Alex Jones should not play in Reading

An absolute highlight is the performance of the Tucker Carlson Tour on Monday at 7:30 p.m. at the Santander Arena in Reading. The star guest is Alex Jones, a well-known conspiracy theorist who falsely claimed that the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting was a hoax staged by actors.

It is shocking that Jones, who has spent years spreading falsehoods about the shooting and its victims, is allowed to stand on stage at a public event here in our backyard. What is even sadder is that people are paying to see and hear a person who, for so many years, has caused so much pain and heartache to families who lost a child or a teacher in that horrific shooting in Connecticut.

How sad it is that the Santander Arena is hosting this event. Now is the time for people who recognize how wrong Jones’ performance in Reading is to speak out and show Americans and the world that the good people of our region will not allow evil to flourish.

Michael Deibert
Brecknock Parish