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08 Jan 2021
The quote 'when the government fears the people, there is freedom' is not from Thomas Jefferson but from a 1914 debate by John Basil Barnhill.

We've been over this before, but that isn't a Thomas Jefferson quote. It's from a 1914 debate against socialism delivered by John Basil Barnhill that over the years has been misattributed to a bunch of people like Thomas Paine and Thomas Jefferson.

18 Sep 2019
Alex Jones misattributes a quote about diet injections and injunctions from Bertrand Russell's book to John P. Holdren's book EcoScience.

He's claiming that John P. Holdren's book, EcoScience, discusses diet injections and injunctions to control the public. And I really honestly think this is a result of him never reading the things he rants about reading all the time. When he's talking about isn't a reference to eco-science, the textbook that John P. Holdren wrote. That's a line that Alex always misuses from Bertrand Russell in his book, The Impact of Science on Society.