(May 24, 2011) — “Osama Bin Laden is dead” was posted on my recent Facebook updates page. And to no surprise, it kept coming. It was only a matter of time, though, before someone posted “Osama Bin Laden is not dead, it’s a lie.” It seems as though America can’t get enough of conspiracy theories. So what’s the problem with these conspiracy theorists? These people refused to believe that Oswald killed Kennedy, that al-Qaeda was responsible for the 9/11 attacks, and that the most notorious terrorist has been killed by the United States government. It’s hard to imagine what they do believe. If you cannot trust your own country, how can you trust yourself with the food you eat, the medicine you take, and the foundations upon which you live? These people should have trouble trusting themselves with their lives, because for all they know, the air can be contagious. Conspiracy theorists, like any menace to society, just like to seek attention. They cannot be content with what someone tells them. Because they have been cheated before, they do not want to be cheated again. The United States seems to have the biggest problem, and the combination of freedom and curiosity is the cause. All our lives, we have been taught how the Nazis, Communists and other targets of conspiracies have been made to believe in what is wrong, and so we begin to wonder that maybe we are indoctrinated ourselves. It has been shown throughout history and runs in American blood, that it is only American to go against all that the government says. Conspiracy theorists are the most evident form of disloyalty a country can have, and they should be addressed as a big concern. They are a disturbance to the truth and a sign of a different type of terrorism, a terrorism from within that turns Americans against their own government. America cannot address the problem of terrorism if we have terrorists in our own country, these restless groups of people who fight against the government through false knowledge. These theories might very well be the result of espionage in America, whose main goal is no longer just to obtain government secrets, but to also sway a country’s people against its government. What conspiracy theorists fail to realize is the big picture: that there are more questions than answers. There can be an infinite number of ways things can occur, but in the moment, they occur in one and only one way. It is not so important as to not why or how things happen, but that they do happen. It doesn’t matter who killed Kennedy, who planned the 9/11 attacks, and whether or not Bin Laden is dead, because the truth is, you cannot do anything about it, only the government can.