crichton's internet reading material

Alex Jones is someone I'd refer to as a radical character, in that his fervor against the state is either honestly passionate, or a really good act. He and his peeps at InfoWars have railed against the theory of climate change for god knows how long. He claims instead as does Crichton that what the government is doing is fanning "public hysteria over climate change" so that the world at large will accepting more control over their lives. On his website is a review by PJ Watson of some guy Daniel Taylor and his "excellent article" entitled "Global warming hysteria serves as excuse for world government" -- this was an important article to analyze as this is exactly what I feel Dr Crichton, Esq. believes about climate change.

Watson writes that the then-future-PM of the UK Gordon Brown had been on record as admitting there would be no way to stop such a thing as Global Warming save for creating a New World Order. The fear of a foreign threat is indeed an effective way to get people to sacrifice bits and pieces of their freedom, and who has the authority to say who/what an entire nation should be afraid of -- and the ability to make propaganda about it -- other than the state?

I start out wanting to give him the benefit of the doubt, but I got curious (could Brown really have said NWO...?) I followed that link back to its source, Taylor's article, on PrisonPlanet (another Alex Jones website). No direct quote; just "Brown said recently that a 'NWO' ..." Since I can't find it anywhere on Google either, and I'm sure many readers don't take the time to check their favorite site's sources this half-truth is probably good enough as truth for most people, and will be enough to convince and to frighten.

Second-to-last paragraph starts insulting those deluded "elitists" who buy into the scam that is global warming, and gladly "cough up more tax money". Mr Watson is hoping you're with him by this point (which you probably are if you've made it to the bottom) and after all the supposed "facts" that you've been presented with thus far have whipped you into a furied frenzy, these fightin' words give you a vision of an enemy to be pissed off at and annoyed by -- basically here is the object for your own mild Two Minutes Hate.

Ends with: "This is a fraud conceived, nurtured and promulgated by elite, and to castigate individuals for merely questioning the motives behind climate change fearmongering by accusing them of being mouthpieces for the establishment is a complete reversal of the truth." Quite the amount of words. While he's right, you can't debunk the claim that global warming is bunk by making ad hominem attacks, I don't know that he needs to play the victim card so strongly. A paragraph earlier he links the public perception of global warming deniers with that of Holocaust deniers.

Each "source" link I clicked on got worse and worse. At one point I was reading about Dr Doom who speaks eyes shining about the future, where only ten percent of humanity will remain standing after the ebola virus is unleashed upon the planet or something. So this side is just as bad in terms of propaganda as are the "elite" supposedly in charge of trying to take over the planet. I think eventually you just have to stop and decide to believe someone, lest you begin to feel like you're in a political game of ping pong. The "global warming deniers" are just hoping to convince you that their side (pro-freedom, pro-propaganda, pro-questionable sourcing) is the one who's got your best interests at heart.