They're out there. Perusing Red State this weekend confirmed this. A post reacting to the passing of California Rep. Bob Matsui noted that the comments section of the left-wing website Daily Kos was awash with conspiracy theories positing George W. Bush's involvement in the congressman's death--from a rare type of bone marrow cancer.

People consumed by politics imagine the worst of their enemies. If someone is so evil as to oppose abortion, the abolition of prisons, a world court, and a cabinet-level department of peace, then certainly he's capable of murder--or at least that's how it plays out in the mind of a crazy.

I witnessed something akin to this fanaticism during the 1990s from inside the conservative movement. Among the more fantastical claims about the Clintons that I came across on the fringe were that Bill Clinton contracted HIV, that Webster Hubbell really fathered Chelsea Clinton, and that Hillary Clinton endured (enjoyed?) a sexual initiation into the Black Panthers. A mirror image of the imaginative believers in such tales can be found on the contemporary Left.

The nascent conspiracy theories regarding President Bush and Congressman Matsui follow a four-year run of some of the most wild stories of intrigue--including the idea, popular among many anti-war protestors and European leftists, that President Bush allowed 9/11 to happen. There's even a site called Bush Body Count, which hosts a thirteen-page list of deceased individuals. The "Bush Body Count" includes President John F. Kennedy, Senator Paul Wellstone, Enron executive Cliff Baxter, and, most ironically, Barry Seal--someone Clinton-haters assured us was murdered by the 42nd president.

How about this for a conspiracy?

The monster tsunami was triggered by a Russian tsunami bomb!

Read more at: http://www.ambergnat.com/archives/2005/01/distaster_trigg.html