the second gunman might have been working for the government? Now I know it seems like a far-fetched idea, but it makes just as much sense as the government telling us that one gunman was able to shoot a person, who was in a moving car, that many times in such a small period of time.

And what about the little green men who fly around in the metal spaceships? The government has said over and over that extraterrestrials have never landed on Earth.

So what really happened in Roswell, N.M.?

The government has told us that it was just a weather balloon, and the local residents had just made a mistake.

It’s just like our government to tell the rest of the world that the people of the United States are too dumb to notice the difference between a weather balloon and an unidentified flying object.

And let’s not forget the moon landing, that was so publicized by in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

During the summer of love, the United States became the center of the world when we announced that we were able to put the first man on the moon.

What a great accomplishment for us. Or maybe it really wasn’t.

At that time, NASA was under a lot of pressure to get a man on the moon before the Soviet Union did. They had to make sure that Kennedy’s wish of doing it before the end of the 1960s was accomplished.

But maybe the government was under too much pressure, and when it realized there was no way the moon walk could happen. So it stooped to such low levels as to make the whole thing up by filming a fake moon landing in a movie studio somewhere out in California.

It’s not entirely impossible for something like that to have happened. In the movie Wag the Dog, Dustin Hoffman was in charge of faking a war in order to boost the public's opinion of the president.

Where do you think that movie idea came from? It has always been said that there is not an original idea left. In this case the idea for the movie might just have come from the real actions of the government when they made a fake video of the moon landing.

Of course, everything I have stated in this article is my own opinion. I know that many people will think I am crazy for thinking such ideas. Or maybe people think that I am not a true American because I believe our government could actually lie to us, but I just have one thought to send you off with... “read my lips no new taxes.”

Hemi Ahluwalia is a junior broadcast journalism major from Stephenville.
She can be reached at (h.ahluwalia@student.tcu.edu).

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