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WING TV FRIEND
OR FOE?

Ernst Zundel
Writes In His Latest Letter:
The patriotic and revisionists networks
in America and Canada have a lot to learn from Arar's wife. They have never
developed the ability to cooperate with one another. It requires a single-minded
determination, a pursuit that doesn't allow petty differences to divert the
[determination] necessary to drive a point home. For years I have known this,
and I knew this on the day the cuffs were snapped around my wrists in Tennessee.
Ingrid had illusions that there would be a groundswell of support, a worldwide
uproar, demonstrations and the like, but alas, in the end it seems there has
been more talk than action. The Left and Blacks are more active stateside in the
defense [against] cop killers than are our people, who have nothing more to do
than defend a pitiful handful of people imprisoned for nothing more than their
words. We revisionists have a job to do, and complaining won't get the word out
- so buckle down and get busy!
The "disruption strategy," was devised
by the CIA and used by Clinton's National Security advisor Richard Clarke, who
stayed on with the Bush Adminstration. Bush was pleased with Clarke's work
because it specifically exempted the CIA from the requirement to report to
Congress what they were and still are doing - that's why they can just "pick
up," people like me, Germar Rudolf, Arar and many others in the United States,
and deport them - no oversight whatsoever! That's why Congressman Ron Paul and
Congressman Dannemeier, Ingrid's friend, couldn't find any answers - there were
none.
Introduction
By Holger
Gnostic Liberation Front
Having read, with
utter disbelief and growing anger, the most ugly piece of shyster journalism
maligning Alex Jones "Alex
Jones-FBI Connection"
gleefully presented on Wing TV, I feel
that I have no choice but to enter the fray as a once neutral observer. Who ever
the author of this piece of yellow journalism is, this Shelly Tumbleson, it
seems quite obvious to me that a), she is no friend of the "conspiracy
awareness" movement, and b), she has it in for white males in the worst way.
Calling Alex Jones
"
Alex Jones: Another Paranoid,
Uneducated, Unemployeed White Male with an Inferiority Complex. Oh Joy!"
is, in my opinion, simply not only sick
but inexcusable. Of course I know why Wing Tv seems to be so compelled to
publish this sick article... But why, no matter what their beef with Alex is, do
they stoop so low with an article that doesn't only malign Alex Jones, but also
the whole patriot conspiracy movement of which they have claimed to be part. Or
are they??? Not in my book, not after publishing this crap piece of a sick woman
just for their own selfish purpose! This in my opinion is not only indicative of
something wrong, put simply PROVES IT...
Alex Jones is human, for God's sake! He might have his faults, like we all do,
but he has, in my book, along with Jeff Rense, whom Wing Tv has also attacked,
done more for public awareness of what is REALLY going on, than anybody else!
Every morning and throughout the day I go to both of their web sites to find out
"what is new", and I would certainly be sick in heart and soul if neither of
these web sites would not be there. Having a much less significant "conspiracy"
web site, I know from my own experience, that they have to deal with the content
of their sites as they see fit. In other words, it is they who are ultimately
responsible for what they publish and thus can not be criticized as to a certain
amount of "censorship" which they see fit to employ at times. Both men are, in
my opinion, not only courageous, but also "seasoned" enough to be cautious. Is
that so wrong? We are all treading on "thin ice" and know it. Why then does Wing
Tv seem so dedicated to harshly criticize and malign the most well known names
in the movement? Their claim, that they want to expose all those who they deem
to be "shills" and "disinformation" agents (and I paraphrased their claim
according to my understanding) just doesn't seem to be comprehensible to me any
more...Not after them GLEEFULLY publishing this piece of garbage by Shelly
Tumbleson!!!! NO, NO, NO....
I feel that Wing Tv has shown it's true face and it is more than ugly, IT IS
DOWNRIGHT EVIL!
But, of course, you, dear reader, must make up your own mind by reading what
this "woman" wrote.... Also please read the first article from Republic Radio
about Wing Tv's "Victor Thorn" and Lisa Guliani....
Holger from Gnostic Liberation Front.
WING TV FRIEND OR
FOE?
Spin: to cause people to have a
particular bias;
influence people in a certain direction whether true or false.
With time running out, we all must work tirelessly to bring as many people to
the basic realization that our current government is not working in our best
interest or worse! Intellectually understanding the diversity of views in
America, it is still very important to bring as many people from all ages,
religions, political parties and races to this very basic realization. Those who
have time to waste on dividing people with their narrow views and their
obsessions with groups to blame (jesuits, jews, etc.) are the real threats
because they waste our time with their tabloid style hits to create distractions
and divisions. So in the interest of transparency as called for by Wing TV in
their collection of hit pieces against anyone who didn't join their version of
the united patriots of America, we offer you some past internet observations to
help you decide for yourself, is Wing TV a Friend or Foe?
Local Author Makes
Publishing
Accessible To All Writers
Thursday, Jan. 16, 2003
By Roger Mahon
Collegian Staff Writer
Local author Victor Thorn is no stranger
to rejection from the rough publishing world. Throughout his writing career, he
has received tons of rejection letters from large publishing houses, which, he
says, have been reluctant to publish some of his characteristically edgy
material.
Today, Thorn is trying to make sure that
other non-mainstream artists do not encounter the same fate. For the last two
years, Thorn (whose real name is Scott Makufka) and his girlfriend, Lisa Guliani,
have published the work of these artists on their online magazine, Babel
Magazine (www.babelmagazine.com).
Babel Magazine
On the web: www.babelmagazine.com
Editor: Victor Thorn
Submissions: Thorn welcomes submissions from Penn State students. If you would
like to submit your work to Babel Magazine, email your writing/art/etc. to
sisyphus1285@cs.com.
"It's a real rough world out there,"
Thorn said, describing the publishing world.
"We try to be exactly opposite. We want
stuff that falls on the outside of the bell curve. We're very inclusive," he
said.
Inclusive they are. In its two years of
existence, the online magazine has published the works of 410 different authors.
Twenty-four of these authors hail from Pennsylvania, and 14 are from the Centre
County region.
"We tell our writers we want them to be
intimate about their lives," Thorn said.
"This isn't a cookie-cutter magazine,"
added Guliani. "We put the real world on the page. It's stuff that most places
will shun."
Even when they receive work that is not
up to the standards they set for Babel, Thorn and Guliani try to work with the
writer.
"Instead of sending people rejection
letters, we'll make suggestions instead of disrespecting them like that,"
Guliani said, puffing on a cigarette in her and Thorn's home office, from where
they operate the Web site.
Just recently, Thorn edited and compiled
what he feels was the strongest material from Babel's first year. The result is
Rebellious Confessions (published by Black Sheep Books), a book which deals with
such taboo subjects as masturbation, misogyny, fetishes and fellatio.
Thorn's short story, "The Blow-up Doll",
for instance, tells the story of a young boy's first wet dream. In another story
that appears in the book, "Latex Dreams," by Stellar, a young woman graphically
recounts her first abortion. "Skeletons," a short story by Jeremy Fleming,
relates the tale of a young man turned on by the sound of coughing.
Thorn and Guliani are happy to get these
works into print.
"It gives it more of a legitimacy,"
Thorn said.
Thorn said he plans to edit and publish
another compilation from Babel's second year. He and Guliani also plan to print
the 100th issue of Babel Magazine in April.
"We'd like to see it become a print
magazine," Thorn said, discussing their long-term goals.
For now, the two plan to continue
publishing their weekly magazine online without the financial assistance of
advertisers. Thorn said he and Guliani have turned away those who have wished to
advertise on their site.
"We want to maintain control of the
content," Guliani said.
Added Thorn: "We're keeping Babel the
way it is."
Original Story Found Here
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- Re: WING TV - Trashing The Truth
Dear Jim Kirwan,
- Let's take a real close look as
these two big-mouthed canaries flap up a storm. First, we need to backspace
a little...
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- It didn't take the NWO long to
realize they could not control the information on the internet like a water
faucet, so they decided to pollute the 'water' instead. Ergo: there are
scores of intel assets from NSA, CIA, MI6 to the Mossad working on the
net...and more than a few from Globalist corporate machines doing their
bidding as well.
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- As some of you readers may
remember, when the Vic and Lisa dog and pony show first appeared on the net,
it was in the form of a very long 'patriotic' email screed ...a dodgy 'call
to arms'...a clarion declaration to all alternative significant news sites,
radio hosts and editors that their *only* hope to fight 'evil' was to band
*together* under Vic and Lisa's grand new vision: the 'World Internet News
Group'...WING... starring Victor Thorn! (Who the hell was 'Victor Thorn'?).
And that any other course of action online in search of the truth and to
fight the Globalists was foolish - if not downright suspicious.
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- Platformed right in the midst of
this many page 'patriotic' recruitment hustle was a cleverly-constructed
velvet-gloved 'request' (read: demand) that, of course, (paraphrasing) "the
heroic Jeff Rense will no doubt be an essential part of 'WING'!" as would
Rayelan of Rumor Mill News.
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- One can only imagine how Rense and
Raye were as amused as this observer at the transparency of such a scam.
Neither of them (I wrote and asked) had ever heard of either of these clowns
before their flag-rapped email dissertation which projected (read:
pressured) Rense and Rayelan's Rumor Mill News as being pivotal to WING's
success in toppling the NWO.
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- It's known that research was done
on 'Victor Thorn' and what turned up fit the profile of an intel asset like
a glove. 'Victor Thorn' was an alias of a self-proclaimed 'novelist
cab-driver musician' who cadged fares and sang(?) for eight long years in
and around the Penn State University community. A perfect cover for anyone
doing piecemeal Federal information gathering around a major university
campus.
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- His real name was found to be Scott
Makufka. A detail 'Victor' has since gone public with.
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- For anyone with half their wits who
read 'Vic' and Lisa's call to unite under their WINGed leadership, it
projected the obvious image of an an intel op... a ploy to try to grab two
of the top alternative news engines, Rense and Rayelan, in one swoop - in
hopes that others would follow.
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- What better way to control top
alternative research and serious news producers than to sucker bait them
into a cover organization 'for the greater good of the truth movement'? What
better way to diminish and bleed off independent thought and
research...strength through diversity...than to put all the horses in one
corral? How dumb Vic and Lisa must have thought Rense and Rayelan and the
thousands who received their email pitch announcing 'WINGs' over the world
are. Wake up, Yanks, there are serious net operations going on.
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- I laughed...but I had to admit this
mind op hustle was better than average and being mounted very well, indeed.
Vic and Lisa are clearly bright, well-trained word smiths and psy-op types.
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- That first long email proclamation
was cleverly wrapped in the US flag and country and praised Rense and
Rayelan to the heavens while 'inviting' them to join the Vic and Lisa's new
internet carnival.
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- When Rense apparently refused to
take the bait, they began to, in their subsequent mass emailings (they had a
huge list, of course), to ask rhetorical questions, etc: "What's wrong with
Jeff Rense?" Or "We haven't heard from him and we are confused. Surely such
a great American will join us." blah blah blah.
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- I have a modest intel background
and watching all this from the UK was quite an amusing spectacle. I wasn't
certain who might be pulling Vic and Lisa's strings but I had a pretty good
idea.
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- I don't know Rense (or Rayelan)
from Adam (or Eve) but it was clear he realized that any response to them
whatever would/could be used against him. So, he gave them, apparently,
nothing...and took that option away. And that is the best way to counter an
internet intel set-up. Trust me.
-
- Next, they predictably attacked
Rense ...not much was said about Rayelan. The usual and expected
'suggestions' were floated that Rense was a fake patriot, possibly an intel
agent, or an ego tripper, etc, etc, otherwise, he would certainly have
joined WING on the spot to fight all the bad guys and girls on the planet.
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- This email attack on Rense - their
first net target and similar to what they are doing to Alex Jones now - went
on for several weeks as I recall. It never elicited a reply from Rense but
it accomplished the opening gambit of their assignment: to acquire immediate
publicity and 'credibility' as 'great Americans' trying to fight the
Globalist elite.
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- Again, watching all of this was
amusing because it came right out of Net Intel Ops 101; all completely
predictable drivel. Vic and his lady pal, of course, had shown up online
'out of the blue' with a web site, and were already posting some credible
'alternative' news...which is how internet agents and assets always
establish their names and notoriety.
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- Not terribly long after, and almost
on cue (and utterly predictable), came Vic and Lisa announcing their own
internet radio show.
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- And then, even more predictably,
they announced the 'Victor Thorn Net TV Show' This was so spot-on
by-the-book, I was actually chortling out loud...primarily because no one
seemed able to figure these two clowns out.
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- Now, fast-forward to their recent
'attacks' on American broadcaster Art NWO Bell.... amused me no
end...another obvious device: a phoney, salacious attack on one of their own
Globalist bretheren to further build their notoriety in the alternative news
community. ('Wow...Vic and Lisa attacked...gasp...Art Bell! Only the
greatest of true patriots would dare to take on Clear Channel's king of late
night radio!")
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- If Bell had been so attacked by
Alex Jones, he would have gone ballistic. But, as you may have noticed,
hardly a peep came from Arthur himself.
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- And now we see the truly volcanic
libeling and smearing of Alex Jones...the powerhouse lightning rod of anti-Globalist
research...true fire and brimstone in the anti-NWO truth movement. The
attack is, again, as predictable as it is despicable.
-
- Let's not forget...Vic and Lisa's
antics are a perfect overlay of the NWO Intel Net Ops handbook...
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- Imagine...
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- Chapter One of the internet intel
assest/agent's handbook:
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- "Use your extensive list of
activists/journalists that you were supplied with, or personally gathered,
and immediately call for an alliance with the biggest names in the targeted
field."
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- "Secure as many of these key
alternative news sources as possible and bring them under your banner, one
way or another. They can be influenced and controlled much easier as a group
rather than in their current independent news and information power
centers."
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- "If you are unsuccessful in baiting
them to join you, begin to selectively attack them...using gross libel and
smear tactics and suggest in print that they are intel agents or are
motivated by greed and ego."
