In Knowledge Fight #622 (June 30–July 1, 2003), Alex Jones falsely ties missing pets to satanic cults, misrepresents Senate bill S.148’s line of succession, and weaponizes a UN quote about food aid to push anti-globalist conspiracies while ignoring its original context. He claims Harry Potter promotes occultism, cites fringe sources like Tex Myers, and pivots to anti-LGBTQ rhetoric, dismissing skepticism as denial. Contradictory Barclay Financial ads and unverified UK satanism stats highlight his pattern of cherry-picking facts to fit narratives, revealing how conspiracy theories thrive on distortion and refusal to engage with evidence. [Automatically generated summary]
In the original show, you meet Julia only at the very end, and she's awesome.
The first time you meet her, because she's the like...
Long lost love interest, the one that got away in a horrible death incident kind of situation.
And then she shows up riding a car, getting chased by bad guys, and then firing back, and then Faye jumps in, and they're a badass Thelma and Louise instantly.
You love Julia.
In this show, she's like, Oh, save me!
And then Vicious.
Vicious is the shark from Jaws.
You only see him when someone's about to get their head cut off.
Well, I think what's strange about that is that despite constable being a thoroughly British word, I don't think there's a more American thing you can do than run a firework stand running to become a constable.
Interesting Scotsman story about paganism exploding.
In the United Kingdom, and there's a photograph we've had to blur, which you can link through to the original Scotsman article, with a giant satanic orgy going on, basically.
They're all dancing around naked, and it's becoming the fashionable thing, and the young people are all getting involved, and they burn effigies and carry out these druid rituals.
I can't imagine somebody hearing a commercial from a financial group about buying or selling stock and thinking, well, obviously they want me to make money.
So the caller's making an interesting association between the military and the Greek letter lambda, but I think this caller is a little simplistic, about just like, ah, it's from the shield or whatever.
If you look into it, you'll find a bunch of fraternities and sororities that are military in nature that use the letter lambda in their name, and even when it's not the first letter, like in the case of Kappa Lambda Chi, they still refer to themselves as lambda men.
The first women's military sorority is Lambda Beta Alpha, and they even have a side organization for family members and ROTC cadets called the Orchids of Lambda.
The letter Lambda has been adopted by militaries throughout Western history, largely because it was the symbol that was on the shield of the Spartans, not of all Greeks.
The other city-states had different letters or different symbols, and the Spartans had this because it was in honor of their capital city, Lacedamian.
Due to the story of the Battle of Thermopylae and the 300 Spartans who held back the Persian army and Xerxes, they've become the image of efficient and successful military forces.
There's a lot of aspects to this story where the details are a bit fudged, but I'm not here to take away any of the achievements of Leonidas.
I think Alex might have a slightly elementary understanding of Spartan culture, but if his problems with them are that they were a homosexual death cult who had slaves, he probably wouldn't like Athens or any Greek city-state much more.
The great hero Achilles only agrees to reenter the Trojan War after Hector kills his lover Patroclus, and they were Myrmidians.
In the Theban army, there were 150 gay male couples who formed the Sacred Band of Thebes, and the Theban army actually defeated Sparta in the battles of Tegera and Lucetra.
And in the process, they actually unseated Sparta as the dominant force in Greece.
There were many aspects of homosexual relationships in ancient Greece, and the fact that Spartans engaged in some homosexuality isn't unique to them at all.
As for them being a death cult, I'm not sure what Alex means by that, so I don't know how to respond.
They were a culture that prioritized military strength, but I don't know if that makes them a death cult.
And as for the slavery thing, Sparta definitely wasn't the only city-state doing that shit.
They pretty much all did, including Athens.
I think that Alex's view of history in this case in particular is just shaped by pop culture things he's seen, like movies or TV shows, because what he's saying is just dumb.
And every day in the newspaper, we've got this rag newspaper called the Cincinnati Enquirer.
They should just change it to the Daily Hell on Earth Report.
It's every day.
Supreme Court upholds gay sex.
Taxes raising.
You turn in the back pages.
It has a story about a couple of homosexuals in San Francisco raising two little boys and talking about how many homosexual couples are raising children now.
So, yeah, I think I've made note in a previous episode that, like, for a long time, Alex has had this bizarre theory about there being an industry run by the homosexuals to take straight people's children by way of CPS.
