These days, I generally don’t give Alex Jones much space or consideration here, for he is naught more than a two-bit carnival hawker, and we have more important things to talk about. His radio show, InfoWars, has been dropped by Facebook and Twitter, and while he still has a loyal following of the ignorant who are willing to believe every conspiracy theory they hear, he is pretty much washed up.
Jones has gotten himself in trouble of late, has numerous lawsuits against him as a result of his claim that the Sandy Hook shooting that took the lives of 20 first graders and 6 teachers in 2012 was all a hoax, that it never happened, that the parents were paid actors. Well, some of Jones’ viewers believed him and in the years since, some parents have received threats and even had to relocate to ensure the safety of their remaining children.
His latest is so strange that I was all set to ignore it … why give him the attention he craves … until I thought about the potential ramifications, rather like the Sandy Hook fiasco. We can shrug off the conspiracy theorists and their theories, can ignore them and hope they go away, but the real danger comes from left field, from the ignorant who, lacking education or common sense, will believe and act on the conspiracy theories.
Remember Pizzagate? A rumour, started by a Reddit user and picked up by Alex Jones and others, made the rounds. The rumour was that Hillary Clinton and her campaign chief, John Podesta were kidnapping, molesting and trafficking children in tunnels beneath the Comet Ping Pong pizzeria in Washington, D.C. The restaurant’s staff and owner began receiving online threats against themselves and worse yet, their children. And then one day, Edgar Maddison Welch walked into the restaurant armed with two assault weapons and opened fire … a regular Bugsy Malone.
There is a very real danger in the fact that there are more guns in this nation than there are people, many of them assault weapons that can kill hundreds inside of a minute or two. There is a very real danger in that this nation is a tinderbox waiting for someone to light a match. Enter Alex Jones, claiming that the United States will soon have to resort to cannibalism and he is fully prepared to eat his neighbors. Yes, friends, that’s what he said.
In a video clip from one of his recent broadcasts that is currently circulating across social media, Jones graphically expounds about how the food supply challenges of the current crisis could require extreme measures, including cannibalism. I will not play the video here, but this is what he said …
“I’ll admit it. I will eat my neighbors. I’m not letting my kids die. I’m just going to be honest. I have extrapolated this out. I won’t have to for a few years, because I have food and stuff. But I’m literally looking at my neighbors now, going, ‘Am I ready to hang them up and gut them and skin them and chop them up?’ And you know what, I’m ready. My daughters aren’t starving to death. I’ll eat my neighbors. … I’ll eat your ass, I will. I’m combat model. Optimum self-efficiency. Probably the leader. My point is, have you thought about this yet? Because I’m somebody that thought I could fix this, and I’m starting to think about having to eat my neighbors. You think I like sizing up my neighbor, how I’m gonna haul him up by a chain? Chop his ass up? I’ll do it. My children aren’t going hungry.”
Now, ol’ Alex is likely just trying to get attention … that’s what he does. But think of one of those gun-toting white supremacists who have been instrumental in some of the recent protests demanding that cities and states re-open for business, despite the continued threat of further spread of the disease and tens of thousands more deaths. Picture one of them, already filled with anger and hate, listening to Mr. Jones’ podcast. Is it a stretch of the imagination to picture him cleaning his precious guns, oiling them, and loading for bear … waiting for the first time he cannot find chicken or potatoes at his local supermarket?
Given that farmers are plowing under their crops, fruit is being left on the trees to rot, and meat-processing plants are denizens for the coronavirus, it isn’t a stretch that there may be periodic shortages of certain foods over the course of the next year. But, this is not the Donner expedition and there is literally no danger that we will run out of food. But, for the diehard fools who will believe the likes of Alex Jones over reason and common sense …
Personally, I see these words as incitement, and while I am a long-time defender of freedom of speech, I have always said there must be limits. In my book, Mr. Jones has stepped over the line and has set this nation up for an extremely dangerous situation. With any right, whether it be free speech or the right to bear arms, comes responsibility. Alex Jones has taken his rights and shunned the accompanying responsibility. There need to be consequences for stirring a pot that is already about to boil over. Even if people don’t start threatening to eat their neighbors, I will not be surprised to see that Jones’ words lead to a new wave of hoarding, or people using guns to fight over that last pack of chicken legs.
It’s going to be a long, hot summer, folks. According to the guys at the National Weather Service, the hottest on record … ever. We will still be under threat from a devastating pandemic, we will continue to have high unemployment and periodic business shutdowns due to a resurgence of the virus. We don’t know quite what to expect, and tensions are already running high. The last thing this country needs is a loud-mouthed jackal telling us to be prepared to eat our friends and neighbors. The FCC needs to shut Mr. Jones down, for he has ceded his 1st Amendment rights by putting lives in danger.
To meet the increased demand, the report continues, some nations did, in fact, turn to renewables such as water, wind and solar energy. Other nations, however, responded with increased use of fossil fuels, which satisfied nearly 70 percent of the skyrocketing electricity demand. As a result, greenhouse-gas emissions from the use of energy — by far their largest source — surged in 2018, reaching a record high of 33.1 billion tons. Emissions showed 1.7 percent growth, well above the average since 2010.
