Conspiracy Buffs Warn of Kissinger Cabal, Red Mailbox Dots: TV
Review by Dave Shiflett
May 26 (Bloomberg) -- Radio host Alex Jones says 9/11 was
“an inside job” orchestrated to create panic and more reliance
on an increasingly repressive government. One of his
sympathizers is convinced that Halliburton Co. is building
“concentration camps” capable of holding 50 million Americans.
Jones and his fellow conspiracy theorists are the subject
of “New World Order,” an engrossing, scary documentary airing
tonight on IFC at 6:45 p.m. New York time.
Better watch it or someone may start following you.
According to Jones and company, a group of elitists is
wreaking havoc to further their goal of world domination. At the
controls, they say, are members of the secretive Bilderberg
Group such as Henry Kissinger, David Rockefeller and other
bigwigs from the worlds of politics, finance and media.
As far as Jones is concerned, the Bilderbergers’ wingtips
conceal cloven hooves. He and his followers spend much time and
effort stalking and filming the supposed puppet masters, who are
also said to control both major U.S. political parties and the
“mainstream media.”
Jack McLamb, identified as a former Phoenix police officer
who hosts a short-wave radio show, says Halliburton is building
concentration camps and the government is marking mailboxes with
colored dots to single out people for imprisonment or death. The
Houston-based company once run by former Vice President Dick
Cheney has been criticized for many things, but this charge
might as well come from outer space.
No Facts
Jones and his cohorts offer no evidence to back up their
fantastic tales. I don’t know whether this is because evidence
isn’t their thing, or because filmmakers Luke Meyer and Andrew
Neel preferred to concentrate on wacky personalities rather than
hard facts.
Some of the most interesting segments in “New World
Order” feature the faithful taking their gospel to the streets.
Jones, whose nationally syndicated show is broadcast from
Austin, Texas, plays his bullhorn like a Stradivarius. And he
and his mates attract plenty of attention when they tell New
Yorkers that the World Trade Center towers were brought down by
planted explosives.
Gothamites are a hard sell, however. One barks at the
conspiracy buffs to “get the (expletive) out of my country.”
TV provocateur Geraldo Rivera is a bit more subtle: When Jones
and his cadre heckle him as he broadcasts live from an outdoor
set, Geraldo slyly flips them off. A group of sidewalk strollers
in New Orleans listens more tolerantly, perhaps because most are
nursing beers.
Mailbox Dots
One young conspiracy believer -- an Iraq War opponent who
says the media hasn’t given the conflict enough coverage -- gets
sympathetic treatment. His segment includes horrifying night-
vision footage of soldiers machine-gunning three possible
terrorists; the bursts reduce the bodies to small piles of
rubble.
On a far lighter note, we see Jones crooning along with a
Jerry Reed song and delivering an amusing analysis of the
Washington Monument, which he calls a “giant power talisman”
for those ever-plotting elitists out to take over the world.
McLamb, by the way, explains that the red and blue dots on
some mailboxes (generally believed to have been put there by
mail or newspaper carriers) are actually government markings to
indicate status on a hit list.
He says red dots mean “they take you out immediately and
shoot you in head,” while blue dots mean you are sent off to a
Halliburton camp. God only knows what green dots signify.
(Dave Shiflett is a critic for Bloomberg News. The opinions
expressed are his own.)
To contact the writer of this story:
Dave Shiflett at [email protected].
Last Updated: May 26, 2009 00:01 EDT
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=aIXPky36s.lI&refer=muse
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