On Monday, conspiracy theorist and sometimes Fox News guest Alex Jones claimed that the killing of three people in Las Vegas on Sunday was "absolutely staged" by the federal government. "There is so much proof of this being staged yesterday, when I first read about it, and this morning, that my mind exploded with hundreds of data points, and quite frankly it's conclusive."
what eye thynk: Alex Jones is an idiot...and dangerous. The idiot part should be obvious to anyone with functioning brain matter. What makes him dangerous is the people out there who lack that attribute. They are listening to "The Alex Jones Show," his Austin, Texas based syndicated news/talk show and believing everything this nutcase says.
These are the sort of people who walk around carrying assault rifles and looking for someone to object to their "look at me, I'm a gun owner" posturing so they can holler anti-government slogans into the wind. The sort of people who swallow the conspiracy garbage spewed forth by narcissistic haranguers like Alex Jones. The sort of people who the NRA, Fox News and far right-conservative screamers continue to encourage with the use of more and more escalating and inflammatory rhetoric. The sort of people who become the Tea Party couple who executed two Las Vegas police officers who were doing nothing more contentious than eating lunch at a family friendly Cici's Pizza restaurant. This couple, who believed they had been called to "start the revolution," draped one officer's body in a Tea Party-affiliated flag before moving on to kill another innocent American who was doing nothing more nefarious than shopping at his local Wal-Mart on a Sunday afternoon.
Organizations like the NRA and those who support their "guns-are-the-answer" oratory have created an American sub-culture that courts violence. It is a bottom-feeding aesthetic that favors confrontation over conversation and exploits the intellectually unfavored among us with the promise of ascendancy garnered through the ownership and public display of guns--more guns, bigger guns, faster guns, louder guns, more powerful guns.
This is not moral. This is not honorable. This is not noble. It is the dissolution of ethical civilization and the shaming of America on the world stage. It is cowardice.
It is said that great civilizations begin to decline after 200 years as their leaders become apathetic and the weakest begin to fill the vacuum left by the strongest's inability to move beyond complacent torpor. The United States of America is 238 years old. Think about it. And weep.
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