It wasn't my intention to compare rioters with conspiracy theorists. I was rather comparing US/French dysfunctional social behaviour and political conspiracies as two separate items. I thought you had kept these separate in your original piece but this would appear to be an error on my part. With regards the former, the motivation of the two are of course quite different. One represents a collective disenchantment whereas the other is individual and self centred. Riots can be exceptionally destructive - but the riots in France were not of that order. The French democratic process is robust enough to shrug off small emotional outbursts. Indeed with turn outs of 85% the French democratic process has much to say to both the UK and the US.
As to the facts to back up conspiracy charges, there was no end of melting points and footprints of falling buildings. Unnervingly it seemed to take little to leap from such engineering niceties to Illuminati, Satan Worship and Alien control of our Governments. The most notable thing was their relentlessness (and total lack of sense of humour). Nevertheless, the oddballs have quite a following in the US as far as I could ascertain. Certainly my cynicism was rebutted by a number of equally convinced supporters.
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