The Management of Savagery. Max Blumenthal

many of them wrong in the process), and by omitting any historical discussion of the American government’s relationship with the forces directly implicated in the attacks, turning to crude insinuations about an inside job, the Truthers inadvertently ran interference for the imperialist power elite they claimed to disdain.

      There was probably one direction a national movement bound together by conspiratorial thinking could go, and that was hard right. The hyper-ambitious Jones proved eager to channel antiestablishment energy into right-wing mobilization. Having put 9/11 Truth on the national radar, Jones opened up a new front against undocumented immigrants, joining forces with the white nationalist border vigilantes known as the Minutemen to paint illegal immigration as a globalist plan to destroy American culture. He focused intensely on the threat of “chemtrails,” alleging that government jets were engaged in a secret plot to spray chemicals that promoted mind control and “could possibly cause flooding akin to Noah’s ark.” And he continued to push the claim—not far afield from self-styled terror expert Steven Emerson’s baseless speculation—that the Clinton administration had engineered the 1995 Oklahoma City Federal Building bombing to advance gun control and other liberal policies.