Right.
Which is gross, and you see it's a consistent, long-standing thing of his.
And the problem with the interpretation that's being given is that the characters in the movie aren't all villains.
For one, the character played by Sean Connery, Alan Quartermain, is not a villain in the novels that he's featured in, unless you look back through a very sort of evolved prism of colonialist...
But that might not have been the intention of his character.
Right, right, right, right.
He's more just like an outsider type, like a big game hunter and adventurer.
Many people have actually noted that he's one of the foundational influences on the character of Indiana Jones, who's definitely not meant to be a villain, although does some sketchy shit.
And another thing about that, too, is that Sean Connery plays Alan Quatermain, who's an inspiration for Indiana Jones, and he plays Indiana Jones' dad in the Indiana Jones movies.
I'm not going to cover this too much because this is actually the story of a really nasty divorce.
From the information I can gather, it's a situation where there was this divorce going on, and as a part of that, there was a pretty messy custody dispute.
I don't want to try and delve into this, partially because in cases of domestic issues like this, it's really difficult to get a full sense of exactly what's going on from the outside.
That having been said, I can find no evidence of his neighbors getting into trouble or having their children taken away because they wouldn't snitch on him.
I did find some interesting stuff in trying to learn more about this case, though.
The first thing that I found was that Stuart had a blog up trying to get his child back, titled thekidnappedson.blogspot.com.
I don't know what was up on that site, because the earliest snapshot in the Wayback Machine is from when he had already changed the title of the blog to Help Me Reconcile.
There's only one post on there from April 20th, 2015 that starts, I would guess that reconciling the matter privately wouldn't involve going on Alex's show to push a grand conspiracy about your divorce that Alex can use to fuel his own conspiracy theories about how the Child Protective Service is trying to steal people's children to give them to homosexual couples.
On a mostly unrelated note, I was able to find a transcript of a public hearing being held by the Travis County Commissioner's Court in July 2007.
The main piece of business was about an easement on a lot near Westlake Highlands.
After that, there was an opportunity for open question.
Quote, I come in peace and humbly invoke the blessings of Almighty God.
I've come to deliver a message of peace and new hope.
I forgive you, I love you, and I want you to be happy.
You still have to repent your sins and make restitution from what you've stolen from me and others in the community, and I'm going to continue to come down and exposing the truth.
Your continued presence is an abomination against this land.
We all know that Margaret Gomez stole her seat from Mike Hansen.
I was there on election night when the computers were repeatedly crashed and programmed in new vote tallies.
What sad, sorry people you are to allow these abuses to continue.
So I guess, at this point, Mike Hansen had moved on from losing the election for Constable in 2003 to losing an election for the County Commissioner's Board in 2007.
Quote, to correct this intolerable situation, I'm taking this opportunity to announce the new independent state gathering.
Exactly one year from today, on the eve of July 4th, 2008, we the people are going to peacefully surround the Texas Capitol building and our Travis County courthouse complex, and we're going to camp out and have a huge party.
It will be large, and it will be nothing like you've ever seen, and it will not end until all of you have gone away.
Then we the people will constitute a new republic.
Together, we the people will peacefully shake off these tyrants and give the world an Independence Day that will not ever be forgotten.
It's so awesome, too, because in the transcript, you see the board, commissioner board response, and it was like, are we invited to this party?
So anyway, this guy's a bit unwell, and I'm not going to take seriously anything he has to say in this interview with Alex, and I think it's best we just move along from him and not...
And dozens of times, every group of friends I tried to be involved with, the jocks, the...
Rock and roll crowd, the rich kids, especially the rich kids, tried to recruit me into Satanism.
And I've talked about this before.
I mean, I'd be at some girl's house, you know, who wanted to date me, you know, beautiful dark black hair and big old green eyes, in some $15 million house, and they come right out and say, we're Satanists, you want to join us?
And I'd say, no thank you.
And then when I'd say, no thank you, I'd have the police pull me over and tell me that if I didn't straighten up, I'd be a dead man.
So yeah, the idea that people tried to recruit him into Satanism when he was younger, it's just a story that he tells less frequently in the past, but it's still part of his story, and that's interesting to me.
That's very interesting.