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- "The results of the attacks are
enormous: instant amounts of free publicity and notoriety for your
operation. Net wars with the targets are win-win for us."
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- "Remember: ANY responses from the
targets will only build your notoriety and reputation."
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- "NEGATIVE responses from a target
should be immediately quoted out of context, distorted and turned around and
used to impeach and impugn the patriotism of the target."
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- "POSITIVE responses from the target
give you instant leverage...and the bonus perception that you are on the
same plane - that you are nearly *equals* with the target in the minds of
those following your efforts."
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- "Remember - ANY response from the
target is a WIN."
-
- (etc, etc)
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- Chapter Two, of course, would
direct such newly-spawned net agents to begin to book themselves on radio
talk shows as quickly as possible...and then to start their own radio shows
shortly thereafter.
-
- That's a quick review of how the
Vic and Lisa dog and pony information-gathering and internet disinfo charade
began.
-
- Lisa, of course, is the she-male
bull. Slick and clever, she's the enforcer. Knows how to play word and head
games very well. She loves to beat up on people (especially men) in print
...like she is doing with Alex Jones now ...and then offer an 'olive branch'
if they bow down in ideological subservience or, at least acknowledge that 'Lic
and Visa' are fellow truth seekers (!)
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- To me, their antics mirror a
high-level intel internet psy-op - an effort to neutralize and diminish the
strength of your alternative US news movement by destroying its
strength-through-diversity which has made it so strong in the states.
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- That's my tuppence on the matter.
Be on guard, cousins. There are traitors in your midst!
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- Comment
From Richard Long
5-15-5
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- I, too, am suspicious of WingTV's
motives and now think they may be a psy op.
-
- Take Art Bell's infamous Pop
Mechanics 911 show. Just before Art was to bring Ben Chertoff on he took a
few supposed unscreened calls. The last call before Chertoff came on was a
familiar voice, it was unmistakably Wing's Lisa Guliani.
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- I waited for Art to identify the
caller as Lisa Guliani of Wing TV who had been dogging him for weeks, but
Art never did. At first, I thought maybe I was wrong and it wasn't Lisa
Guliani but someone who sounded similar.
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- My instincts were correct though,
when it was confirmed the next Monday by Lisa that she indeed did get
through that night to ask Art her questions. Was Art aware that it was Lisa
from WingTV calling? That is still unclear.
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- My question is, if Art Bell did not
set up the phone-in by Lisa Guliani, how did she become one of the few
unscreened callers on one of America's top syndicated radio shows? Are we to
believe that it was pure luck that her call got through? Was that moment the
'tell' Wing TV has 'outside' help?
- Rich Long, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
From Anonymous (Sorry, I don't need
email or
phone harrassment from Vic and Lisa or their disciples.)
5-25-5
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- I read Mr. Wiggins'
comment in which he made the point that these two agents
provocateurs, "Victor" and Lisa, used elaborate, deceptive
emails when they first appeared (overnight) as the new "patriot
saviors" of America.
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- I was able to find one
of them -- and Wiggins was RIGHT. This one is probably the
second or third as it is not the one which cajoles Mr. Rense and
Ms. Rayelan Alan into joining their "WING" project.
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- This email is every bit
as transparent as that earlier one and I thought your readers
would enjoy seeing what Mr. Wiggins was talking about.
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- It's all here -- read
it for yourself...
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- 1. They call for ALL
alternative news sites to move to a *single* server!! Throw one
switch and - poof - the alternative media is gone. And it got
even funnier...
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- 2. They want to locate
that single server of servers on THEIR LAND!
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- 3. They talk about
their first "inflow" of money for the "project." Who is funding
them? Who is *really* funding them?
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- One the major parts of
their (internet op) is their claim that "internet news should be
free" -- very nice if you have funding but it is a whole
different story for the independents who are often funding their
research and sites on a shoestring or less.
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- Here is one of the very
first mass emails sent out by the Vic and Lisa internet psy
op...
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- Subject: The
Revolution will be Televised
- Date: 31 Jul
2002
- From:
"Victor Thorn"
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- My name is Victor
Thorn, and along with Lisa Guliani, co-editor of Babel Magazine,
we would like to introduce ourselves and discuss a revolutionary
idea we have in regard to the Internet. (To view our political
pieces, log onto:
http://www.victorthorn.com/babel/politicalpieces.html )
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- As I'm sure you know;
there are scores of online news services that provide excellent
alternatives to the corporate-controlled mainstream media. The
only problem is; all of these sites and newsletters exist as
separate entities and are not part of a larger, cohesive whole.
In other words, the main reason why the multinational
corporations keep a stranglehold on the information flow is that
they're organized into a system, with affiliates branching-out
across the country (and world). By maintaining this network,
entities such as AOL Time-Warner and others of their ilk can
keep controlling TV, newspapers, magazines, radio, and Internet
news. (The three largest Internet news sources are: CNN.com,
MSNBC.com, and Foxnews.com - all corporate owned.)
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- That is why we are
coming to you today. What we are proposing is the establishment
of an Internet media source that brings together all of these
various news services and sites. By creating an organized
structure, it will allow us to ultimately compete with the likes
of CBS, Time Magazine, the Washington Post, syndicated radio,
and AOL.
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- Although this letter is
introductory in nature and won't delve into specifics at the
moment (for more details, read "The Revolution Will Be
Televised" at the end of this e-mail),we will say that if all of
these online news services remain fractured as they are,
absolutely nothing will change in the world. It will be
'business as usual' for those who call the shots and condition
us via the media.
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- But you are in a prime
position to alter this situation by becoming a part of this
alternative news source, which we are tentatively calling WING
(World Independent News Group). How can you play a part? Well,
this fall we are going to gather together in State College, Pa.
(home of Penn State University) members from all of these
various news services and look at ways to combine our forces so
that we can LEGITIMATELY compete with the mainstream media.
Although we won't get into many details at this time, we can say
that the primary focus of this endeavor is to establish a
computer Server that will act as the hub of this network. We
already have the land (donated), and will soon be receiving our
first inflow of funding. In other words, we are serious about
this endeavor, and are barreling forward with our plans.
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- We are only asking
three things of you at this moment. First, drop us a line and
give us your ideas on this proposal.
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- Second, let us know if
you would be interested in attending the above-mentioned meeting
this fall. We are contacting over 300 different news groups and
website operators in this initial mailer, and will continue to
add more names in the upcoming weeks. Lastly, we would be
grateful if you could disseminate this information to your
readers so that we can gauge their reaction. If this endeavor is
going to be successful, their support is crucial. Then we will
schedule a definitive meeting date sometime in October or
November that will bring us all together in a conference room to
start laying the foundation for this plan. We have already
approached a number of people in charge of online news services,
and they have been very receptive to the possibilities and
excited about what the future holds.
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- (**This was the earlier
mass email mentioning Mr. Rense and Ms. Alan.**)
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- Everyone always says,
"Somebody should do something to change the way things are."
Well, we're doing something! The primary focus of this endeavor
is to take action, and you have a chance right now to become
part of something that could not only change history, but also
loosen the iron-grip that the multinational Controllers have
over the minds of everyday Americans. If we don't come together
and get organized, we envision dire results for the destiny of
this country. Stated differently, if we don't act soon, it will
be too late. It's up to US to change the course we're on. As
award-winning journalist David E. Hendrix wrote in the
newly-released anthology, Into the Buzzsaw, "When the watchdog
is asleep, it has become the weapon of the enemy." It is now
time to wake up the watchdog!
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- So, please read the
following article which lays the groundwork for what we plan on
doing (contained at the end of this e-mail), then drop us a line
and give us your ideas and suggestions. We very much look
forward to hearing from you, and also seeing you at our combined
media network meeting this fall. Until next time, best wishes,
keep up the good work, and we'll talk to you again in a few
weeks.
-
- Victor Thorn and Lisa
Guliani
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- (Clever bait and come
on. Now, here's the hook -- with a few observations from me)
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THE REVOLUTION WILL
BE TELEVISED - BY US!
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By Victor Thorn
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- NOTE: This article
first appeared in BankIndex.com on July 16, 2002
http://www.BankIndex.com
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- It was prompted by the
following question - "Victor, what's going on? Is there a new
book in the works?"
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- Actually, there are a
few new developments I'd like to mention. First, you're correct
in that I do have a new book in the works, which I will mention
in a later interview. But before doing so, I'd like to ask
everyone a question. What is the primary difference between
those who rule the world and all the rest of us? The answer
(other than that they're inherently evil to the core) is that
they're organized, and we're not. This single distinction allows
them to keep perpetuating and strengthening their positions of
power while we remain fractured and seemingly helpless.
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- (* Of course, according
to Vic, their control has nothing at all to do with centuries of
total dominance, chosen bloodlines, and countless trillions of
dollars and currency scams, topped off with total control of the
mass media and entertainment industries -- not to mention the
finest, most ruthless social engineering and mass mind control
technology the world has ever known. It's just the simple fact
they are "organized." Right. Barf bags, anyone?)
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- There are a lot of
other things to address in this interview, but to me, the aspect
of organization is without doubt the most vital and pressing.
How so? Well, most, if not all, of us reading these words right
now realize that something is drastically wrong in the world
that threatens our quality of life and the very life-blood of
our nation. We've read all the articles and news reports, so
education isn't what's lacking: action is!
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- In other words, we can
sit around tapping and reading all day long and it isn't going
to change a damn thing.
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- (* Right! So, let's all
just stop "tapping" out emails and articles and researching --
"it isn't going to change a damn thing")
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- The Controllers
actually like the idea that we're all 'pacified' by sitting in
front of our computer screens. When you think about it, what
differentiates a person who's learning about how corrupt the
Federal Reserve System is from someone being brainwashed by an
endless loop of CNN (Conditioning Not News) telecasts if neither
of them does anything to change their situation? Nothing does.
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- (* Amaaazing head
games.)
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- To overthrow the
Controllers, we need to start thinking like they do, and a good
starting point is the idea of 'information.' Y'see, many people
will say, "How could there possibly be a conspiracy when there's
so much information available on the Internet, short-wave radio,
and from alternative booksellers and newspapers such as the
American Free Press?" But here's the catch. What does it matter
if we're aware of every single plot advanced by the Controllers,
yet do nothing about it? Allow me to put it in this context.
Imagine that John Smith and Sally Jones knew (as did the
Controllers) beforehand that jet-liners were going to crash into
the World Trade Center towers, yet they failed to act upon it.
Of what ultimate benefit is this information? None.
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- (* Yessir -- no one is
really doing much of anything to spread "information." One would
think from this there aren't many alternative news organizations
at all.)
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- It's the same with many
of us. We can read twenty articles per day that expose every
truth in the world, but it's time to move beyond the exchange of
information. We now need to become organized like the
Controllers are. And how do we carry-out such an undertaking?
The answer is not as complicated as you might think.
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- (*The net is seething
with excellent alternative news and information sites --
apparently Vic is having IP connection problems.)
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- First, we need to
establish a news service that rivals the mainstream media
outlets in this country such as CBS, Time Magazine, and the
Washington Post. The reason those in control are able to
manipulate us now is that their media sources constantly
'condition' us to fight against each other instead of focusing
our attention on them - the real enemy. It's the same old tactic
over and over again - divide and conquer. That's why nearly
every story in the media promotes the following themes - race,
gender, class, party or religion. It's black vs. white, women
vs. men, rich vs. poor, Democrats vs. Republicans, gay vs.
straight, and Christian vs. Muslim (or a host of other
combinations).
-
- (*This is getting
better and better! Hey, how about a new news agency named by Vic
and starring Vic and Lisa? Time and CBS would be shaking in
their corporate boots in no time.)
-
- Take a good look at
your daily paper or evening news broadcast sometime and you'll
see it either overtly, or through a series of subtle
manipulation techniques. But if we could break free of this
conditioning process and initiate an online news service that
focuses on what the Controllers are doing, we'd already be one
step closer to loosening our shackles.
-
- (* That's a helluva
great idea: start an "online news service that focuses on what
the controllers are doing". Gee, and I could have sworn I've
seen dozens of nets news services doing just that.)
-
- And when you think
about it, we've established the premise already with all the
online news services.
-
- (* Damn -- he fooled
me! He was just joshin' around after all!)
-
- I get more REAL news
from these sources than I ever could from CNN or Newsweek. The
problem, though, is that all of these excellent online sources
are FRACTURED and not a cohesive whole. What we need to do is
bring them all together so that there is one source which is
widely available to the general public.
-
- (* Hmmm, so THAT's what
is wrong with Rumor Mill News, Infowars, Rense.com,
WhatReallyHappened and dozens of others -- they're "fractured".
Damn, and they all looked so healthy just yesterday!)
-
- Look at it this way.
Where do people go online when they want to buy a book? Almost
invariably it's to Amazon.com. That should be our goal, too - to
make this site so synonymous with alternative news that it
becomes akin to what Amazon did for online book purchasing
(except we won't be indebted up to our eyeballs)! And if you
remember correctly, it didn't take much longer than one-year for
Amazon to go from unknown status to a household name. That's the
power of the Internet that we need to tap into.
-
- The primary benefit of
this news-form is its speed, cost, and ease of delivery. I know
of one Internet news service (Paul Walker's RMN News) that
regularly scoops the New York Times, while the savings of this
method of delivery are obvious.
-
- Rather than dealing
with printing and logistics (which can be enormous depending on
circulation), the Internet has an immediacy that, once
fixed-costs are covered, are essentially stable regardless of
how many people read or watch it.
-
- (* Well now, let me get
this right: "the internet has an immediacy." Damn, I never knew
that! Ol' Vic is just a wellspring of insight.)
-
- With this foundation
laid, the next step to insure that this information is readily
available to the public is the establishment of our own Internet
Provider (or Server). Considering how much control and hassle
certain online groups exert upon their members, plus the
corporate ownership of Internet service providers like AOL,
Yahoo, and MSN, we need to tap into the vast Internet "backbone"
and create our own server that is independent of the
Controller's web. The necessity of establishing an exclusive
server will become crystal clear as the popularity of our news
site grows.
