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Media Attempts to Link Alex Jones to Pittsburgh Shooter
Infowars
April 5, 2009
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has posted an article on its website by Dennis R. Roddy attempting to link Richard Poplawski, the Pittsburgh man accused of killing three police officers on April 4, to radio talk show host Alex Jones.
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| “Believing most media were covering up important events, Mr. Poplawski turned to a far-right conspiracy Web site run by Alex Jones, a self-described documentarian (sic) with roots going back to the extremist militia movement of the early 1990s.” | |
“Believing most media were covering up important events, Mr. Poplawski turned to a far-right conspiracy Web site run by Alex Jones, a self-described documentarian (sic) with roots going back to the extremist militia movement of the early 1990s,” writes Roddy.
Alex Jones is a paleoconservative and is not connected to the so-called militia movement. The militia movement Roddy mentions is largely a creation of the FBI, the Anti-Defamation League, the Southern Poverty Law Center, and the corporate media. Timothy McVeigh and the Nichols brothers — fingered as the poster children of the militia movement by the corporate media — were not connected to an established militia. “Militia units in Michigan wanted nothing to do with them,” Mack Tanner wrote for Reason Magazine in July of 1995. Tanner documents how the myth of a violent and even racist militia movement is the creation of the government and the corporate media.
Muriel Kane, writing for Raw Story, and Eric Boehlert’s blog on the Media Matters website reference the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette story in an effort to connect Alex Jones to the Philly shooting.
According to Kane, the alleged cop killer Poplawski read Prison Planet and found the information there “disturbing.” Kane specifically mentions a September 24, 2008 article by Paul Joseph Watson, U.S. Troops In Homeland “Crowd Control” Patrols From October 1st.
In the article Watson reports on the deployment of the 3rd Infantry Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team from duty in Iraq to the United States for the purpose of “civil unrest and crowd control” under the control of the Northern Command. This information was reported on September 8 by the Army Times.
However, it was apparently not disturbing enough to be reported by much of the corporate media, as noted by Salon’s Glenn Greenwald, who is hardly a frothing radical. “As is typical, very few members of the media even mentioned any of this, let alone discussed it,” he wrote on September 24. In October, CNN reported on the deployment.
The militarization of state and local law enforcement and the deployment of battle-hardened soldiers for the stated – by Northern Command – purpose of “civil unrest and crowd control” in violation of the Posse Comitatus Act are not extremist conspiracy theories — they are facts largely ignored by the corporate media. In many cases Alex Jones is the only source reporting this information.
If not for Alex Jones and his journalists, the Missouri Information Analysis Center would still be in the business of designating Ron Paul, Chuck Baldwin, and Bob Barr as dangerous leaders of a violent “Modern Militia Movement.”
Kane would have us believe Prison Planet and Alex Jones shaped Poplawski’s worldview and somehow radicalized him to the point where he shot three policemen to death. According to the writer, Prison Planet was a sort of stepping stone that led Poplawski to “far more extreme sources” of information, in particular the white supremacist website Stormfront.
Kane’s insinuations, however, pale when compared to the those of Eric Boehlert, who cites the neocon blog Little Green Footballs (these are odd bedfellows: Media Matters is operated by the former neocon turned lib David Brock and LGF is a pet project of Charles Johnson, who describes himself as a lib before the false flag attacks of September 11, 2001).
“We’ve also learned, via the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, that Poplawski was an avid fan of conspiracist and radical talk show host Alex Jones. A ‘freak,’ was how the conservative web blog, Little Green Footballs, described Jones today,” writes Boehlert on the Media Matters blog, County Fair. “Who’s been mainstreaming the ‘freak’ Alex Jones in recent days? Who’s been embracing his loony conspiratorial rants and giving them a platform and legitimacy? Fox News, course.”
This is a reference to Alex’s appearance on Judge Napolitano’s “Freedom Watch” program on March 18, 2009. During a simulcast Alex was asked by Napolitano what he was talking about on his show that day and Alex responded by saying he was covering numerous references to the New World Order in the corporate media (see the video here). According to Boehlert and Johnson, these mainstream news stories are “loony conspiratorial rants” and a disgrace to Fox News, never mind Obama, Gordon Brown, Henry Kissinger, and other establishment figures have taken to using the phrase repeatedly over the last few months and particularly since the G20 summit in London.
