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Alex Jones has spent years claiming the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School ― where a shooter killed 20 small children and six adults ― was faked. He has claimed the parents of these dead children are liars and crisis actors.
Now, those parents are coming after him.
In a pair of lawsuits filed late Monday, the parents of two children who died in the December 2012 shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, say Jones repeated lies and conspiratorial ravings have led to death threats. The suits join at least two other recent cases accusing the Infowars host of defamation.
Neil Heslin, the father of a six-year-old boy killed in the shooting, and Leonard Pozner and Veronique De La Rosa, who lost their own little boy, filed the suits in Austin, Texas, where Jones conspiracy-minded media outlet is based. Each suit is seeking more than $1 million in damages from Jones, Infowars and a related company, Free Speech Systems LLC. Infowars reporter Owen Shroyer is also named in one of the suits.
Even after these folks had to experience this trauma, for the next five years they were tormented by Alex Jones with vicious lies about them, Mark Bankston, the lawyer handling the cases for the parents, told HuffPost. And these lies were meant to convince his audience that the Sandy Hook parents are frauds and have perpetrated a sinister lie on the American people.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/sandy-hook-parents-hit-alex-jones-with-defamation-lawsuits_us_5acf6a6de4b0ac383d74bfe1
malaise
(269,063 posts)Get thee to the greatest page
HopeAgain
(4,407 posts)who are unable to comprehend that with rights come responsibilities and limitations. Hopesfully this is the first step toward teaching them they can't use rediculous, hurtful lies to support ownership of rediculous weapons.
Soxfan58
(3,479 posts)But are the reich wing walls starting to crumble. I hope they take this ass for everything he and his media group have. Start a go fund me page for legal fees I'll help. Lets turn infowars into info poor.
Demsrule86
(68,595 posts)Va Lefty
(6,252 posts)ThoughtCriminal
(14,047 posts)to compensate for what monsters like Alex Jones have inflicted on these families.
MariaCSR
(642 posts)SallyHemmings
(1,822 posts)ProfessorGAC
(65,078 posts)Then start reporting facts.
Javaman
(62,531 posts)democrank
(11,096 posts)His "crisis actors" BS is heinous.
Gothmog
(145,343 posts)genxlib
(5,528 posts)I hope it becomes class action for every single parent and family member affected by Newtown.
This is the very definition of "they have suffered enough already"
rurallib
(62,426 posts)May Mr. Jones be bankrupted.
Ilsa
(61,695 posts)I'm glad they are suing. I hope they break Jones.
JDC
(10,129 posts)47of74
(18,470 posts)obamanut2012
(26,081 posts)Same for the Parkland kids. This is vile defamation.