Alex Jones Show - January 01, 1999


Alex Jones on Corruption in Williamson County TX


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Length

7 minutes

Words per minute

187.20554

Word count

1,351

Sentence count

97

Harmful content

Misogyny

1

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Hate speech

3

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Williamson County Sheriff Mike Hansen has been on the job in Williamson County, Texas for 7 years. He has been a part of the law enforcement agency for over 20 years and has seen first hand the abuses that are going on in the county.

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00:00:00.000 Well, there you see it.
00:00:02.000 Williamson County.
00:00:04.000 I've lived in Austin, Texas, in Travis County, just a few miles south of Williamson County for, I guess, about nine, ten years, and I always heard the horror stories.
00:00:14.000 And then I got to know some police officers that work in Williamson County, because for a long time I lived in North Austin, right on the edge of Williamson County.
00:00:21.000 And they talked about some of the abuses and how the police get away with a lot of corruption and how it's sponsored by the government and how they try to stay out of it.
00:00:29.000 And I still ignored it.
00:00:31.000 But then, over the years as a radio talk show host in Austin, Texas, I have documented literally hundreds of cases of people with no criminal records who've done nothing wrong, literally serving time or getting years of probation with thousands of dollars of fines in the aggregate for things like not having their end-date insurance card in their car.
00:00:53.000 We all do it.
00:00:55.000 We have our old insurance card and it expires even though we were mailed a new one.
00:01:00.000 Well, this in Williamson County can end up with hard jail time and thousands of dollars of fines along with the probation.
00:01:06.000 I'm not kidding.
00:01:07.000 We have the cases.
00:01:09.000 And then a few months ago, that police officer that I'd known for six, seven years told me, well, I'm leaving Williamson County.
00:01:16.000 I'm going to another state to get another job.
00:01:19.000 It's a better area.
00:01:21.000 And I just want to tell you to be careful when you're in Williamson County, because while I've been out on duty and on patrol and we stop off by a restaurant to eat, as police do late at night, he's heard several different police officers, Williamson County sheriff's deputies, talk about how they plan to pull myself or Mike Hansen over, my cameraman, the person getting this tape for a film he's making, about the abuses of Williamson County.
00:01:45.000 They say that they'll pull us over and can't wait to beat us up and throw us in jail.
00:01:51.000 This isn't Mexico, this isn't Nazi Germany, this isn't Stalin Russia or Mao's China.
00:01:57.000 This is right here in America.
00:01:59.000 No, it's not even Havana, Cuba.
00:02:01.000 The question is, who do the police serve now?
00:02:04.000 Who do they think they serve?
00:02:06.000 Well, they serve themselves and the power elite that keep them in their station, their station in life.
00:02:14.000 Police are supposed to be the servants of the people, the guardians of the public peace.
00:02:18.000 Peace officers, not law enforcement officers that defend the entrenched bureaucracy.
00:02:24.000 These bureaucrats in their ivory towers send their minions out to literally eat out our substance, just like the Constitution and the Bill of Rights and, of course, the Declaration of Independence states. 0.57
00:02:35.000 They are now the servants of themselves and their masters.
00:02:39.000 And they see us as second-class citizens that are supposed to be here at their beck and call and serve them.
00:02:44.000 And I want to tell the police, the good ones and the bad ones.
00:02:47.000 That it's time for you to cease your gang mentality, your, well, we can't tell on the brotherhood, the thin blue line.
00:02:54.000 You should read your own gang handbooks where gang members won't tell on their other vatos or their other homies. 0.98
00:03:01.000 That literally is gang mentality, gang psychology on a mass scale.
00:03:06.000 And it's criminal.
00:03:06.000 You are not above the law.
00:03:09.000 And there's one more thing.
00:03:11.000 If this police state succeeds, if it gets worse and worse into higher and higher degrees, You're going to have to live here in this country, this world.
00:03:20.000 Your children and their children will grow up in this world.
00:03:22.000 And the same abuses that you're engaging in against the population today will be brought to bear on you and your family when you're on vacation or traveling into another county.