- A d v e r t i s e m e n t
As of this writing, a Google News search pulls up 52,136 matches to the search criteria “New World Order,” including matches from the likes of Bloomberg, the New York Times, the Financial Times, and other stalwart establishment newspapers and news outlets. Are we to assume the editors and publishers of AFP and the Wall Street Journal are loony too?
“During his webcast on FoxNews.com, Alex Jones also notes with pride how FNC’s Glenn Beck has recently been warning about the emerging New World Order on the air, just like Jones,” writes Boehlert. As should be obvious, there are distinct differences between Glenn Beck and Alex Jones, but Boehlert is not interested in pointing out such differences. Instead, he conflates all under the rubric of the “GOP Noise Machine,” even though Alex Jones is as opposed to the policies of the GOP as he is of those of the Democrats.
Finally, it should be noted that on numerous occasions Alex Jones has advocated non-violence and advised listeners to avoid confrontation with the police and authorities. None of the critics cited above have bothered to note this fact as they attempt to make a connection between the deranged Poplawski and Jones.
In the days ahead, we should expect the corporate media and liberal and neocon blogs to further link Jones to Poplawski and the Pittsburgh shootings. In this way the government, corporate media, and blogs on either side of the false right-left paradigm will attempt to discredit the message broadcast by Alex Jones — a message warning about the evils of a government controlled by international bankers who are determined to disarm the American people in order to impose slavery upon them.
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April 6th, 2009 at 4:49 am
This is a further attempt by the media to label anyone who speaks of the NWO as a rightwing conspiracy racist, although it has become mainstream news and has manifested into the centralized banking beast that has been described by many of us in the movement for decades.
This is a weird dichotomy, myself for example could be labeled as a card carrying Obama youth upon visual judgment.
No mention of the fact that we are the same people who exposed Bush’s NWO agenda and the fact he was a puppet as well, shattering their false left-right paradigm.
We are having such an effect exposing their true agenda that they are now truly going after us hardcore. Just means we have an audience and we fight back with our accumulated information.
I’m working on exposing these ridiculous facts myself in some articles I’m working on.
Keep up good work infowarriors, the battle has just reached a new level
April 6th, 2009 at 4:50 am
Mass media has put out the FEAR MACHINE!
PEOPLE OWN GUNS!!!!
Fear , fear, fear… panic, panic, panic…. What if a child gets a hold of a gun! Lock them away… these evil war mongers with guns! FEAR FEAR FEAR, PANIC PANIC PANIC… They don’t even test people to see if they are mentally stable to own a gun! FEAR, FEAR, FEAR!!! Look how EASY it is to get a gun!!!
Once they plant the seeds of fear in the masses… the gun grab will commence shortly. For our own good.
Molon Labe MF’s
April 6th, 2009 at 4:55 am
Well to the cops out there do not worry I am not going too shoot you. Actually a COP and EX military OFFICER got me into Prison Planet. UN on gun rights! reformation.org/united-nations.html
Charles Reply:
April 6th, 2009 at 10:32 am
The image of a pistol, twisted into a knot, is sickening to those who keep and bare arms…
Many of the police and military are great men and women, many of my friends are amongst their ranks, and we should all feel safer because of them.
That being said, once these men and women fail to uphold their obligations and duties, when they forget about the Constitution, and the people… then we are all in trouble. 100 million gun owners, if just 1% of them fight gun grabs, etc… it will be a bloody savage war, period.
As this guy in Pittsburgh showed, body armor does no good on a head shot…if the real shit hits the fan, and that 1% take out 3 police or military a piece, that’s 3 million dead… that would be one horrible, savage war… just based on the actions of one lone lunatic.
I am in no way advocating what this nut job did… he makes everyone here look bad…
April 6th, 2009 at 5:38 am
I fear now for the significant others of environmental activists. Back in 1977 Ira Einhorn, who was a big environmental activist and claimed to be one of the people responsible for creating “Earth Day”, murdered his girlfriend, Holly Maddux.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ira_Einhorn
Based on the “if A then B” reasoning of the mainstream media, all of these enviornmental folks are unstable and need to be shunned.
Seriously, the more the mainstream media does these smear pieces on people who are doing the job THEY SHOULD be doing, the more it shows its true ugly colors.
