Posted on 09/22/2022 11:53:14 PM PDT by RandFan
Far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones on Thursday told a jury he’s “done” apologizing for pushing the conspiracy theory that the 2012 mass shooting that killed 20 children and six teachers at Connecticut’s Sandy Hook Elementary School was a hoax.
“Is this a struggle session? Are we in China? I’ve already said I’m sorry hundreds of times and I’m done saying I’m sorry,” Jones told a court in his Connecticut defamation trial.
Plaintiff attorney Christopher Mattei had asked Jones to “show a little respect” to the bereaved families present in the courtroom after the Infowars owner had ranted about liberals.
Mattei at one point noted that the victims’ families are “real people.”
“Just like all the Iraqis you liberals killed and love. Just, you’re unbelievable. You switch on emotions, on-and-off when you want. You’re just ambulance chasing,” Jones parried.
In his false claims that the Sandy Hook tragedy was a hoax, Jones had pushed the narrative that the victims’ parents were “crisis actors.”
Jones has since acknowledged the massacre, but is now embroiled in a number of legal battles over his theories as the families of the Sandy Hook victims sue him for defamation and emotional distress.
He was found liable by default in the defamation case at hand after failing to comply with court orders, and the Connecticut jury is now merely deciding how much Jones and his business need to pay up in damages.
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Alex Jones and I will need to think about that one. It’s a joke, yes, but there are layers of truth to it as well.
“And a whole city was involved in the hoax.......right. Sheesh”
Actually back when it happened there was a whole lot of evidence being shared on the net that this was a very real possibility. Alex Jones did not invent the theory. All that evidence has since been scrubbed from the net.
“Sandy Hook was a fraud”
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Please elaborate. What part of Sandy Hook was a fraud? Or was it all a fraud?
My understanding many of these “parents” were hardcore Liberals who detested guns to begin with. Obama and Plugs Biden and all the Democrats came to CT and danced the day away at the Funerals in front of the Cameras of the Media live and in Technicolor.. We have seen case after case where the FBI or other Gov entities somehow was lurking in the backgrounds of all these mass death events like OKC bombing (unindicted co-conspirators) to the Las Vegas (shooter tied to the FBI) shooting to the Buffalo grocery store shooting where an FBI handler was involved talking to the shoot 30 min before he acted. You may hate Jones which is fine but if you deny something is not afoot then someone is in denial as look at Jan 6th and who was involved there...or what is happening to President Trump...The Government is coming for you and many are too dumb and blind to see it.
Here’s how I know Sandy Hook was weird…. I have a brain.
The so called news media is more culpable through their zeal to limelight any and all aspects of any wrong shooting by their determination. In doing so they are contributing the added benefit of notoriety on top of the instigation me to that weak minds will pick up on.
Hold aCconting in private.
One thing about Jones he is more right than wrong, and he has been right about the Government having a finger in everything, some sort of dark involvement, seen or unseen and I am pretty sure FR has Federal operatives lurking in its ranks..
The main factor with this case is omission of the whole true situation. Jones did not invent this theory. Before he picked it up and covered it the theory was already on the internet world wide. All he did was repeat what had already gone viral. Now they are trying to put the whole load on Jones for it. It is something they would never do to CNN, MSNBC, WaPO or any other MSM because of “freedom of the press”.
“Jones did not invent this theory”
A very good point. He was covering it and commenting on it (even if he was wrong this is surely allowed) .
I thought the bar for defamation was meant to be pretty high.
He also didn’t name any of the parents.
“secrecy of the Sandy Hook investigation caused a lot of people to question the narrative.”
It never smelled right from the beginning. The three-letter agencies are always stirring the pot, creating false-flag events, lying their asses off, persecuting / prosecuting innocent people, etc. Why WOULD we blindly accept this event as on the up-and-up?
“One thing about Jones he is more right than wrong, and he has been right about the Government having a finger in everything”
Exactly right. What they are trying to do here is imply “the one bad pickle has tainted the whole barrel” concept. They are doing this ten years later as a distraction and in an attempt to discredit him completely because recently he is getting too close to the truth about the globalists.
“All he did was repeat what had already gone viral. Now they are trying to put the whole load on Jones for it.
Sayl Alinsky: “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it. Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions. (This is cruel, but very effective. Direct, personalized criticism and ridicule works.)”
“He also didn’t name any of the parents.”
My wife and I have been covering this whole thing day by day on court TV because she is into that stuff. And to be completely objective he did indeed name one and ridiculed ONE parent. But this ONE parent was already being ridiculed on the net globally. He was mass ridiculed and defamed on thousands of websites globally long before Jones picked it up. And it was ONE, not ALL of the complainants in this case.
Don’t hold your breath.
Probably because he's not.
Here is the thing... Yesterday the legal commentators on court TV were making the point that if Jones had showed up for his first trial concerning guilt and/or liability he would have actually won the whole case hands down based on the 1st amendment.
But because he did not show, like all cases like this it is an automatic ruling against you for not appearing to court. Just like debt, if you don’t show up the debtor wins the case against you by default because you made no effort to defend yourself against that debt.
So this boils down to Jones actually not being liable, but because he didn’t show for the first court appearance it was handed to the accusers by default whether he was guilty or not. Either Jones or his lawyers made a bad call by not appearing.
Every one of the Sandyhook victims will vote for a democrat in the next 147 presidential elections. They are not dead
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