00:03:32.000 You don't want to live in a place like Mexico. 1.00
00:03:34.000 You don't want to live in a place like Russia. 1.00
00:03:36.000 So do the right thing.
00:03:37.000 Stand up and be honorable.
00:03:39.000 Stop feeling sorry for yourselves like you're under attack and everybody's against you and it's a thin blue line.
00:03:44.000 If people are against you, it may be because you're doing something wrong.
00:03:49.000 So it's time for the good police and the good leaders in the community and the people at large to stand up and root out the bad officers that are rapidly taking over the country, as well as Williamson County, right here in Central Texas.
00:04:03.000 That's basically it.
00:04:05.000 The police in Williamson County want to threaten me, want to threaten my family.
00:04:09.000 I just say that's sad.
00:04:11.000 That's pathetic.
00:04:12.000 And that's wrong.
00:04:13.000 I've got nothing wrong.
00:04:14.000 I've stood up for people that have been abused.
00:04:18.000 Mike Hansen has stood up for people that have been abused in Williamson County.
00:04:21.000 And we're going to expose you.
00:04:22.000 If you want to threaten us or threaten our safety or threaten our health or threaten our families or threaten us with jail, that's fine.
00:04:29.000 We'll continue.
00:04:30.000 And at the end of the day, we'll have honor.
00:04:32.000 We'll defend our family names.
00:04:34.000 We'll be good, decent Americans in the fine tradition of Patrick Henry and George Washington.
00:04:39.000 As for you, you might want to hurriedly move to Mexico or Russia.
00:04:42.000 You might be a lot happier there.
00:04:44.000 And your intimidation doesn't work on me.
00:04:47.000 It doesn't work on Mike Hansen.
00:04:49.000 It doesn't work on the people in America.
00:04:51.000 And we're rapidly waking up to this criminal system that's coming to full-born and global fruition.
00:04:57.000 That's in America.
00:04:58.000 That's the choice.
00:04:59.000 Police, that's the choice.
00:05:00.000 Deliver this country into a hellhole, the arms of despotism, or do the right thing.
00:05:05.000 The war has already begun.
00:05:07.000 It's an information war.
00:05:08.000 It's a war being fought right here in the human mind.
00:05:11.000 Are we second-class citizens?
00:05:13.000 Have we done something wrong?
00:05:14.000 Why are there checkpoints on the roads?
00:05:16.000 The military now in Granger County, Tennessee, engaging in checkpoints?
00:05:21.000 It's getting bad, and if we don't step up and stand up against it, it's going to get a lot worse.
00:05:26.000 One more thing about Williamson County.
00:05:29.000 I confronted Governor Bush because...
00:05:31.000 He's a member of Skull and Bones, an elitist society, and his father, of course, was director of the CIA and president and vice president and a lot of other things, and we know they've engaged in a lot of criminal activity.
00:05:43.000 I simply asked Governor Bush at the end of his speech a simple question, and I was grabbed, I had my arm twisted behind my back, I was arrested.
00:05:53.000 Well, at least that's what they said.
00:05:55.000 They told me I was arrested, and then they drove me around for 45 minutes and dumped me off on the side of the street.
00:06:00.000 That's a county line.
00:06:01.000 Threw me out of the car.
00:06:03.000 Threw me out of the police car.
00:06:04.000 Took my handcuffs off.
00:06:05.000 And left me there on the side of the road.
00:06:07.000 Drove me around for 45 minutes, all the while telling me I was under arrest.
00:06:13.000 Arrested me, embarrassed me for asking a question.
00:06:16.000 And then George Bush had the nerve, according to the local newspaper, the Round Rock leader, that, well, that I had my free speech rights.
00:06:27.000 And that's what this country is about, so that fellow could say that.
00:06:32.000 After I was arrested, or detained, or kidnapped, or whatever they want to call it.
00:06:37.000 So here in America, you ask a question, you're kidnapped by Williamson County constables, and then thrown out on the side of the road.
00:06:44.000 Again, right here in America.
00:06:45.000 I don't think that's a good indicator of our freedoms at this present date.
00:06:51.000 That's not America.
00:06:52.000 That's not America.
00:06:54.000 What's your feelings on Williamson County?
00:06:56.000 Is it just revenue, Alex?
00:06:59.000 Williamson County is a giant revenue collection agency.
00:07:04.000 It's all about control, and they think that we're their slaves.
00:07:06.000 And that really is the question.
00:07:08.000 That's the question we're asking here, America.
00:07:10.000 Are we slaves?
00:07:11.000 Are we second-class citizens?
00:07:12.000 I say no.