But also there's fundamental differences between this and the way he tells it in the present.
Now, the way I see it, one of the fundamental differences that exists in this telling and in the future tellings is that here, it could just be a bunch of weirdos who are into Satanism.
Metal was big at this point when Alex was in high school.
You could see people who were into darkness and wearing antlers.
So, for those who don't know, Tom Ridge was the Secretary of Homeland Security beginning in 2003.
The issue that Alex is playing fast and loose with here is that that position didn't exist prior to Tom Ridge, since he was the first head of the Department of Homeland Security, which had just been created.
He was a cabinet member, and most of the cabinet exists in the line of succession, so it was felt that this position needed to be inserted into the order.
Senate Bill 148 passed on June 27, 2003, making the position 8th in line just after the Attorney General.
But that's not all there is to the story.
It had a counterpart in the House, H.R. 2319, that was introduced and it died in committee.
In 2006, the U.S. Code was amended to include the Secretary of Homeland Security in the line of succession.
In 18th position, or to put it another way, the last person on the list.
We rip the Sinister Patriot Act legislation 1 and 2 apart, piece by piece, and reveal the arrogance of what Ashcroft has to say about your liberty.
You will lose your liberty.
Homeland Security, executive orders, forced vaccinations, the new prison economy, the Total Information Society, the Pan American Union, federal gun grabs, government-run, white slavery rings, and much, much more.
If you want to understand what the new world order really is, then my new two-and-a-half-hour video, Police State 3, is for you.
I think you get a sense there from the Ashcroft clip.
It's just playing, you will lose your liberties.
And that was from testimony Ashcroft gave on December 6, 2001 in front of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary.
It's a three and a half hour video on C-SPAN, but Ashcroft's opening statement really only goes about 20 minutes.
The full sentence that clip comes from is this.
Quote, Since 1983, the United States government has defined terrorists as those who perpetuate premeditated, politically motivated violence against non-combatant targets.
My message to America this morning, then, is this.
If you fit this definition of a terrorist, fear the United States, for you will lose your liberty.
The editing that Alex uses is very strategic, and even though the Patriot Act sucks, and I hate it, and I hate Ashcroft, Alex has no idea what he's talking about, and he's just making stuff up.
Also, there is no Patriot Act 2, but there is a Sister Act 2. Ah!
So, we know that Alex loves fake Thomas Jefferson quotes.
Thomas Paine, one of our founding fathers, said, Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe and preserve order in the world as well as property.
Horrid mischief would ensue...
Were the law-abiding deprive the use of them?
Again, now you know why we have FEMA on tape for a group of police, and they do it all over the country, saying, quote, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington are terrorists.
So the quote that Alex is using there is slightly abridged.
Here's the full version.
Quote, You can see that Alex's version is conveniently missing the words like laws for some reason.
Also, this quote is in support of people having guns, for sure, but the context of this is entirely missing.
This is from a 1775 essay published in the Pennsylvania Magazine titled Thoughts on Defensive War.
It's essentially war propaganda for the fight against the British trying to persuade religious folks in the colonies that it was right and just for them to arm themselves to fight a defensive war and that their religious liberty was on the line if they didn't.
Another important point to bring up is that scholars are not in agreement that this was actually Thomas Paine who wrote this article.
He was the editor of the magazine at the time, and the essay was attributed only to, quote, a lover of peace, so many have assumed that he wrote it himself.
However, in a 2016 book titled New Directions in Thomas Paine Studies, the authors point out that there are many inconsistent things in this essay that point to it not being written by Paine.
The most compelling points are that the essay includes the line, quote, The reign of Satan is not ended, and it treats miracles in the Bible as having literally happened, which are counter to the well-established deism which Paine expressed in his other writings like Age of Reason.
It's very inconsistent with the way he writes in other contexts.
So anyway, there's pretty compelling reason to think that this wasn't an actual quote from Thomas Paine, but even if it were, it's just a person trying to convince religious people to fight a defensive...
So in trying to trace this quote down, I ran into the expected problem that almost every website that used it was a very bizarre Geocities-ass website full of insane conspiracy theories.
And the quote is given with no citation or information when this head of the U.N. food program said this or where.
Finally, I found a blog that claimed that Catherine Bertini, the former executive director of the U.N. World Food Program, had said this at the U.N.'s fourth conference, sorry, fourth world conference on women in 1789.
