Alex, Waco, and the 19th of April

Remembered by others as “Bicycle Day,” or the day that Albert Hoffman deliberately took LSD for the first time, among the patriots in the 9-11 truth movement April 19th marks both Waco and the Oklahoma City Bombing. While these events are covered specifically in the Alex Jones documentary 9-11 and the Road to Tyranny, it is the Waco documentary that presents the most compelling evidence that there was some sort of agenda behind the events in Waco. (Waco: Part One, Part Two) So if you’re looking to find a conspiracy, and the conspiracy is global, this would be where you’d start. (And it’s made by a fairly respectable investigator, a documentary style that is vastly different from the bombastic energy of Alex Jones in ‘The Road to Tyranny’.)

But, in his own way, Alex Jones is compelling. He brings emotional energy rather than research, focusing on the most easily accessible media and spinning it to fit his perceptions. If you are looking to find a government conspiracy stamping out Christianity and imposing the mark of the beast in the form of the Verichip, then Alex Jones has your media fix. What he can’t prove, he’ll certainly speculate about, and his ambush journalism has been imitated but never topped. He is tenacious, and has a fan base purely as a result of his charismatic and emotional rants, a sort of Christian version of Henry Rollins. Documentary films like 9-11: The Road to Tyranny spread throughout culture as Alex Jones urged people to make bootleg copies of his work and spread them out to their friends, and his fans responded.

I’m going to discuss the 9-11 Truth Movement, and the successive outing of media celebrities as what PrisonPlanet.com has been labeling a “9-11 Truther.” Now rumor has it that Johnny Depp is coming out as a “9-11 Truther”, according to a caller on the Jack Blood show, which places Johnny Depp alongside Rosie O’Donnell and Charlie Sheen as celebrities openly challenging the official story. In fact, Charlie Sheen is scheduled to do the voice-over for a theatrical release of Loose Change and it’s interesting to see that, while Alex Jones was at one point dismissive of Loose Change, he’s since come to support it. In response to the increased media awareness that the GCNlive radio personalities are receiving, Alex Jones has gone so far as to call off a feud that had been brewing in the local community. Interestingly enough, there’s a new advertiser supporting the 9-11 truth icon Alex Jones (jonesreport.com) – MLM marketing. (Skepdic Entry on MLM) Multi-level network marketeers represent the largest source of wealth outside the traditional corporate structure, and to find their advertisements supporting radio personalities like Jack Blood or Alex Jones means there is a significant amount of funding now available to this grassroots “9-11 Truth Movement” meme. The meme has two sides, in acronym they are “LIHOP” or ‘Let it happen on purpose” and “MIHOP,” or ‘Made it happen on purpose’’. Alos of importance, network marketers are in a unique position to spread these memes, because their very business model is built around optimized memetics.

For this article, I listened to Alex Jones’ radio broadcast on Friday the 13th of April. Alex Jones discussed the Templar origin of the Friday 13th negative associations and how Hilary will rule with the iron fist of Hell. (In typical form, this came right in between discussion about how there is no global warming, and if there was global warming it would be good for us.) He ties this into the coming of gun control, militia arrests, all while insisting that Hilary will be a carbon copy of the neo-con agenda, since the agenda isn’t really Republican, conservative, traditional Family values to begin with, but instead a warmongering demonic baby-killing cabal, trafficking in child porn, cocaine, and god knows what else. And this is on the wires.

Supposedly, Imus was fired to set a precedent so that Rosie can be fired for being a 9-11 Truther. In fact, there are suspicious undertones here, as if the whole Imus situation may have been manufactured. To what end? Perhaps he’s a puppet, somehow he’ll be taken care of, with a movie deal, or book, or a bullet in the back of the head in some dank alley. The subtext is there, but Alex is careful to insinuate, rather than openly accuse. At the same time, Pravda.ru is claiming that Don Imus is actually another “9-11 Truther” who was fired before he could reveal his real opinions on the air. (On the 17th, prior the the breaking news about the Virginia Tech shootings, Alex Jones spent five minutes debunking the Pravda story about Imus as a hoax.)

I can’t help finding all of this amusing. Through the lens of the conspiracy theorist, even pop culture looks like a many-layered myth. The machinations of the evil ‘They’ knows no limit, it would appear. Sauron never seems to consider what he’ll do with Middle Earth once he has blanketed it in darkness. In this reality tunnel, drive-time radio is filled with the bleating of the sheeple, and we’re still on Animal Farm, it’s still 1984. By now people have called in and will wait online throughout the show, calling not just from the states, but from the UK as well, clamoring to speak to the man himself and willing to wait in line to do so. He opens the show by talking about Tasmanian devils with contagious cancer. This leads into a diatribe about how evil cancer researchers are, musing on the evil machinations of the Rockefeller’s, what with the cancer they’re creating vaccines for, and how they use it to test on animals, and how it all came out of the eugenics movement. Hail Hitler, we’re all in bed with the Devil. Then we’re dropped straight into a commercial about laser technology cancer removal. Then we get a moments respite from the non-stop peepshow of horror for the ubiquitous Midas Gold and water filtration commercials which have always populated the spaces between Alex’s bombastic attacks on the NWO.