-
- (* Please pass me
another barf bag.)
-
- Stated differently,
once we pose a legitimate threat to the mainstream media and
surpass them, the powers-that-be will want to alleviate their
competition.
-
- (* Glory be -- Vic and
Lisa are gonna lead us into "surpassing" the mainstream media!)
-
- If we're at the mercy
of a server with no allegiance to our goals, what prevents them
from allowing an "outside entity" from tampering with, invading,
hacking into, or ultimately disabling our software or lines of
service? But with an autonomous centralized server, we can
become masters of our own destiny, free to broadcast the truth
as opposed to the litany of lies that comprise the mainstream.
-
- (* Boy oh boy! Vic and
Lisa are going to let all the alternative media be on their
super duper safe server which will prevent "outside entities"
from "tampering with, invading, hacking into, or ultimately
disabling our software or lines of service." Wow -- it's
internet nirvana!)
-
- When you think of the
possibilities of this endeavor (such as streaming video,
lightning-fast updates, and live broadcasts), it makes the
future seem much more promising, doesn't it?
-
- (*Urp.)
-
- Once Americans on a
large-scale are exposed to what's really going on in their
country, they'll NEVER return to the conditioning, deception,
and disinformation being peddled by the mainstream on a daily
basis.
-
- (* Urp squared)
-
- Plus, by owning our own
pipeline into the Internet, it will be much more difficult for
the elite to exert their control over what we produce.
-
- (*Maalox, please)
-
- When viewed in these
terms, I can honestly say that there's not much more that scares
the living bejeezus out of the Controllers than losing their
domination over our minds. And in the end, why should we allow
them to subject us to this media-created propaganda? It's
ridiculous.
-
- (* That Vic -- when he
"honestly" says something, I'm all ears.)
-
- Finally, once the
American people are freed from their 'conditioning
stranglehold,' we can begin entering candidates into the
political process, especially that of the highest office of them
all - the Presidency. At the present time, the thought of
someone outside the two main parties entering the Oval Office
seems far-fetched, if not downright impossible. And why is that?
Because we're not organized. The Democrats and Republicans (and
to a lesser degree Libertarians, Greens, etc.) have an immense
network established where they can readily get their candidates
on the ballot without much effort.
-
- (* Just follow Vic and
we'll have the White House in no time.)
-
- But rather than sitting
around bitching about the seeming injustice of this situation,
why don't we take destiny into our own hands? But the
established regime won't listen to all of our voices of dissent
if they don't have to. Why should they? They created the System,
and it works to their benefit, not ours. What we need to do is
make every disgruntled person in this country (and there are
plenty of them) aware of the scam-job being perpetuated on them,
then start turning things around and running the show like it
should be run. With cohesive organization, we'll soon be able to
start whooping their asses at the ballot boxes. Of course we'll
have to make sure that the elitists don't pull any of their "Votescam"
tricks on us, but once the word is out, I'm sure they won't be
able to keep operating under their 'business as usual' banner
much longer.
-
- (* I had to sit down
for this one: "Of course we'll have to make sure that the
elitists don't pull any of their "Votescam" tricks on us," Yep,
Vic and Lisa are going to tell us how to "make sure" those
Diebold "elitists" don't rig any elections! Just follow Vic and
Lisa and we'll "whoop their asses!")
-
- In all, what I'm
talking about is a REVOLUTION in this country's "information
control." As it stands now, the vast majority of what we call
'news' originates from the same sources that have seized control
of our federal government. The mainstream media is nothing more
than a conditioning tool used to make the people 'think
properly' (i.e. as passive pieces to a puzzle that, when put
together, form a picture that benefits the Controllers while
keeping the masses 'in their place').
-
- So, I'm here to ask you
a question - are you content with being kept 'in your place?'
Are you satisfied with the overt deception and brainwashing that
passes as 'news' in this country? Do you welcome another
Presidential election between two non-candidates from the
Republican and Democratic parties that are 'selected' by a cabal
of New York City money-men rather than by the people? Are you
willing to allow the government to keep stealing your money via
illegal taxation?
-
- (* Pardon me, gotta run
for more barf bags.)
-
- (Look at it this way.
What if you had $8,000 sitting in your dresser drawer and
somebody came into your house during the middle of the night and
took it. What would most of you do? Freak out! I know people
that would instantly grab their gun and start patrolling the
city until they caught the crook, then fill 'em full of lead.
-
- (*Vic should have stuck
to writing fourth rate fiction. Come to think of it, he has.)
-
- But these same people
willingly forfeit that same $8,000 every year to the IRS without
getting hardly anything in return on their 'investment.' Worse,
the next year there's another $8,000 stolen, plus $8,000 the
next year and the next. Ten years later, there's $80,000 pissed
away.)
-
- (* Like I've "pissed
away" ten minutes strolling through this pile of psy-op dung.)
-
- It all boils down to
this, folks. If we don't act NOW and establish our own media
source, server, and political party and candidates, I guarantee
we won't ever have another opportunity.
-
- (* DAMN -- sounds
downright serious! If Vic guarantees it, we're in deep doodoo!
And to avoid that grief, all we have to do is step right up and
sign on with the Vic and Lisa's traveling, taxpayer-funded,
internet dog and pony show.)
-
- Think about it - what
if America is subjected to another catastrophic 'terrorist'
attack, an economic collapse, or the Chinese gaining the
Controllers favor and replacing us as the next King of the Hill?
We'll end up being just like Russia - a second-rate has-been
superpower. Plus, to keep dissent under wraps, those in charge
will continue to squash our rights, put cameras on every street
corner, and implant us with microchips. Say hello to the New
World Order, a World Tax, and goodbye to all we've come to
cherish in this country.
-
- (* Yup -- mix in the
most hackneyed, rundown "patriot" drool as we move to the big
finish...)
-
- If that's what you
want, here's what you should keep doing - NOTHING! Just keep
reading articles and interviews, posting messages on Internet
bulletin boards, and firing off angry e-mails about how none of
us have control over our own destiny. But if you're hungry to
see change, it's time to act now. I'm talking about a REVOLUTION
- the real thing.
-
- (* There's that word
again -- Vic sure likes that word "Revolution" -- looks rebel
good on Homeland Security citizen profiles. I can feel it
approaching -- Vic's big PATRIOT climax!!!)
-
- But this isn't a
revolution to overthrow the United States Government, but
instead to rid it of the slimy Controllers that pull our strings
from behind the scenes. (Our form of government is the best
ever-conceived; the problem arose when it was usurped by the
money-elite.) In addition, this revolution doesn't have to be a
bloody, dead-bodies-in-the-street affair. Rather, it's US - 99%
of the populace - against them - the Controllers - a handful of
cowardly international bankers that call the shots behind a veil
of illusion. And best of all, this undertaking is NOT a huge,
insurmountable task. All we need to do is make the American
people fully aware of what's taking place in this country, then
abolish the Federal Reserve, return the creation of money back
to Congress, and take control of our financial destiny. If the
Controllers can't get their fingers on our money, they've lost
their ability to manipulate us any longer. It's that simple.
This is what the ultimate goal of our plan should be - to take
America back again! By spreading the word via our newly-formed
unified Internet news service, the masses will quickly realize
to what extent a scam has been played upon them. The Controllers
will be exposed, and Congress will be FORCED to repeal the
Federal Reserve Act of 1913. With tens of millions of angry
voices screaming for change, our "elected" officials will either
be compelled to govern with OUR best interests in mind, or else
get bumped by the wayside.
-
- (*Whew! -- and now
comes the punch line...)
-
- I'd like to end this
article with an overview of what I feel must be our initial
steps. First, I'm going to contact every person who operates an
online news service that is oriented toward exposing the truth.
In this correspondence I'll lay out these ideas and how it will
not only benefit the American people, but also their news
service as well. By combining forces at this early stage, they
will become an integral part of our NEW media outlet -
"affiliate members" with links on the homepage to their site or
service. The traffic flow through this unified site will be
enormous; thus a link to their site guarantees even more traffic
their way.
-
- (* Yessiree, let's
hitch right up to Vic and Lisa's rocket to stardom -- er,
freedom.)
-
- Then, I'd like to
organize a meeting this fall here in State College, Pa. for not
only all those members of the various news services, but also
anyone who's reading this article right now and is interested in
playing a part in taking back our nation. Unlike the Bilderbergs
and others of their ilk who meet in secrecy and refuse to allow
us into their boardrooms, our doors will be open to everyone!
-
- (*Whattaguy!)
-
- To show you how serious
I am about this endeavor, I'm willing to donate the land where
we now live as the foundation for the Server/network that we
ought to build in the near future. With this obstacle out of the
way, we merely have to raise enough capital to get this project
off the ground.
-
- (* Slick! And all
wrapped up in a 509c with guess who on the board of directors.)
-
- Folks, we can make this
idea a reality. Why can't we? What's stopping us? Nothing,
except a conditioned-attitude that says, "Things cannot change."
Well, I'm here to say that yes, indeed, WE can make things
better, and that we should by no means settle for a status quo
that no longer benefits us. By building our own server and
Internet media service, we'll reach millions of people on a
daily basis and tell them the truth about what's going on. This
is the real revolution - one of Information Control. Once we
loosen their reins and allow the American public to see how the
wool has been pulled over their eyes, I guarantee you things
will start to change in this country.
-
- (* Mamma Mia -- wool is
being pulled, alright.)
-
- Before closing, I'll
simply ask one thing of you - drop me a line at: sisyphus1285@cs.com
and give me your ideas on the above overview. I welcome every
word you have to say, and will begin compiling your suggestions
and ideas for our meeting this fall. And remember - we can get
those bastards out of our country. If every person who said
they'd like to see a change in this nation actually believed in
themselves and others to act upon it, we'd be unstoppable! And
that's what I intend to do - make us an unstoppable force that
none of the Controllers will be able to hold back. Believe in
yourself, and believe in the new American Dream. We can do it.
-
- (* Yes -- just sign
right up -- be first to get your name on Vic and Lisa's fly
paper Controller 'ass-whoopin' Revolution list!
-
- Well, as Mr. Wiggins
amply pointed out, these two are sneaky, snakey pros. If that
earlier email mentioning Mr. Rense and Rayelan of Rumor Mills
shows up, please send it in to Mr. Rense, I'm sure he'll attach
it to this humble critique.

A PHONE CALL CLEARS THINGS
UP!
On 8/17/06 Lisa Guliani made
a phone call to the Hoffman Estates Police Department to get their
side of the Christopher Bollyn arrest story in the guise of being
true investigative journalists. She spoke with Lt. Richard Russo,
the media liaison for the Hoffman Estates police department and
according to Lisa, Lt. Russo, a veteran police officer, whose job it
is to interface with the public didn't know what the ADL was (Give
me a break!).
Lisa and Victor also
claimed that Christopher Bollyn had said there were FBI, ADL and
Mossad agents at his arrest. This a misrepresentation and you can
read Christopher in his own words
Here.
Christopher Bollyn is obviously not responsible for the Wing TV
style story embellishing on other websites and blogs.
Now, who in their right mind
believes that a police department is going to give a radio interview
and say, "yes sir, we abused the hell out of him and told him to
drink toilet water", because we all know that police officers would
never abuse a person in custody!
Lisa and Victor claim
they're not siding with the police, but if you listen to their 8/17
show (Link Below) they discount Christopher's account of his
treatment while in custody, but totally embrace officer Russo's
loving treatment of Bollyn. Did Lisa get to see the cell he was in?
(No! So much for investigative journalism.)
Victor and Lisa claim that
the mainstream media laughs at alternative media because of stories
like this but, the truth is the mainstream media doesn't give a crap
what we do. (who cares what the mainstream media thinks anyway,
they're not our friends!)
However imperfect our
efforts are in the search for the truth, it's always people like
Lisa and Victor who never miss an opportunity to try to divide the
people who are desperately seeking to find the truth about the New
World Order. Victor said they do not fear the government and the
police state growing up around us and it makes me wonder why? If
Victor and Lisa are not working with the feds, I can guarantee you
one thing for sure, that the feds love them! (the useful idiot
concept) In Lisa's own words she states: "There are good cops and
there are bad cops." (Which are you Wing TV?)
Wing TV's Police State Lovefest
Here - The Bollyn Arrest
WING-TV HIT PIECE RESPONSE
BY SONNY CRACK
The following is the 100%
factual and verifiable truth. Revere Radio started in January of
2005 with Robb Revere, Rastagnostic, Rex84 and Garin Greene and
myself. From the very beginning, the mission of Revere Radio was to
appeal to a lost generation of youth by providing edgier social and
political shows. A lot of the time, that included cursing, drinking,
more cursing and more drinking. From the beginning and till this
day, we are 100% listener supported. We have no limits on lawful
speech. Currently we have over 15 hosts providing excellent
programming to a wide variety of people. We do not cater to a single
audience, we appeal to many demographics. At Revere, we have NO
platform, we have NO guidelines, and above all we have NO agenda.
The hosts on Revere do not agree on a lot of things other than free
speech.
In regards to my show, it
has never been advertised or promoted as a patriot show, its an
entertainment show. In March of 2005, I read a few articles on the
Internet about Jack Blood that stemmed from a broadcast from John
Stadtmiller. I jumped the gun and attacked Jack on his forum as well
as on my show. At the time I truly believed he was a fraud. During
this time, Wing TV was attacking Jack, Alex and GCN as well.
Throughout March until Wing-TV reported me to the FBI, myself and
Revere were supporters of Wing TV. They were invited to our website
and to post on our forum. Since most of us at Revere weren't in line
with GCN, Wing TV saw immediate allies (which they had few).
Things were fine for a few
weeks, in fact Wing TV promoted Revere even though my shows were as
"vulgar" and "disgusting" as they are today. They didn't mind me
"trashing" Jack Blood, or "trashing" Alex. The problem started when
Lisa posted an article saying that GCN was an ABC affiliate. Since I
have an extensive background in mass media and commercial radio, I
knew the article was patently false. I told Lisa the article was
false and that's where the whole problem started. For clarification,
they wrote that GCN was an affiliate of ABC because GCN purchases
satellite time from ABC. She looked at the dictionary definition of
"affiliate" which says anyone that has a connection to someone else.