September 1995, which was held in Beijing.
This is already contradictory to Alex's citation that this quote was from 1997.
Something smells fishy.
The Fourth World Conference on Women did in fact take place in Beijing in 1995.
And you can find a painfully detailed collection of information about the conference on the UN's website, including, but not limited to, the text of remarks made by representatives from over 100 countries, the text of comments made by representatives of NGOs, as well as a ton of transcripts of statements made by UN representatives.
There's also a bunch of pictures and a video that no longer loads.
Either due to systemic issues or even just cultural preferences for sons that lead them to getting greater access to food, education, and other necessities at the expense of daughters.
Now, that being said, here is the full passage that this quote was taken from.
Quote, Let's have no illusions.
We can't easily change the underlying beliefs and prejudices that do so much damage to women worldwide.
We cannot quickly change attitudes, but we can change behavior.
At the World Food Program, we have recognized what a valuable tool food aid can be in changing behavior.
In so many poorer countries, food is money, food is power.
In some of our most successful food aid projects, we literally pay families who do not believe in educating their daughters to send those girls to school.
A little free cooking oil can go a long way.
We trade a 5-liter can of oil for 30 days of school attendance by a young girl.
Yes, it's bribery.
We don't apologize for that.
We're changing behavior.
We're giving hope and opportunity to young girls.
And that is all that counts.
Every small change in behavior will one day pay off in a change of attitude.
So I think it's pretty self-evident what's happened here.
The conspiracy theorists who want to demonize the UN at every turn have taken Pertini's words and selectively edited them down in a way that was specifically designed to remove the context of what he's saying and make it seem as evil as possible.
This altered version of the quote is posted on conspiracy websites and repeated by Alex with its origins obscured or no citation given, thus making it harder for viewers to track down the source and judge it for themselves.
On the one hand, this is something that's designed to demonize the UN, but the original statement Bertini made was about empowering women around the world to have agency, which is threatening to people like Alex, who work tirelessly in the service of a male-dominated society.
By lying about the context of this quote, you not only make the UN look evil, you also deprive Bertini of her point.
And in doing so, you turn a sentiment of the UN doing whatever it can to help women into proof of some kind of international racketeering and poisoning program.
And I don't think that element is an accident.
I think that's...
I don't know.
It's hard to imagine it's fully intentional, but it doesn't seem like a coincidence.
Let's accept the label, but let's understand what it is we're doing.
And I think that it's so wrong and so awful to...
See the quote portrayed the way Alex is portraying it and all these conspiracy theorists do, and then when you dig deeper and find the actual quote, see what it's actually about and what the conversation was, where this conference, what it was in service of, and you just see, like, this is horseshit.
Like, if there were, like, sort of market forces that were bribing people to not send daughters to school in the developing world, then you'd end up in a situation where this bribery would only exacerbate the problem.
I've been a stone's throw from world leaders worshipping Moloch.
Now, what's happened in the culture is they took the occult, put it in red pajamas and with little black horns and said it's an Anton LaVey deal, it's this kooky thing, weirdos talk about it.
The fastest growing religion, according to the FBI, according to Scotland Yard, is the satanic elite, is satanism.
They're having major arrests of public figures engaged in satanic murder cults from Belgium to France to Portugal right now.
Someone who's like, I'm inclined to believe some of the things you say, and I do believe that maybe the powerful don't have our interests at the front of their list.
But man, Harry Potter, are you fucking kidding me?
Yeah, she writes these books about learning the occult, doing the rituals, and then an obscure scholastic educational publisher gets picked up by the big boys and promoted wall-to-wall in public schools everywhere, pay to have the kids get in buses and go see the movies.
The enemy themselves or it's just it's impossible because he has to believe that he has access to all of the most real truth or else all of this is bullshit.
Yeah, I mean, this is fairly tame, and you could even argue that it's just a poetic exaggeration to say that all the jocks and all of them were Satanists.
And I really thought that that UN Food Program quote was something that, like, that is such a good distillation of the way that information is weaponized by conspiracy theorists, people like Alex.
They deprive a very...
Reasonable and appropriate quote about one issue into being about something entirely different and strip it of all of the context that makes it make sense.