They had to do something after the blatant assassination of a particular president and the assassination of his brother not a year later. Not to mention all the questionable assinations of black civil rights leaders that you’d have to be willfully blind not to tie back to certain political, extra-judicial institutions.

Shortly after was the time people started talking about the illuminate and lizard people. "You don’t believe what you’re told? What do you think the illuminate was in on it? ". Certainly enough idiots out there to buy the hogwash and give the strawman a guise of credibility.