Georgia Guidestones bombed then demolished

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While trying to catch up on what Alex Jones may have added to his one-man clown act, I came across this:

 How the Georgia Guidestones became a magnet for conspiracy theorists 


In early 2005, a conspiracy theorist writing under the pseudonym John Conner decided he needed to warn the public about the alleged evils of a roadside tourist attraction in northeastern Georgia.

"The Guidestones should be smashed into a million pieces, and then the rubble used for a construction project," Conner wrote in part on his website, according to archival news reports. "The Guidestones have a deep Satanic origin and message."

Seventeen years later, Conner -- better known today as right-wing provocateur and pro-Trump YouTube personality Mark Dice -- got part of his wish.

In recent years, the Guidestones became a recurring symbol in the QAnon conspiracy movement, the subject of videos and other digital content that baselessly linked them to the Covid pandemic and a fictional cabal of sex traffickers.

Alex Jones, the incendiary conspiracist and Infowars host, visited the attraction in 2020 and called it "the birthplace of the modern depopulation movement," referring to an inscription on the granite that called for keeping the Earth's population under 500 million.

Kandiss Taylor, a conservative Republican who ran for the Georgia gubernatorial nomination and placed third in the state's May 24 primary, claimed the slabs of granite were satanic and made tearing them down a key pillar of her platform.


At least they are not blowing up libraries and burning books . . . yet.

The Guidestones were more New Age than satanic. There were no pentagrams, no horns, nothing; just stupidity.

I'm still happy they're gone. I hope the granite will be used to repave local roads, rather than get taken to a landfill.

If they get rebuilt, I hope they'll have more up-to-date messages, like "Don't trust government health agencies."

The Guidestones' message was simple: