Alex Jones Show - December 28, 1998


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Length

15 minutes

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150.84995

Word count

2,396

Sentence count

184

Harmful content

Misogyny

3

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Hate speech

5

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After the 1998 Texas election, the Dallas Morning News reported that there may have been election fraud in one of the most hotly contested races in the history of the United States. The paper reported that the vote tallying machine in one precinct may have counted ballots twice after they had already canvassed all the ballots.

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00:00:00.000 We have this to tell you.
00:00:19.000 Yes, we live in troubled times.
00:00:22.000 There are far too many criminals and far too many crimes.
00:00:27.000 I'm locking every window and I'm opening every door.
00:00:31.000 The school I use in Suffolk says we're even up to score.
00:00:34.000 You can rant, you can rave, you can make your demands.
00:00:38.000 You can take my gun from my cold, dead hand.
00:00:42.000 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:00:45.000 They're a global corporation.
00:00:51.000 They are billions that they pay.
00:00:53.000 To the green politicians who make sure things go their way.
00:00:57.000 They tax us to the poverty and we live from day to day.
00:01:01.000 To send words to the future, we don't get to have a say.
00:01:04.000 If you want to crack your constitution, is that what's in your plan?
00:01:08.000 You can take my gun from my cold dead hand.
00:01:12.000 Every case in history went genocide and slam. 0.62
00:01:16.000 The firearms were gathered up and the opposition banned.
00:01:20.000 The tyrants made distractions and the people looked away.
00:01:23.000 And by the time they realized they couldn't get away, the smiling face on my face said, "You should all join
00:01:31.000 hands and help create this vision of a new world or the flag." 0.89
00:01:35.000 our defense and give our bases all away. Will you end the rule?
00:01:40.000 My name is Alex Jones, and this is the Freedom Report.
00:01:43.000 and you can take my gun from my cold, dead hand.
00:01:55.000 Hello Austin, Texas.
00:01:56.000 My name is Alex Jones, and this is the Freedom Report.
00:02:04.000 Every Monday evening, right here on Table Channel 10, where we discuss the important
00:02:11.000 issues that at least should be important to all Americans out there that want to know
00:02:18.000 what's really happening to our country, that truly have even the slightest care about what's
00:02:25.000 happening.
00:02:25.000 [BLANK_AUDIO]
00:02:26.000 Now, we've got a big plate to cover.
00:02:29.000 Tomorrow we're going to have a chance to speak to the county commissioners about possible election fraud.
00:02:38.000 Right after the election, the November 3rd election, we were down there the next week at the County Commissioners, pinpointing a specific precinct, Place 2, with Karen Sunlightner and her good friend, the County Clerk, Dana Dubois, that we thought had a serious problem.
00:02:57.000 We played the video clips for you last week.
00:02:59.000 We'll probably play them again for you on Wednesday.
00:03:03.000 It's important that everybody comes down there and gets angry about this because now the states in December 23, 1998, last Wednesday, did a front page cover story and the Metro had stated about it.
00:03:15.000 But let the county clerk babble right off her report that came out the day before last Tuesday. 1.00
00:03:23.000 And here's the voting session, 12-22-98, and here is the county clerk, Dana Debibois.
00:03:32.000 The county judge and commissioners, Janet DuBois, at Janet's request to discuss the
00:03:36.000 November 10, 1998, canvassed.
00:03:37.000 We were down there when they canvassed the votes.
00:03:42.000 Like all good Martians are, I'm blue now. 1.00
00:03:44.000 That's weird.
00:03:45.000 Probably my fault.
00:03:46.000 I'm actually blue now.
00:03:47.000 You guys are doing a great job.
00:03:48.000 It has nothing to do with you all.
