Alternative-energy investor Chad Jones went ‘MIA on social media’ \u2014 now vows ‘silent majority is no longer silent’<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A Massachusetts man<\/u><\/a> helped fuel one of the biggest digital dust-ups and social-media mysteries of recent years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n And after he did \u2014 Chad Jones then experienced the “terrifying” power of Big Tech titans<\/u><\/a> to silence the voices of ordinary Americans. <\/p>\n\n\n\n He’s now doubling down on his efforts to speak out against tyranny in the digital town square and beyond. <\/p>\n\n\n\n “I went MIA on social media for a while for sharing some pretty innocuous things,” Jones, a venture investor working to bring alternative energy to impoverished nations around the world, told Fox News Digital in an interview. <\/p>\n\n\n\n “The idea that they\u2019re stifling voices as part of the normal course of business is terrifying.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n The social-media soap opera began in 2022 when Jones, originally from California<\/u><\/a>, posted on his personal Facebook page a cryptic letter allegedly written in December 2021 by an 85-year-old retired California judge, Keith M. Alber. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The letter claimed that the current endangered state of American democracy was predicted with frightening accuracy in the 1950s. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The judge’s shocking claim spawned a frenzied reaction on social media. <\/p>\n\n\n\n “The idea that they\u2019re stifling voices as part of the normal course of business is terrifying.”<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n “My first year of college was 68 years ago,” Alber wrote in a brief letter to The Epoch Times in December 2021. <\/p>\n\n\n\n “One class I took was political science. A half-page of my textbook essentially outlined a few steps to overturn democracy.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n Alber\u2019s letter enumerated those steps: “1) Divide the nation philosophically. 2) Foment racial strife. 3) Cause distrust of police authority. 4) Swarm the nation\u2019s borders indiscriminately and unconstitutionally. 5) Engender the military strength<\/u><\/a> to weaken it. 6) Overburden citizens with more unfair taxation. 7) Encourage civil rioting and discourage accountability for all crime. 8) Control all balloting. 9) Control all media.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n The judge\u2019s letter struck home with many readers, including Jones \u2014 who felt the textbook from decades ago predicted the crisis of democracy that the nation faces today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It also spawned heated debate online \u2014 with members of each end of the American political spectrum claiming the other side was responsible for the fascist dystopia outlined by the judge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Many people, however, doubted the authenticity of the letter, especially with the judge’s failure to cite the name of the textbook. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Snopes.com weighed in, claiming last May that it talked to Alber and that the letter was authentic. Alber died later last year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n But, the outlet wrote, “One of the more popular postings of the article came from a Facebook account named Chad Jones. As of mid-May 2022, that post had been shared more than 11,000 times.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Jones was unaware that his post had gone viral until Fox News Digital contacted him last week. <\/p>\n\n\n\n “The silent majority is no longer silent like they used to be.”<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Meta blocked him from his Facebook account soon after he posted the letter. He couldn\u2019t get access to the post, even as it continued to ignite thousands of responses. <\/p>\n\n\n\n “When I looked at the letter, it really struck me as a variation of Saul Alinsky’s \u2018Rules for Radicals,\u2019” said Jones when asked what prompted him to share the letter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n “The whole basis is to tear down our system and build something new and different, something not aligned with our traditional American concepts of individual freedom and personal liberty.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Thousands of people agreed with Jones; thousands more did not. <\/p>\n\n\n\n It appeared to be a vigorous public debate. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Yet Jones was silenced for sharing the letter that spawned the discourse and the entire post itself has disappeared since.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Jones reemerged on Facebook months later with an alternate account.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “It seems that silencing voices in the electronic town square falls right in line with what Alber wrote about,” said Jones. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Meta blocked Jones from his Facebook account \u2026 He couldn\u2019t access the post \u2013 even as it continued to ignite thousands of responses.<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n He said the experience has only stiffened his resolve to speak out on social media and other platforms. <\/p>\n\n\n\n He feels that “millions of Americans” learned the same lesson when they were silenced for daring to challenge Anthony Fauci, the federal government and media during the COVID-19 panic<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “The silent majority is no longer silent like they used to be,” said Jones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “They’re no longer willing just to take their opinions silently to the voting booth. There are millions of us out there now fighting the effort to silence debate.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Jones uses Facebook only socially, he said. So he didn\u2019t suffer any financial or business distress. But he lost plenty personally. <\/p>\n\n\n\n “The one thing I do miss are the pictures, the memories, the reunion photos. I can\u2019t get back any of it. That kind of sucks,” he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “It’s all a little scary because I have kids<\/u><\/a>. What kind of world will they be inheriting if we don’t fight back?” <\/p>\n\n\n\n