Posted on 08/04/2022 2:44:28 PM PDT by navysealdad
A jury in Austin ordered Alex Jones to pay $4.1 million to the parents who lost children in the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School who sued the InfoWars host for defamation.
Jones was sued by the parents after the radio host and conspiracy theorist said the Sandy Hook massacre, the deadliest mass shooting at a U.S. elementary school, was “completely fake” and a “giant hoax” during a 2017 radio show. Opening statements and testimony for the trial began last week, and the jury broke for deliberations on Wednesday.
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The sandy hook shooter, you know, the real criminal, and his family are products of their environment though, not really their fault. The guns made him do it.
Nobody in this is claiming that. But there’s not much anyone can do, given that he’s DEAD.
It is difficult for public figures (politicians, government officials, astronauts, etc.) to win slander lawsuits. The courts set the bar high. And that’s as it should be. Otherwise people would be afraid to criticize public officials.
The bar is set much lower when the target of the slander is a private person. Alex Jones targeted private people, in a rather nasty way. He deserves whatever slap-down he gets.
Pretty good haul for make believe kids
“Not exactly - still very defamatory.”
How? If he said actors were portraying the parents, how has Jones defamed the actual parents? If anyone is defaming them, it is the actors.
In any event, now I’m reading that this was a default judgment, because Jones never showed up at court.
But...
A $4.1 million fine would just begin to compensate for his horrendous violations against the English language, particularly his habit of bending nouns into verbs on whim.
“Is that a real number?? That seems crazy high.”
I have no idea: I was responding TO that comment. I never made that statement. Read the thread.
Thanks. In this day and age, he's the only one you can truly trust.
“Facts” based on his opinion.
“The bar is set much lower when the target of the slander is a private person. Alex Jones targeted private people, in a rather nasty way. He deserves whatever slap-down he gets.”
I understand that; I handled libel and slander cases (in the insurance industry, those were considered PERSONAL injuries, as opposed to BODILY injuries or PROPERTY damage). But, what was the slander?
He publicly stated that the parents were active participants in a hoax about the murder of their children. These people were private citizens not public figures… that’s defamation folks.
Pure and simple. You tell lies that you know to be lies about someone, that’s defamation.
They have his text messages. They know he knew he was lying and did it anyway.
If he committed no crime there should be no punishment of any sort. Monetary damages alone should be forthcoming in a civil matter.
good point. Not that I ever heard.
If they can take Alex Jones for all he’s worth why do the guys who slandered Nick Sandemann or whatever his name was get off scot free?
He claimed Sandy Hook was a hoax and that the grieving parents were crisis actors
He’s a psychotic jerk
When you claim grieving parents are crisis actors
The man is a a psychotic jerk. Good for the parents
Alex’s attorney screwed up by sending all the phone phone records.
You don’t have to name someone to defame them. That’s nothing new.
“Are they now subject to charges?”
There were no “charges”. It’s a civil suit. And yes, if you said something defamatory against those astronauts, the astronauts could sue you for defamation.
The difference is the astronauts were public figures, so proving a defamation case would be nearly impossible for them. But Jone was dumb enough to make his statements against people who were not public figures, so they could win their suits quite easily.
“nobody ever seems to post that video. Wonder why?”
Probably because all of Jones’ material was removed from youtube subsequent to that, and I doubt he republished that particular segment after he got slapped with the lawsuits.
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