I know this is going to make me sound like a jerk and maybe a bit jaded. But this below is why you won’t find me posting links to Alex Jones or any of the rest of those sort of sites:
Authorities have identified the man who allegedly shot two law enforcement officers in Nevada County on Saturday as 60-year-old Brent Douglas Cole.
Cole, who also was shot in the altercation, is in stable condition at a Roseville hospital, according to authorities.
Cole is accused of shooting a California Highway Patrol officer and a U.S. Bureau of Land Management ranger in the area of the South Yuba River campground in rural Nevada County. Their injuries were not life-threatening.
Further details about the circumstances leading up to the shooting have not been released.
A quick look at the dude’s facebook page, shows that he was into that stuff and really heavy into the Anti-Jewish thing quite heavy. Truthfully, I most likely mistrust the Government as this guy. However, when you take it to another level and begin shooting police officers and Government officials; you lose me. I keep my protest against what is happening in our government here in the virtual world on my blog, where it is safe and I am very careful not to get carried away and write something that might get myself arrested.
Plus too, I tend to be a bit of a skeptic, and I do not believe everything that comes down the pike; I tend to like to research things that I read. In other words, I do not trust people like Alex Jones anymore that I would trust MSNBC. Because Alex Jones has his little gig for one thing and one thing only; to make money off the backs of very paranoid people.
The sad thing is that the Conservative grassroots, represented by people like Matt Drudge are now basically open to linking to people like Alex Jones. Which, to me, is worrisome. Because when Drudge started linking to Alex Jones, he legitimized him. I think that was a mistake. I know that media suppression happens; the conservative and liberal blogosphere proved that back in 2004. However, Alex Jones is not an alternative media outlet; Alex Jones is a full-blown conspiracy theorist with his own agenda. Linking to him would be like me linking to Jeff Rense’s site or posting Brother Nathaniel videos on here. I simply will not do that; because I do not wish to be associated with those kind of people.
It simply boils down to ethics and I happen to think that ethics is in short supply on the right.