RSS@ richard vajs:
Actually the 1989 explosion aboard the USS Iowa was one of the few times that the Navy (eventually) admitted the truth.
Admiral Frank Kelso, the Chief of Naval Operations at the time, publicly apologized to the surviving family of Clayton Hartwig, who had been falsely accused of causing the explosion as part of a suicide.
QUESTION: How could government conspiracies be kept secret? Someone would have talked by now.
ANSWER: Witnesses talk all the time, but they are dismissed as “conspiracy theorists.” Secrets are easy to keep when the masses don’t want to know the truth. Besides, what difference would it make? The lies about 9-11 continue, even though no one believes them.
Suppose you yourself were part of a conspiracy. Would you really come forward knowing that your life would be ruined, and that no one would care? For every Edward Snowden there are hundreds of thousands of people who decide it is safer to remain silent. “What difference would it make if I talked? Why should I commit suicide by exposing the truth to a nation of cattle?”
I very strongly suspect that the US Navy accidentally destroyed Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 (8 March 2014 // 239 people murdered).
This had to be covered up because the South China Sea is an extremely sensitive area, with endless disputes, and many countries vying for access and control, including the USA and China.
If it was revealed that the USA accidentally shot down MH370, then China could use it as a pretext to politically squeeze the US Navy out of the area.
Therefore wild stories were fabricated about MNH370 having reversed course and headed out to the Indian Ocean. Search teams have looked everywhere except the shallow sea where the airliner actually vanished.