One Juicy Nutburger!

Today your humble Peasant takes on a wayward activist
and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. For those of you, my
fantastic readers, who may not be familiar with this fellow,
your favorite Peasant first came across Jones during one of
the times that he was a guest on Coast-to-Coast AM, a late
night talk show that tackles subjects considered taboo by
many other talk shows as well as more mainstream subjects
for discussion. Hosted on weeknights by George Noori,
Jones has joined Noori for many discussions about the
latest conspiracy theories going around, some fairly new
while others, such as who really assassinated President
John F. Kennedy, have been around for many years.
While it is healthy for not only public discourse but for
the public's right to know who is contriving to do what
which may be harmful to our country and our world,
I cannot help but think that it would serve everyone better
if these discussion were led by others with more credibility
and less, for want of a more polite term, zaniness.

The Texas born-and-bred Jones started out on his crusade
in the 1990s. hosting a show live on public-access TV.
Often taking up causes championed by conservatives, Jones
has been at the center of many controversies for his espousing
his personal takes on many subjects, some of them quite
hair-raising, i.e. his Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting
theories which boil down to the shootings being staged by
"crisis actors"; no one dead, no one wounded, just a staged
event concocted to scare the public into demanding new
and more gun control laws with an eye toward repealing
the Second Amendment. The parents of the schoolchildren
who perished at their school, and the relatives of the faculty
who were also killed or wounded have initiated a lawsuit
against Jones for his bizarre claim, and Jones has encountered
banning from some social media sites (Facebook, Twitter,
and YouTube, among others) for these and other roundhouse-
swing claims regarding other actual or alleged conspiracies.
including his belief that the Murrah Federal Building bombing in
Oklahoma City in the '90s was staged by the U.S. government
and at least some of the details of the Moon landing were
falsified.

Regarded by some as the nation's biggest conspiracy theorist,
as a raving lunatic who belongs in an insane asylum, a patriot
and a crank, a brave soul and a malicious mischief maker,
one thing about Jones is certain: he's never ever dull.
But can we take his brand of excitement? He also has hounded
government officials in public places to the point of being
considered not just a nuisance but a security problem;
plotted with political consultant Roger Stone to remove Sen.
Ted Cruz from his senate seat for his not endorsing Donald Trump
for the presidency after the 2016 election; bleated
constantly about a New World Order in which governmental,
business, and banking interests are trying to take over the world
and create a single super-state of all the nations, destroying
sovereignty and placing all under a one-world government;
blathered about nations building weather weapons to conduct
combat against each other by manipulation of the elements;
and claimed that the U.S. government is, with the Democrat
Party, plotting "white genocide" attacks (now, your beloved
Peasant, as you well know, is not a fan of the Democrats, but
to pin their plotting to slaughter millions of white Americans
for political purposes is just plain insanity of the highest
order!), and the Khan Shaykun chemical attack in Syria in 2017
was a "hoax". And these are just a few tidbits to familiarize you
Jones' brand of "news".

For good (or bad) measure, Jones has even threatened a member
of Congress not long ago, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-NY). All in his
quest to be considered a "thought criminal" against "Big Brother".

As a American, a conservative, and a patriot, your faithful Peasant
has no love for "Big Brother", the ever-growing, ever-encroach-
ing government and those who work within it to take away our
constitutionally protected freedoms. And I do want to have open
and honest discussion from the dinner tables to the coffee shops
to the schools to the town halls to the halls of power in the
state capitols and in Washington D.C., and absolutely in the media
about the topics that Alex Jones covers in his shows, his tracts, his
speeches, and on his web site InfoWars. I just wish that they were,
and would be so covered by people with more a responsible,
tempered, and fact-based approach. For one thing, it would give
these topics and its discussion participants not just credibility
but respectability, and therefore facilitate their so being discussed.
No one engaging in such discussions would be seen as tinfoil hat
wearing nutburgers, and more people would be at their ease in
joining in.

Now that would truly serve us better, don't you think?
And conservatives and conservatism would be better served by
not having these discussions headed up by a raving sensationalist.
We have a right as citizens of a free country to be able to have these
discussions; it would be more beneficial if we didn't have Alex Jones
be the moderator.


MEM