Alex Jones is not a purist about being a libertarian - that allows some agreement between the China Support Network and Jones. by John Kusumi
(centrist)
Thursday, April 21, 2011
When people have strongly held views, they will agree only on specific issues and points, not with blank check endorsements for any and all views that might issue from the other person, no matter how agreeable. That's normal and that's natural. If we all agreed on every point -- then there's nothing to say, nor to debate, nor to write about.
I am sometimes encouraged, and sometimes discouraged, by what I hear coming from Alex Jones, who might be called the leading red pill spin doctor.
I absolutely reject the red pill spin about pro-democracy movements around the globe - Tunisia, Egypt, Bahrain, Yemen, Syria, Iran, Iraq, Libya, and China.
If we believe the red pill spin, then each and every one of the world's people, when standing up for pro-democratic change in their home country, is merely a useful idiot, playing into the hands of George Soros and company. Red pill spin doctors are trivializing and demonizing other peoples' democracy movements, with insults that are intellectually inconsistent.
For the record, I'm likely to be called a "red pill" person for my views on the banksters, who are indeed rapacious, capricious, and given to arbitrary fiat as they arrange many evils that plague our world. I've commented elsewhere that to gain true liberty, all of these lands must own and operate their own central bank, apart from the entrenched private system which today hides behind (and indeed, uses) governments.
About the banksters, my views coincide with those as voiced by Ron Paul, Dennis Kucinich, and media figure, Judge Andrew Napolitano. So perhaps, we now know of one place where I'd agree, and one place where I'd disagree with Alex Jones. (Everyone mentioned in this paragraph is anti-bankster.)
Today, I was encouraged by something else that I heard from Alex Jones. I will insert it here as a block quote:
I'm seeing a major shift, and this is very very positive.
This morning I listened to Laura Ingraham for about ten minutes. And she was explaining to main line libertarians that:
There are elite corporations and insiders that sign trade deals that are unfair and that aren't a level playing field, through globalism, that's de-industrialized the United States.
And she was saying,
'You libertarians that are for complete open and free trade-- it doesn't work if it's only called free and open trade.
'If there are tax incentives to move out of the U.S., and China lowers their currency, and China has slave labor -- then that isn't free or open or fair trade.'
Let me say, it was very very refreshing to hear this flash of insight from Alex Jones. My group, the (pro-democracy, anti-CCP) China Support Network, has spent over a decade opposed to the PNTR / China free trade deal, and we have also raised the issues of China's currency manipulation and the employment of slave labor as in China's Laogai forced labor detention camps.
So now, it appears that Alex Jones agrees with the China Support Network, that (a.) willy-nilly, unconditional globalization of so-called free trade is ruinous. In fact, it was a hasty rush to Maoism, and Jones correctly notes that it de-industrialized the United States; and (b.) China's currency manipulation is bad; and (c.) China's employment of slave labor is bad.
It is encouraging to see Alex Jones beginning to get on the page with CSN. We have three points of agreement, but (as seen at The COTO Report) there continue to be Alex Jones fans who have been influenced by recent red pill spin, and they are repeating the false canard that the CSN -- and the Chinese democracy movement more generally -- is a group of useful idiots playing into the hands of the globalists.
At the end of day, Jones and I might agree on more things than we disagree on. But as noted in my first paragraph, we are unlikely to give each other blank-check endorsements.
Jones himself might be a good man, but too many of his followers seem to be worshipful, blank-check endorsers of any and all red pill spin. The slightest divergence of views is enough to throw them into attack mode. In psychology, this "splitting behavior" is indicative of borderline personality disorder.
The China Support Network supports liberty. I'm sorry that this has brought out some attack trolls; they are overzealous Jones fans; they foam at the mouth. How dare the China Support Network support liberty? By being involved in an overseas democracy movement -- according to recent red pill spin -- that makes them, ipso facto, globalist stooges.
I can say this to the unhinged types: Tough noogies. The China Support Network will continue to support liberty.
And, Alex Jones might just understand what I am saying here. :)
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