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freshwest

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20. And I think if they let 'one innocent man' as they suspected go free, to not discriminate based on a
Wed Mar 26, 2014, 01:11 AM
Mar 2014

biased report from a situation on the other side of the world that was widely condemned, is that negligence?

Do we want to create a world fitting the Alex Jones' view:

“...And now they’re mounting them with ground-penetrating radar that looks right through your wall, while you’re on the toilet, having sex with your wife.”


Kinda kinky there, huh? But I listened to the show when a frantic caller asked if the motion detection devices that flush the toilet when users are too lazy to do, meant she was being watched ?!!

Alex assured her the police were indeed watching her in the toilet. And at that point, I was ROFLMAO at the cupidity of the anti-science beliefs of the cult members.

Yes, they are watching you go potty! They can't see your face, but will recognize your ass the next time you moon a cop! The Police State measures all your farts!

Alex Jones

Ideology: Patriot Movement

Alex Jones knows how deep the rabbit hole goes.


Every week from his studio in Austin, Texas, he dives into red-faced tirades exposing the forces that threaten to enslave all human life on the planet. The conspiracy always boils down to about the same thing: eugenics operations, the militarization of the police, a cabal of wealthy corporations and the United Nations involved in a fiendish plot to control the world.

Five days a week, online and on more than 60 radio stations nationwide, “The Alex Jones Show,” along with a pair of websites he runs (Infowars.com and PrisonPlanet.com), serves as the tumultuous showcase for his overactive imagination — a worldview governed by logic-leaping deductions and heedless pronouncements. His website is chock full of apocalyptic headlines and ads for products like “recession-proof coins” and manuals on How to Survive Martial Law in America. On the air, he’s given to stream-of-consciousness rants.

Influenced heavily by the conspiracy-minded John Birch Society, Jones ran unsuccessfully for a Texas House seat in 2000 as a Republican but said he doesn’t follow the platform of either of the two major parties. He has described his own politics as libertarian.

Jones has accused the federal government of involvement in the Oklahoma City bombing and the 9/11 attacks, said that the Branch Davidian cultists in Texas were purposely murdered by authorities, claimed that FEMA is secretly building concentration camps for liberty-loving citizens, and issued a series of videos with hair-raising, B horror-film titles. A sampling: “911: The Road to Tyranny,” “Police State 3: Total Enslavement,” “The Masters of Terror: Exposed,” “New World Order: Blueprint of Madmen” and “The Obama Deception: The Mask Comes Off.”

Although it hardly seems possible, Jones’ fecund imagination now seems to be sprouting even more conspiracy theories than before.

Last year, for example, after Jared Lee Loughner went on his January 2011 rampage in Tucson, Ariz., killing six and wounding U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, Jones told Rolling Stone: “This whole thing stinks to high heaven… My gut tells me this was a staged mind-control operation. The government employs geometric psychological-warfare experts that know exactly how to indirectly manipulate unstable people through the media.”

It’s simply a matter of finding the truth, Jones says. Or something like that.

In August 2011, he featured on Infowars an article that called the Department of Homeland Security’s year-old “If you see something, say something” terrorism-awareness campaign a racist conspiracy to “characterize predominantly white, middle class, politically engaged Americans as domestic extremists.”

The program, which actually encourages people to consider “behavior, rather than appearance” when considering whether to report suspicious activity, entails a series of public service announcements designed to drive home that point. What piqued Jones was a 10-minute PSA in which most of the “terrorists” are white, while the citizens who report their suspicious activities are all minorities. He milked the issue for at least a month. “What do you think of [DHS’] rebranding that the terrorists aren’t Al Qaeda anymore?” he said on his Aug. 18 radio show. “It’s that veteran, it’s that gun owner, it’s that farmer… it’s that white person. Whites are the new Al Qaeda.”

Besides exploiting racial animosities, Jones’s conspiracy theories often appeal to the fears of the antigovernment “Patriot” movement.