April 6th, 2009 at 5:58 am
ALEX JONES REPORTS THE TRUTH THAT “THEY” WANT TO HIDE, IF WHAT ALEX IS DOING IS WRONG, AND NOT THE TRUTH, WHAT DO “THEY” HAVE TO FEAR? THOSE THAT KNOW THE “TRUTH” DO NOT FEAR, ONLY SPEAK THE TRUTH, FOR THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE FROM THE LIES OF THE NWO. THE TRUTH IS, ALEX CARES ABOUT OUR FREEDOMS, “THEY” DO NOT! ” THEY WANT TO TAKE OUR FREEDOMS AWAY, AND TAKE CONTROL OF US, TO MAKE US SLAVES, IN BONDAGE TO THE NEW WORLD ORDER WHICH IS EVIL. SO SHALL WE JUST BOW DOWN TO THE NWO? OR SHALL WE STAND TALL, AND SPEAK OUT FOR OUR FREEDOM, I SURELY WILL NOT BE SILENT, I SHALL SPEAK THE TRUTH ABOUT THIS EVIL NWO ” THEY” ARE BRING ON THIS EARTH! STAND TALL, IF YOU HAVE A BACK BONE, SPEAK THE TRUTH “THEY” DON’T WANT US TO TELL! REMEMBER ONE DAY YOU, AS WELL AS I ,SHALL FACE THE TRUE HOLY GOD! THEN WHAT WILL YOU SAY? I WAS A SCARED, BUT HE SHALL SAY I GIVE NO SPIRIT OF FEAR, ONLY OF TRUTH, IN TRUTH THERE IS NO FEAR.
April 6th, 2009 at 6:03 am
Are the Marines creating mancherian canidates or what? It seems as though they send these time bombs back into society to wreak havoc.
April 6th, 2009 at 6:04 am
Im from Australia.I watch fox news somtimes.how they feed us this bullshit s beyond me.
really. americans wake up ffs. ive been following this shit for a long time. you want all your rights taken from yas just let them keep on discriminating ppl for freedom of speech. the more guns they confiscate the more power they have. its all about power in the end.they do this coz they know they are untouchable.Unless ppl do somthing about it.Who i dont know but sooner or later your ppl of your country will relise what is really going on and it might be to late.I love americans but your government in my eyes arent true americans. they are becoming very smart dictators and pullin the wool over all of your eyes.
April 6th, 2009 at 6:17 am
What’s the big deal? Most of the thinking world thinks (accurately) that Alex Jones is a propagandist fraud anyway.
Jeremy Reply:
April 6th, 2009 at 7:38 am
Alex Jones is a propagandist for reporting on articles written by NY Times, Bloomberg, Financial Times, Army Times CNN, MSNBC, Fox, CNBC, and others? All he does is talk about whats in the news every day, whats crazy about that?? All he does is give out official government, NGO, & think-tank documents… how is that propaganda. Thats called INFORMING.
Mike Hunt Reply:
April 6th, 2009 at 8:15 am
“Alex Jones is a propagandist for reporting on articles written by NY Times, Bloomberg, [etc.]…”
No (and I did not indicate so). Alex Jones is a propagandist because Alex Jones is a propagandist, not because he reports on articles.
Hopeless Intellectual Reply:
April 6th, 2009 at 9:10 am
Everything is a form of propaganda….It is the intent that matters, idiot. AJ informs people about propaganda and in turn has his own propaganda. So quit playing semantics like the Neocon trash and look at content and motivation when examining propaganda….
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April 6th, 2009 at 9:29 am
Quotation by Hopeless Intellectual:
“Everything is a form of propaganda….It is the intent that matters, idiot. AJ informs people about propaganda and in turn has his own propaganda. So quit playing semantics like the Neocon trash and look at content and motivation when examining propaganda….”
For someone who considers himself an intellectual, you are….well….otherwise.
April 6th, 2009 at 7:27 am
The man that wrote the article is aware that he is lying in making these false connections.
Get used to it though. This is a common tactic. About 30 to 40 percent of the U.S. population will never wake up but that’s ok. Most people see through this fraudulent reporting.
Mike Hunt Reply:
April 6th, 2009 at 8:17 am
Yes. Kurt Nimmo is indeed a fraud. Keen insight on your part. The 30-40 percent (how do you generate those figures, I wonder) of the people you say “will never wake up” is more like 2-5 percent and are called “truthers.”
