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Alex Jones is from Austin, Texas. He had a radio show on Saturday night more than 10 years ago. Later he had at least one daily show on a local talk radio station but always managed to get fired by stepping on sacred cows. He was the local crank at first (why did the city fine an old lady who let her lawn get too high, why did Austin buy rural land for growth at a high price from some in-the-know land owners and later sell it for much less to some other in-the-know people, etc). At that point I don't know if Alex even knew that he had a libertarian streak, but his radio shows were interesting because he always worked himself into a lather and his rants were quite sincere, if unpolished.
His honesty was refreshing in some ways. For example, he was "adopted" by some local far right group; Freedom something or Texas Independent something, and began to attend and speak at their small meetings every couple of weeks. Then he stopped talking about this on his local radio show and when asked by a caller about it, he said he found out the group was pushing an anti-american agenda similar to the Nazis and he would not be back.
Currently, he seems to have built a business, and some political followers, by "finding" and "exposing" conspiracies in every corner and proclaiming the end of the world as we know it at least a couple times a year. "9/11 is an inside job" is probably the best known of his many claims.
I'd like to categorize him as a far-right wacko, but he aims his wrath at whoever or whatever has him pissed off at the moment. Yes, the black helicopter stuff is far out; but who would have thought that the USA would ever lock up people for years in secret prisons without criminal charges, kidnap people off the street and fly them to another country where they are tortured, etc?
I look at his INFOWARS web site occasionally and find one or two things to read. But I liked him better in his early raw form before he become the official conspiracy documentary corporation.
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