How the Georgia Guidestones became a magnet for conspiracy theorists – By Daniel Arkin and Tim Stelloh (NBC News) / July 9, 2022
In early 2005, a conspiracy theorist writing under the pseudonym John Conner — the name of the resistance leader from “The Terminator” movies — decided he needed to warn the public about the 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.”
He was referring to the Georgia Guidestones, a 19-foot-tall four-slab granite monument bearing a cryptic 10-part message in 12 languages. Nobody knows precisely who constructed the monument, but it stood there for more than four decades.
Seventeen years later, Conner — better known today as right-wing provocateur and pro-Trump YouTube personality Mark Dice — got part of his wish.
