Alex Jones (radio host)

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Alex Jones (2017)

Alexander Emerick Jones (born February 11, 1974 in Dallas ) is an American right-wing radio host , entrepreneur and conspiracy theorist . Among other things, he claimed that global elites were establishing a dictatorial New World Order , that the US government was involved in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 and that Barack Obama was not a born US citizen , which is why he was legally not allowed to hold the office of president . It also denies global warming and spreads misinformation about the COVID-19 pandemic . Jones sells various products via online marketing , some of which are related to the conspiracy theories he has spread. As of August 2018, his channels were permanently blocked on several social platforms .

Life

Jones grew up in Rockwall , a suburb of Dallas. His father is a dentist. After graduating from Anderson High School in northwestern Austin in 1993, he briefly attended Austin Community College . He began his career in Austin with a live calling format on cable television. In 1996, Jones moved to KJFK with a show called The Final Edition . In 1998 he released his first film America Destroyed By Design .

Jones was married to Kelly Jones, whom he divorced in 2015. There were three children from this marriage. In 2017, Kelly won the right to determine residence , and the children have lived with her ever since.

In 1998, Jones supporters sought for the construction of a memorial for federal officials and members of the sect, during the storming of the headquarters of the sect Branch Davidians by the federal agency ATF near Waco had been killed, Texas. These efforts often left Jones in his show flow in which he claimed that Koresh and his followers "peaceful people", were carried out on behalf of the Attorney General of the United States , Janet Reno murdered siege in Waco, the ATF in have been. In 1999, Jones, along with Shannon Burke, was voted Austin Best Radio Host by readers of the Austin Chronicle . That same year, Jones was fired from KJFK. The station's operations manager said Jones was fired because his views made it difficult for the station to sell the show to the advertising industry and because Jones refused to expand its tendentious range of topics. In the spring of 2000, Jones was one of seven Republican candidates for the Texas House of Representatives in constituency 48. Jones said he would be a "domestic watchdog." He abandoned his campaign and withdrew his candidacy in March when initial poll results suggested he had little chance of winning.

In 2001 and 2006 he worked in two feature films by director Richard Linklater as an actor . In Waking Life and A Scanner Darkly, he played angry speakers who shouted their speeches into the streets with megaphones .

Jones repeatedly came into conflict with the authorities. On June 8, 2006, while on the way to filming a meeting of the Bilderberg group in Ottawa , he was arrested by the Canadian authorities at Ottawa Airport and questioned and searched without result. On September 8, 2007, he was arrested in New York City for using a megaphone at an intersection without permission .

Media entrepreneur and online retailer

Jones operates a daily radio broadcast, the infowars.com website, and prisonplanet.com Internet-based television station . He uses around a quarter of his airtime to advertise DVDs, which he produces and markets himself, as well as his merchandising products in particular : Jones sells firearms, cosmetic products, potency pills and dietary supplements, among other things; the revenue from this business accounts for over two-thirds of his company's total revenue. He also sells drugs that are said to promote independent thinking or protect against the feminizing effects of certain poisons that he believes are deliberately released by conspirators within the US government. This business model of fueling irrational fears and at the same time selling supposed antidotes has been criticized many times. The American political scientist Michael Barkun calls Jones the “leading American conspiracy entrepreneur of the present day”, the German Americanist Michael Butter calls him the “commercially most successful conspiracy theorist [...] probably in the whole world”.

The Alex Jones Show is broadcast nationwide on the Genesis Communications Network on more than 60 medium and ultra-short wave radio stations in the United States and on the shortwave service WWCR Nashville . Since 2010, he has also been able to spread his opinions regularly on Russia Today (RT) TV channel .

Termination of Services on Social Media and Other Services

In July 2018, Facebook blocked Jones' personal account for 30 days for repeated violations of community guidelines and threatened to delete his page completely. Jones had a YouTube channel with 2.4 million subscribers until August 2018 . YouTube deleted four of its videos for hate speech and child endangerment in July 2018. This was the second deletion; in the case of a third, the channel was permanently blocked. This came about at the beginning of August 2018 after Apple also removed five out of six podcasts with texts by Jones from iTunes . In addition to Facebook and Youtube, Spotify , Pinterest and Youporn have now also removed its content from their pages and blocked his accounts on the grounds that Jones glorified violence in inhuman language and made immigrants , transgender and Muslims contemptible. Jones described the actions of the other Internet companies as " censorship ". Twitter initially did not join the lockdowns. On August 15, 2018, Twitter also suspended Jones' account for a week for inciting violence in violation of company guidelines. In September 2018, all accounts related to Alex Jones and Infowars were permanently blocked. At the end of September 2018, PayPal ended its collaboration with Alex Jones.