00:03:49.000 I'm the person that did the lights and had five minutes to do them this evening.
00:03:54.000 In our routine post-election audit that includes comparing the number of voters in the voter
00:03:59.000 registration books for final election appearance, an error was discovered in the report for
00:04:03.000 precinct 225.
00:04:04.000 The error does not affect the outcome of any race on the ballot, and this precinct was
00:04:09.000 not part of the city of Austin's election.
00:04:11.000 We talked about it.
00:04:14.000 It's a county election with Karen Sunliner, and this was called on because of the person 0.73
00:04:20.000 that was defeated, Republican Mr. Shaw.
00:04:25.000 He's called for an investigation.
00:04:26.000 Others have been calling for investigations.
00:04:28.000 We called for an investigation.
00:04:30.000 Now all we have is her little report here for the paper to write out of.
00:04:35.000 And they admit in here that one ballot box was moved and counted twice after it had been counted.
00:04:40.000 Safety seals were taken off.
00:04:43.000 They were changed.
00:04:44.000 Are we having feedback, Mark?
00:04:46.000 Oh, okay.
00:04:46.000 I just thought you had some more of the volume over there.
00:04:49.000 Yeah, and this just goes on and on and on.
00:04:53.000 Ballot box being moved, counted twice.
00:04:55.000 The seals being taken off.
00:04:57.000 A refield, new signatures being put on, old signatures being crossed out.
00:05:02.000 You see, Karen Sunlight in her place, too, was losing.
00:05:05.000 She's a Democrat incumbent, and was losing.
00:05:08.000 And we fought hard to get her.
00:05:09.000 She supposedly, you know, was going to win by the straight majority. 0.99
00:05:12.000 She was losing all day long, from the first exit polls right up until around 2 o'clock in the morning.
00:05:17.000 And the results came out around 3 o'clock in the morning, and she had won by a good margin.
00:05:22.000 A couple points, a decent, what she calls, stealthy.
00:05:26.000 And she called it a referendum for herself.
00:05:29.000 We're going to be down there tomorrow at the County Commission's Court calling for an investigation.
00:05:32.000 Now look, we're not going to save the world.
00:05:34.000 We know this.
00:05:36.000 But it's important every day, in every way, to get out there and to speak to the public and try to wake them up and try to get them involved.
00:05:46.000 It's so darn important.
00:05:50.000 So again, we're asking you to show up down there tomorrow, 3-14, West 11th.
00:05:54.000 Make the commitment.
00:05:55.000 Don't just watch this show and feel like you're doing a good job by doing that, because nothing's going to get done that way watching me up here.
00:06:01.000 You've got to get involved in the political process.
00:06:04.000 Go down and give your three-minute speech.
00:06:07.000 Stand up.
00:06:08.000 It'll feel good.
00:06:09.000 Believe me.
00:06:09.000 It'll be scary at first, but it'll definitely make you feel good.
00:06:13.000 Now, when we get back, we're going to cover some smart growth.
00:06:18.000 The Austin Chronicle, this week, on page 20, calls it the Jones Factor.
00:06:24.000 We did one, two, three, four, five paragraphs on our little protest down there Thursday.
00:06:34.000 We were actually in there two weeks ago, Tuesday through Thursday, but Thursday we actually had our protest out front.
00:06:43.000 And they say in here that I made more than one Cogent point, but they don't make any of the points that I made that were Cogent when they do three pages or four pages over here to talk about how wonderful it is.
00:06:56.000 And they talk about how I asked Michael Jell about his China connection.
00:07:01.000 Backers over there, you know.
00:07:05.000 Jell at least has some business left in the U.S.
00:07:08.000 in his place to run off of.
00:07:09.000 We do appreciate that.
00:07:10.000 He's mainly, in my opinion, there to beg the Green Mafia to be able to have a business. 1.00
00:07:16.000 And they're more than happy as long as they get the cash.
00:07:18.000 As long as they're gooped down to lower level, I don't think it's actually for the environment.
00:07:25.000 But, uh, is there a reason I'm hearing test signals coming out of here?
