I make no claim to expert status on the subject. I DO, however, through years of experience, have the ability to smell BS and recognize looney nutcases from thousands of miles away.
Alex Jones has the smell and look.
Since you're a self admitted non expert how do you know one way or the other if there are conspiracies or not? Do you subscribe to the accidental theory on everything that's happening to this country and our Constitution or do you have another explanation? I'd really like to know because if there is another explanation to what's going on I'm all ears.
I listened to Alex Jones over the internet for about a month or two earlier this year. Funny stuff. I loved how he used Imperial March for his opening bumper - real ominous stuff.
But, eventually I stopped listening. It got quite boring hearing the same BS repeated over and over again. I believe it was G.K. Chesterton (or was it C.S. Lewis? I get them confused at times) that once pointed out that even loons have a sort of "coherent logic", but that their worldviews are small and quite stuffy. That is exactly how it felt listening to Jones. Same old crap regurgitated over and over again. It really needed some air from fresh ideas let into it... the real world is much more dynamic than the world in which Jones and his crew believe.