The thing you have to remember is that Alex Jones has essentially pioneered the front that we now call "the infowar." And it's a real thing, no doubt. There is an evil force in the world that needs to hide from the truth in order to exist. Alex made it his job to expose it.
Here's Alex, in the movie "Waking Life" (at 4:30 he appears), yelling into a bullhorn. This was my first encounter with his personality. You might say that he's capitalized on this notion of "Info-wars," and that might be true, depending on how much he's financially benefiting from his fame and success.
The issue with Jones, however, is that he believes that eventually people will have to fight back, and he's not really sure how to mobilize people in a positive way. He knows that war is not the answer. He's reported that the government has established detainee camps in the event that the civil unrest becomes beyond the power of the police to detain. So what's the answer, Alex?
For me, he's already the answer in himself, by pointing the finger at every elephant in the room, no matter how many there are, regardless of how big. Whether it's Gadaffi, retreating with a white flag envoy out of Sirte, getting hit by NATO en route to what he thought was his surrender. Or the dubious explanation of the mysterious collapse of Building 7.
As he gets more frantic with every one of his transmissions, you have to wonder if he's serious or just over-reacting. I can honestly say that "This is what... the world really is in this position."
It's something else, to see him with the camo shirt and the goofy haircut with the public-access show studio motif still lingering in the background. At his worst moments, he theorizes as fact, and that within itself is the real cause for why most people cannot stand listening to him for so long. But then, if he didn't, he wouldn't be who he is: a major general in the info war.
"I told you that the announce of a bank of the world and the global currency is the solution to the European crisis in The Obama Deception, three years ago." I'm so used to listening to this guy that this quote actually makes sense to me. My interest in listening to him with the frequency that I often do with other news aggregates like the Huffington Post is because it's just so freakin' entertaining that I keep on tuning in. In that regard, Alex Jones is doing his job. He's doing a particularly good job, especially for me, because it's difficult for most people to get my attention like this.
If you have any preconceived notions about how the world works, or if the world favors you in any particular way, then it is likely that you might subconsciously filter his information with your own defenses, because much of what he says is delivered with an increasing sense of urgency.
If I really thought he was dangerous, I would say so. Unfortunately I don't think that he's making much of this stuff up. I know for a fact that much of what he's saying is true. Partially because of the documents that he presents to back up his stories, either with official documents or by news sources. Every day he comes up with a stack of papers that he collects from these sources, so he's an active spokesperson for his own 'leaks' type organization.
He argues that the reason that these documents are not publicized are because the interests of the people who are trying to keep their information private are essentially criminal. It's hard to be a spokesperson for justice but I have only been made aware of how difficult that position actually is through watching Alex Jones. Here's his youtube channel.
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