April 6th, 2009 at 7:40 am
I thought the “media” reported he could not speak english. How in the heck can he follow along during a broadcast? This guy did what he did “according to reports” because he cant communicate: which means he did not have the ability to understand proper english or its slang. He might have been a listener to the show but obviously he did not understand what was being said.
April 6th, 2009 at 7:45 am
OOPs That was wierd I was thinking of the NY shooter NEVERMIND
April 6th, 2009 at 7:47 am
Hope ya all get a good laugh anyway, I am embarrased but laughing like crazy.
April 6th, 2009 at 7:58 am
Eh, any PR is good PR, no? Even if it is due to a shooting, people will be talking about Jones, which means that some will have to contemplate, even if only for a moment, his message.
April 6th, 2009 at 8:14 am
interesting that the muriel kane article has now been edited to remove the reference to Paul Joseph Watson’s article! with an editor’s note at the bottom saying the first article was published without permission….
April 6th, 2009 at 8:22 am
Alex has what it takes to beat the wolves down at the door, just like Chuck Baldwin.
April 6th, 2009 at 8:34 am
the media are criminal;s along with our criminal worthless leaders
April 6th, 2009 at 9:05 am
Let me guess….Alex is a “gateway” terrorist like Pot is a “gateway” drug. More mainstream psych babble!! I also find the information on Alex’s site disturbing!! It is because it is TRUE!!
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April 6th, 2009 at 9:27 am
In your mind.
April 6th, 2009 at 9:09 am
Just google “CIA Operation Mockingbird” and you will know how
and why the “mainstream media” is bought and sold.
April 6th, 2009 at 10:00 am
Alex Jones is probably partially responsible…and is partially crazy…
BobbieJo Reply:
April 6th, 2009 at 10:31 am
Jason nobody cares what you type on here. Seen your crap posts on prison planet. Go back to your class before you get suspended.
April 6th, 2009 at 11:05 am
The media instead of making it what it was, a domestic disturbance that turned violent, wants to attack the growing TRUTH MOVEMENT. Same ole Saw. It could very well have been a story of economic collapse that made the situation turn deadly as well. Much like the poster with the John Birch Society on it during the parade the day JFK was murdered, this will be held up as a example that INFOWARS is a radical idea, a CONSPIRACY idea. JBS did not have access to the media like the internet that WE have today to fight the implication being made via the peoples network. So, it will fall to us to show that it was just a domestic dispute. Alex Jones has done a great job of doing that today on Mondays show, and that needs to be posted on our blogs, and you tube sites. It may be the first event, but it won’t be the last as the information about what really is going on gets out. Of course, by talking about Alex Jones in the media, more that do not know what is going on will google their way here, and when they read the real factual news, more will stay here. This Bankster economic squeeze will lead to more deaths, it is what they desire to do.
April 6th, 2009 at 12:03 pm
Obviously, the young man had other problems. I listen to Alex everyday and it doesn’t make me want to barricade myself in and want to shoot people!! If it wasn’t for Alex I would still be a dumbed down sheeple. Alex never tells us what to do but to decide for ourselves within the law and to never use violence.
People with common sense and stableminds are not gonna go off the wall like this young man. Clearly there were other problems with him.
April 6th, 2009 at 2:37 pm
“For some time now there has been a pretty good connection between being sucked into this conspiracy world and propagating violence,” said Heidi Beirich, director of research at the Southern Poverty Law Center and an expert on political extremists. She called Mr. Poplawski’s act, “a classic example of what happens when you start buying all this conspiracy stuff.”
oh Heidi Heidi Heidi… tsk tsk.
April 6th, 2009 at 6:52 pm
Alex, while I don’t agree with ALL of what you say and report and sometimes find contradictions; we’re ALL prone to such. What I will say though is this: You’re obviously having an impact on these elitist SOBs so keep up the good work Alex. Enough people have a logical mind to be able to grasp what the smear campaigners are doing and why.
When they have to smear the likes of you and Ron Paul etc, then they are definitely worried.
April 8th, 2009 at 9:13 pm
This topic is quite hot on the Internet at the moment. What do you pay the most attention to while choosing what to write ?
April 15th, 2009 at 7:35 am
I can tell that this is not the first time at all that you mention this topic. Why have you decided to touch it again?