So I was at lunch the other day on a break from school with some friends, 4 of us from the same A&P class. We sit down and can't help but overhear a couple of loudmouths at the booth behind us. They are going on about chemtrails... of course at first the 4 of us just went
and tried to ignore them.
But these guys kept getting each other more and more worked up on the topic; what they're spraying, why, how, who's behind it, HAARP etc... Till finally one of the says (and I paraphrase to leave out the inappropriate words) that the only way to convince all the mindless "sheeple" that this was really going on was to shot one of those blankety-blank planes down!
I think we all thought about confronting him, but we didn't. It probably just would have made a scene, some of these people are so set that no amount of logic or reason will change their minds. When I got home I was curious and looked up some of the chemtrail websites, and was shocked again to discover that there is no shortage of internet tough-guys out there talking about shooting down chemtrail planes. Now I know most would not, but we know from things like the OK city bombing that it only takes one.
Before I'd always heard about this conspiracy theory but figured they where just harmless nuts. Now I'm kind of worried. How long till some unstable individual deluded into this fantasy gets his hands on an RPG and tries to take down an airliner on final?
On their forums I found that anyone who dares venture in to offer real science and explanations are instantly labeled "paid government shills" spouting "disinformation" Even if it's only to point out that their pictures of a supposed chemtrail sprayer on a plane is jut the refueling drogue on a KC-10, or that the chemtrail chemical tanks pictured inside a plane are actually nothing but water tanks/pumps for W&B testing, or that that's just Evergreens supertanker dumping water, not chemicals.
It almost breaks my heart that so many people are so hopelessly gullible, that they waste away their lives in perpetual state of paranoia of an imaginary danger, and anger at an imaginary enemy...
But at the same time now I wonder if I have some moral duty to try and set them straight when I meet them (instead of just
) on the slim chance it will avert a tragedy.