Alex Jonestown Cult Mother Speaks Out!
Ok. This was a little strange.
We got this email from a mother who had lost her son to the Alex Jones Cult.
A quick Google search turned up enough information to convince us that the email seemed legit, or that someone spent a lot of time concocting a fake background.
I couldn't offer much solace other than point out the obvious - Alex Jones is a snake oil salesman.
Before I moved to Belfast, I was a long time Austin, Texas resident and knew all about Jones. This was back when he was just the "crazy guy" holding up newspaper articles on the community access channel.
But with the advent of the Internet, the man has turned into a genuine conspiracy enterprise. I think he probably believes a lot of what he's preaching, but the hypocracy of what he's saying is probably lost on him by this point.
Namely, he loves preaching against big government and evil corporations, but doesn't seem to have a problem when those corporations help him buy a house with his 9/11 blood profits, or when his lawyer donates $500 to the Re-Elect George Bush campaign.
Anyway - here's the email we got. If anyone has any other ideas, please feel free to comment:
We've literally lost our 30 yr. old son to the Alex Jones cult and we don't know what to do. It started out with FEMA camps and the Loose Change video. Now it's the Obama Deception and Health Reform Death camps etc. Our son started out just requesting we look at this stuff and now he's cutting out everyone in the family who tells him that all of this stuff is crap. He's become paranoid, everyone is out to get him.... the government is monitoring our every move, Cash for Clunkers is a way for the government to control us. Alex Jones is a joke and I couldn't get through one youtube video of him spouting off without trying not to wet myself laughing when my son asked me to watch them. Now it's no longer funny. We love our son but the damage Alex Jones has done to our family should be criminal. What can we do?
Dear Parent- Â Maybe a good
Dear Parent-
Maybe a good place to start would be not mocking your son for his beliefs, no matter what you think of them. And it's more than likely, he's cut you off for reasons beyond this one.
Yes, Jones is painful to watch at times...as a wise man once said, 'Jones serves a very limited purpose in the truh movement. He's like a really loud alarm clock. Once your awake, you shut it off.'
You shouldn't let Jones be the face of the issues any more than you should let GW Bush be the face of Conservative values....
Should be criminal you say? Well now I'm just laughing at you, ya big baby. What on earth did you do to your kid to make him hate you so? Point that finger at yourself, and maybe it'll do you some good.
And to the dude who crafted
And to the dude who crafted this article: MAKING MONEY ISN'T EVIL, and it's false to claim Jones is being hypocritical by making money. Just - stupid, really.
There's a big difference between criticizing certain efforts by certain coporations to do specific things, and a sweeping view of all money making enterprises as bad - which is surely a position never taken by Mr. Jones, I can assure you.
Sorry mate - your logic just doesn't compute.
thanks!
Smarterthanyouthink,
First of all, congradulations on reading something other than infowars.
I'm using the same exact logic that Jones uses:
1) 9/11 happened
2) Alex jones made a lot of money off 9/11
3) Alex Jones was behind 9/11
Makes sense, really.
Anyway, it's good to see you take your first steps away from the cult.
Please keep reading freedomhaters!
ab-so-lutely. Jones might be
ab-so-lutely. Jones might be wacky but certianly not as "criminal" as this crappy parent that would rather have her kid locked up in the basement all his life than believe something that she doesn't.
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