Hey. Welcome to the Human Nature Channel. I’m your host Alex Tamsula and … what am I
doing here?
Well what I’m doing here today is
introducing a new series of videos exclusively for Twitter called 512 MB with
Alex or 2:20 seconds, which ever comes first.
These videos will eventually appear on my YouTube Channel The Human
Nature Channel but you’ll see them here first.
I’m going to talk briefly about the
term Conspiracy Theory. Since the 2016 Presidential
election you hear the term Conspiracy Theory mentioned on news shows all the
time. Today if you’re a Conspiracy
Theorists they practically accuse you of showering with Vladimir Putin. But it wasn’t always like that.
Once upon a time being a Conspiracy
Theorist was simply … a life style choice.
They humored us. Do you remember
that Mel Gibson Conspiracy Theory, which dips into MK Ultra. (Real Conspiracy Theorists know what that is). Jerry, Mel’s character, even joked about
Oliver Stone, Mr. Conspiracy Theory himself with his movie about the JFK assassination,
appropriately titled JFK.
My evidence that being a Conspiracy
Theorist at one time was no big deal is the Message Boards on AOL. Now Message Boards were discontinued by AOL
in 2009, but in 2002 there were Message boards on every subject you could
imagine. News, Sports, Pets, Cooking,
Gardening, even a message boards for Star Wars fans. A lot of different interests were covered.
In 2003 somebody sent me an email
and invited me over to AOl’s Conspiracy Theory message board. I’m somebody who had been reading books on
The JFK assassination since I was 11 old.
I said to myself, “Home Sweet Home.”
Here’s the punch line – the people on
Conspiracy Theory message board never talked about Conspiracy Theories …
ever! All the stuff that could’ve been
brought up, possible assassination of Gen. George S. Patton, the JFK assassination
of JFK, the MLK assassination of MLK, the RFK assassination. It’s not like we didn’t have plenty of topics
to pick from. Not even 9/11 as a false
flag event. It was just pro George W.
Bush people vs anti George W. Bush. That
was it … for years. Keep in mind the
lore of Conspiracy Theory World is vast.
It touches on so many subjects. But
these people just wanted to argue about Dubya and The Iraq war all the time.
A Conspiracy Theory message board where
never once did anybody there ever talk about any Conspiracy Theory or even use
the phrase. Does that sound right to you?
Hey. Welcome to the Human Nature Channel. I’m your host Alex Tamsula and what am I
doing here? Well what I’m doing here
today is another 2:20 seconds with Alex on Twitter, the part 2 of my reminiscence
about time spent on the AOL Conspiracy Theory Message board.
Like I said in my previous video,
the Conspiracy Theory message board on AOL was a place where never once did
anybody there ever talk about any Conspiracy Theory or even use the phrase. All people wanted to do was argue about
whether The US military going into Iraq back in 2003 was a good idea or a bad
one.
Now this just occurred to me
recently - any college study, any class time spent in Political Science, like I
went through, will be the establishmentarian point of view. What else are you going to get? Political Science doesn’t concern itself with,
a far as I can tell, the corrupt side of governance, which for your information
is what Conspiracy Theory and The Truth movement are really all about.
But The Iraq War was topic No.
1. And hey … of course I think I’m
Kissinger. You want to argue something
political? I’m you’re boy, and I argued the establishmentarian point of view.
Somebody would post, “Saddam
Hussein had nothing to do with 9/11.” To
which I would respond, “Well, if you’re going to roll up the international
terrorist network, you’ve got to start somewhere.” And posts in response to that would say
something to the effect, “Arg arg arg Saddam Hussein had nothing to do with
9/11.” And I would answer, “Well you
know, The Clinton administration designated Saddam’s regime as a State Sponsor
of Terror.” And the responses I’d get
back were, “Arg arg arg Saddam Hussein had nothing to do with 9/11.”
Then I’d say, “There is a story I
heard repeated by R. James Woolsey Jr., Bill Clinton’s first CIA director, that
The Salman Pak Military facility 15 miles S of Baghad had a disabled 707 on the
tarmac that was used for training foreign terrorists in air plane
highjacking. And the terrorist had
practiced with boxcutters.” The
immediate response I got was, “That story’s been debunked!” “By whom?” I wanted to know. “The Iraqi Government” was the answer I got. (Laughter.)
Later.
Welcome to the Human Nature Channel. I’m your host Alex Tamsula and what am I
doing here? Well what I’m doing today is
another 2:20 seconds with Alex, the third part of my reminiscence about time spent
on the AOL Conspiracy Theory Message board.
When it comes to content creators
nowadays, specifically people who do political commentary on YouTube and
Twitter, probably the number one concern in the back of everybody’s mind is
getting ‘deplatformed’. It is such a new
issue my spell check doesn’t even recognized the word without putting a redline
under it, which should tell you something.
This is quite new, because for as
long as I can remember I was taught that one of the foundations of our Constitutional
Republic is Freedom of Speech. I’d like
somebody to explain how we square that with Alex Jones getting kicked off of YouTube
and Twitter, and Rodger Stone getting kicked of Twitter, and even the actor
James Woods having his Twitter account deactivated. I guess it come down to what you mean by …
free.
The issue has become front and
center since the 2016 Presidential election with the rise of the term ‘fake
news’ and how it’s so awful. I was
jotting down some thoughts for this very video on Monday when something gave me
a different opening. I was given a
suspension on Twitter, which means for the next 24 hours only my 24 follower
could see my Tweets, over a Tweet someone thought was offensive, and it had to
be that one that disappeared.