ANY connection. She has no background in broadcasting or mass media.
Here's the definition.
AFFILIATE: - A Station that
agrees to carry programming provided by a network or originating
station. (Usually referred to as a flagship.) A primary affiliate is
a station that carries all or most of the network originator, while
a secondary or part-time affiliate might carry only a few programs
or carries network programs when the primary affiliate cannot
"clear" (make room for) the broadcast.
When I questioned her on
this, she got extremely defensive and said "You don't know anything,
take your street attitude somewhere else". Something everyone should
know about me, is if you push me, I don't push back, I SMASH back.
If you say something mean, I say something 10 times worse. At the
point she said that to me I used some profanity towards her and told
her to f*** off. Now, keep in mind, NO one in the thread besides
myself had a problem with Lisa, including Robb Revere, Rex84 and
others. She encouraged Robb Revere to remove me from RRN but he
didn't. She had scheduled Rex84 to appear on Wing TV the following
week and then cancelled that appearance because Robb wouldn't fire
me. To me, that was ultimate disrespect. Wing TV had made 2 parody
shows in the months previous, one about Alex Jones and one about
Jeff Rense. This is what gave me the idea to do a parody of my own,
filled with all the profanity and vulgarity that she had no problem
with just weeks before. The show aired and a few days went by and I
hadn't heard anything from Wing TV about it. I sent an email which
they quoted, that email was a parody as well. Wing TV will go after
anyone in this movement that won't promote Wing TV. If you won't
have them on as a guest, they will attack you. So I sent an email
saying, Lisa, if you don't let me on your show, I will trash you
again. Obviously, I didn't give a shit about being on their show,
that's verifiable as well.
After the email was
sent, the following day the FBI called Robb Revere. The call is on
the Internet for all to hear at this
Link , listen
for yourself. Now, for someone that claims to be a gatekeeper of the
"truth" movement, going to the FBI over a radio show is a bit
STRANGE to say the least. At the time, myself and Jack Blood had
worked out our differences and I called him and let him know about
Wing going to the FBI. He couldn't believe it. He invited us on his
show the following day. Meanwhile, Wing TV called Ted Anderson and
threatened a lawsuit if we appeared on Jack's show to play the FBI
tape. Now, why exactly would they not want that tape aired? Were
they ashamed, were they afraid there status in the "truth" movement
would be jeopardized? Jack called me the same day and explained that
Ted Anderson was contacted. At no point did Ted Anderson tell Jack
that he COULD NOT have us on and the decision for myself and Robb to
appear was mutual between Jack and myself. My exact words to Jack
were, this is not a war worth losing Deadline Live over. Wing TV was
trying to intimidate myself, RRN, GCN and everyone by running to the
law.
(How does the anti-NWO Lisa
Guliani get the FBI to give Robb Revere a friendly call about Sonny
Crack for the purpose of intimidation?)
The FBI even says in the
call, this is a civil matter. No laws were broken, and if any were,
you can guarantee that I would have been sued or incarcerated by
now. I am well versed in whats lawful and whats unlawful speech,
what I did may have been in poor taste (to some), it was 100% legal.
In defiance of Wing TV's threats about shutting down my show, I went
on the following week and roasted them AGAIN. And even a 3rd time
after that. After July, I was tired of talking about Wing TV and
moved on with my show.
Fast forward to June of
2006. Someone sent me a link to a Wing TV show about Michael Ruppert
and sexual harassment. That show is located here; Link in this show
there are rumors, 2nd hand information and overall its sexual and
inappropriate for a "truth" show. I decided it might be time to put
them back on the grill and do my parody of this particular show. I
wasn't sure exactly if I would, because it was a dead horse. I have
NO connection to Michael Ruppert, I don't agree with much he says,
but that's not the point. They continued the following week with
more attacks on Alex Jones (which I've never met, nor spoken to
other than to argue with him on his show once), as well as Jack and
everyone else that won't let them appear on their shows. Finally, I
decided to do the show. The day before I was supposed to do my show,
Lisa appeared on the Sign of the Times podcast and lied about myself
and Revere for about 20 mins. The same day I heard that, I recorded
my show. At the very beginning of the podcast it clearly states its
for entertainment and comedic purposes only and is not factual. I
roasted their asses again. Since its airing on the 25th of June, I
have received over 200 emails praising the show. Most of those
people that emailed me, had no clue of who Wing TV is, so they can
thank me for the free publicity.
Before I list the slander
committed by Wing TV below, I want to say this. Wing TV has a
verifiable history of attacking every media person in the
alternative media except the shows they are allowed to appear on.
The list of those they've attacked is longer than those they praise.
Everything I've done is a parody of what they do. I can show clear
correlations between all of my shows to what they do. Basically, I
feed them their own medicine, but the CRACK version.
In conclusion, here is a
list of lies and slander committed against myself, RRN and others as
it applies to this ongoing situation.
#1. I have encouraged
murdering police officers. (I should sue you for that, but I'm not a
puss like ya'll)
#2. I have encouraged drug dealing. (see above)
#3. Jack Blood had knowledge and encouraged my "attacks" on Wing-TV.
#4. Revere is connected to Alex Jones.
#5. We have photo-shopped Lisa's face on pornographic material.
#6. Revere is connected to Jeff Rense.
#7. We were only on their radio A list for 2 days until she "heard"
some of our shows. (actually, we weren't removed until I called her
a lying cunt about the ABC/GCN article)
#8. Roxdog made photo-shopped pictures of Lisa having sex with dogs.
(patently false and slanderous)
#9. We've called her numerous times in the middle of the night. (we
called her one time to ask her if she'd come on Jack Blood's show to
discuss the FBI call, we got this number from the contact page on
her own Website.)
#10. We have threatened to do physical harm to Lisa and Victor at
Ground Zero. (if we had, we'd be in jail, since you run to the cops
like the little girls you both are)
#11. We have dragged your good name through the mud. (You would have
to HAVE a good name first!)
#12. We committed misdemeanors and felonies. (really, I have no
criminal record of any sort)
#13. We are agents of GCN to silence Wing TV. (haha, get the f***
outta here)
#14. We collectively defend Alex Jones, Jeff Rense, Jack Blood and
GCN. (really? since when?)
#15. Alex Jones personally requested Revere Radio as a "friend" on
My Space.. (WTF?!, hahaha)
#16. That crazy mother f***er Paul Isaac Jr. is connected to RRN.
(that dude is a f***ing nutcase, and banned from our website).
So basically, because
of The Sonny Crack Show, anyone connected to the network that
carries my show, anyone thats connected to any of the other shows,
anyone that's connected to anybody connected to anybody will be a
target of Wing TV (except the ones they like, such as Eric Hufsmidt
which appeared on my show in August, after I roasted Wing TV). So,
because of MY show, which is ONE show out of 20 that's carried by my
network, they are going to attack everybody. I say, go right ahead.
And PLEASE, take me to court. I'm begging you. If you want to hear
the Sonny Crack Show in context, my archives are located here:
Link
And for Lisa and Victor..
.Your going........... BACK ON THE GRILL!
Wing's Parody of Jeff Rense
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Alex Jones-FBI Connection
by Shelly Tumbleson

Below is one of the most
damning articles ever written about Alex Jones. Not only does it reveal in great
detail how he snitched to the FBI one night after getting his ass kicked in a
parking lot, but it also shows his rampant paranoia, delusions, lies, insatiable
desire for publicity, long-standing censorship practices, and how he's
historically ran a Zionist protection racket. If anyone wants to see the real
Alex Jones, this is the perfect place to start, along with the
WING TV Hall of Shame.
The article(s) are somewhat lengthy, but well worth reading, especially the
section where Alex gets whooped, then declares that he has relatives in the FBI.
Don't be fooled any longer; this guy's been pulling the same stunts for years
now.
Alex Jones: Another Paranoid, Uneducated, Unemployeed White Male with an
Inferiority Complex. Oh Joy!
By Shelly Tumbleson
Introduction
Alex Jones is the name of a guy who for lack of a better description, is a
personality at ACTV (now known as ACAC). He spends each and every possible
moment on TV going on about this New World Order, about his super-patriotism and
about how everyone except the most devoutly hyper paranoid right wing lemmings
is trying to persecute him. he generally does this by equivocating anyone not
conforming to HIS views as goosestepping nazis.
The first part of this page is devoted to revealing some things about Mr. Jones
that he will vehemently attempt to deny. In the civilized world, we call these
things, "facts".
The second part of my comments will be wholly and totally biased. Jones is a
bully. Part of being a bully is being a coward at heart. I will spend my time
proving that not so deep down that Alex Jones is an attention craving,delusional,
disgruntled uneducated white male who ultimately believes in nothing.
My introduction to Alex Jones came from surfing through channels 10, 11 and 16.
For those of you who are not subscribers to Austin Cablevision, these are the
Austin Community Access Centers channels. Anyone who cares to take the time to
become a producer of a live or dead (eg: recorded), show can do so by taking the
classes and reserving a series time. I did such a thing many years ago and
encourage as many people as i can to do the same.
Or you can be like Alex Jones. He simply asks various producers if he can show
some tapes and/ or be a talking head for their shows. This is good for the
producers because many producers have an idea of what their show should be like,
but aren't really cut out for being on television. It is possible that Jones is
now a producer; I do not know.
So there I was one night, flipping through the channels and there's this guy on
TV who is taking calls (this was a live show). I honestly thought the guy was
funny, not because of his sense of humor, but because a caller might say, "Hey
Alex, there are too many damned Asians at UT". (sadly enough, there are enough
lazy white boys at the University of Texas who are too chickenshit to compete
against Asians in the race for a good grade in the academic arena. They would
much rather piss and -bee yatch- and moan about it instead of studying). So this
guy, Alex, would then start up with something like, "You are so right. These
Communists are trying to subvert this country by coming here, squeezing students
out of universities and distributing their propaganda."
Note that this is not an actual quote, but rather is indicative of the type of
rhetoric that Alex Jones gives.
But later, he became much more incoherent. He started putting organizations and
names to the forces that were persecuting him, though he never had any proof.
One such story came from an event that he fabricated that will be explained in a
bit.
So as far as i was concerned, this guy went the wayside of all other crackpot
conspiracy theory nuts and religious zealots. And he faded into the background
noise until he became a mere buzz of incoherentness.
Then... then he had to introduce himself to me.
One night, before it was time to make the set of my show, Alex starts hoopin and
hollerin about some ratings he received as a result of this little hour or so of
ranting he was able to do on KLBJ am. Apparently no one bothered to tell him
what sort of people tend to listen to am radio, let alone what kind of people
listen to am radio at night. Well, ratings are ratings and he was happy and
proud that he had done so darn well. Okay, he's entitled to that. If you need
ratings to have some sense of approval, and you need that approval to justify
your esteem, then go for it.
So as he's about to leave the building, he sees me working on a computer. He
SCREAMS at me, "HI! I'M ALEX JONES!" Now, being a Texan of a much higher caliber
than the likes of Clayton Williams (who steadfastly refused to shake the offered
hand of Ann Richards when she offered it to him before a debate for the
governorship of Texas), I went to shake the hand.
Handshakes are important. You can tell a lot about a persons handshake, the way
they use their eyes when they speak and on a more intimate level, the way
someone uses their hands. Well, no sooner than had my hand joined with his when
he withdrew it. "My name is She..." "I KNOW WHO YOU ARE. I'VE SEEN YOUR SHOW!" I
honestly don't remember anymore than that. He stormed out of the door before any
conversation could happen. Once again, he faded into the background; a noise
much less significant than any gnat.
Like i said, "Handshakes are important".
Some weeks later i put a tagline on my show. It was custom to create and put
some text on the screen (i worked with a static shot) that changed from week to
week. This one week, i had gotten sick and tired of the irrelevant diatribes of
the radical paranoid white trash hicks that now permeate the live shows of ACAC.
So on my screen was the following tagline:
The access show without a delusional conspiracy theory.
So the show ended. Some people got a chuckle out of my tagline, but no one
really remembered it. Heck, we never even once talked about the paranoid angry
white male shows except to have an ocassional chuckle at their expense.
And again... weeks later after I'd all but forgotten about this tagline, Alex
approaches a young man named Sean who was at the studio to take my show over
(something i enjoyed doing; being in front of the camera all of the time can
become very boring). Sean was about 14 years old. Jones gets into his face when
i'm in the restroom. I walked out to see Jones grilling Sean. "DID YOU CONSPIRE
TO BUY THAT SHIRT OR DID YOUR MOTHER BUY IT FOR YOU?!?" (verbatim) Sean had
become an unwitting victim of the one i would come to call, "Jarhead Jones".
Sean, to his credit, shrugged him off by saying, "My mother bought it for me."
Jarhead was momentarily stumped. "DID SOMEONE CONSPIRE TO MAKE HER BUY IT?!?"
(again, verbatim), he cleverly responded . So there he was, this towering mass
of anti-intellectualism steadfastly pointed at a 14 year old. And that was when
he and i had words. I won't even bother to describe his attempt at rationale
discussion. But to be fair, it was pretty sad of me to think that he'd listen to
anything i said to him.
For a sample of this person's incoherent ramblings and social retardation,
listen to the first 3 or so minutes of this Real Audio clip of him (note: this
link appears to be dead. If I can find it again, I will change it). More
specifically, listen to the first caller trying to give Jarhead Jones some
support. If you feel the need, please listen to more. If you decide that this is
the kind of reactionist, white trash plebian rhetoric that appeals to you, more
power to you.
But that wasn't what really pissed me off about Jarhead. Sure, it takes an utter
and complete coward to antagonize a 14 year old but what really set me off was
this...