“Sacha Noam Baron Cohen (born 13 October 1971) is a British actor, comedian, screenwriter, and film producer. He is best known for creating and portraying fictional characters Ali G, Borat Sagdiyev, Brüno, and Admiral General Aladeen. Like his idol Peter Sellers, he adopts a variety of accents and guises for his characters and rarely appears out of character.
So, why didn’t he get up and leave when he figured out that he was the brunt of the joke? Not that he wasn’t getting what he deserved, but still … he had the option to get up and walk out. The lawsuit asks for $95 million in punitive and compensatory damages for “defamation and emotional distress”. Awwww … pobrecito! First, he was stupid enough to get suckered into going on the show, and then he just sat there like a bump on a log while being insulted, and now he wants to collect $95 million!!!
Wow … who knew he had it in him? Jones, by this time out of patience, proceeded to call Rubio a few choice names like “little frat boy,” “snake-like” and a “gangster thug.” Heh heh heh … don’t you just love the maturity here? Now, personally I don’t much like being touched by strangers, and if Alex Jones ever so much as looked like he was going to touch me, he would be on the ground holding his nethers in a heartbeat, but then, I’m not a senator.
Mr. Chain was 3,000 miles from Boston, where The Boston Globe is located, and quite likely would never have gone beyond the threatening stage. Or … would he have? Maybe, maybe not … we won’t likely ever know, but that isn’t the point. The point is that sooner or later somebody will. Somebody who doesn’t care if they are gunned down, as long as they accomplish the deed for their beloved Donald Trump.
Mark Harris is the Republican Party nominee for the United States House of Representatives from North Carolina’s 9th congressional district. Mark Harris is also a former minister at the First Baptist Church in Charlotte, North Carolina. And Mr. Harris is among the most bigoted people I have never had the pleasure to meet.
The estimated population of the state of North Carolina as of July 2017 is 10,273,419, of which 51.3% are women. If Mark Harris wins this one … we will know the women were too busy baking cakes, cleaning house, and ‘submitting’ to go to the polls and vote. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr …
Jones’ attorney, Mark Enoch, had filed a motion to have the $1 million lawsuit filed by Leonard Pozner and Veronique De La Rosa thrown out on the grounds that he was simply “dispensing political speech”. You may remember that Pozner & De La Rosa were the parents of Noah Pozner, one of the children murdered in the Sandy Hook mass shooting. When Jones put forth his conspiracy theory that Sandy Hook was a hoax and the parents were crisis actors, Pozner and De La Rosa were harassed and received persistent death threats by Jones’ followers. The couple has had to relocate 7 times since 2012 to protect their family, and finally decided enough is enough, bringing a defamation lawsuit against Jones. Jones’ bid to have the suit thrown out was denied by district Judge Scott Jenkins in Austin, Texas.
Finally we are coming to see that there is a very real danger in the hate speech of Alex Jones and his ilk, and finally social media is taking a stand against it. I am pleased. Alex Jones, on the other hand, is not.
A pretty major disaster for our California residents, wouldn’t you say? And yet, Donald Trump remained silent and apparently oblivious until Sunday. He should have stayed silent and oblivious.
Sargeant Cuauhtemoc “Temo” Juarez is an Iraq combat veteran who served as a Marine infantryman and then an Army National Guardsman. He is a U.S. citizen and, until last week was a Trump supporter. He has been married to his wife, Alejandra, for twenty years and they have two daughters, Pamela, 16, and Estela, age 9. Alejandra came to this country illegally as a teenager more than 20 years ago, and has lived with her husband and two daughters in Davenport, Florida. Until Friday, when she was deported.
Yes, you heard me right. She was taken from her husband and daughters and sent to Mexico, a country where she is now a stranger. Until last week, Temo didn’t really believe it would happen. The couple had met with lawyers, there is a bill in her name pending in Congress, and they had contacted immigration officials asking for a hearing before an immigration judge. But all their efforts were for naught, and on Friday Ms. Juarez returned, against her will, to Mexico under Trump’s “zero tolerance” policy.
You may not remember, but it was just over a year ago that I wrote a 
Some got some humour from the whole thing, at least. Here are a few tweets …
Señor Jones is once again riling the masses, just in time for the nation’s Independence Day celebrations, with his declaration that the democrats are planning to use the July 4th holiday to start a “second Civil War”. Good grief, what is this man smoking???
In July 2016, I awarded several Idiot of the Week awards, one of which went to 
So along comes Coulter and says, aka Alex Jones, that she has knowledge that the children portrayed are actually child actors who have been coached! Sound familiar? Of course it does … there was Sandy Hook and the Parkland, both of which Mr. Jones claimed the survivors were ‘child actors’ and had been ‘coached’.
Coulter’s apparent ‘concern’ is that Trump, upon seeing the images on television, will have his heart softened and loosen his ‘zero tolerance’ policy. No need to worry, Ms. Coulter, for Donald Trump has no heart to soften!
… and finally provided a link to a 2011 New Yorker article about a woman from Africa seeking asylum in the U.S. Hellooooooooo???? And just how does this make the case that the children on the Mexican border are coached child actors???
