Alex Jones isn't crazy. Passionate? Yes. Crazy? No.
He was an average reporter who decided one day to challenge the "conspiracy nuts" he frequently heard about. He did his own research to traditional journalistic standards, and lo and behold, he discovered that the vast majority of what was out there (branded as conspiracy theory) was really happening. Yeah, there were a lot of nuts, but they were onto something, and if you invest the time to dig through all the data, you find out that there is a lot of truth to what is claimed to be going on.
He made it his personal mission in life to alert others to what is going on, and he's been branded a "nut case" for doing that. This is not surprising. A common tactic used to discredit people trying to present a message the establishment wants suppressed is to associate them with lunatics.
More so, many things Alex Jones can prove is frequently discredited by the mass media SELECTIVELY assaulting key claims which even Alex Jones says is not legitimate. So, if they want to say something about 9/11 and make Alex Jones look bad, they do a "hatchet job" which showcases claims which can easily be proven false, but they never address the claims which cannot be disproven. They do this even on claims that Alex Jones has declared a hoax or, at the very least, inaccurate. Since the majority of people have very short attention spans, they will pay attention to the "hatchet job" because it's short and easy to digest, but Alex Jones has to literally have HOURS of your time to detail all of the evidence he has documented, and most people simply are not focused enough to invest the time.
Alex Jones can back (and had backed) everything I've seen him produce with solid documentation...most all of it comes directly from "trusted" mass media sources who call him a nutcase. Truth isn't hidden in Al Capone's vault. With how much information floods over people every day, you can publish the truth on the back page of a major paper and people lose sight of it not even 24 hours after it's printed. To process and distill all of that information into something you can comprehend, you'd need to make it a full-time occupation, which is what Alex Jones does. The truth isn't classified as super tippy-top secret in the Pentagon, it's often printed in your daily paper, hidden in plain sight. Short attention spans and short memories have been the best tool for agenda setters to utilize to get their way with the vast majority of people.
I do feel Alex Jones is bombastic. Once he lets his passions get the better of him, he does come across as a raving lunatic, but every time I see the "mass media" give him a chance, he gets little choice but to be an aggressive bulldog. If he acts controlled and refined, he'll be cut off in mid-sentence before he makes half of his first point to the public. By being belligerent, he MIGHT get some points out before they move on to someone else. Simply watch the news. They bring a guest on to ask questions....they ask THEIR questions and hardly give the expert time to adequately address the issues the question brings up. The media not only has an agenda, but they want information dispensed in 10 second sound bites...which makes intelligent discussion about any issue almost impossible.
This is why Alex Jones has his own radio show, produces his own DVDs, etc....he knows he's not going to get serious fair coverage in the mainstream press, and the depth of what he has to present to someone willing to listen to him is too much to fit in even a half-hour presentation with him using the whole time.
As for why there aren't more people like Alex Jones out there? Simple. Passion. Just as some of us with AS are brilliant in given areas because it's a subject we hyper-focus on, this is Alex Jones' focus. He devotes intense amounts of time, energy and resources to investigate, document and publish. Ordinary journalists do not put that kind of energy into anything they work on. Special interest groups are about the closest thing you find, and they hire a team of people to promote the agenda they have.
I also suspect he acts the way he does as a defense mechanism. He's had a lot of crap dished at him by the establishment "powers that be" because he's not afraid to get in people's faces and expose what they are really up to. Lots of "troublemakers" can be made to disappear overnight even in America. Being open and notorious so that too many people will ask questions if something happens to you is the best protection you can have when going up against people with intense amounts of political clout.
Ironically, and used for illustration, I followed the articles of a man exposing the corruption in a Texas county court system. Last thing I heard, they found some BS reason to arrest him (he left a video store with a tape where the security device wasn't disabled first, but he had paid), and pretty much after that I never saw another article again. The cops wanted him dead. The court judges wanted him dead. The corruption in the county was fairly well-known, but after they found something to nail him on, his articles stopped. To this day, I don't know what happened. When you go up against a giant, you can't be nice about it because if what you do is enough to invoke its anger, it will try to crush you no matter how polite you were in your methods.
15 Dec 2009, 1:39 am