It would be crass to draw a distinction between his work and his beliefs, but I sense some framing in content going on here. He’s said he’ll advertise so long as he can give his films away for free in some way, and honestly that’s why he has his present platform. It wasn’t his appearance in Slacker, Waking Life, or A Scanner Darkly that placed Alex Jones in this radio booth. It was a life-long quest to figure out if anything funny is going on up in Washington, and by fuck he’s done found something. So he keeps digging, and screaming into bullhorns. He’s not going to back down, and his audience just keeps growing.

I met an information marketeer from Houston. A sincere evangelical Christian so overwhelmed with the importance of infowars.com and prisonplanet.com that he felt compelled to shout those URL’s out at a seminar about marketing. He’s one of the strongest viral marketers out there, having figured out a marketable way to create affiliate links for people in their 404 pages. He’s worked with some of the more successful myspace profile spammers, created powerful campaigns for email, and he is morally driven to spread the word about Alex Jones. And He’s just one guy.

Network marketing models are being taught by 9-11 Truthers to 9-11 Truthers now. Alex Jones declares “The NWO is out of control in every way.” He breaks down on air. He rages on air. He hurls verbal retorts at his audience’s hallucinated enemies and they love him for it. He feeds his audience emotional trigger after emotional trigger and they respond. 9-11 Truth Movement has grown world-wide. Charlie Sheen helped Alex Jones reach an audience through C-Span that ultimately credentialed the movement in the videographical discourse of American politics. While the network broadcast version of the issues in the coming election might focus on viruses, wars, and the environment, the word of mouth, online debate is really between this grassroots Truth Movement that’s adapted and grown organically on the back of this new media, and the two polarities within this camp: those who say “they” (the administration, or the neo-cons, or the NWO behind the neo-cons) let it happen on purpose, or they made it happen on purpose. The only issue at hand to them is stopping the globalist agenda of a NWO police slave state. (Cue the Fear Factory.)

The real truth is that a number of factors have aligned to allow every single kook or loonie with an agenda the freedom to come in from out of the cold and rally behind a solitary issue. The glint in the eye of the true believer is unsettling for those not adapted to the mindset. Sadly this influx of sites clamoring for the overthrow of the occult elite who rule from behind faux-masonic orders, running reality behind a magic curtain, overlays a disturbing nationalistic sentiment that historically has allowed for the very same fascist police-state mentality Alex Jones professes to oppose. It’s no real surprise though, as 9-11 is the equivalent of JFK’s assassination combined with the Vietnam War compressed into one solitary date, as far as the zeitgeist is concerned. Somehow, between the 9-11 Truth Movement, the uproar over Bohemian Grove activities, the constant internet debate over chemtrails, and the confusing urban myths surrounding autism links to mercury in vaccines, a world view has emerged in which even the corporate dollars behind stopping global warming, with the “Global Tax on Carbon Dioxide, Save the Drowning Polar Bear” movement becomes suspect.

It’s mid-way through the hour and he’s raving about the benefits of carbon dioxide. “Plants need it, that’s what they breathe,” and he continues. “Slack-jawed hippies always getting in my face,” he says. Alex Jones sees this fear of global warming as a deliberate ruse, as a way people are seduced into setting up their own enslavement. Listening to him, analyzing the commercials, and seeing the structure of selling by fear, makes me somewhat cynical. We’ve been warned for years by extremists that there’s something coming, and it never quite materializes. It makes sense, more or less, to predict something big in the air. For the near, or even immediate future. That’s usually when shit does happen, and a nice, open-ended prophecy like that can either end up fulfilled or be easily forgotten, especially in an election year. Is it possible that this posturing within the 9-11 movement all about the election? I’ve played enough NWO trading card games to see how all the players are necessary, but this is a particularly wild card on the table.