00:07:38.000 Okay.
00:07:40.000 But, um... You know, I'm getting audio in here, guys.
00:07:48.000 But, um... We try our best, though, and I do... We try our best here.
00:07:53.000 We try our best, and I do appreciate Mike and Jesse.
00:07:57.000 And everybody else here.
00:08:01.000 It says, now listen to this, The Chronicle of Oak continually does this, and I don't claim to have the best English in the world.
00:08:08.000 My family has impeccable English, but I grew up here in Texas, as my family did, but I didn't do pretty well, but I complained the last time they had me using improper English.
00:08:22.000 And so obviously this time they were more covert about it here.
00:08:25.000 So the sorts of strategies that work for San Jose and Newark, Portland and Minneapolis ain't gonna work here because they generally start with make a law that prohibits or gets the legislature to appropriate money to or create a regional organization with legal authority over.
00:08:46.000 Now we sit here and we read this and it says, and even if we could, there's plenty of folks even here in liberal Austin Though for Jones, it seems that any partnership is by definition a conspiracy.
00:08:59.000 with ACC and KJFA personality, Alex Jones, who, though he spends too much time relishing
00:09:05.000 being the house freak, raised more than one cogent point.
00:09:10.000 Though for Jones, for Jones it seems that any partnership is by definition a conspiracy.
00:09:17.000 He's right to argue, as he did from the floor at high volume with Carol Browner, that ordinary
00:09:22.000 people who live in the suburbs can feel downright threatened by what the elites in the room
00:09:28.000 think is common sense.
00:09:30.000 Oh, you see, the people that go along with this whole deal, they're common sense.
00:09:34.000 They're understanding.
00:09:37.000 They know what's happening.
00:09:38.000 You bet it's for the elites, but it's not for the environment and it's not common sense.
00:09:43.000 It's common sense for their bank account.
00:09:48.000 Various soulmates, including an on-again, off-again council candidate and full-time slusher hater, Dick Vreeland, were ticketing outside the convention center and indulging in street arguments with attendees, including, memorably, council member Willie Lewis.
00:10:04.000 Now, that doesn't against Willie Lewis.
00:10:06.000 I ate lunch with Willie Lewis Tuesday at the council.
00:10:08.000 I mean, at the, uh, off the convention center, council member.
00:10:12.000 That doesn't against the guy.
00:10:13.000 I was polite to him.
00:10:15.000 Greg Erickson asked a guy a polite question, and that's rare for Greg.
00:10:18.000 He's almost as obnoxious as me, at times.
00:10:21.000 And Greg says, what about the corruption?
00:10:23.000 And Lewis comes across, right in front of us, right in front of 30-something people, and starts shoving him in the face.
00:10:29.000 And Greg is backing away in front of three police and does nothing.
00:10:32.000 So we weren't engaging in street arguments with him, we did with others, and that's my favorite thing to do.
00:10:36.000 Jones also grilled Michael Dell about his Chinese operations, but that was about as hardball as the reverential treatment of Richie Rich got.
00:10:47.000 Del, the most eager participant and the highly promoted speaker of the softball questions, tasked to talk about smart growth and new economy.
00:10:58.000 Del basically, though not very lucidly, argued that Austin metro area was growing fast.
00:11:03.000 Austin should manage itself like Del or something like that.
00:11:06.000 Much head scratching ensued.
00:11:09.000 Yeah, are you kidding?
00:11:11.000 They don't want to grow economies.
00:11:14.000 Yeah, that was Gerald, uh, that was Council Member Slusher, great guy.
00:11:19.000 No boondoggle, Slusher, and increase your taxes massively.
00:11:23.000 We will cover this more when we get back, and I have some serious issues about Russia and much more, but first we have a story.
00:11:30.000 How many is it?
00:11:31.000 20,000?
00:11:31.000 50,000?
00:11:32.000 I mean, just tens of thousands.
00:11:34.000 Last time I heard it on the mainstream press, mom-and-pop gas stations are going under because they can't afford to put in the new gas tanks.
