Discarding My Tinfoil Hat
Recently I’ve been burned over links to and quotes from Alex Jones and Infowars. Like many libertarians and conservatives my primary (but not only) news feed comes from the Drudge Report, and Drudge Report has taken to quoting and linking to Jones and his site.
Bob Owens, writing for BearingArms.com points out the facts behind the government’s ammunition purchases that have fed numerous conspiracy theories picked up by Infowars and published by Drudge.
While I don’t think the President has the best interests of the Republic at heart at all, the reality of the matter is that federal ammunition purchases have declined during the Obama Administration. They simply have large agencies to support, and the round count of the ammo purchases when spread out across agencies amounts to a training allotment on a per agent basis. The military ammunition market is separate from the civilian ammunition market… unless Lake City Army Ammunition Plant has surplus ammunition to sell back to the market (which it does from time to time), or specialized units need small batches of specialized ammunition for testing and deployment.
I’m not sure why Drudge has sullied his reputation by supporting a 9-11 Truther like Alex Jones. Cliff Kincaid, writing for America’s Survival, lays out the extravagant claims made by Jones picked up by Drudge, paying close attention to the Bundy Standoff that Jones made into an issue that Drudge amplified. Now Bundy’s racist comments have made his supporters backtrack, and allowed the MSM to beat them and anyone else opposed to this president with the racist cudgel.
There are plenty of reasons to distrust the government and dislike the current president, so we don’t need to go making stuff up. Besides I’m a white guy of Slav descent and likely the descendant of slaves not of slave owners. I’m not all that keen on those who think slavery was a good thing for anyone at any time.
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