I sat and watched Alex Jones' "The Obama Deception", last night out of boredom and mild curiosity and to put it quite simply, I thought it was a shitty waste of time.
Basically, it's a conspiracy documentary about how Barack Obama is controlled by the "Global Elite", who want to "
Repo" the world by destroying the Western Economy. Now, these sorts of things are always amusing to me. I like watching the bizare conclusions form from reasonably innocuous evidence. I love seeing the film makers run from "the opressors." But in this case, a bad taste was left in my mouth.
Why?
Well, because Alex Jones took facts; REAL evidence, evidence that could have been used to demonstrate the logical fallacies that form the Keyensian and Interventionist philosophies, and he turned it into a B-grade conspiracy movie. Rather than simply exposing Obama's rethoric prior to his election as simply empty word play, and posturing, he turned it into a carefully orchestrated illusion, designed by the puppet masters.
With reality on his side, Jones could have created a more damning enditement of the US Federal Government, but he chose to act the fool. Yes, there are very powerful people pulling Obama's strings, all with their own aggenda. Yes, there is a great deal of corruption surrounding the existence of the Federal Reserve bank. Yes, ALL members of the Administration are, in essence, commiting treason against the constitution that they swore on. But with a little understanding of human nature, what is more reasonable? That Obama and his administration are all agents of a small group of bankers, who seek to rule the world? Or, that there is a small group of bankers, who may or may not be coluding, who have over the decades figured out a way to get really rich by lobbying various unwitting and idealogically misguided members of government? Is it not more plausable that a young pragmatic president, can be easily swayed from "compromise" to "compromise" along an ever more slippery slope? Or is it easier to believe, that with their all seeing serveilence capabilities, the Illuminati found a talented young comunity organiser and trained him to be the puppet that will lead the US into oblivion.
I will admit, that what Jones thinks is happening is not impossible, it's just a hard conclusion to draw from the evidence we are presented with in the film. All I see, is that those in power, got drunk on an imagined responsibility, and when the hangover came, they took heroine (inflating the money supply, and increasing their assumed responsibility) to dull the pain. I doubt, to the deepest of my core, that there is anyone smart enough to pull off global domination.
What I think, is that there are some people, who believe that the world would be better off if it could be united, and the population were galvinised behind the global leadership. It's not evil, but conceit and poor logic that drives Jones' "forces of darkness," and it is that, that we in the rEVOLution need to demonstrate.
Our logic, and most importantly our sanity, are our greatest weapons. Looking crazy, will weaken the validity of our claims, that individual liberty and economic freedom are the best way to achieve peace and prosperity.
[sorry for any errors. I typed this quickly and the spellchecker isn't working.]
