None of what is happening is any surprise to me. You are not going to get elected without the assistance of the Powers That Be, nor will you be taken seriously by them if you aren't interested in serving their interests. They have made their way to the top of the heap, and are hell bent on staying there.
Having said that, (and saying this as more and more information is coming out about AIG and its misuse of Federal money given to them to keep them afloat), I don't see a "conspiracy" against individuals, nor do I see us heading towards the "New World Order" that Jones and others seem to think is coming. Trade barriers are falling, and it's only the fool who ignores this, or seems to think that in a global economy, you're going to get an exemption.
A one world government? Good luck with that. De Gaulle once asked, "How do you govern a country with over two hundred types of cheese?" Hell, considering the differences in culture just between Bretagne and Provence, could you even imagine trying to pull that off with the differences between California and Bolivia? Or Queensland and Finland? We can't even get any agreement in as compact a political unit as Rhode Island, and there's one hell of a lot less difference there than there is anywhere else. And when you consider how badly the ideas fronted to "save" the United Nations have fared, (nearly all of them have been shot down as unworkable), a One World Government is not in the cards.
The problem here is that this is the same lunacy I've been reading since 1984, when I started working in Christian radio. 1984 was supposed to be the year that marked the end of the American Republic. It didn't happen, so it was moved to '88, when Reagan was leaving office. (Never mind that people who were just like Jones were proclaiming Reagan an Anti-Christ, in spite of his claims of faith.) George H. W. Bush didn't help matters with his claims of working towards a New World Order, even though many of us were reading up on what he meant in everything from Foreign Affairs to Time, and smirking because we recognized it for the phrase-mongering it was.
We managed to survive Bush I, Bill Clinton, Bush II, and now, we're looking at Obama. If Americans are really that worried about the decline of the Republic, they've a funny way of showing it. If the average person would read, study, learn, and then VOTE, things would change, and in one hell of a hurry.
Jones and his ilk, (locally, it's a psycho pastor named John Torrell, who emigrated here from Sweden. And, no, Sweden doesn't want him back), for all their claims, are about as Anti-American as they come. The theories and the like don't change; only the names of the Bogey Men and the instruments of destruction they'll use do. These charlatans have no knowledge of history, they've ignored the consequences that befell their predecessors, and will ultimately prove to be as accurate, if not less so, because of their monumental gaps in their education. They haven't a clue about Teapot Dome, Credit Mobilier, the Whiskey Rebellion, or the ABC Affair. Had they even cracked the cover of a high school history text, they might have learned something, and realized just how foolish they look.
I might even have accused Jones of running his own conspiracy, (someone beat me to it in this thread), but he's simply not that bright. In truth, as Jones is proclaiming the fallacy that our Republic is headed face-first into the toilet, and ultimately discouraging people from voting and getting involved, he's demonstrating his incredible lack imagination and wisdom. It's the same plot, over and over again. It's Baywatch, without the girls and surf, which also explains why his audience is so small. All he needs is David Hasselhoff, and he might actually get an audience that reaches into double digits.
Years after leaving this kind of crap behind, I still get garbage in the mail from everyone from the John Birch Society to e-mails proclaiming that if I don't wise up, Barack Obama's going to come for my truck. Oh, please. Al Gore was supposed to come for it, and considering I can't keep the damn thing running, he can have it. It's more than a little insulting that no matter how often I opt out on the spam I keep getting, it just seems to multiply, because you have to know this stuff, because you're a concerned American!!!
Actually, that's the one thing Jones and his allies have gotten right. I am a very concerned American. It's why I try and stay informed. It's why I have copies of The Federalist Papers, and Common Sense. It's why I vote on Election Day. It's why I don't listen to psychos like Alex Jones and spend more time listening to people who actually have my best interest at heart.
Jones and crew have found a niche where they can make money, promoting the kind of paranoia that erodes the base of our civil liberties. They will never turn their attention to real threats that face the world, such as hunger, homelessness, nuclear proliferation, political instability, because in doing so, they would be cutting their own throats. It's easier to bleat about how we need to know what's going on at Bohemian Grove, (it's vital that you know that Henry Kissinger gets smashed there and walks around in the buff), rather than confronting real issues, because they've now established their Kook credentials, and that's where the money is.
As the weirdos continue to blather on about how the world is going to hell, what they are ignoring is their role in preventing it. Jones is out to keep them on the hook and away from facts in the exact same way as Peter Popoff and Benny Hinn are trying to keep the ill from the doctors. He's not selling Snake Oil; that's relatively harmless. Rather, he's peddling poison, slowly killing his customers, and claiming that if they want to live, they need to buy the antidote from him, which is simply more poison.
And when his customers die, he blames it on people who tried to warn them that what Jones was feeding his customers was poison, all in the hope that they'll continue to buy more poison. And, to his credit, he's become so slick at selling the concoction of Academic Arsenic, Political Peyote, and Hateful Hemlock, the customers just keep coming.
So, no, in watching the trailer, I saw nothing new. It's just a new face for the same game. Eventually, Jones might be right, but if he ever is, it'll be because of his actions, and the inaction he bred in his followers, and not because of anything someone like Barack Obama did or didn't do.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!! (I still have my BDP tapes)
