When's a conspiracy not a conspiracy?

When talk turns to Chemtrails its never too long before the notion of a huge conspiracy begins to creep in. A conspiracy on the part of "__________" to achieve "__________" (just fill in your own favourite candidates) that we witness as a poisoning of the planet, and a poisoning of ourselves.

We've discussed elsewhere what we regard as a reasoned and reasonable approach to these concepts of conspiracies and, whilst that's well and good, it doesn't actually seem to cover quite all the possibilities.

There's one final scenario that's left which in many respects possesses the qualities of a conspiracy yet can be fairly persuasively represented by its perpetrators as a legitimate, and even legal(!), activity.

What we're referring to of course is that whole class of activities that are pursued by the Establishment but are deemed unsuitable to be made known because such knowledge would in some way be "against the public interest" — national security is one of the favoured excuses, but by no means the only one.
For "the Establishment" you can read the Civil Service, the Military, the Government, or virtually any other duly constituted body that supposedly represents, or acts on behalf of, the electorate. If we want to get really loose with definitions that can be extended to include any private organisation or commercial venture under contract to... the Civil Service, the Military, the Government, or virtually any other duly constituted body that supposedly represents, or acts on behalf of, the electorate.

Now given that most, if not all, of the multinational companies are, through any one or more of their various subsidiaries, probably under contract to one or another branch of the Establishment (and let's not be too finicky about which specific country's Establishment, for it really doesn't make that much difference!), and further given that many lesser — but still huge — companies are similarly under contract, we suddenly find ourselves in a situation where this incredible gorgon has virtual carte blanche to do what the hell it likes to society with practically no requirement for public accountability whatsoever.

Why bother messing around with petty conspiracies when you can proceed in your nefarious activities confident in the certainty that you have the implicit assent of the populace at large. And all that's required for that "implicit assent" to exist is an "arrangement" with... the Civil Service, the Military, the Government, or virtually any other duly constituted body that supposedly represents, or acts on behalf of, the electorate.

And this is no paranoid fantasy born of a fevered imagination. This is the real-time situation as it exists, and over which we have virtually no control.
Moroever this is the situation that will continue to exist until such time as we choose to radically reform the manner in which society's communal affairs are conducted.

So does this situation constitute a conspiracy or not?

Probably not. Because, by default, by our own lack of concerted action, by our own preoccupation with mundane and petty superficialities rather than involvement in the "big" issues, we are giving our tacit sanction. We are, in a sense, co-conspirators to our own downfall.

Now is this enormous and complex edifice of interlaced vested interests the shield behind which the perpetrators of the Chemtrails activities are hiding?

Hmm... bit of a conundrum really, isn't it?

Oh, and by the way... let's not forget that, at the end of the day, its the taxpayers' (i.e., our) money that's funding this colossus.
Putting it in the crudest possible terms, if you really want to get shafted wouldn't it be cheaper just to go to a brothel?