And where did GCN come from? According to MadCowProd.com, quoting a reliable source:

“Christian Media has repeatedly sought to expose the treachery at the Genesis Communications Network…They stole their original equipment from another patriot network named Republic Radio. Fraudulently claiming they had purchased the network, the management of Genesis literally backed up a U-Haul, and loaded up the broadcasting equipment while the rightful owner was out of town!” – source

In fact, the whole 3 part expose this quote came from (Part One, Part Two, Part Three) shows that the money trail might just go full circle, creating a disinformation outlet, a sort of Operation Mockingbird/Cointelpro situation to lure in the militias in the field, so to speak. I grew up in Idaho, I know there’s people off the grid out there. And they dig this kind of “Rah rah let’s get those NWO bastards” kind of bullshit. Personally, being directed by god to live a life of austerity and heavy weaponry never occurred to me as that ideal. It seems to be something of an overcompensation. Rather than assuming that Alex Jones is some sort of shill for the NWO, falling prey to conspiracy-theory-think ourselves, let’s propose that he has a talent for selling through and by fear, and has created a media empire out of it. Certainly he has sent people into the hills through fear-mongering before: Here’s Bill Cooper analyzing Alex Jones radio from Dec. 31st, 1999 (.mp3) And his guest list has trolled the ranks of the old guard of suspect disinformation experts from the far right of the evangelical roster. These are certainly not the type of people I feel comfortable hanging out with, and they are by no means the brightest who object to the current administration. The unifying message is simple – Nationalism over globalism, and there’s no such thing as global warming. The gov’t is going to kill us, at any moment, with chemtrails or vaccines or martial law, and there’s going to be a huge influx of people from somewhere, soon… from China, or Mexico, or Canada, or Spain. Ambiguous fears of the Other, a series of allusions to God (but never a clear biblical reference), and just enough of a pitch to keep the listener waiting to see what he’ll say next.

Austin local access cable has become a nodal point from which a number of authors in the Truth Movement community have found a platform to speak, and Brave New Books in Austin has hosted lectures by local experts since it opened, and now seems to work as something of a salon, conversations occuring there going on to inform the debates that arise online. Alex Ansary in Portland, Oregon is leveraging Youtube video and Myspace, much like Freeman. Other presences online, like the film makers behind Loose Change, or the radio persona formerly known as John Conner, or Jack Blood, or Dire Wolf, have found themselves as a kind of peculiar niche celebrity status from talking about this stuff non-stop. I have a confession to make. I know Freeman personally. He’s a friend from way back, and while I have found myself a little baffled by the intuitive leaps he takes from the material he’s accrued, I know him well enough to know his heart is in his work, and he sincerely wants to understand what the traditions and symbols he finds in popular culture and worked into political institutions reference. In pursuing these references, he’s amassed an overwhelming amount of material. Just by discussing this material with numerous guests on his cable access television show and then posting the video online, he’s been able to organically grow a world-wide fan-base.

Personally, I’m a skeptic. I’m not even convinced I’m here, and in honor of the late, great Kurt Vonnegut, since reading Slaughterhouse 5 I have surmised that perhaps I’m just a consciousness in a model, a brain in a jar, and all of this is presented to me as a game, a test, some sort of simulation. If there is a group out there that’s trying to control the public mind, they are obviously entrenched in traditional media and new media is such a exponentially exploding phenomenon that there’s no way it could be filtered and truth will necessarily come out. And that’s why I support his work, and listen to these broadcasts. It’s why I watch interviews with astronauts punching evangelicals toting bibles, or listen to the testimony of mind-control victims or UFOlogists. Because the real canary in the coal mine, as far as the imposition of tyranny and destruction of free speech will always be those who venomously and irrationally attack the existing power structure at every opportunity. So long as they are free to speak, the truth, no matter how obscured or tarnished, has a chance to come to light… Of course, it’s not just the truth any more, but how it’s spun.

So why am I focused on Alex Jones? It’s because out of the big 9-11 convention in Austin there will be an online community growing around him. They are legion, and they will network. The grassroots movement informed by the political rhetoric of Alex Jones rarely stops there. It only takes a little bit of Alex Jones, and the newcomer soon gets sucked down into an ever-deepening pool of conspiracy theorists and alternative historians, like Texe Marrs, David Icke, or David Duke. I remember when WhatReallyHappened.Com was an apologist web presence for Hitler, purporting to debunk the Holocaust. Now it’s a source for 9-11 Truth. The banner of 9-11 Truth has been raised by many to hide their own political dirty laundry. Choose your experts with care, there’s a lot of hidden agendas out there.

References for this article:

Genesis Communications Network

Borderland.co.uk

Patriot Wars Blog

Editor’s Note: This article was written by Wes Unruh with contributions and editing from Alterati Senior Editor James Curcio and Jason Lybuk, Alterati Editor at Large. As the political machinations power-up over the coming months, Alterati will be bringing you more op-ed commentary on the more extreme political views and unusual candidates out there (like Pug).