Jonesing

LISTENING TO ALEX JONES experiencing his eureka moment in court evoked a mixture of utter contempt and head shaking pity, not so much for him, for the bizarre scam job he has done on millions of radio followers, and for what he has put people through who have already been through much too much. Having bleated for years that the Sandy Hook elementary school massacre was a hoax perpetrated by the "deep state" within the federal government for the purpose of collecting ammunation to justify banning assault rifles and taking good people's guns away from them, now, he waxes realistic, if not overtly contrite. Where he belongs, according to anyone with decent moral values, is in prison. Where he actually is is in court, as the court determines his liability and damages, he having already been convicted of civil charges. IN a predictable but disgusting attempt to avoid the huge financial settlement the court is likely to impose on him, he is also in bankruptcy court, although he is well known to be very well off financially. When one spends decades alluring the gullible with tales of the fantistically untrue, in this country, one gets rich, sometimes quickly. so he sat in court, all demure, and simply said, "I understand now that the Sandy Hook massacre really happened, and I never relly intended to hurt anybody, I never even used anyone's name". For that alone he richly deserves what was once called a "swift kick in the posterior". Witnesses said that when Jones issued his sorta pseudo mea culpa there were tears in his eyes, and he was perspiring profusely. Prsion is as good a place as any to cry and sweat. The Alex Jone's of the world have alwasy been an insidious infection in American culture, which itself originated and grew as a sort of scam, a culture of huxters. The internet merely magnifies and expands what is and has always been there, usually, in the past, in a religious guise. American culture is an incubator for newly born religions, various twisted versions of christianity. When we secularize nonsense, it takes the form of some imaginary "deep state", and a never ending slew of conspiracy assertions, assertions, because those who present "conspiracy theories" never present them as "theories", but rather, as proven, absolute fact. How else could they gain credibility, even among the gullible? P.T. Barnum may have said that "Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people". Well, depending on what happens in the penalty phase of Alex Jone's civil lawsuit, and what happens to him in bankruptcy court, someone may indeed go broke underestimating, if not the intelligence, the resolve of the American people and the victims of its violent culture. You'd be hard pressed to think of a more deserving criminal than Alex Jones, in or out of prison.