I really made this general because there are contributers from diffrent countries. So do you believe that your government (From your own country or other) is holding information from the public, and if so what.

What, all of them? Cos quite a few conflict with each other.

I think all of the conspiracies are wrong, otherwise the government would never let them exist. I think that a lot are clever double bluffs. Where everyone gets riled up about one thing, when it's totally different.

Kinda like the Roswell incident. The government let people believe that it was UFO that crashed so that nobody would think it was actually a weather balloon spyingon the Russians. That worked for 50 years.

How do you spy on Russians from a balloon in America? You can't. They're in Russia. So it was aliens.

I think X-files is one hell of a show.

The problem is that Democracies aren't too conspiracy friendly. "Well I'll be damned, the last government did awful things that could destroy their party if we let it be known... Nah, we'll just risk losing the election to them next time."

I realize the two party U.S. system allows for the good old "both political parties are in it together" excuse, but it's kind of a lame one. So instead, you have to shift the conspiracies away from the executive branch, with the Military being the obvious choice. So now you're dealing with a myriad of elected, appointed, contracted and hired people in the public and private sphere, pulling off conspiracies that are either continued, hushed up, or hidden from the myriad of elected, appointed, contracted and hired people in the public and private sphere that come later.

Does the government do bad things and deny it to the public? Yes. And they usually get caught.

When the Liberal party of Canada syphons off hundreds of millions of public funds to Liberal friendly ad firms, they get busted. When the Republican party concocts evidence to invade Iraq, they get busted on it.

They are fun though.

Holding information from the public, yes.

Government conspiracies in the US, being run by secret societies, no.

See, http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=46307 for my argument against them.

@Rubang: What if the balloon is over Alaska?

^It was over New mexico. bvut it was used in a operations test I believe. Either wqay it was a sinister motive that would have caused mass war, so the idea of a cover up to cover a cover up was a good idea really.

Roswell incident saved millions of lives, you heard it here first lol

Sure. They're all out to get us. That is why I wear a tin foil hat. They won't control my brain!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods

Interesting read.

@highwaystar101: It was supposed to be a joke, I think Rubang will understand ;)

Wouldn't it be funny if some kind of government agent were in this forum pretending to be a gamer but was secretly monitoring us! He'd probably be cool and have an awesome Futurama based avatar, and everything. On the downside, I'd hate to see what happened to the guy that revealed a government conspiracy on this forum with a guy like that around!!! Heh, heh!! Not like that kind of stuff happens, but wouldn't if be a hoot.

..........hey, highwaystar. Where did you say you lived?