This is cool, all of a sudden this has turned into a face off between the red and blue states.
My patriotism quotient is about 5. When all of the flags shot up around my house I put up the Norwegian flag, being half Norwegian. My sons took it down before it saw the light of day, as my neighbors are still urinarily challenged over me having displayed Kerry signs to their Bush. Someone took down my mailbox and drove over it with their car. (Now there's a conspiracy!) I responded to those permanently condemned to the nether regions by going online and buying a $200 mailbox that you can drive a backhoe over.
Governments lie. And the more money involved the more lieing that takes place. Our current administration does not invite belief, I mean, I expect the lies, but it's insulting when they don't even try to seem plausible. I don't care for the administration's politics it's true, but this outfit seems to be saying, "If you support America, you'll believe whatever I tell you". These people aren't America, and if they want me to believe their lies they are going to have to be a lot more believeable.
World events are serious. We might be watching the End Of The World Cup in the Middle East, and poor buggers from W. Virginia are dieing so that rich folks can drive SUVs. All their families are left with is the illusion that their sacrifice was worthwhile, and a cheap flag. The poor innocents bleeding are worth a million of the greedy liars that put them there.
If I believe in a conspiracy perpetrated by this government, it's because there is a conspiracy; they conspire to help the rich while pretending to be Christians fighting for freedom and the American way. 
Have to say, I think you're oversimplifying it a bit.
Most of the guys who are over there know why they are fighting, and for whom they are fighting. I don't care what your opinion is on the war -- I've known many patriots who disagree with me about a great many things, and all are entitled to their opinions (thanks to the people who died to protect them); but I hate it when the death of a soldier is politicized.
I do agree, however, that the government, as an overall entity, is not something to be trusted (Going back to the original topic of conspiracies). I don't trust the government to tell me what is best for myself, or for my family. I don't trust the government to provide me with my necessities. I don't trust the government to tell me how much money they think I should be making, or where I should spend that money.
As I said to a friend of mine, once you hand the government power, they don't hand it back. The truth is, I don't think there is need for a power conspiracy -- at least, not one so overt as those that have been talked about here. All that needs to happen is for the government to become so involved in our daily lives (try living in New York, for example), that we hardly even notice when they trample all over the freedoms we were actually guaranteed upon the founding of this country.
We turn a blind eye to "eminent domain" cases in which a person's business is bought, without his consent, for the "public good." We gleefully hand the money we've earned with our own hands to the government, to redistribute as they see fit; indeed allowing them to become our nursemaids and caregivers. We let them tell restaurants that they aren't allowed to allow fully capable adults to smoke in their buildings, even though we have the right and ability to choose where to eat and why. We give the government the right to demand we wear seatbelts, helmets, and have insurance, believing they're just concerned for "what's best for us."
And as we hand them these small rights; as we allow them responsibility - not just for our safety from foreign and domestic enemies, but from ourselves, and over our well-being and financial status - we allow ourselves to become, not citizens, but wards of the state.
That's the conspiracy.