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(53,661 posts)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 theyre mounting them with ground-penetrating radar that looks right through your wall, while youre 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, hes 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 doesnt 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.
Its 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 Securitys 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 arent Al Qaeda anymore? he said on his Aug. 18 radio show. Its that veteran, its that gun owner, its that farmer
its that white person. Whites are the new Al Qaeda.
Besides exploiting racial animosities, Joness conspiracy theories often appeal to the fears of the antigovernment Patriot movement.
At the movements 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. Theyve got large unmanned drones, Jones warned. Theyve got small drones... And theyve got million-dollar systems up there flying around with cops in control of them, surveilling you. And now theyre mounting them with ground-penetrating radar that looks right through your wall, while youre 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.
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