On Oct. 1, the one-year anniversary
of the Las Vegas shooting I posted a video of ZZ Top doing Viva Las Vegas, the
old Elvis tune, and I said, “Hey ISIS, eat this.” Don’t forget, ISIS took
credit for The Vegas shooting so I was well within my rights calling them out. Whether ISIS was behind it, whether Stephen Paddock
acted alone, I don’t know. Personally, I
think the Paddock story stinks for many reasons, one of being his room looked a
gun show where buyers were expected to drop by.
But that’s just me.
This is Twitter where apparently
there is a difference between playing Viva Las Vegas as opposed to posting the
hash tag Vegas Strong. I don’t know what
that is. Maybe bulling ISIS is a
violation of Terms Of Service. You tell
me.
What does this have to do with The
AOL Conspiracy Theory Message Board? I got
kicked off of AOL temporarily too to stuff I said. More on that in the next video.
Later
Welcome to the Human Nature Channel. I’m your host Alex Tamsula and what am I
doing here? What I’m doing is another
2:20 seconds with Alex, part four of my reminiscence about time spent on the
AOL Conspiracy Theory Message board.
When last we met, I mentioned I had
been given temporary suspensions from AOL over message board comments. Like Twitter there are Terms of Service, and
there were unseen moderators who enforce the rules. Sometimes when they made posts vanish they
seemed as arbitrary as anything you see on Twitter. Come to think of it, the moderators might be
the reason The Conspiracy Theory Message board never had any posts about … conspiracies.
Most posters there were decidedly
left-wing. I’d say 70% of them were
progressives. One guy I was always going
up against had the screen name Jeff2friends, a big Howard Dean supporter, and
he was pretty typical – bait the other 30%.
I learned you’re not supposed to
call a lying idiot a lying idiot. One
time I went to the Star Wars Message board calling them a bunch of retards. That suspension I deserved, but so what? Suspensions were overcome by simply logging
in again. AOL is a paid subscription
service. Ban somebody and make them take
their money elsewhere? Are you nuts?
James Evans Pilato at MediaMonarch
dot com once said that if the service is free, you’re the product. (Mr. Pilato does great work. Follow him on Twitter). I agree you are the product if the service is
free, but I’ve seen it from
the other side. There’s much difference between The Message
boards of yore and what’s going on at Twitter, except the permanent ban. No small thing but the common denominator?
It’s still corporatism. Ultimately corporatism is against Freedom of
Speech because you might say something that tanks their stock.
One time I got kicked off because I
asked Jeff2friends if he was Jeff Rense. Do you know who that is? One of the original Alt Right obviously
pro-Nazoid radio guys, who also made good use of internet pod casts. After I got the boot I was informed it
violates terms of service to ask the identity of someone behind a screen
name. Privacy you understand. When I got back online Jeff2friends answered
me. “Maybe I am, maybe I’m not.” On top of everything else the Deaniac gets
cute.
Ask me who I am behind my screen
name and I’ll tell you. I’m your worst
nightmare.
Later
Welcome to the human nature channel. I’m you’re host Alex Tamsula what am I doing
here?
What I’m doing is a bonus video to
my four-part Twitter series, 2 Minutes And 20 Seconds with Alex, which covered
my days on The AOL Conspiracy Theory Message board. And what I have here is a post from
Jeff2frndz, his open letter to Al Qaeda.
Get a load of this.
Subject: Re: An open letter to
Al Qaeda
Date:
8/30/2003 12:44 Eastern Daylight Time
From:
Jeff2Frndz
<<I BELIEVE AL QAIDA READS MESSAGE
BOARDS, AFTER ALL THEY EVEN FREQUENT USA BARS, I.E. MUHAMMED (sic) ATTA DID.
>>
Dear Al;
I do not know you, but it has been brought to my
attention that you are reading this, so I will write this to you
here, since you failed to leave a forwarding
address. While I find your attacks on a
US man-of-war to be totally without merit, and the deaths of those sailors that
died in this attack to be on your heads, I also think that this is ultimately
between you and Allah. It's your karma.
However, the campaign to make you this century's
"Soviet Communist" is something that many people here are not buying
into. WE know that your leader denied culpability, and given the track-record
of "proof" offered by your accusers, we are willing to give you the benefit
of the doubt in this -- provided that you also lay off the inverse -- calling
us liars and killers and give us time. You see, there are many that want to see
the attacks on entire populations based on the questionable actions of a few
stopped -- ours against you as well as yours against ours. Give us just a
little time, and we will get rid of the threat to peace that threatens the
entire world. I am talking, of course, of the Bush regime.
You see, Al, these people do not speak for all
Americans. They do not even speak for
the MAJORITY of Americans. The coup d'état performed by this band is starting
to become generally known and loathed, and as you can see from reading this
massage board (which we have all been assured you do) that only a couple out of
the many actually support the current regime and want to see it left in power.
So please, give us a little time, and we will be
leaving you alone, and not trying to force on you the government you do not
want. If you want to set up a theocracy in YOUR own nation, that should be your
choice, as bad as that will turn out to be for you (and the rest of the world
too, but the rest of the world has no business telling YOU what to do in your
own native lands than it does telling us).
Take care, and after we get this regime out of power,
and cooler heads prevail, perhaps we can all meet at the bar that we are told
you frequent for information and have a few?
Signed, Your Anti-NeoCon
Signed, Your Anti-NeoCon
This letter was a result of my
saying in a message board post to Jeff2frndz that I had seen a Google picture
of Ayman al Zawahiri, Al Qaeda’s no. 2, reading a copy of The New York Times, a
picture you can no longer find on line anymore. Believe me I’ve tried. I said it’s obvious Zawahiri could at least
read English, so it’s reasonable to assume that terrorists could read message
boards. In this letter Jeff seems to be
saying in his uber sarcastic way that, ‘Why would terrorists be interested in
social media?’
Like Bugs Bunny used to say, “What
a maroon.”
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