Alex Jones: Lowest form of humanity
Saying bye to the penguins; TSA strikes again
By Ken Tingley
From abhorrent to despicable to loathsome, it is hard to settle on just one adjective to describe the depravity of television huckster and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.
His lies about the deaths of babies at Sandy Hook and claims their parents were “crisis actors” on a crusade to rid the country of guns, showed him to be the lowest of life forms performing the worst kind of evil.
His actions were repugnant and membership in the human race should be revoked.
But it was one particular editorial cartoon which said it all.
On one side of a table it showed Jones, the portly Infowars host and conspiracy theorist standing larger than life.
On the other side of the table looking up at Jones was your common everyday disgusting cockroach.
The caption showed the cockroach telling Jones, “You are repulsive.”
Alex Jones represents a certain type of evil we can never accept nor tolerate again.
He spread unfounded rumors that the 20 children killed in the Sandy Hook massacre 10 years ago had not died at all. It was all a scam to try and take away people’s guns in America. He did it for the money. He did it for the fame and attention.
And so many believed him we should pause to consider the sanity of their beliefs and their morality, too.
Consider that these grieving parents were harassed with phone calls and accused on social media it was all a scam.
Some of those parents left town.
Others feared for their lives.
The depths of the pain is impossible to understand.
But several fought back and sued Jones, not so much for the money, but to look him in the eye and make him understand the damage his lies had done. And then to get the satisfaction for him to finally admit that he had lied.
Last week, two of the parents were awarded nearly $50 million. While they won’t get their child back, it did force Jones to grudgingly concede the truth.
The $50 million award was not enough.
What could be enough?
During the trial, lawyers caught Jones lying repeatedly and perjury charges could be forthcoming.
“I think a lot of people are thinking of this as sort of a blow against fake news, and it’s important to realize that libel law deals with a very particular kind of fake news,” Eugene Volokh, a 1st Amendment professor at UCLA Law, told the Los Angeles Times.
Two other parents have also sued Jones.
How could you not root for him being penniless and homeless. And that still would not be punishment enough.
His sins are that bad.
Just ask any cockroach.
You don’t know hot
Last week, I spent a sizzling week in Nashville and San Antonio.
It was in the 90s and humid in Nashville, but that was balmy compared to the plus-100-degree temperatures in Texas. It was my last chance to visit the “Penguin Encounter” in San Antonio Sea World, but to get there I had to trek over what seemed like miles of blacktop.
By the time I got to the Antarctic world of the penguins, I was eager to bask in their polar world.
Afterward, I went on to see Orca show and on my way to see the beluga whales, I decided to stop at the “Journey to Atlantis” ride. It is a water coaster with a 14-story drop into a lake of water that soaks everyone. At 105 degrees, that’s what we all wanted.
As my turn neared, I noticed they had stopped loading. Several members of the staff kept picking up their phones. Finally, I spied the problem. One of the cars was stuck at the top of the rise.
I decided to get out of line.
The only thing worse than marching over 105-degree asphalt would have been sitting in the blazing son at the top of a metal coaster.
TSA delivers again
For those of you wondering how my trip through security went on Friday, you probably are not surprised that I was patted down again.
As I exited the “millimeter wave scanner” at the San Antonio Airport, the TSA agent told me to step to the side.
“Let me guess, it’s my groin again,” I said to the man.
He nodded.
“This is like the seventh straight time this has happened,” I told him. I then implored him to “be gentle” and explained in slightly bawdy detail about the rough attention I had been given the last two times by TSA agents.
I asked him to be gentle.
He told me he would try.
It was an improvement over the previous two times, but I still have one more trip through the scanner before this trip is over.
His audience should take some of the responsibility.
YEAH on Alex Jones.