Alex Jones Goes to
Crawford
Infowars.com | August 15, 2005
by Alex Jones
I'd been to Crawford
on the eve of the Iraq war and on its first anniversary,
so I thought I knew what to expect when I traveled
there yesterday. Upon my arrival Sunday
morning, I found myself beset on all sides by the massive
media circus surrounding Cindy
Sheehan,
the mother of Casey Sheehan, a soldier who tragically died in
Iraq while attempting to give medical aid to his
wounded buddies.
I
could easily write a volume on what I witnessed. To put it simply, it was
a paradox. The hundreds of anti-war, peace
demonstrators for the most part were kind, compassionate,
informed and genuine. Clashing against them was a
maximum of eight (sometimes only two held down the
fort) crazed Bush worshippers. And, by "Bush worshippers,"
I mean actual worshippers of the President.
Although
labels are ulitmately meaningless, I consider myself to be a
classical liberal, in the vein of Thomas Jefferson or
George Washington. I believe in the Second Amendment
and National Sovereignty. I've never been with "those
people:" the liberals and the
hippies
who in many cases follow mindless dogma and believe in a powerful
centralized government which students of history
know is anathema to freedom.
But
in all of my years I have never seen more mindless frothing than what I
saw spouting from these kool-aid drinking neo-con
sycophants. And I've got video of it all, which, in the
next week, will be posted on infowars.com and
prisonplanet.com. I would calmly
approach
the counterfeit conservatives and simply ask them with my crew why
Bush is talking about invading Iran when the CIA
admits it will be ten years until the Iranians can even
hope for a nuke, and why they weren't worried about
the CIA protecting the mad
nuclear
scientist AQ Khan who has proliferated WMDs worldwide?
They
would literally hiss at me, and talk about how they could "take a
swing" at me. One father, with the eyes of Charlie
Manson, repeatedly barked that he was a former marine. His
son, who could have been no older than four was in
combat fatigues from head to toe and was energetically
carrying a plastic AK-47. The father was instructing this
child that, in the future, he would need to attack
me.
What's
so scary about this is that they were such a good-looking family.
Rather than the toothless rabble you would expect they
were normal, decent looking folks who had been
brainwashed. No doubt in Kim Jong-Il's North Korea
you would find similar zealots.
Another
man, who looked like a NFL linebacker sat in a lawn chair reading the
Bible. I walked over to him and asked him why he was
there. With a look of religious rapture, he said he
hoped to simply see the President. The man had stars in
his eyes. Bush was anointed of
God:
this was a religious pilgrimage for him. If the President drove by he
just wanted to support him and let him know that he
was there for him.
I
asked him why, if Bush were so Christian, was he a member of Skull and
Bones. The man just said, "no, no, no,...you're
not one of them." I responded that the Skull and Bones
are a real group and that I was sure that he had heard
of them. I asked him if he would go to a church
if the pastor engaged in druidic rites. The man began
to shrink up in his chair as if here were about to go
into a catatonic state.
Sixty-year-old
yuppie bikers with giant American flags (made in China) would
scream profanities in our face if we calmly asked
them questions about the war. It went on and on.
Of
the hundreds of people in the anti-war crowd that we talked to, many
people from around the nation were actually followers of
our work, and had broken through the left-right
paradigm. Many of them told me that they owed their
breakthrough to listening to the radio
show.
In a
way, I'm rambling, but how do I, in the 20 minutes I have before
I go on-air, describe what I witnessed in the 12
hours I spent in Crawford yesterday? Here are a
few key points before I run out of time:
1.
FOX News, CNN, and various newspapers have all been reporting that there
are hundreds of protestors "on both sides." This is a
lie. At any one time, there were at least 150
people camped out on the road to Bush's ranch
protesting his illegal war, and eight or so counter protestors
for Bush. There were a minimum of 70 people at the
Crawford Peace House in town and five people protesting
them.
2.
