[clintonh8r]

I’d forgotten all about Napolitano.

[FlingWingFlyer]

I don’t know how those morons were able to find 12 drooling, blithering idiots to sit on their dumbass “jury.” A billion dollars. Give me a break. Idiots.

[Republican Wildcat]

Yes, everyone is entitled to an opinion. But making false statements of fact is not an opinion - and is a tort for which you can be sued. Has been for a very long time.

The claims made by students and faculty against the bakery and its owners in Ohio was likewise also not protected “free speech.” It was a tort - false statements of fact.

Reality.

[Roadrunner383]

There have always been laws against defamation, the laws didn’t start with Alex Jones and many, many persons and organizations have been sued under those laws.

Defamation is very hard to prove legally in a courtroom. If Jones had showed up for depostions, turned over evidence and had gone to trial, he probably could have beaten the accusations, either initially or on appeal.

[libertylover]

Mark.

[rx]

The Alex Jones trial and award to supposedly grieving parents is a supreme travesty of justice!

The basic court holding is that purportedly grieved people have the right to see those merely exercising their First Amendment rights in a way plaintiffs can twist into exacerbating claimed plaintiff's grief and cause the court to punish those and have plaintiffs be awarded hundreds of millions of dollars.

It is not at all an exaggeration to state that this construct is ripe for abuse that could turn this into a completely Communist nation.

Furthermore, there's copious evidence of fraud and coverup in the Sandy Hook situation. Those fraudsters being able to keep their crimes hidden is a very significant part of the force behind Jones' conviction and fine, as I see it.