Speakers at Anti-Semite’s Texas Conference Go Light on the Jews-with Alex Jones as Mystery Guest!
This weekend, the conference featured more mainstream, though still far-right, figures. The speakers covered a bewilderingly broad swath of antigovernment grievances and conspiracy theories. But apart from allusions to “international bankers” and the Rothschilds — classic bugaboos of the paranoid right that typically allude to Jews —little overt anti-Semitism was in evidence.
Two speakers—Gaylon Ross and Jim Marrs—presented detailed Powerpoint presentations on the JFK assassination.
Suzanna Hupp, a former Texas legislator and gun rights activist who survived a 1991 mass shooting in Killeen, Texas, praised the audience as part of “a tiny percentage that can actually make a difference for the country.” “The other side is radical and extremist,” she said. “They’re talking about flushing 200 years of history down the toilet.”
For his part, Texe Marrs focused on talking up his new book, Robot Alchemy, which posits that “the Elite” will soon undertake a global campaign of mass murder to “depopulate” the planet to make way for highly intelligent robots.
If that wasn’t enough, the program also advertised a “mystery guest,” who turned out to be none other than Alex Jones, the almost comically loud author, radio show host and conspiracy theorist extraordinaire. Jones and his growing legion of followers believe they are part of a small vanguard challenging the so-called New World Order (global elites allegedly working together to control the planet and its resources) and its myriad and tangled plots. Recently, Jones has attracted mainstream media attention, with interviews on CNN’s “Piers Morgan Live” and BBC’s “Sunday Politics” show. Jones asserts that the Boston Marathon bombing and the mass shootings in Aurora, Colo., and Newtown, Conn., were “staged” by agents of the New World Order in order to justify gun confiscation.
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