Fox News Host Embraces Conspiracist With Race War Theory
Gravelly voiced conspiracy theorist touts himself as one of the few daring souls willing to tell the âtruthâ about , the Federal Emergency Management Agencyâs in âdeath camps,â and the âNew World Orderâ plot to exterminate 80% of the worldâs population. The Austin, Texas-based radio host suggests that he is a lone voice âin the wildernessâ of a corporate media too cowardly to tell the truth about looming disaster.
But at least one member of that media has shown Jones nothing but love. Judge , senior judicial analyst for Fox News and host of the Fox Business program âFreedom Watch,â calls Jones a âdear friendâ who is âdoing more than anybody I knowâ to âeducate the publicâ with âcourage and fearlessness.â Jones responds by calling Napolitano the âbest personâ on national TV. Last Friday, according to liberal watchdog Media Matters for America, Napolitano for at least the sixth time, and promised to soon bring Jones on to âFreedom Watch,â which he announced was expanding from the weekend to weekdays.
Maybe theyâll get a chance to discuss a Jones theory thatâs a little more racially charged than much of his usual fare: a purported secret plan on the part of undocumented Mexican immigrants to murder all whites over 16.
Jones has been railing on about the so-called Plan de San Diego since 2005, when he began to talk about the genocidal plot by radical Mexican immigrants â a âHispanic Klan,â in Jonesâ words â to start a race war against U.S. whites. As Jones described it then in his âNightmare Racism and Open Call for Revolutionâ blog post, he found out about the plot at an Austin event where a number of Latinos were wearing âPlan de San Diegoâ T-shirts. A group of Jonesâ unnamed pals â including a âHispanic friend,â a Spanish-speaking University of Texas professor and someone âwho has taken Latin-American studiesâ â told him the rest: A âpowerful revolutionary coreâ of âextremist Mexican hate groupsâ is currently âdedicated to overthrowing Texas and setting up a racial state.â Jones did not name the groups.
Buzz about the purported conspiracy is still making the rounds today. Itâs hit the message board of , the worldâs premiere white supremacist website; bounced to a racist Facebook page calling for the boycott of and showed up on the nativist hate site .
In his September 2005 blog post, Jones claimed that a third of the Latinos he spoke to at the Austin event âsaid that Texas was [part of] Mexico and that they were taking over.â Some, Jones claimed, even said that âall whites would be killed and that the entirety of the Americas would be only for âindigenous peoples.ââ Jones doesnât explain why the people he spoke to would share all of these details of the anti-white conspiracy with an obvious Anglo.
As it happens, there was a real Plan de San Diego. But it emerged from a Monterey, Mexico, jailhouse in 1915, during the Mexican Revolution of 1910-1920. The plan called for Mexicans to kill whites over 16 in Texas, which had been part of Mexico until 1848. Several dozen U.S. citizens were murdered, but the U.S. hit back hard. A 1919 Texas legislative inquiry found that between 300 and 5,000 Mexicans were killed by the Texas Rangers, an elite police force, in retaliation.
And that was the end of that.
What Jones later described as the âillegal alien rallyâ in Austin where he learned of the purported Latino conspiracy was actually a Mexican Independence Day celebration. If anyone there was wearing a Plan of San Diego shirt, it was at worst a statement of nationalistic pride in a lost cause, basically akin to a Confederate flag T-shirt. Poor taste bordering on the offensive, yes, but hardly a coded call to arms.
And the âfrothing and screamingâ Jones says he encountered at the hands of the Latino celebrants? Jones brought a bullhorn and a crowd of âTexans for Freedomâ â an antigovernment group he heads â âto educate other well-meaning celebrantsâ of Mexican Independence Day about the âracist groups that were preaching their message in the Hispanic community.â The âwell-meaning celebrants,â apparently, did not welcome Jonesâ message.
So far, Jonesâ main platform has been his radio show and two Internet websites. But now, thanks to Napolitano, that may be changing. In a March 2009 appearance on Napolitanoâs âFreedom Watch,â which then was only on Foxnews.com, Jones expressed appreciation for the Fox websiteâs decision to have him as a guest. âThank you, Fox,â he said, âyou guys are getting radical having me on over there.â
It isnât clear if Napolitano knows about Jonesâ ideas about a murderous Mexican plot to kill whites and bring Texas back into the Mexican fold. But last Friday, on Jonesâ show, he did bring up the topic of Texas secession. âGuess what?â he told Jones. âThat time has come. That may actually happen.â