Conspiracies

NASA is once again knocking down a conspiracy theory that was promoted by a guest on Alex Jones’s website, Infowars, that advances the notion that NASA is hiding kidnapped child sex slaves in a colony on Mars. Yes, Mars the planet.

Alex Jones seems to have a “thing” for stories involving child sex slaves. The last big Infowars conspiracy involving kidnapped children was the story that child sex slaves were being held by Hillary Clinton and her campaign manager in the basement of a pizza restaurant in Washington D.C. That conspiracy theory was dubbed “Pizzagate” and as unbelievable as it sounds to normal, rational people, the story actually induced a North Carolina man to travel to Washington D.C. and enter the restaurant with an AR-15 style rifle and fire several shots, hitting walls, a desk, and a door. After getting everyone’s attention, he demanded to know where the kidnapped children were being kept. When he discovered the restaurant didn’t have a basement and there were no kidnapped children, he surrendered to police. He earned himself four years in prison and agreed to pay $5,744.33 for damages to the restaurant. (In my opinion, the judge should have tacked on an additional four years just for stupidity. It should be illegal to be that gullible.) Other people are facing prison sentences and huge fines for phoning in threats to pizza restaurants in D.C. A Louisiana man is facing five years in prison and a $250,000 fine for threatening a different pizza restaurant. He said he wanted to “save the kids” and “finish what the other guy didn’t.”

When it comes to absurd nonsense, I didn’t think Alex Jones would be able to top Pizzagate, but he’s done it. According to the new conspiracy theory, NASA is holding child sex slaves on the planet Mars – a neat trick considering NASA has no way to get humans to Mars. In fact, NASA astronauts have to hitch a ride to the International Space Station on a Russian rocket, because NASA has no way to get astronauts to its own space station.

When a significant number of wide-eyed American adults so easily fall hook, line and sinker for a preposterous fiction, I worry for the future of this country.

And what’s up with Alex Jones and child sex slaves? Find another topic, Alex.