Views and positions

Jones is described as populist , right-wing, or far-right. He sees himself as libertarian or paleoconservative . He supported the 2012 presidential campaign of Republican politician Ron Paul . He stressed the need to preserve the rights enshrined in the American constitution , such as freedom of expression and the right to own weapons . In his opinion, these values ​​threatened to be eroded with the USA PATRIOT Act of October 2001 and its tightening in the Patriot Act II . The massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School , in which twenty children died, was in fact faked by the government at the time with the help of actors in order to be able to restrict the right to gun ownership. These claims contributed Jones in the spring 2018 ads for libel ( defamation ) one - parents of six children killed in Sandy Hook filed a lawsuit. Jones stated that he "only criticized the PR and the debate about Sandy Hook, but was quick to believe that the mass murder had actually taken place, even if this was doubted in public."

As the Swiss journalist Roger Schawinski notes, Jones is a “supporter of all current conspiracy theories”. Mostly he spreads that the democratically elected governments, including President Obamas, are in truth only figureheads and front men for the true power elites of business people who are secretly working to establish a “ New World Order ”. The political scientist Michael Barkun sees in this recurring basic assumption that nothing is what it seems, and behind everything there is a threatening, secret reality, a typical feature of conspiracy theories. In the framework of interpretation of this “super conspiracy theory”, Jones, as Michael Butter writes, easily integrates all possible events, so that he never runs out of material for his programs. Jones claims that the conspirators regularly murder unwelcome accomplices and that he himself received numerous death threats. The question of the BBC -journalists David Aaronovitch why he ever was alive ( "If they wanted to kill, they would not threaten"), he left unanswered.

Jones' criticism of the elite of the democratically illegitimate economic power of Wall Street , of the European financial world and of the globalized economy goes seamlessly into more religious or morally justified accusations when he assumes the same elites, unchristian, " Canaanite " rituals, sexual debauchery and unnatural practices through to making sacrifices by children. In this context, he expressed himself in interviews on the Franklin cover-up scandal of 1989/1990. It was about allegations of child abuse with a partly satanic-ritual background against US politicians, which could never be proven. Jones presented their own research about the alleged use of Masonic symbols in Washington, DC , the Bohemian Grove and the membership of both President George W. Bush as well as the challenger in the 2004 election campaign, John Kerry , the secret society Skull & Bones of Yale University to . Here too he sees signs of a satanic world conspiracy against the USA. According to the social psychologist Jovan Byford, these ideas are rooted in a socially conservative agenda and in the imagination of medieval anti-Judaism with its allegations of ritual murder . In 2002, a 37-year-old US citizen was motivated by Jones's wild assertions to enter the Bohemian Grove grounds, heavily armed, in order to end the ritual violence that was supposedly common there. The police arrested him in time.

Jones also claims that Osama bin Laden was not killed on May 2, 2011 , but was dead long before that. However, he was frozen in order to be able to report his shooting at a suitable time. Jones claims to have forecast the September 11, 2001 attacks in July 2001. In fact, he had warned against a repeat of the 1993 bombing on behalf of the government. In 2011 he declared that he had correctly predicted the bankruptcy of the American economy in 2009, but that it has not yet occurred. According to American religious scholar David G. Robertson, Jones' various prophecies have essentially remained the same since 1995.

Jones is an avowed climate denier . He considers global warming to be a myth that was invented by the global elite in order to be able to introduce new taxes.

Jones is one of the most prominent representatives of the Birther movement, which questions the legitimacy of Obama's presidency, since he is in fact a Kenyan-born Muslim. Inspired by these suspicions, in November 2011 the mentally ill Oscar Ortega attempted to shoot the President he believed to be the Antichrist after watching Jones' film The Obama Deception . The attack failed.

Jones claimed until 2016 that the US government or the “New World Order” that controls it was responsible for the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 in the sense of a false flag operation . He also claimed that he had predicted the attacks, but in fact he had only vaguely talked about a "second bomb attack in Oklahoma City " that the government allegedly planned. In 2007 he produced the second edition of the conspiracy theory film Loose Change . In the 2015/16 presidential election campaign , he changed his mind about the attacks. Since then, Jones has no longer portrayed his own government as the guilty party, but rather Muslims . In doing so, he adapted himself to the Republican candidate Donald Trump , who he supported , who claimed that he had seen with his own eyes how Arabs in New Jersey saw the collapse of the Twin towers would have cheered.

In the 2016 American presidential election campaign , Jones stood behind Trump early on, who also appeared on his show and identified himself as a fan. Jones justified this in his broadcasts, among other things, with the fact that Trump's Democratic rival Hillary Clinton , like his predecessor Obama, are demons who literally smell of sulfur; Behind them is an international conspiracy from which only Trump can protect the United States. In this context, Jones also spread the rumors of the so-called Pizzagate scandal. Afterwards, there was massive sexual abuse of children in the basement of the Washington Pizzeria Comet Ping Pong , and the presidential candidate Clinton was also involved. Once again one of his listeners was motivated by this to storm the alleged crime scene, heavily armed. None of Jones' claims were proven to be true. After the election, he said he was personally called by Trump, who thanked him for his help in the election campaign. On March 24, 2017, Jones stated on his website that what he had said about Comet Ping Pong was based on an "incorrect narrative" and apologized to the owner and employees.

