Alex Jones and Sandy Hook Crisis Actors

• 58:00Tim describes how being in the conspiracy world can make credible-sounding claims that would get you exiled in polite society.
• 58:39He doesn't believe Sandy Hook had crisis actors, but points to historical cases like Gulf of Tonkin and Boston Marathon bombing where authorities advanced false narratives first.
• 59:26Tim theorizes that Alex Jones's role became questioning official stories by advancing opposite possibilities, some of which sound insane but occasionally turn out true.
• 59:48Torture program example: if you'd claimed the day after Abu Ghraib that the Defense Department designed a coordinated torture and rendition program, you'd have been laughed off major news outlets—yet that's exactly what happened.
• 1:00:39Tim says Alex Jones made a grave error with Sandy Hook and the harassment of families that followed was completely disgusting and inexcusable.
• 1:01:13Alex made sloppy, reckless statements, but Tim questions whether we should live in a world where people get exiled from society for saying things they regret.
• 1:01:32On Joe Rogan's podcast, Alex did apologize for twenty minutes out of a five-hour conversation, though the apology doesn't undo the harm to families.
• 1:02:00Tim's final stance: the alternative—blindly believing government narratives—seems equally wrong given historical examples of repeated lies to the public.

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