So one night, i'm flipping through the channels. I see a segment of a 60 Minutes
show on one of the access channels. Here's the setup: a SWAT team working with
University Police somewhere in Florida, I believe. there was a voiceover of this
particular clip. The voices of the original interviewees were replaced with
Jarhead Jones saying things like, "...AND SO WE'RE DOING ALL OF THIS TO FUND THE
POLICE STATE AS MANDATED BY THE UNITED NATIONS TO HELP IMPLEMENT THE NEW WORLD
ORDER!" (note: this quote is of my own creation. Alex Jones is incapable of
stringing together such a coherent thought... ask anyone who's listened to him)
This bothered me. It really bothered me. I have been a producer at ACTV for most
of this decade and a fan of it for longer. Most of that time, I've been witness
to ACTV being under attack by the right wing... People like Jones who love to
cry, "I've got rights!", but when questioned or they cross a line, then all of a
sudden they're helpless persecuted victims.
The concept of, "If you don't like what you see, exercise your right to change
the channel!" has eluded these people. There's something about free speech being
used by someone who is not subservient to the Radical Right that really pisses
these people off. But i'm getting ahead of myself.
It may not be readily clear why this pissed me off, but that should be explained
at length shortly.
I posted the following letter at the ACTV studio. The letter was torn down by
Alex Jones within the hour.
An Open Letter to ACAC Producers
Dear Friends,
Some weeks ago, I watched part of a program on either channel 10 or 16. Someone
had recorded a segment of a 60 minutes episode about a SWAT team that was part
of a University campus in Florida (I believe it was Florida). This segment had
been altered by a narrator speaking over the voices of those who were being
interviewed. Whatever their original opinions and comments were, were lost to
the voice of the narrator.
What bothered me about this show was not so much the fact that someone had shown
someone else's work; in this case 60 Minutes. However, it is not unreasonable to
think that CBS might find a legal reason to sue ACAC and the producers of the
show that showed their for plagiarism and slander. This alteration was not
satirical nor humorous and thus would not receive protection as such. Perhaps
"Fair Use" would fall into this category, but given the fact that CBS' work had
been altered by the narrator, I cannot help but to feel that the producer of the
show put the institution of ACAC and thus, the community of other producers at
serious risk of a lawsuit. For those of you who were part of ACTV/ ACAC a couple
of years ago should remember the chilling effects that a lawsuit (the Infosex
debacle), can have upon this establishment.
What I found so disturbing about this program was the fact that the person
"narrating" this story appeared to be interested only in convoluting and
distorting the journalism of 60 Minutes to fit his own theories. For those of
you who did not see this show, the narrator spoke over the voices of those in
the story, filling their dialog with his own ideas which were incoherent at
best.
On a personal level, none of this disturbed me nearly as much as the fact that
the narrator saw the 60 Minutes segment and those who were part of the story, as
mere objects to be treated as puppets. He filled their mouths with words that
weren't theirs, making human beings into inanimate objects that existed only for
the sake of having them serve his own incoherent delusions.
By writing this letter, I hope to raise awareness that there are some among us
(Producers), who are jeopardizing the foundation that we all work so hard to
maintain. That is, the personification of Free Speech, the ability to bring
contemporary issues to the community of Austin (especially live television), the
coverage of local artists/ musicians and the opportunity to create content for
visual media. As a collective of Producers, we have worked far too hard to let
anyone jeopardize the freedom that we (still) enjoy.
Thank you for your time,
Shelly Tumbleson
Producer #1830 from 1992 to present
When I wrote this letter, my goal was not to do any name calling. It was to
raise awareness that there are factions of producers down here (at ACAC) who see
Free Speech as an excuse to say anything they wish to, regardless of it's
factual basis and regardless of the legal implications. By not pointing finger
and naming names, I allowed those responseible for this "piece" to save face.
The narrator was Jarhead, though to this day, I do not know who the producer
was, nor the name of the show.
I posted my letter on the producers board here at the studio. This board is a
place for us to communicate to one another; whether it be a call for talent or
an announcement or a statement; this board is a sanctuary for us to post our
thoughts. However, in true paranoid fascist behavior, Jarhead removes my posts
as soon as he can; provided that I'm out of sight. In true paranoid fascist
behavior, free speech is good and well as long as no one stands up to challenge
his delusions. Then again, he berates me (behind my back, of course), as
untalented because i've only done 6 years of live television instead of of being
a shock jock on the local white trash ranting radio station [which, as of the
summer of 2000, went out of business].
Because of this behavior, I decided to spend some time on my last show talking
about the mental deficiency and cowardice of these people. Such as, has anyone
ever wondered why only uneducated to semi-educated white males call these shows?
Perhaps they're not capable fo taking charge of their lives and thus need to
blame someone else for their failures? They have a victims mentality. That is,
everything that happens to them is the fault of someone else. It reveals their
level of immaturity. I have heard this tripe before. Historically they have used
words like, "degenerate", "subversive" and "immoral". They call themselves
patriots, freedom fighters, avatars and all too often, they proclaim their
actions, regardless of the cost or outcome, as the will of God.
But there's more, so much more...
A fellow producer related the following story to me. The names have been
changed, except for a couple. The following is an excerpt of that letter.
Bracketed "[ ]" areas are my own clarifications.
His incessant pestering of me was completely centered around "what an asshole
you [in reference to me] are." At least 4 times during this mono-syllabic
diatribe, he asked me not to tell you that he said this. OK Jarfuck.
He challenged a man to "step outside"... the man (Steve) took him up on it, and
whipped him like the little -bee yatch- that he is. Not being able to accept
defeat... he claimed that 4 men with knives attacked him to stifle his free
speech. OK... maybe many of us have been that humiliated in our lifetimes... But
THEN he got Daddy to call in a favor, and he actually got the FBI to go to
Fringeware to find Clayton's address. (Clayton is the first guy that he first
tried to lure outside) He did this by concocting a story of him being one of the
leaders of a "terrorist" organization called Anathema, which is affiliated with
Fringeware."
As the months went on, my source was harassed by [Alex Jones], who tried to
coerce him into believing that he had indeed been attacked by these guys with
knives. Finally he [the source], explained that he knew the real story of what
happened and that if Jarhead didn't shut up about the incident, he would call
every radio and television show in town and explain what really occurred.
After this letter, I received a more detailed account of what happened:
"This is a long story, but the details make it so much more enjoyable! I'll be
as brief as possible. This guy Clayton, a.k.a. SpaceHitler, had been pranking
everybody at access for 7 years. (the "die-die-die guy"), including you. His
favorite target was Jarhead. One Monday night Jeff Davis had his "Patriot Fun
Show" Jeff dressed as Elvis, Jarhead dressed as a Booger Elf. Jeff's
daughter/call screener, Crystal loved his pranks... and put one through on this
night. After Jarhead was freaking out at the call, Clayton (henceforth referred
to as C) called back. Crystal invited him to the show, saying that if Jarhead
started anything... there were people there to stop it. C called me for a ride.
As hard as it was, I declined. No way was I gonna put C and Jarhead together in
one building. He found another ride, and brought along a crazy skater friend of
his. (C is legally blind, so he doesn't drive)
Upon arriving, C and co.(a total of 3 guys)were talking to whoever was at the
desk, and Sir Jarhead the Booger Elf, a.k.a. Jarhead, recognized his voice...
and began to berate him as best his little mind could manage. C is actually very
smart, and was calmly pointing out Jarhead's swelling example of fascism.
Jarhead became louder, and louder begging C to step outside. That is when Steve,
said, and I quote: "I can't believe you're acting like this because he called
you a Jarhead." He spun around and focused his fury on Mystery S. When he said
"step outside, and I'll whip you like my -bee yatch-." Mystery S said OK, let's
go... and led the way. Jarhead hesitated, then followed. As did Charlie (of The
Show with No Name) and Kanya (no name co-host, & play toy) with C, and the
driver.
Jarhead's next brave move was to announce that he had a gun, and began foraging
around in his truck. Steve said, oh, now your gonna shoot me you pussy. Jarhead
came from the truck with his hand in his pocket, and slowly advanced towards
Steve. Steve retreated 2 or 3 steps, then said, "Then shoot me" and promptly
nailed Jarhead with a right hook. They both just stood there for what seemed
like a long time, then Steve let many more fly.
Jarhead tried to throw one... that's right, one punch which grazed Steve's
nose... like flicking at a booger. At this point Iggy came out of the studio.
Jarhead saw him, and screamed for him to go get Bob. Iggy ran in to do his
masters bidding. Steve hit him a few more times. By now Charlie had convinced C
and his friend to get out of there. They got in the car, and split. (with Steve)
Bob came running out, to see Jarhead bleeding profusely, and shouting "they
jumped me with knives!" Charlie disputed this, so Jarhead spit blood on him...So
Charlie, bless him, punched him right in that mason jar of a head. When the cops
came, Jarhead was ranting and changing his story with each breath... began to
talk of his importance... and his families wealth... and his relatives in the
FBI!!!
Nearly getting himself arrested, Herman saw the security tape of the incident,
and related it, blow by blow, to (name deleted) and I the next night. The next
day the Idiot Cause Jumpers Brigade took over the airwaves. Greg Ericson...Jeff
Davis etc. Most notably, Terry Liberty Parker. He called every show claiming
Jarhead had been attacked in the parking lot by 4 guys with knives... held his
own, breaking the biggest guy's nose. (Jarhead's version, of course.) And crying
out about what a "Chilling Effect" this will have on free speech in Austin.
Several of us called around to these same shows, telling the real story. We were
cut off almost immediately on most shows. Terry began to call this a blame the
victim campaign... and likened it to blaming a rape victim for the assault due
to the length of her skirt.
About a week after this began, I called Terry Liberty Parker at his home and let
him have it. He would not hear anything I had to say. So I told him that if it
took me the rest of my days, I would rub his nose in the "chilling effect" I
(we) did. At one point TLP stopped hosting his 30 min Libertarian insert before
Smash the State, thinking it would stop. It never has.
Jarhead tells a whopper when he recounts this story... It seems to grow
exponentially each time I hear it. What a pussy. He created Social security
fraud, child pornography, and terrorism charges so he could bring in the Feds.
The guys at Fringeware told the Feds, -flick- you... bring a warrant. To the
bureaus credit, they let it drop.
To this day, these delusional buffoons still reference this "event" as proof
that what they do is gravely dangerous. I have 6+ hours of footage of all of the
flap on access that I have titled Jar Wars. So you see... lots of people do know
the truth. That is why Jarhead freaks out so bad when somebody throws it in his
face. The scary thing is that I believe Jarhead truly thinks his version IS the
truth!
For many weeks we lampooned these idiots on Night Talk. Clayton would call in as
Jarhead, recounting how Ninjas with light sabers descended upon him to stamp out
his free speech. You gotta hear some of these calls."
I also found out that Jarhead left the studio with a lot of his blood decorating
the lobby. He didn't even have the courtesy to clean his own mess up.
Are you suprised at any of this? Neither is anyone else.
Before i go any further with letting Alex Jones make even more of an -arse- of
himself than he has already, i wanted to present a couple of items for your
consideration.
The DSM-IV, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth
Edition, is the benchmark for helping mental health experts determine the nature
of a persons sickness. This book is readily availible at any decent bookstore.
I found this passage last year and i thought it had Alex Jones written all over
it. It describes the features of a manic episode. Now i'm not an expert at
diagnosing these sorts of things but you may be (or you may just think you are).
Read the following excerpts and decide for yourself if they resemble our
favourite dunderpate or not.
Inflated self esteem is typically present, ranging from uncritical
self-confidence to marked grandiosity, and may reach delusional proportions
(Criterion B1). Individuals may give advice on matters about which they have no
special knowledge (e.g., how to run the United Nations). Despite lack of any
particular experience or talent, the individual may embark on writing a novel or
composing a symphony or seek publicity for some impractical invention. Grandiose
delusions are common (e.g., having a special relationship to God or to some
public figure from the political,religious, or entertainment world).
Manic speech is typically pressured, loud, rapid and difficult to interrupt
(Criterion B3). Individuals may talk nonstop, sometimes for hours on end and
without regard for others wishes to communicate. Speech is sometimes
characterized by joking, punning and amusing irrelevancies. The individual may
become theatrical, with dramatic mannerisms and singing. Sounds rather than
meaningful conceptual relations may govern word choice (i.e. clanging). If the
persons mood is more irritable than expansive, speech may be marked by
complaints, hostile comments or angry tirades.
Now, i'm not saying that Jones *IS* a manic depressive or that he is constantly
having manic depressive episodes, but i do think that there are grounds for
suspecting him of being afflicted with manic depression and/or other psychosis.
But there's much more, both before and after the above quoted paragraphs. For a
fair estimation of how accurate a Manic Episode is to the behaviour of Alex
Jones, please read up and make your own decision.
Judging from his behavior, i suspect Jones of being afflicted with one or a
variety of mental ailments, but a cocaine habit might induce the same type of
behavior.
Should people take pity on Alex Jones? That's a tough one. Whatever afflictions
he has, he appears to do nothing to try to overcome them. So while i have a
tough time finding any pity for him, I think it's appropriate for people to find
him pitiful.
It's almost 2000.
Where are the bombs and martial law and all that Armegeddon stuff that these
assholes promised ?
It's November of 1999.
The doomsday cults, New World Order Conspiracy Theorists, knee jerk uber-conservative
hate groups and other fundamentalist terrorist organizations have long since
gone underground. But Alex Jones remains.
I moved back to Austin about half a year ago for reasons i do not care to
discuss. And though nothing would bring me more pleasure than to tear down his
theories with nothing more than logic, observation, rationale and reason (the
antithesis of all that he is), the reality is that i simply do not care enough.
He is incapable of reason, he cannot engage in dialog and anyone who challenges
his "wisdom" is a subersive, working for the Illuminati, New World Order
(whatever the group du jour is). This behavior is well documented in American
History, by the way. It was called "Mc Carthyism".
So as you probably know by looking around this site, i'm going back on the air
with my new show, Box of Bugs. I might take potshots at the paranoid lunatic
fringe, but why bother? i mean, their followers have "Gawd on their side.", so
what's the chances of my persuading them to look at their conspiracy or their
cult leader "jarhead jones" with unveiled eyes? i might as well go toss rocks at
the moon.
