01-23-2021, 11:28 PM
"He never will be missed; he truly won't be missed".
Alex Jones of InfoWars.
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/tex...he-ground/
Alex Jones of InfoWars.
Quote:An empire built on conjecture, conspiracy and a series of fake homeopathic cures for various ailments stands to be sued into oblivion after a Friday ruling by the Supreme Court of Texas.
Without comment, the Lone Star State’s highest civil court found that America’s foremost conspiracy theorist, Alex Jones, and his flagship media outlet, InfoWars, are subject to liability in four separate defamation lawsuits filed over the past two-plus years. Those lawsuits were filed by parents of children who were killed during the Sandy Hook massacre and by a man Jones and his network falsely identified as the perpetrator of the Parkland massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
Jones took a turn toward conspiracy following Timothy McVeigh’s 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. The bombastic host accused the government of orchestrating the grisly incident—naturally, with no evidence—and never looked back.
Immediately after the 2012 shooting that left 20 children and six teachers dead in Newtown, Connecticut, Jones used his by-then vast platform to spread the idea that the murders were part of a “false flag” operation meant to scare the population into giving up their guns and Second Amendment rights. Jones also smeared the parents of the dead children, calling them “crisis actors.” None of those claims were true but the pernicious ideas gained traction among the easily-influenced.
“So, if children were lost at Sandy Hook, my heart goes out to each and every one of those parents,” Jones said in a 2016 broadcast typical of the genre. “And the people who say they’re parents that I see on the news. The only problem is, I’ve watched a lot of soap operas. And I’ve seen actors before. And I know when I’m watching a movie and when I’m watching something real.”
Two initial defamation lawsuits were filed the same week against Jones and InfoWars during the spring of 2018.
Leonard Pozner and his ex-wife, Veronique De La Rosa, sued the conspiracy theorist and his biggest misinformation platform in the 345th Civil District Court. Neil Heslin filed a substantially similar lawsuit in the 53rd Civil District Court. Each of the plaintiffs were represented by Houston-area attorney Mark Bankston. Heslin later filed a second lawsuit against Jones and his fast-crumbling media network in the 261st Civil District Court.
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/tex...he-ground/
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.