Cindy Sheehan is a very kind and loving person. I watched her keep up a
grueling pace as she was interviewed by over 50
reporters individually just when I was around. She
really is an amazing person. Across the street, the
Bush worshipers had signs of Casey Sheehan saying
"he died for me" and they would say that he "belongs
to us." Meanwhile, they would growl that Cindy was
scum and that she was just using her son for political
gain. The Bush faithful would chant that "he signed
on the dotted line" and the "he belonged to the Army."
Can you imagine a mother having to stand such
degradation of her son's name, such misuse of his image
and such slighting of her love for him? Casey was Cindy's
son. Nonetheless, she has remained steadfast in
the face of her loss and the attacks against her
grief. The reason why she is protesting now is to
save others from similar grief.
3.
The neo-con minion's creed or battle cry that they chanted like some Hari
Krishna cult was, "We got to fight them over there
before they come over and get us here!" "Better over
there than getting bombed over here!" I would point
out to them that the Pentagon's own internal reports
state that invading Iraq has only expanded violence
against the West worldwide and that the Pentagon actually
wants that reaction so they can widen the war. I would
state admitted fact: Saddam Hussein did not attack
us on 9/11. Our government helped put Saddam into
power. The Iraqis have been under 14 years of
sanctions. None of it meant anything to them. The attitude
was: "kill them all and let God sort it all out."
4. In
closing, looking at that road leading to Bush's ranch in Crawford with
the crazies on one side and the well-meaning, but at
many times misled liberals on the other, I was looking
at a physical example of the false divisions in
this country. I would mention to the pro-war crowd that
Bush has been anti-Second Amendment, that he
wants an open border that he signed on to the UNESCO UN
treaty, that he"s pushing the FTAA which will destroy our
sovereignty. Some would hiss and say, "You're one
of them right-wing conservatives," or "I
don't care, let them take the guns, I love Bush!"
These poor men and women didn't have any view of their
own. It was like it was just a big football game and
they were simply cheering their team. The thinking
process had been switched off.
Then,
I remembered with horror, how Democrats couldn't see the corruption of
Bill Clinton as he invaded and bombed innocent
countries.
What
we need in America is a Bill of Rights culture, not this
emotionally-based Roman coliseum form of politics. Ten years
ago I wouldn't have understood why the liberals would
have been so horrified at the sight of that father who
dressed up his son in the military
uniform
with the toy machine gun. But then I had a chance to talk to the
father. He literally wants to offer his son up to
the Empire to be cannon fodder for the New World Order.
My
father frowned upon toy guns and would take them away if I aimed them
at a person or at the family dog, but any time I wanted
to go to the shooting range or the woods, he would
enthusiastically take me. By the time I was twelve
years old I could shoot through the
same
hole with a Remington 700 at 200 yards. I was given the same
firearms training that fathers gave their sons in the
1750's on the Virginia frontier. I was taught respect for
the gun and its awesome power. I was instructed in
history and on the horrors of war. I was taught the
historical importance of an armed population to resist
tyranny as an insurance policy for freedom.
Then,
yesterday, I saw these disgusting neo-cons. They were boorish and as
weak as rotten trees ready to be felled. To put it
simply: we can deprogram liberals. My show has turned
hundreds of thousands into proficient gun owners.
We sell them on real liberty.
Imagine
trying to sell peaceniks on truly conservative and libertarian ideals
when the example that they're given are these
clown-like nut followers of Bush. Bottom line:
congressional Democrats predominantly voted with Bush for
the war, the National ID Card Real ID Act, open borders,
Alberto Gonzales, who says that Bush is above the law,
and a hundred other issues. We don't have two parties
in this country. We have one party: the corporate
party. Here's a analogy: our political system is
like the same person owning two football teams that go
to the Super Bowl. Either way they win. It's time
for us to realize that. It's not what politicians say.
It's what they do.
If
you"re doubting me, travel to Crawford yourself.
" A
large part of history is... replete with the struggle for... human
rights, an eternal struggle in which a final victory
can never be won. But to tire in that struggle would
mean the ruin of society." Albert Einstein Feb. 20, 1954
"The
pioneers of a warless world are the youth that refuse military
service." Albert Einstein