Posted on 10/21/2022 7:05:04 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski
Lawyers for Sandy Hook families, who were recently awarded a billion dollar compensatory judgment against radio host Alex Jones, are now seeking the “highest possible“ amount in punitive damages totaling $2.75 trillion in hopes to take Jones off the air forever.
The cartoonishly large amount, which supposedly factors in 550 million “social media exposures” that Infowars would have generated on YouTube, Twitter and Facebook in the three years following the mass shooting and multiplies it by $5,000, was reported by Bloomberg News Friday.
Sandy Hook families asked a Connecticut judge to order Alex Jones to pay $2.75 trillion in damages in addition to the almost $1 billion a jury awarded for defamation, claiming only “the highest possible punitive damages,” will stop the Infowars host from continuing to harm them.
The families said they’re entitled to the amount because Jones broke a state law barring the sale of products using false statements. They reached the sum by multiplying the state law’s $5,000 per-violation fine by the 550 million social media exposures Jones’s audience received on his Facebook, YouTube and Twitter accounts in the three years following a school shooting that claimed the lives of 20 first graders and six educators in 2012.
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“Alex Jones perpetrates this attack for one reason: greed,” the families’ lawyers said in the filing Friday. “Alex Jones will never treat them like real people, because they are too valuable to him as targets…”
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Agreed. I’m coming around myself. Amazingly.
Did any 9/11 truthers get sued?
Hell, they should go for all the marbles, how about $Ꝏ quadrillion
Any sympathy these parents may have once deserved for losing their children now goes straight in the trash. They’re now nothing but selfish, vile political opportunists. They’ve crossed a line where I don’t ever want to hear about their spawn again, and in the process they’re ironically validating much of what Alex Jones said.
They’re sounding like Zelensky now.
“More money, more money, more money, more money…”
Our legal system is broken. Juries cannot be allowed to award damages just based on “how they feel”.
And Whopper meals for every day they are in court.
This is beyond recompense for harm done.
This is retaliation and retribution and the left is trying to make an example of him to cow the rest of anyone who is to the right of Stalin.
Apparently not.
Take note, comrade…….
Look in the mirror you unethical hypocrite.
If he had said “I think Sandy Hook was a hoax” he would have been fine. When he said Robbie Parker (one of the victims fathers) was acting when he was crying at a press conference, then Robbie Parker can sue.
And just how did Jones comment actually damage that father? Besides offending him?
And does someone taking offense constitute “damage”?
I may once have had some sympathy for these people, but no more. They’re a bunch of whores.
Exactly.
When they moved to looking to win life’s lottery over the loss of their kids, they just validated everything Jones said, IMO.
You don’t use your child’s death to skim a profit off someone and ruin their lives simply because you don’t like what they said.
“Alex Jones perpetrates this attack for one reason: greed,” the families’ lawyers said in the filing Friday. ‘
Greed? As they demand $2.75T LOL
What a clown world were living in.
Very interesting. I shall research.
500 Quatloos!
Yep, both things can be true. This is a huge legal joke and Alex Jones isn't to be taken seriously.
The precedent this is setting, thanks to a thoroughly corrupt legal system is dangerous, to say the least.
You don’t have to like Jones to see the damage this case is going to do to free speech.
The entire point of free speech is to be able to make political points. If that is squelched by the imposition of impossible financial penalties, then there really is no free speech is there?
This is just stupid.
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