By the way, has it ever occured to anyone to sample the kind of people attracted
to Jarhead Jones and his bunch? I've yet to find anyone other than semi educated
white males with middle of the road kind of jobs following him. Coincidence?
Maybe. But i think it merits remembering what other kind of groups in this
country have attracted homogenous anglo/norman/saxon groups of men.
As a side note, i thought i would add something to the story of my first meeting
of Jarhead. I thought he was in his mid 40's. he looks tired, worn, stretched.
The saying of "ridden hard and put away wet" comes to mind. Up close, he looks
like someone who's done a few too many yards of cocaine in his life (which would
nicely explain the behavior, btw). Then someone told me he's in his 20's. Draw
your own conclusions.
Check back here now and then. If i see something too precious to pass up, i'll
be more than glad to post it.
arigatoo goziamasu!
shelly.
N O T I C E !
I have finally gotten around to the 2nd part of my comments on Jones and the
whole "Lunatic Fringe" of uneducated, angry white males that comprise so much of
the ACAC culture these days. Be sure to read on here.
Alex Jones, Part Two:
The Jarheadian Escapades Continue.
Many years ago I saw Alex Jones on Tee Vee for the first time. At first I
thought he was just a big lug who liked to rant and scream for the sake of
laughs. Like a daytime drama that takes itself too seriously, he was
melodramatic, over the top and he was so full of himself that it was funny.
Then he started imagining organizations, using only heresy and his own
conjecture as proof. He started adopting a Mc Carthyist attitude towards anyone
who questioned him, he started using Austin Access as his favorite venue for
propagating his own mythologies, conjectures and half baked theories for the
sake of promoting his website, infowars.
Oh... did I mention that he sells videotapes on his site? They're pretty funny
actually, even though he does manage to describe some serious issues in the
process.
For those of you who don't know, Jones is an ultra right wing Uber-Patriot who
preys upon the feeble minded by instilling half truths, lies and paranoia into
them. He then tells them that if they don't believe in HIS and ONLY his way,
then they are leftist puppets being used by the United Nations, Secularists,
Liberals, the "Elite Bankers" (be careful not to say "Jewish" there!), the
"Hollywood Elite" (whatever that's supposed to mean), even Satanists (uh, free
clue: there is no such thing as "Satan" except for number 18, Miroslav Satan,
who plays for the Buffalo Sabres), and anyone else who's not a fantical right
wing conspiracy nut. To get his maximum bandwidth, Jones has befriended many
people who have become producers, most of whom allow him to show videotapes of
him on their time. It is commonly believed that Jones takes it upon himself to
monitor us "Leftist" producers and press charges on them for the most minor and
trivial infraction. See the The Show With No Name debacle.
Hopefully you've already read the first part of the Jarheadian Escapades. If
not, take the time to do so. You won't be disappointed (unless you hate to
read).
Jones is a tireless self promoting popular personality here in Austin. But just
because he's popular, that's not to say that he has any endearing qualities such
as likeability, intelligence or leadership ability. Popularity just means you're
known. Heck, David Duke is popular, Lyndon la Rouche is popular, that child
loving pop star, Michael Jackson, is popular. Even the suspected cross dressing
J. Edgar Hoover was popular. So yes, even I have to concede that Jones is
popular.
His tactics remind me of the Mc Carthyist witch hunts of the 50's, or of the Red
Guard in China during their revolution or more presently, of the Taliban of
Afghanistan. And as he's gotten older, he's become more outrageous,
incomprehensible, fantical and frankly, I think he's become dangerous. No... I
do not believe he has the courage nor ability to plan an attack like someone
like Eric Robert Rudolph, but I believe he is capable of influencing a feeble
minded individual into doing so.
But all of this aside, the reason I'm writing this is to let everyone know
what's happened as of late.
Some months ago, the Austin Chronicle ran an in depth article on the affairs of
Austin Community Television . The opening editorial was in regard to Alex Jones.
Of the many outstanding points that were made, Jones is a "tarbaby". No, that's
not a racist comment for those of you who think like that. A "Tarbaby" is a
journalistic and political term used to describe a scenario where the subject at
hand is more likely to stick with you regardless of what you do to shake it.
Typical tarbaby topics are generally abortion, gun control, etc...
July 14, 2000: The time has come to talk of Alex Jones. When the Chronicle
editorial staff first considered how to cover the ongoing controversy at Austin
Community Access Center (ACAC) regarding Jones, there was almost a consensus not
to do it. The feeling was that regardless of what we said about Jones it would
empower him, helping to further define him as a spokesperson in our community.
There was also the tar baby concern -- once you got into it with Jones, you
could never get out. The feeling was that despite his beliefs, his overriding
goal was self-promotion. It was solely to his advantage to extend any
interaction. The staff did not want to participate in any support, promotion, or
ongoing dialogue with Jones, but the ACAC story is important to our community.
Jones is an articulate, sometimes hypnotic, often just annoying conspiracy
theorist -- black helicopters over our cities, Clinton's storm troopers
rampaging through our streets, the Y2K computer crash used as an excuse for
martial law (oh wait, that didn't happen, but the rest will). Through his ACAC
show Info Wars, his canceled KJFK radio show, and such stunts as building a
chapel at the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Jones has gained notoriety.
Unlike a journalist or historian, a conspiracy theorist starts out with an
assumption, garners all information that supports their theory, and ignores or
discredits information that disagrees with it. Jones seems driven more by
getting media attention than any ideology. There are conspiracies everywhere and
the forces of evil are sweeping our country: Smart Growth, free trade, light
rail, Social Security, world government. Nefarious, usually unnamed,
international conspiracies are busy controlling our lives. Jones does not offer
specific political solutions (Jones' only solution actually is to encourage an
ever-increasing paranoia about everything).
I used to listen to Jones on the radio but eventually stopped because any
participation -- even just listening -- supported the show. Jones loves to rant.
Jones is the hero of most of his rants. There has never been anything he
supported except freedom and the Constitution. I can imagine him roaring, "That
is exactly the point!" -- except Jones uses them as straw men, props against
which to place all the conspiracies invading our daily life. Still, I was sorry
when KJFK took him off the air. I really think the society is richer for having
many different voices. I thought it was a cowardly decision.
Unfortunately, a number of ACAC producers think that Jones' respect and support
for freedom of speech ends with those voices with which he personally agrees.
The most recent controversy concerns Charlie Sotelo's The Show With No Name,
which has been suspended by ACAC. At least partially at issue is Jones' role in
The Show being taken off the air. Jones denies he had anything to do with it,
and ACAC Board President John Villareal backs him up. There is also the concern,
however, about how active Jones has been in monitoring other shows, especially
those he doesn't like. Read Lee Nichols' piece on Jones and ACAC ("Mad TV," p.
34) and Marc Savlov's piece on Charlie Sotelo ("Access Denied," p. 36) and
decide for yourself. On behalf of the staff, I ask that this not become a
catalyst for becoming part of Jones' audience.
Charlie Sotelo works for us at SXSW (us being managing director Roland Swenson,
Nick Barbaro, and myself). Specifically Sotelo works on the film conference and
festival. On Austin cable access, he has hosted The Show With No Name. Currently
he is facing a 90-day suspension for showing a Nike commercial directed by David
Fincher (Fight Club, The Game). Complaints were filed against Sotelo because
access shows can't show commercials. Even though this Nike commercial was old
and for a product no longer manufactured and clearly shown as an early work of
an interesting director, it was decided that The Show violated this rule and
should be suspended.
Sotelo hosted this show long before he came to SXSW. In fact, one of the reasons
he came to our attention is because he hosts the show. I've never seen it. At
home we don't have cable. This is from no high moral anti-TV stance but because
I'm a hopeless addict. Give me a remote control, and I'll go all night, never
watching more than a minute of anything. So I haven't seen the show. Most
everyone I know raves about it.
Obscure beginning works by now-established talents are treasures to the film
enthusiast. Sotelo has given me many tapes, and I get a special thrill from bits
like Andy Kaufman's appearance as a contestant on The Dating Game for reasons
that have nothing to do with The Dating Game.
One can respect the ACAC board on this. It seems absurd to acknowledge this as a
commercial rather than a rare work in a director's filmography, but if they make
an exception this time, what happens when some group shoots some "arty
commercial" for a local event and wants to run it on access because of their
enthusiasm for it? The Sotelo exception could wreak havoc. Still, the shoes are
not even on the market any more, and shouldn't ACAC be a place to showcase
obscure but interesting works?
The board is trying to reach some compromise with Sotelo on The Show and
establish greater clarity regarding their policies. We'll see what happens. But
what is shocking is that Alex Jones, the anti-authoritarian guerrilla freedom
fighter, a champion of liberty, isn't leading the charge to reinstate Sotelo.
What is more shocking is the notion that he freely admits to filing complaints
against other broadcasters over the years. Vigilance and freedom, he reminds us
on his shows, are the main defenses of liberty, but he doesn't seem to respect
his own opinion, or anyone else's.
For the most part, i have nothing to add to this. I felt that it was a well
placed, thoughtful and accurate essay that should be heeded by all who are
intelligent enough to listen... and ponder. In terms of ACAC policy, i do
disagree that we, as producers, should be unable to give critical review for
works of people, even if those people produced commercials, but that's an
esoteric discussion not meant for these pages.
That was just the editorial. Then came the article...
In the 14 July 2000 issue of the Austin Chronicle, Austin Access (ACAC) was
covered at great length. Not just Jones and his brigand of rag tag conspiracy
nuts with guns and more biblical scripture than you can shake a stick at, but
Austin Access as the dysfunctional community that is usually is.
But not all is wrong at ACAC. As is the case in most instances, a handful of
radicals manage to steal the recognition and merits from others by tainting the
entire organization. I have to give special recognition to The Reel Deal for not
just an outstanding show, not just for being a shining example of diversity and
tolerance, not just for being good enough to go pro (at least two of their crew
do movie reviews for a local affiliate), but for showing that a group of people
with a common goal can produce a really outstanding show and raise the bar of
excellence for others to emulate.
The article can be found here. It is kind of long, but worth the time to read.
Here is an excerpt regarding what has become known as "The Parking Lot
Incident", which is covered at length in the first part of my comments on Jones.
In addition to creating tension between Sotelo and Jones, Thumbleson's Web site
alleges the fight exacerbated a feud between Jones and "Steve's" friend, Clayton
Counts. Counts is notorious, for lack of a better word, for making prank calls
to ACAC call-in shows, especially Jones' show. Counts, who still maintains an
Internet account on the server of the now-defunct bookstore Fringeware, said he
suspects that Jones then called in the FBI and made bogus claims that Counts was
a terrorist and possessed child pornography and got the bureau to raid
Fringeware to get Counts' address. According to the Web page, the bureau later
dropped the investigation.
Just so it's clear, my last name is not "Thumbleson", though the story is in
reference to my website. In reference to my conjecture that the Jones camp is
obsessed with what other producers say and do ( for the sake of finding a reason
to "bust" others for any infraction). The article goes on to say:
The anti-Jones camp claims that if a fellow producer crosses Jones, he will
watch their program obsessively until he finds a violation and turn that person
in. Seeming to support that contention, Jones' producer Mike Hanson turned over
dozens of hours of videotape of Side's show to the Chronicle, and said he had
more.
Now, these are just two minor excerpts that i'm using to draw a point. I really
cannot urge you enough to take the time to read the entire article and draw your
own conclusions. Unlike Jones, i cannot... will not say that i am somehow divine
enough to know the categorical and unquestionable truth in things. I offer my
thoughts, some resources and expect you, as adults, to decide for yourself.
In closing this section of my thoughts, i offer the following comment on all
radicals, be they left or right.
It has been my experience that anyone who is so polar, so fanatical that they
believe they are divine recipients of knowledge and truth, are also the first to
proclaim that they are victims. The best example i can give of this in recent
times is how anytime someone wants to maintain the separation of church and
state, or insists that secular, scientific, plausible theories be taught in the
classroom (as opposed to mythical parables that were designed for humanity when
it was in its infancy), it is the extremist religious types who take it as an
affront to their beliefs and consider sharing such thoughts (and subsequently
dismissing the mythologies of their religion), who cry and bemoan at how they
have become victims and are being oppressed. Without getting too sidetracked, it
reminds me of a spokesman for the Catholic League who said Catholics were being
opressed by Kevin Smith's Dogma.
Yea, right.
In that spirit, Jones makes the following comment in the article:
"I am the abused one here," Jones responds. "I am not part of any rivalry. I'm
just attempting to do my show. I just want to be left alone."
Let me be very clear... Jones is as much as a victim as someone who wears a KKK
outfit, stands in a ghetto and screams racial slurs. This comment (above) is
wrong on three accounts.
One: he is not simply interested in doing his show. He is interested in
promoting his website and encouraging people to buy his "crockumentaries".
Two: he does NOT want to be left alone. He craves any and all attention and will
use any attention to draw more people to his website (again, see: "Buy my
Crockumentary!").
Three: Jones' saying that he's not part of any rivalry is just plain laughable,
silly and frankly... it's disturbing. Ask Christian Side (read the article for
about Jones' lawsuit against Christian Side). Fanatics need to think they are
being persecuted and opressed to reinforce their belief that their self
righteousness is ordained by God Himself. (See also: Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah,
Hamas, the Taliban, Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, Ralph Reed, Fred Phelps,
Donald Wildimon, etc...).
As a side note, i can't help but to notice it's only been as of recent times
that somehow the act of discovery and invention has become parallel to "satanism".
Indeed, some of the most brilliant scientific minds, including but certainly not
limited to the German engineers who built the American space program and Albert
Einstein himself were scientists who saw their secular careers as extensions of
their faith. But this too, is a discussion for another time.
Please, take the time to read the article and Louis Black's Page Two editorial.
When you're done with all of this (whew!), come back and check out the fallout.
The Austin Chronicle Article:
Alex Jones: Conspiracy Victim or Evil Mastermind?