At the movement’s previous peak in the 1990s, the “black helicopter” was a symbol of its cartoonish insistence that the government would soon be coming after freedom-loving dissidents who knew the truth about the New World Order. Jones gave these fears a 21st century update in an October 2011 online broadcast. He obsessed over news that the sheriff of Montgomery County, Texas, had used a federal grant to buy an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (also known as a drone) called the ShadowHawk. The laptop-controlled, miniature helicopter comes equipped with a powerful zoom camera, infrared heat-seeking optics and crowd-stopping cartridges.

To Jones, this was not simply a police department taking advantage of the latest law enforcement technologies but a glimpse at the insidious machinery agents of the New World Order are deploying in the night skies in advance of martial law. “They’ve got large unmanned drones,” Jones warned. “They’ve got small drones... And they’ve got million-dollar systems up there flying around with cops in control of them, surveilling you. And now they’re mounting them with ground-penetrating radar that looks right through your wall, while you’re on the toilet, having sex with your wife.”

Jones promotes false flag dreckt about Newtown, Aurora, the Sikh temple and Boston. And regarding his homophobia:



This is the newest SPLC link of his page there, not as funny as the former page. But if one hasn't listened to the show and I did for a long time trying to figure it out, you find he's ust a Bircher in the hip new style CT clothing although they're some of the original CT. He's going much more to the far right religious side now and last listen I had, he is straight hell fire and brimstone preaching.

http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/profiles/alex-jones

But I printed the old page, no longer linked, just for shits and giggles! I can see it now, a cop watching my sorry ass in the toilet, going blind...

And as you say, it's not just the CTers believing this stuff. The cops have dealt with Sovereign Citizens who gun them down and others who blow things up, yes, for reals, like the place in San Francisco where the guy was listening to Beck.

It didn't help that real people believe that the ACA requires you to take the 'mark of the beast' and all that, and have threatened real people who dared to vote for it in 2010, so yes, it escalates.

It's part of the furor of the Teas. I don't want that, but I think there are forces in America who really love the idea of blood flowing down the street.

Thanks for the comment, hope you enjoyed this one...

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K&R tea and oranges Mar 2014 #1
So how do you like your tea? davidpdx Mar 2014 #2
all the way from China, I suspect alcibiades_mystery Mar 2014 #3
I was thinking of something more home brewed davidpdx Mar 2014 #4
The vintage on tea and oranges is more like 1967 alcibiades_mystery Mar 2014 #5
Well, the last time I heard such media 'outrage' over the FBI was during these days: freshwest Mar 2014 #8
Huzzah! Brilliant! cheapdate Mar 2014 #15
And I think if they let 'one innocent man' as they suspected go free, to not discriminate based on a freshwest Mar 2014 #20
Yes. Enjoyed it. Alex Jones is like a character from a Vonnegut novel. cheapdate Mar 2014 #27
I grew up on this stuff. Every morning with a poached egg, marmalade, english muffins, etc: freshwest Mar 2014 #7
And so it starts again, freshwest. sheshe2 Mar 2014 #13
Thank you! I hope you will keep us posted on the event and the weather cooperates! (((HUGS))) Boston freshwest Mar 2014 #16
I will be in the burbs sheshe2 Mar 2014 #19
'Bout 1/8th tsp sugar. Will you be serving? tea and oranges Mar 2014 #11
What does tea have to do with FBI incompetence? seveneyes Mar 2014 #24
But, but, look at how fast they were found, weren't you impressed? Todays_Illusion Mar 2014 #17
This is old, old news IIRC MannyGoldstein Mar 2014 #6
My feelings exactly. LisaL Mar 2014 #9
Pretty clear who is considered to be the real threat. Todays_Illusion Mar 2014 #18
It is old news tea and oranges Mar 2014 #12
The problem with collecting all the data..... DeSwiss Mar 2014 #22
more links alp227 Mar 2014 #10
GOP House stirs up another investigation for the 2014 elections from old news. nt freshwest Mar 2014 #21
Prediction: The Russians won't be as cooperative in the future. Pterodactyl Mar 2014 #14
This obviously means...... DeSwiss Mar 2014 #23
MOAR DRONES!!11! Maedhros Mar 2014 #25
Let me get this straight.... the US Security Appartus will hold any AMERICAN...... TxVietVet Mar 2014 #26
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