00:11:42.000 And this has been lobbied for very, very heavily by some of the big oil companies in a covert fashion.
00:11:50.000 Because it's a great way to shut down people that are engaged in the free market.
00:12:03.000 And a lot of people traffic them on and off because they don't like supporting the big corporations and so forth.
00:12:11.000 I'm sure you don't care about it.
00:12:14.000 We'll go ahead and go to this.
00:12:15.000 Mike Hurley put this together for you today.
00:12:17.000 He had like 30 minutes of tape.
00:12:18.000 Just cut it down to 10 minutes.
00:12:19.000 Appreciate Mike and Steve Wayne doing that.
00:12:22.000 Here is what's happening to 120,000, now I'm told.
00:12:25.000 I actually have the supplemental information regarding the Austin Tenants' 1998 Enforcement Strategy.
00:12:32.000 Over 1.2 million standardized youth ST in service in 1998 have been taken out of operation, thus removing them as sources of lease.
00:12:41.000 Okay, excuse me.
00:12:42.000 People keep exaggerating.
00:12:43.000 I was one from memory.
00:12:45.000 When I heard a radio station in town, an ABC affiliate, it was KLBJ, they carry that, don't they?
00:12:51.000 I don't remember.
00:12:52.000 I listen to so many stations when I'm driving.
00:12:54.000 Saying it was 20,000 or something, I can't remember.
00:12:56.000 This says 1.2 million.
00:12:59.000 I don't know if it was 1.2 million.
00:13:00.000 Well, I guess every little station might have two to four tanks, so that's quite a few stations if you divide that up.
00:13:07.000 So, this is talking about how they're shutting them down.
00:13:10.000 at the Environmental Protection Agency with Carol Brenner.
00:13:13.000 So we will air this piece and I will be back fired up and charged up and ready to take
00:13:17.000 your phone calls.
00:13:18.000 This is a live program right here in late December 1998.
00:13:22.000 Are we ready to go to this important tape?
00:13:27.000 With the impeachment proceedings against President Bill Clinton, bombings in Iraq, enforcing
00:13:33.000 UN sanctions, and recent revelations that Osama bin Laden might be preparing to attack
00:13:39.000 American targets both here and abroad, you probably didn't notice one of the biggest 0.69
00:13:44.000 changes to the American landscape ever.
00:13:46.000 [Music]
00:13:47.000 That's the closing down of some 22,000 gas stations nationwide.
00:13:54.000 Now on the surface it would seem that these closings were due to EPA regulations originally passed in 1984, changed again in 86, In 88, which gave gas stations 10 years to either upgrade or replace their underground storage tanks or UFTs.
00:14:17.000 The cutoff date, doomsday if you will, was December 22nd, 1998.
00:14:24.000 Just a couple of days before Christmas this year.
00:14:27.000 By that date, all underground storage tanks for gas stations had to either be upgraded or replaced.
00:14:34.000 Unfortunately for a lot of gas station owners like this one, the tanks were not upgradable and they had to be replaced.
00:14:42.000 Now for different reasons, among them availability of contractors and of course the high price, some $110,000 according to the EPA's own estimate.
00:14:50.000 according to the EPA's own estimates, 22,000 gas stations were not able to make the changes.
00:15:00.000 That's some 40% of the market, according to some estimates.
00:15:05.000 [BLANK_AUDIO]
00:15:07.000 So as you drive around these next few days, keep your eyes open.
00:15:10.000 Take a look at all the gas stations that have closed down.
00:15:13.000 Notice that the only ones left are the huge multinational corporations.
00:15:19.000 The Mobil, the Exxon, the Chevron, Diamond Shamrock, 7-Eleven, all the big names.
00:15:26.000 The mom-and-pops have been shut out.
00:15:29.000 It's my opinion That this wasn't caused by some radical environmental agenda.
00:15:36.000 That in fact, radical environmentalists were used, once again, manipulated by multinational corporations.
00:15:44.000 Used so that these multinational corporations could get an even bigger stranglehold on the gasoline and oil market.
00:15:52.000 Before all these changes,