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jillan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-27-09 10:29 PM
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What do you guys know about Alex Jones and his anti -Obama movie?
Some asshole just asked me if I wanted to borrow it :banghead:


I HATE republicans!

I have never heard of Alex Jones before tonite.
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angrycarpenter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-27-09 10:37 PM
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1. I watched it
This guy is a paranoid conspiracy nut who is pissing his pants over the new world order who is out to rule the world and enslave us all. Not to be taken seriously even when he rarely seems to make sense.
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jillan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-27-09 10:40 PM
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3. Help me here-
any more information you can give me will be appreciated.

I really got to hand it to you for watching it, I don't think I could stomach it.
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arcadian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-27-09 10:44 PM
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5. The part where Bernanke is leaving the Bilderberg group meeting.
And some kid yells, "Hey Bernanke you're going down!" I was standing right next to that kid. That was with out a doubt the weirdest "protest" I had ever been to, all right-wingers, 9/11 Truthers and Ron Paul supporters, with Alex Jones directing the mayhem. The guy is a nut and he used a bunch of my pictures without paying me for them.
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LuvNewcastle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-27-09 10:40 PM
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2. Alex Jones is a kook,
but I would still probably borrow the movie -- just to see what kind of crazy shit he's come up with now.
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jillan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-27-09 10:41 PM
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4. I don't think my blood pressure could take it.
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LuvNewcastle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-27-09 10:51 PM
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7. Have a few beers or, if you partake,
get a little stoned before you put the movie in. You'll probably find it hilarious.
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No.23 Donating Member (517 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-27-09 10:45 PM
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6. It won't kill you to...
become familiar with other people's perceptions:

http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=obama%20deception&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wv#

It will help you to avoid echoitis* too.

* echoitis - the desire to only hear echos of your views
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HopeOverFear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-28-09 03:32 AM
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13. Whatever. No thanks.
I'll live with "echoitis", thank you very much. :eyes:
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fadedrose Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-27-09 10:52 PM
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8. I've heard of him
My son knows someone well who is a fan of Alex Jones. He watched the CD and said that it wasn't so much against Pres. Obama as it was critical of those whom Obama selected for high positions - Gates, Clinton, Emanuel, and a slew of others.

I looked up the CD ,"Obama Deception," on the web and saw a real deception. Why did they use "pointed" ears and a very bad complexion on the President's CD cover picture?? That's a real deception.

As far as Jones' criticism of some of the people advising the president, I'm not thrilled with some of them either, but probably for different reasons than Jones'.

I have to admit that I sort of liked Jones when Bush was president because he really came out and criticized him and his entire administration unceasingly. It felt good to see someone criticize Bush when for years everyone seemed afraid to. He was very strong on the conspiracy theory that the Bushies were responsible for the Twin Tower destruction. So he isn't a friend of the Reps either; he's Independent.

But I don't intend to watch the CD. What does your friend say about it?
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jillan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-27-09 10:57 PM
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9. That is interesting that Jones also spoke out against bush...
Jones also is outspoken about 9/11 being an inside job.

Maybe he is just anti everything and everybody in authority :shrug:
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Idealism Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-27-09 11:16 PM
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10. Jones is a paranoid paleoconservative
They are strictly anti-authoritarian (which to them, means any type of government). Jones is particularly bad with the crazy 9-11 stuff and the New World Order.
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seemslikeadream Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-27-09 11:20 PM
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11. He just had the head of the John Birch Society on so.........
I think that says it all
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OutNow Donating Member (538 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-28-09 03:24 AM
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12. Alex is from Austin
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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bird gerhl Donating Member (129 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-28-09 03:35 AM
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14. He's a crackpot.
Not even worth thinking about.
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