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It always surprises me Alex Jones still lives in the US, since he's so scared shitless of the government.
Alex Jones: Oklahoma City Bombing A False Flag Designed To Embarrass Conservatives
Submitted by Brian Tashman on Monday, 4/20/2015 1:45 pm
Yesterday, InfoWars host Alex Jones marked the 20th anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing the only way he knows how: by insisting that the attack, which left 168 people dead, was a government false flag operation aimed at discrediting conservative talk radio and the liberty movement.
Jones called the Oklahoma City tragedy a Nazi-inspired open-and-shut false flag that was used to paint all conservatives as terrorists.
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/alex-jones-oklahoma-city-bombing-false-flag-designed-embarrass-conservatives
Cerridwen
(13,260 posts)From the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) website:
Terror From the Right: Plots, Conspiracies and Racist Rampages Since Oklahoma City
At 9:02 a.m. on April 19, 1995, a 7,000-pound truck bomb, constructed of ammonium nitrate fertilizer and nitromethane racing fuel and packed into 13 plastic barrels, ripped through the heart of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. The explosion wrecked much of downtown Oklahoma City and killed 168 people, including 19 children in a day-care center. Another 500 were injured. Although many Americans initially suspected an attack by Middle Eastern radicals, it quickly became clear that the mass murder had actually been carried out by domestic, right-wing terrorists.
The slaughter engineered by Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols, men steeped in the conspiracy theories and white-hot fury of the American radical right, marked the opening shot in a new kind of domestic political extremism a revolutionary ideology whose practitioners do not hesitate to carry out attacks directed at entirely innocent victims, people selected essentially at random to make a political point. After Oklahoma, it was no longer sufficient for many American right-wing terrorists to strike at a target of political significance instead, they reached for higher and higher body counts, reasoning that they had to eclipse McVeigh's attack to win attention.
What follows is a detailed listing of major terrorist plots and racist rampages that have emerged from the American radical right in the years since Oklahoma City. These have included plans to bomb government buildings, banks, refineries, utilities, clinics, synagogues, mosques, memorials and bridges; to assassinate police officers, judges, politicians, civil rights figures and others; to rob banks, armored cars and other criminals; and to amass illegal machine guns, missiles, explosives and biological and chemical weapons. {Each of these plots aimed to make changes in America through the use of political violence.} Most contemplated the deaths of large numbers of people in one case, as many as 30,000, or 10 times the number murdered on Sept. 11, 2001.
Here are the stories of plots, conspiracies and racist rampages since 1995 plots and violence waged against a democratic America.
When reading, notice many of the targets: gays, abortion clinics, police departments/officers, government offices and workers, Mosques, Synagogues, left-leaning churches, abortion providers, etc. Notice the pattern? With the exception of the police, it's all the targets of the r/w talk radio bloviators. My best guess about the police, they've become associated with the "evil" part of the "evil government."
Far too much more at the link.
I presume jones believes the government has been busy.
longship
(40,416 posts)Both are well worth a hearty R&
Thank you to both DUers.
beam me up scottie
(57,349 posts)He's just like the christians who blame tragedies on teh gays.
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)beam me up scottie
(57,349 posts)He's playing this all the way to the bank.
Rex
(65,616 posts)I don't know how you do it, without getting a headache. I guess skeptics need entertainment and Alex Jones is non stop moonbat. Still, that has to take a toll on your constitution. I hope you take breaks!
longship
(40,416 posts)Witness today's GOP. Few thought that Jerry Falwell's Moral Majority or Pat Robertson's Christian Coalition would gain much traction (at least during those times). However, many saw them for what they were, nothing more than a bald-faced attempt to form a theocratic political party by co-opting one of the two major national parties. And many saw the dangers.
What is astounding in hindsight is that Falwell's and Robertson's vision has been essentially accomplished. We call the GOP presidential candidates as the Clown Car. However, nobody seems to care about the state legislatures and governorships in the hands of the exact same troop of clowns in so damned many states across the nation.
All politics is local. So said Tip O'Neill. He was correct.
The local politicos are deeply into such Alex Jones territory. We ignore their idiocy at our peril.
Rex
(65,616 posts)on the 'all politics is local'. Moonbats never change their story, it is always a conspiracy against personal sovereignty. I would expect very intelligent people to get that and move on. Unless some have a sadistic habit of listening to insult after insult by moonbats.
I won't deny another person's vice, we all have them some are just more extreme than others. I watched perfectly sane adults known as 'elders' cheer on the decline of this nation at the hands of foreign investors.
It is very hard for me to understand why 30 years later, people still listen to the same old shit from the same old party. Let me know when something DOES change about them. You guys are real troopers for listening in on the shortwave.
I had to listen to a block of that crap for 3 months at a job I had to take out of desperation for money (in my early 30s) and the line up - Rush (of course) Hannity, followed up by erp...Patrick, who if people don't know is a Rush clone down to the soul.
Dan Patrick, the lt governor of Texas...yep THAT one.
They never change longship, the rhetoric never changes one iota.
Hate the gays/liberals/government(IF dem in office)/blacks/women/and I apologize to all the groups that I left out. The list is too long.