While mindreading is a futile exercise, perhaps all of these folks see something positive in Jones and his program that you do not.

He is a fierce opponent of American militarism abroad and the alarming drift towards a police state at home.

While one might disagree with his libertarian take on many issues (and I do), I see no evidence of bigotry.

Like it or not, it takes all kinds of folk in a big tent to bring the American imperial machine to a halt. Alex Jones is playing a positive part in that struggle by bringing an uncompromising antiwar message to an audience the American left (or the Canadian left) could only dream of reaching.

There is a lesson here for peace activists if they are open to learning it.

Alex Jones is a self-described paleoconservative, an isolationist rather than an internationalist, an adherent of one of the most odious forms of American conservatism, which last flowered during the heyday of the John Birch Society. American lefties give Jones a wide birth, not because of his histrionics, but because of his bigotry, opposition to social democracy, immigration, affirmative action, etc., and his fierce advocacy for frontier-style individualism and American supremacy.

Perhaps Boyle was misled by Jones’ rants against a competing form of American conservatism, i.e., the neoconservatism of the Bush administration and their cruel imperialism on the international stage. On the other hand, perhaps he knows Jones’ isolationist and individualistic political philosophy and saw an opportunity to publicly demonstrate a citizen-of-the-world alternative to American exceptionalism. Whatever the case, I hope that the ICC and progressive-minded Americans do not dismiss his action because of the optics of his appearance on the Alex Jones show.