Media Clips
BY LEE NICHOLS
July 14, 2000:
Alex Jones is no stranger to conspiracy theories. As watchers of his access
television shows and listeners to radio shows are well aware, he is devoted to
exposing the many conspiracies he believes are threatening our freedom. But to
listen to some of Jones' critics, there is a new conspiracy afoot -- and Alex
Jones is behind it.
Jones' rants -- formerly heard on KJFK radio and still aired on the Austin
Community Access Center's (ACAC, formerly ACTV) television stations, the
Internet (www.infowars.com), and his syndicated radio programs -- have become a
regular fixture in our town's cultural landscape. Jones rails against what he
sees as government and corporate threats to our individual liberties, with
predictions that the jackboots will be kicking in our doors and hauling us into
internment camps any day now -- in fact, he alleges that this is already going
on. He points to the deaths of the 80 Branch Davidians in Waco in 1993 as an
example of federal police run amok. Jones recently led the effort to build a
chapel on the grounds at Mount Carmel.
But a group of current and former ACAC programmers contend that their freedom --
specifically, their right to free speech and to disagree with Jones -- is what
is really being threatened, thanks to what they call Jones' heavy-handed
tactics. The programmers' allegations -- which they have made very public by
both broadcasting them on ACAC shows and posting them on Web pages -- are that
Jones has used both ACAC policy and legal maneuvers to intimidate them or get
them thrown off the air.
Jones and his supporters counter that Jones is the real victim. They claim that
his critics are harassing, threatening, and even physically assaulting him.
These allegations go back pretty far -- more than four years -- but recently
resurfaced when ACAC programmer Charlie Sotelo received a 90-day suspension from
station airwaves when his The Show With No Name was found to be in violation of
station policies regarding commercialism. (Sotelo is an employee of the SXSW
Film Festival & Conference, which is partially owned by Austin Chronicle
publisher Nick Barbaro and editor Louis Black.)
Jones and Sotelo both admit to a great dislike for one another, and at least one
fan of the show says that Jones admitted to filing the complaint which led to
Sotelo's suspension. But both Jones and ACAC executive director John Villareal
deny that charge. Asked what role Jones had in Sotelo's suspension, Villareal
replies, "None whatsoever. The guy [Jones] gets too much credit. There were two
phone calls [filing complaints], and neither of them were from Alex."
Villareal won't disclose who the two callers were, saying that ACAC policy
allows complainants to be anonymous. At press time, The Austin Chronicle was
trying to obtain the names under the Texas Open Records Act, but the city
maintains that ACAC is an outside contractor hired to run access television on
the city's behalf, and thus is not subject to Open Records laws.
Villareal's statement appears to be at odds with a conversation that Jones had
with Casey Monahan, a fan of The Show With No Name, at Eastside Tex-Mex
restaurant El Azteca. As Monahan, the director of the Texas Music Office, tells
it: "I saw [Jones] at El Azteca, I asked him what the deal was with it, and he
told me he filed a complaint, and that somebody else did too."
Jones believes that Monahan may have misunderstood him. "I did file a complaint
on him for busting into my studio," Jones says, referring to an incident in May
when Sotelo accused Jones of doing studio recording that was so loud that the
noise was bleeding over into Sotelo's live broadcast of The Show With No Name
(which Jones denies). "The guy [Monahan] stopped me ... and asked me, 'What
happened to Charlie Sotelo?' And I said 'The guy's crazy, he busted into my
studio, and I filed a complaint on him.'" But Jones says that complaint, which
he says he later withdrew, was unrelated to the one that got Sotelo suspended.
The Parking Lot Incident
The bad blood between Sotelo and Jones goes back about four years, to a fight
that occurred in the ACAC parking lot. Jones' detractors cite the incident as an
example of his inability to tell the truth.
There are two different versions of the incident -- Jones claims that a group of
four thugs, one wielding a knife, accosted him outside the studios and
physically attacked him because of his beliefs. Sotelo and others tell another
story, saying that Jones challenged a man who was ridiculing him, whom witnesses
will only identify as "Steve" or "Mystery S." They claim that Steve accepted
Jones' invitation to fight, and then thrashed Jones handily. The account, as
related by ACAC producer Max Kane, can be read on a Web page maintained by
another producer, Shelly Thumbleson (www.synaesthetic.com/jarhead.html).
According to Sotelo and the Web page account, after "Steve" left, Jones told
police he had been attacked with a knife. Sotelo refuted this, and says that
Jones then spit blood on him in retaliation, for which Sotelo allegedly punched
Jones.
Jones describes it differently: "The police showed up. They started listening to
these people's propaganda. The other people fled. They went and watched the
[security] tape, and then they went and wrote the report and then the
investigation was pursued on the attackers." Jones said the investigation was
never resolved.
Both sides claim that security videos at ACAC support their version of the
fight, but ACAC said the tape is no longer available.
In addition to creating tension between Sotelo and Jones, Thumbleson's Web site
alleges the fight exacerbated a feud between Jones and "Steve's" friend, Clayton
Counts. Counts is notorious, for lack of a better word, for making prank calls
to ACAC call-in shows, especially Jones' show. Counts, who still maintains an
Internet account on the server of the now-defunct bookstore Fringeware, said he
suspects that Jones then called in the FBI and made bogus claims that Counts was
a terrorist and possessed child pornography and got the bureau to raid
Fringeware to get Counts' address. According to the Web page, the bureau later
dropped the investigation.
As in the Sotelo case, Jones' accusers have failed to produce any hard evidence
of his connection to the raid. The most solid link is Jones' claim, made on one
of his ACAC shows, that "I've got the FBI and the Austin Police Department"
investigating the fight. And again, Jones again denies any connection to the
raid, pointing out that Fringeware was an advertiser on his KJFK radio show.
Also on the Web site, Thumbleson recounts an incident from early in Jones'
tenure at ACAC, when a Jones show featured a clip from 60 Minutes, but with a
voiceover replacing the show's original dialogue. Thumbleson says he posted a
letter at the studio scolding Jones and warning his fellow producers that such a
stunt might expose ACAC to legal liabilities. According to Thumbleson's site,
"The letter was torn down by Alex Jones within the hour" -- a claim Jones
dismisses as "pure propaganda."
Another who feels he took abuse from Jones is Christian Side Hanke, who
broadcasts under the name Christian Side, and has belittled Jones' opinions on
his show The Response. In retaliation, Hanke says, Jones has targeted him with
legal maneuvers. One concerned what Hanke says was a false police report for
stalking. Jones also explored the possibility of a wrongful termination lawsuit
when he was canned by KJFK, and had Hanke deposed to see if he might have
contributed to the firing.
Hanke says the "stalking" occurred when he went to a protest Jones attended for
the purpose of contesting Jones' rhetoric. "After the first protest I attended,
I received a call" from a police detective, Hanke says. "The detective was
laughing about it."
Hanke says Jones came close to filing a lawsuit against him after he read,
on-air, an e-mail which he says originated as an Internet newsgroup posting from
an insider at KJFK and which was subsequently forwarded to him. The e-mail says
Jones "was fired because he is an immature little punk who cries until he gets
his way."
During the deposition, Jones' lawyer Steve Gibbens tried to link Hanke to the
firing, asking him repeatedly if he had any sort of communication with staffers
at KJFK, and questioning him about a statement he had allegedly made that "It's
my mission to get [Jones] off the air." Hanke replied that any such statement
would have been merely an attempt to challenge the truth of Jones' on-air
claims, and not a specific plot to get him fired.
"The guy is kind of weird," Hanke says. "The fact is that everyone has to be a
scapegoat for something. This guy's sitting here saying on the air that I've
hung a cat on his door or something. Whenever he was trying to sue me, I've
always sort of let things go. But I have a tape of all the times he said 'this
guy's a stalker' ... calling me a stalker in public. And I was like, okay, I'm
going to take all these tapes and sue him for defamation right back. ... [It's]
nothing more than a pure, unadulterated false charge, and it escalated."
Jones says Hanke has it backward: He claims he is Hanke's victim, and that Hanke
has threatened him via television and phone messages. "We filed an exploratory
motion in court to let him know we were serious," Jones says. But Jones' suit
never happened; Hanke says Jones simply couldn't afford to pursue it any further
and begged to be left alone, but Gibbens claims that the suit remains "in a
holding pattern."
The anti-Jones camp claims that if a fellow producer crosses Jones, he will
watch their program obsessively until he finds a violation and turn that person
in. Seeming to support that contention, Jones' producer Mike Hanson turned over
dozens of hours of videotape of Side's show to the Chronicle, and said he had
more.
On the other hand, Jones' detractors could be accused of obsessively watching
Jones as well -- Side and Kane gave me their own tapes, and another producer
named Beau Henry, who once considered himself a Jones ally, actually produced a
"documentary" detailing Jones' activities.
The documentary focuses on a 1997 conflict between Jones and producer Chris
Ramirez in which Ramirez aggressively challenged Jones at the ACAC offices
regarding the veracity of claims Jones made on his show. Shortly after the
argument, complaints were filed against Ramirez for alleged commercialism on his
show; Ramirez was subsequently banned from telecasting on ACAC twice, the second
time permanently. The documentary suggests there was a link between the argument
and the suspension. The Chronicle was unable to contact Ramirez for comment.
"There was a purge of everybody [at ACAC], that had nothing to do with me," says
Jones. "The complaint was filed by somebody about him ... He was suspended for
talking about Taco Bell prices. I just love these people -- they get on, they
break the rules, I don't complain on them, and they accuse me of it.
"And then the guy did some things on the air that were so horrible about me you
couldn't imagine, and we started monitoring. He was saying that if I was out in
the crowd to shoot me or throw gasoline on me at a rally. Boom, he got suspended
for that. Yes, being here six years, I have filed two or three complaints."
Kane, who formerly directed Ramirez's show, says that Jones and other
ideologically similar programmers, such as Terry "Liberty" Parker and Jeff
Davis, "are more or less a plague on free speech. ... If you watch any show, you
can find technical violations."
"I am the abused one here," Jones responds. "I am not part of any rivalry. I'm
just attempting to do my show. I just want to be left alone." end story
Editorial From the Austin Chronicle
Page Two
BY LOUIS BLACK
July 14, 2000: The time has come to talk of Alex Jones. When the Chronicle
editorial staff first considered how to cover the ongoing controversy at Austin
Community Access Center (ACAC) regarding Jones, there was almost a consensus not
to do it. The feeling was that regardless of what we said about Jones it would
empower him, helping to further define him as a spokesperson in our community.
There was also the tar baby concern -- once you got into it with Jones, you
could never get out. The feeling was that despite his beliefs, his overriding
goal was self-promotion. It was solely to his advantage to extend any
interaction. The staff did not want to participate in any support, promotion, or
ongoing dialogue with Jones, but the ACAC story is important to our community.
Jones is an articulate, sometimes hypnotic, often just annoying conspiracy
theorist -- black helicopters over our cities, Clinton's storm troopers
rampaging through our streets, the Y2K computer crash used as an excuse for
martial law (oh wait, that didn't happen, but the rest will). Through his ACAC
show Info Wars, his canceled KJFK radio show, and such stunts as building a
chapel at the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Jones has gained notoriety.
Unlike a journalist or historian, a conspiracy theorist starts out with an
assumption, garners all information that supports their theory, and ignores or
discredits information that disagrees with it. Jones seems driven more by
getting media attention than any ideology. There are conspiracies everywhere and
the forces of evil are sweeping our country: Smart Growth, free trade, light
rail, Social Security, world government. Nefarious, usually unnamed,
international conspiracies are busy controlling our lives. Jones does not offer
specific political solutions (Jones' only solution actually is to encourage an
ever-increasing paranoia about everything).
I used to listen to Jones on the radio but eventually stopped because any
participation -- even just listening -- supported the show. Jones loves to rant.
Jones is the hero of most of his rants. There has never been anything he
supported except freedom and the Constitution. I can imagine him roaring, "That
is exactly the point!" -- except Jones uses them as straw men, props against
which to place all the conspiracies invading our daily life. Still, I was sorry
when KJFK took him off the air. I really think the society is richer for having
many different voices. I thought it was a cowardly decision.
Unfortunately, a number of ACAC producers think that Jones' respect and support
for freedom of speech ends with those voices with which he personally agrees.
The most recent controversy concerns Charlie Sotelo's The Show With No Name,
which has been suspended by ACAC. At least partially at issue is Jones' role in
The Show being taken off the air. Jones denies he had anything to do with it,
and ACAC Board President John Villareal backs him up. There is also the concern,
however, about how active Jones has been in monitoring other shows, especially
those he doesn't like. Read Lee Nichols' piece on Jones and ACAC ("Mad TV," p.
34) and Marc Savlov's piece on Charlie Sotelo ("Access Denied," p. 36) and
decide for yourself. On behalf of the staff, I ask that this not become a
catalyst for becoming part of Jones' audience.
Charlie Sotelo works for us at SXSW (us being managing director Roland Swenson,
Nick Barbaro, and myself). Specifically Sotelo works on the film conference and
festival. On Austin cable access, he has hosted The Show With No Name. Currently
he is facing a 90-day suspension for showing a Nike commercial directed by David
Fincher (Fight Club, The Game). Complaints were filed against Sotelo because
access shows can't show commercials. Even though this Nike commercial was old
and for a product no longer manufactured and clearly shown as an early work of
an interesting director, it was decided that The Show violated this rule and
should be suspended.
Sotelo hosted this show long before he came to SXSW. In fact, one of the reasons
he came to our attention is because he hosts the show. I've never seen it. At
home we don't have cable. This is from no high moral anti-TV stance but because
I'm a hopeless addict. Give me a remote control, and I'll go all night, never
watching more than a minute of anything. So I haven't seen the show. Most
everyone I know raves about it.
Obscure beginning works by now-established talents are treasures to the film
enthusiast. Sotelo has given me many tapes, and I get a special thrill from bits
like Andy Kaufman's appearance as a contestant on The Dating Game for reasons
that have nothing to do with The Dating Game.