After the radical right march in Charlottesville in August 2017, he said that Jewish actors had marched through the city disguised as Ku Klux Klan demonstrators to provoke clashes. After a racially motivated assassin shot 22 people in El Paso (Texas) in August 2019 , Jones speculated on infowars.com that since the massacre only benefits the “liberal elite”, the “ deep state ” could be behind it.

Jones spreads misinformation about the COVID-19 pandemic . He denies the existence of the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 , which triggered the pandemic . This is a "hoax". In March 2020 he had assured that a toothpaste he had sold would work reliably as an antiviral agent against all SARS corona viruses (“kills the whole SARS corona family at point-blank range”). Letitia James , Attorney General of New York State forbade him from repeating these claims.

Methods, style and criticism

Jones maintains a brisk style and is known for his emotionally charged speeches and his generally passionate temperament, which, together with his positions, has earned him the accusation of a lack of seriousness. His critics regard him as a pure conspiracy theorist who systematically uses lurid exaggerations, distortions and scare tactics in order to reach an appropriate audience and benefit financially from them. The journalist Nick Abbe considers Jones to be part of the John Birch Society and uses the example of "Alex Jones [to show], who is a prominent and controversial member of the 'Truther' in the USA [...], how information - from dubious sources [ z. Partly right-wing extremists], launched from a politically questionable environment - filtered. ”Jones' websites have been accused of spreading fake news from various sources .

The question of the extent to which Jones himself believes in the conspiracy theories he has spread was discussed publicly in April 2017 in connection with a trial for custody of his three children. Jones' ex-wife argued in court that his outbursts in front of the camera, his baseless suspicions and his trivialization of Trump's sexist remarks made him unsuitable as an educator. Jones' lawyers replied that he was an “action artist”, that he only played a role in his broadcasts in a satirical manner , from which one should not infer his everyday behavior. In a video on infowars.com he denied this argument and assured his audience of his complete authenticity: "I believe 110 percent in what I stand for". However, this contradiction did not detract from his popularity.

Filmography

  • 1998: America: Destroyed by Design
  • 1999: Police State 2000
  • 1999: Are You Practicing Communism? (produced by Mike Hanson)
  • 2000: America Wake Up or Waco
  • 2000: The Best of Alex Jones
  • 2000: Dark Secrets Inside Bohemian Grove
  • 2000: Police State II: The Takeover
  • 2001: Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports: Exposed
  • 2001: 911 The Road to Tyranny: Special Emergency Release
  • 2002: 911 The Road to Tyranny
  • 2002: The Masters of Terror: Exposed
  • 2003: Matrix of Evil
  • 2003: Police State 3: Total Enslavement
  • 2004: American Dictators: Documenting the Staged Election of 2004
  • 2005: Martial Law 9-11: Rise of the Police State
  • 2005: The Order of Death
  • 2006: TerrorStorm: A History of Government-Sponsored Terrorism
  • 2007: Endgame - Blueprint for Global Enslavement
  • 2007: Endgame 1.5
  • 2007: TerrorStorm: A History of Government-Sponsored Terrorism - Second Edition
  • 2007: Loose Change : Final Cut by Dylan Avery (as executive producer)
  • 2008: The 9/11 Chronicles: Part 1, Truth Rising
  • 2008: Fabled Enemies by Jason Bermas (Producer)
  • 2009: DVD Arsenal: The Alex Jones Show Vols. 1–3
  • 2009: The Obama Deception: The Mask Comes Off
  • 2009: Fall of the Republic, Vol. 1, The Presidency of Barack H. Obama
  • 2009: Reflections and Warnings: An Interview with Aaron Russo
  • 2010: Police State IV: The Rise Of FEMA
  • 2010: Invisible Empire: A New World Order Defined by Jason Bermas (Producer)
  • 2010: The Fall of America and the Western World by Brian Kraft (Feature)
  • 2012: New World Order: Blueprint of Madmen

Fonts

  • 9/11: Descent Into Tyranny. Progressive Press, 2002, ISBN 1-57558-113-2 .
  • (together with John Coleman): The Committee of 300: The Hierarchy of Conspirators. JK Fischer, Gelnhausen 2014, ISBN 3-941956-10-8

literature

Web links

Commons : Alex Jones  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME Jones, Alex
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jones, Alexander Emerick (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American right-wing radio host, entrepreneur, and conspiracy theorist
DATE OF BIRTH February 11, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Dallas