NormaRegula said:
From your description, Jeep, it sounds like Jones is just doing what he does best: using highly-charged emotional rhetoric, with a few carefully-placed truths, to distract and then spur his followers on into a violent outcome.
Actually, this video wasn't Alex's usual ranting and raving. It was obvious that he feels strongly about the points he is making, but I did feel that he did a good job of shedding a lot of light on the topics that were covered. Alex did some but not all of the commentary and wasn't predominantly on-camera. The link to this video was included in a multi-forwarded email I received about a long-gone amusement park in Chicago. When I started viewing the link, it wasn't readily apparent that it was an Alex Jones video and he wasn't onscreen until 6:55 min into it. Instead, the following people, in addition to G. Edward Griffin, were featured: Gerald Celente, Trends Forecaster; Dr. Robert Bowman, Nuclear Engineer; Dr. Frances Boyle, Prof. of International Law; Max Keiser, Stock Trader & TV Host; Wayne Madsen, Author & Investigative Journalist; George Humphrey, Economist & Author; and Alan Watt, Author & Researcher. All of these people as well as Economist and author John Perkins and Prof. and former bank regulator William Black provided large chunks of commentary throughout the video.
The financial expose was really quite revealing - disturbingly so. It brought out that included in the $2.2 trillion bank bailout, 1/2 trillion went to FOREIGN banks and that Bernanke was claiming to NOT KNOW the names of those banks. There was a lot of footage covering the Federal Reserve and the fact that it has never, ever been audited. The Carbon Tax/Cap and Trade issue was central with much said by a climatologist who got labeled a "climate denier" and the political connotation of the word "denier". There were lots of clips of Congressional inquiries and since Obama is the current President, he and his administration are the focus. But both parties and past administrations get called out including Bush, Cheney and company. It was being categorically pronounced that the corporate elite including bankers are the real powers in charge - a group that transcends nations. Another disturbing factor was the supposed indoctrination of Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts by Homeland Security which certainly brought to mind the Hitler youth connection.
Certainly there is the Alex Jones' hyper patriotism/let's be afraid, very afraid element present in this work. BUT, I feel he has presented a very solid and valid case to justify the existence of a very real threat, a threat that most Americans either are not adequately comprehending or are too entranced by any number of diversions to even be seriously aware of it. Extremely scary numbers are being presented in this video which absolutely goes along with many of the articles featured in Sott.net's Grand Theft Economics. This presentation does make what happened a lot more understandable and that the biggest fraud in the history of western civilization has taken place. The truthfulness of that is absolutely alarming no matter who is saying it.
Part 2 focuses on Oath Keepers, the garnering of military persons who will take the oath to defend this nation and the Constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic. Again, I think a very solid case is presented and that there should be valid concern about the militarization of our police forces and their willingness to act against the American people. There appears to be only 2 segments comprising Part 2, totaling about 15 min.
The C's have indicated that what happened in Nazi Germany is going/being played out here in the U.S. Plenty of discussions in this forum and articles on Sott.net give witness to these things happening. Have not forum members expressed concern and alarm regarding these occurrences? Isn't the purpose of posting the articles on Sott.net to raise awareness? Even though Alex Jones couches his particular brand of awareness raising in patriotic, defend the Constitution themes, this video nonetheless reveals an awful lot of timely, pertinent information - information that is far more likely to reach a greater audience than this forum or Sott.net can hope to achieve. To me, that's a good point - maybe it can wake people up better than what we or those similar to us are doing. Granted, the very big bad point is that the hyper-Patriotic fervor can easily morph into guns and violence. I'm not sure how that aspect can be mitigated because whether people wake up because of what we are doing or wake up because of what Alex Jones is doing, either way the reality of our existence is genuinely very scary and alarming. Of course, our solution is to recognize we are machines running on programs and that there is a breathing/meditation method that will counteract that and a lot of other bad stuff.
Again, it was my desire to elicit comments from those who have actually viewed this video and not a reiteration of predetermined opinions based on what Alex Jones has already put out there. Let me rephrase the question - what are the merits of this video? I'm not opposed to the idea that Alex Jones is a tool of the oligarchs he seemingly is exposing in this video, but does the Wake Up factor outweigh the Scare and Arm Yourself factor?