One can respect the ACAC board on this. It seems absurd to acknowledge this as a
commercial rather than a rare work in a director's filmography, but if they make
an exception this time, what happens when some group shoots some "arty
commercial" for a local event and wants to run it on access because of their
enthusiasm for it? The Sotelo exception could wreak havoc. Still, the shoes are
not even on the market any more, and shouldn't ACAC be a place to showcase
obscure but interesting works?
The board is trying to reach some compromise with Sotelo on The Show and
establish greater clarity regarding their policies. We'll see what happens. But
what is shocking is that Alex Jones, the anti-authoritarian guerrilla freedom
fighter, a champion of liberty, isn't leading the charge to reinstate Sotelo.
What is more shocking is the notion that he freely admits to filing complaints
against other broadcasters over the years. Vigilance and freedom, he reminds us
on his shows, are the main defenses of liberty, but he doesn't seem to respect
his own opinion, or anyone else's. end story
So, the Chronicle ran the articles and as expected, the feedback the next week
was pretty much 50/50. But for me there was a nagging problem. See... once upon
a time, i watched an interview that Charlie Rose gave to Christine Amonpour.
When he asked her about the journalists obligation to maintain neutrality in the
events going on in Yugoslavia, her answer was profound. She said that there
arises certain situations where neutrality towards the activities of a person or
a group is basically the same as endorsing that behavior.
In that regard, i wrote the following response to the Chronicle:
Radical Misinformation
To the Editor,
I was very impressed with your coverage of Alex Jones ["Media Clips," July 14].
It was extremely unbiased and I suspect it might have taken a considerable
amount of restraint to write this article. But in hindsight I have to wonder: Is
being unbiased when covering Alex Jones tantamount to endorsing him? Simply put,
he is a source of misinformation that many people listen to and believe without
question. In the early 90s we called them Dittoheads. Whether it be Jones'
claims that the Marines have some town in North Carolina under Martial Law (no
proof has been given of course), whether it be Jones decrying "We are at war
here, folks! Your government has declared war on you!" or be it Jones inability
to correctly recall how and why he got into (and lost) a fight in the ACAC
parking lot, the reality is that Alex Jones is incapable of distinguishing facts
from fantasy (if he indeed was jumped by four men, one with a knife, how is it
that he walked away alive and uncut?). It is my belief that in being unbiased
toward Jones, it is way of giving him tacit credibility.
Nonetheless, I commend the Chronicle on an outstanding editorial (Mr. Black's
"Page 2" comments) and especially Mr. Nichols' journalism. But ultimately Alex
Jones is to patriotism what Matt Drudge is to journalism and what hot dogs are
to meat. He is a lightening rod for radicals and he must be questioned and
discredited for each one of his unfounded claims.
Shelly (last name withheld)
ACTV/ACAC producer since 1992
If you'd rather see the letter in it's original context, including other letters
that both support and rally against Jones, feel free to have a look. To his
credit, i will admit that Jones HAS figured out some things. Namely that a
market based conciousness is a path to ruin. What he HASN'T figured out is:
journalism, accountability, credibility, social skills, production values, and
in my opinion, he still doesn't grasp the finer points of integrity nor honor
(or the rougher points for that matter). He also knows that when a people do not
excersise their right to free speech, that governments will take those rights
away. He's also got a clue that corporations will sacrifice individual rights
both here and abroad for the sake of quarterly profits. So, kudos to him for
those things.
The main point of my letter to the Chronicle is pretty much the same point as
the first part of my comments on him. That is, he is incapable of distinguishing
facts from fantasy. The reality is that he did get into a fight that he started.
He did get his -arse- whipped like a schoolyard -bee yatch-. He did get punched
in the nose by Charlie Sotelo because he (Jones) wanted Sotelo to lie for him
and when he (Sotelo) would not, Jones spit on him. If anyone doubts me, call his
show and ask about "The Parking Lot Incident". Then watch his reaction. If
nothing else, you'll find it a source of great amusement.
Oh... I'd like to add something here. It seems that Jones has recently found
that people have been reading the story about "The Parking Lot Incident". He's
asked an associate of mine to tell me to tell me to remove it, or so I've heard.
I guess if what i wrote wasn't factual, he would have filed suit by now; a
common tactic of his. Speaking of removing things, there's a board at ACAC where
any articles or letters that are published by the Chronicle or Austin American
Statesman. The letters supporting Jones are still there as is the article
regarding him and the editorial as well. There are a few pieces of mail that are
posted from people who wrote in to rally to his defense as well. My letter, the
one above, was there for a few days. It is gone now. I have taken the time to
print up a few nice copies of it, and I repost it every week. Needless to say,
it is taken down every week as well. I do not know who is doing it, but I know
they are a very petty minded, insecure coward.
So if you happen to be one of the lemmings who follow Jones around without an
iota of integrity (which is what it would take to follow someone like that),
then how can you justify putting any faith or stock in someone who CANNOT
distinguish fantasy from reality? Oh... nevermind. If you follow Jones, chances
are that you can't either.
Original Article:
Jarhead Jones
Here Ernst
Zundel Confirms Exactly What Incenses Me So About Web Tv's
Attacks on Jeff Rense, Alex Jones, Christopher Bollyn and Others:
Update On Ernst Zundel Thought Crime 'Trial'
From Ingrid
Rimland
10-21-6
irimland@mail.bellsouth.net
A brief update on the last two days'
hearings (October 19 and 20) in the Zundel case, followed by new hearing dates
for him as well as for Germar Rudolf, and concluded with a Zundel letter to a
young friend in Texas.
I had a call today from one of our
German attorneys. He reports the last two hearing days were wasted time and
money. All requests for defense expert witnesses and forensic documents were
brutally rejected. The mantra never changes: "The Holocaust can't be and will
not be disputed. It is self-evident!"
Nonetheless, additional hearing dates
have once again been set: There will be Zundel hearings as follows, all starting
at 9:00 A.M.:
November 10 November 17 November 30
December 1 December 7 December 8
In the same venue, the trial for Germar
Rudolf is to begin in Mannheim. The Germar Rudolf schedule is as follows:
November 14 November 16 December 4
December 6 December 21 January 10 January 22 January 29
To that, I should add a few anecdotal
touches which will find its way into the large screen feature movie that is
already playing in my head. After the presiding judge ruled sternly that the
audience was not to applaud when Ernst entered the courtroom, his friends simply
rose to show their respect. This, too, is now forbidden.
At some point, it seems, somebody
laughed the politically incorrect way - and was promptly filed 200 Euros - about
US$250 ! The fellow didn't have the money and was prepared to go to jail, but a
collection was taken up from the audience to spare him.
Additionally, the judge drew an amazing
conclusion when asked to allow the US FBI Report in Ernst's defense - a
seven-part report that states in clearest language that Ernst is not a "White
Supremacist" but, rather, a Revisionist, and that the case be closed. The judge
concluded that the defendant, Mr. Zundel, must surely have wickedly disguised
his antisemitism from the FBI investigation - another Zundel First!
What a clever man I have married!
I should also add, perhaps in passing,
that I received a bill from another German court that charges me some 300-plus
Euros out of a total of 5,000 Euros for "indexing" (censoring!) my venerable
website. I intend to tell them - borrowing from Oskar Wilde, I believe - that
since they charged me in my absence and convicted me in my absence, they might
as well shoot me in my absence!
The nerve these people have!
The letter below is a wistful one,
containing gentle snippets of this and that - a typical Zundel letter. While he
was still in the Canadian prison, starving and freezing, with his light turned
on night and day, Ernst wrote a touching letter to two grieving little girls in
Texas - two children that he never met, who were dealing with their parents'
separation - telling them that he was deeding them two equal land parcels on
Mars on which they could build their very own castles. So much by way of
preface:
October 9. 2006
Dear Curtis,
The trial is winding down and I wanted
to reach out beyond the barbed wire, the search lights, and the dogs to share
some snippets of thought gained in my new life here in the Gulag of Modern
Times. It's hard to decide where to start - I only have five pages, as you know.
So let me start with something frivolous
- and future-oriented. Mars! This past week I saw some absolutely stunning
photos of the Martian surface, close-ups of the Martian landscapes. They were
unbelievable, especially the Martian ice caps, the poles. Some of them were
taken by the Mars rovers and others by the European space probes - amazing
clarity! It made me think about the Martian real estate I bought as a lark some
years ago, which made me remember your daughters and their building lots on
Mars. So, I'm wondering how you and the girls are doing?
There has been an almost frenzied
increase in the amount of bad press our enemies have been subjected to of late.
In your letter of November 21, 2005 you outlined the list of neo-cons who were
not only being closely scrutinized, but who had in some cases even been charged
with serious crimes. So, now you can update your list and add Foley and his
coterie of sycophants and network of deviants.
Ingrid always told me that the real
crunch for the dysfunctional political elite in America would come when their
sexual deviations and criminal activities especially with children would come to
light. BBC and CNN news, which I can monitor from my cell, were full with
interviews, press conferences and contradictory claims and statements by former
aides of Foley's, former pages, etc. Add to this Hastert's obvious lies and
distortions - wow!
Watching all of this made me feel as if
I were in a time warp and was beamed down into the Roman Senate at the time of
Brutus and Julius Caesar's intrigues. The media showed some video clips of an
effetely prancing Foley, expounding on the virtues of "conservative family
values," about the dangers of "sexual predators," and how the Internet should be
"managed" by the government in order to prevent sexual predation of minors, how
he and his committee intended to "fix it," etc. etc. Disgusting!
All of Foley's lies made me recall a
letter my Canadian lady lawyer sent me recently, in which she mentioned another
book written by Professor Robert Hare entitled "Snakes in Suits," a follow up on
his book about psychopathology, "Without Conscience." Barbara wrote that Hare
largely investigated the psychopathological behavior of business tycoons and
various other professionals, the Ken Lay and Andrew Fastow types. Maybe you and
I should write a "Secrets Exposed" book, a follow up to Hare's work, entitled "Gansters
with Badges," or "Enforcers in Robes." We know the personality types and
profiles, and the modus operandi. Our work would do society a great deal of
good, by giving them the keys to the underworld, so to speak.
If anyone wants to understand the real
inner imperative of the elite, it is the knowledge of psychopathic behavior that
one must fully comprehend, and how the elites are using this aberrant
personality trait of theirs to their own advantage. One of my fellow prisoners,
one of a very few - a handful really with a broader vision - has been sharing a
book with me. The original title of the book, written in English, is Blowback:
The Cost of Empire. It's a very informative book - I was lent the German
version, which is more appropriately titled "Imperium erfällt," translated, "An
Empire disintegrates." The book details the consequences of America's foreign
policy aspirations and how by engaging in these actions, America has alienated
much of the rest of the world. It's clear that the author understands that
America is already in "full scale disintegration," and that it's probably too
late to do anything about it. Watching the news over these last weeks really
reinforces for me the author's thesis. He frankly illustrates many of the
ruthless methods of the empire and how it deals with and has dealt with
perceived enemies proactively. He laid bare the entrails of how the system works
- one area that you'll appreciate because of the insights you have gained with
your Congressman concerning my case. It might be a good idea to check that book
out of your local library and give it a good read. The author discusses how it
is that the empire [America] deals with so-called "terrorists," i.e. their
favorite phrase used against the Empire's critics and opponents. Here it is.
"It [The empire] utilized in these cases
its so-called "disruption strategy," a tactic to achieve the wearing down of the
terrorists - read "revisionists", my terminology, from now on used as a
substitute - which consists of making trouble for them worldwide. The goal is to
drive the [revisionists] out of their hiding places, in order that cooperative
police forces or spy agencies can arrest, detain and imprison them." I loved
that phrase, "cooperative police and agencies".
Quoting an Associated Press article, the
author continues:
"The CIA keeps its role secret and the
countries which in fact actually proceed against the suspected [revisionist]
carefully, in order to hide the role of the United States, unless they
themselves get into difficulty."
Now Curtis, that's exactly what has
happened in all of these overseas kidnappings - cases involving people like
myself, El Masrie in Germany, Arar in Canada, etc. Recently a Canadian
commission of Inquiry in Ottawa revealed the entire Arar case to the public.
They blew the lid right off the Canadian and US Government's lies. The Canadian
police, and Intelligence service [CSIS] just like the author noted, attempted to
cover up their collusion with the US Government - knowingly setting up an
innocent man. They did the very same to John Demjanjuk, sending him to be
tortured by a third government [Israel] in the Mid-East. They figured all along
that their criminal actions would never be uncovered; after all, they had the
government and media on their side. Fortunately for Arar, his wife, who was well
connected politically, was no pushover. Did you know that the Chief of Canada's
RCMP actually apologized to Maher Arar? Of course he was forced by public
pressure to do so, but nonetheless, that's quite a victory in some respects.
The patriotic and revisionists networks
in America and Canada have a lot to learn from Arar's wife. They have never
developed the ability to cooperate with one another. It requires a single-minded
determination, a pursuit that doesn't allow petty differences to divert the
[determination] necessary to drive a point home. For years I have known this,
and I knew this on the day the cuffs were snapped around my wrists in Tennessee.
Ingrid had illusions that there would be a groundswell of support, a worldwide
uproar, demonstrations and the like, but alas, in the end it seems there has
been more talk than action. The Left and Blacks are more active stateside in the
defense [against] cop killers than are our people, who have nothing more to do
than defend a pitiful handful of people imprisoned for nothing more than their
words. We revisionists have a job to do, and complaining won't get the word out
- so buckle down and get busy!
The "disruption strategy," was devised
by the CIA and used by Clinton's National Security advisor Richard Clarke, who
stayed on with the Bush Adminstration. Bush was pleased with Clarke's work
because it specifically exempted the CIA from the requirement to report to
Congress what they were and still are doing - that's why they can just "pick
up," people like me, Germar Rudolf, Arar and many others in the United States,
and deport them - no oversight whatsoever! That's why Congressman Ron Paul and
Congressman Dannemeier, Ingrid's friend, couldn't find any answers - there were
none.
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