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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.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/sandy-hook-parents-have-just-hit-alex-jones-with-defamation-lawsuits/ar-AAvYhj2?ocid=ientp
Farmer-Rick
(10,192 posts)Snackshack
(2,541 posts)MontanaMama
(23,322 posts)make him apologize publicly and make him pay. Would love to see him have to get a real job but thats probably a pipe dream.
InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,122 posts)Justice
(7,188 posts)mountain grammy
(26,626 posts)erronis
(15,303 posts)Unfortunately I think the NRA/Kochs/Mercers/russians have deep pockets (and probably special greenback printing presses) so that only $2,000,000 would be a mere annoyance.
Pepsidog
(6,254 posts)I suspect the lawyers took the case on a contingency basis and only get paid if they win. The lawyers front all the costs and are reimbursed if they win. If they lose technically the client is suppose to be pay the costs but most attorneys in fact eat the costs.
Mrs. Overall
(6,839 posts)abbeyco
(1,555 posts)If they can get him off the air, all the better!
because of Jones, some of the Sandy Hook families received death threats.
DBoon
(22,372 posts)It isn't just anonymous Internet trolls or even phone calls.
exboyfil
(17,863 posts)They will be willing to build a gallows for Jones and hang him themselves.
Obvious85
(259 posts)Show the crime seen photos, then play tapes of Alex's show. Unanimous verdict
Obvious85
(259 posts)to help every single family go after Jones, his hate speech has caused so much damage and cant go on unchecked
Vogon_Glory
(9,120 posts)I hope they ruin that wretch!
geardaddy
(24,931 posts)Take that fucker down!
True Blue American
(17,986 posts)Bankrupt him,then get him off the air!
SunSeeker
(51,574 posts)mountain grammy
(26,626 posts)dhill926
(16,348 posts)bury that sick fuck....
Doodley
(9,095 posts)Will Trump condemn Jones for these kind of damaging conspiracy theories?
Has Alex Jones received any finance from Russia?
meow2u3
(24,764 posts)I'm glad to see the Sandy Hook parents fight back against the tinfoil hat liars like Alex Jones because unchallenged lies become accepted as truth. We must make sure the slanderers and libelers are held accountable because they've gotten away with ruining people's reputation for years.
ailsagirl
(22,897 posts)Jones must be a certified loony to even entertain such an insane notion
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SDJay
(1,089 posts)What the kids in Florida are doing is remarkable and I honestly think is good for our country. We have to reign in these death merchants, and in order to do so we have to overcome the screams and shouts of their useful idiots.
What these parents are doing is something that is humbling, it's so courageous. Can you imagine losing a child like this and then getting death threats because some scumbag is lying about you in the media? That has to be overwhelming. Much like the death merchants, we need to reign in these lying carnival barkers for the good of not only the country, but humanity.
I hope they ruin this fucker. He's already admitted that it's all an act, but once again his useful idiots ignore that. Destroy his brand and send him off to the woods to talk to the trees alone.
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,492 posts)Him and the entirety of Faux News as well.
It's a damn shame these folks had to wait until substantial damage was done to them psychologically beyond the suffering from the loss of a child, to even begin the process of correcting this media and societal sickness.
We hope this serves as a shot across the bow of other money-grubbing media actors that spew destructive lies every day.
I admire their bravery for bringing forward this case...... .........
mainer
(12,022 posts)They should be suing him for far more than that.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)It should be in the hundreds of millions. He basically caused threats against their lives and traumatized them for years.
I hope they take him for everything he is worth. Couldn't happen to a worse person.
gristy
(10,667 posts)$2M-$10M would be more appropriate. Actually, whatever figure would bankrupt the MF.
VOX
(22,976 posts)In my lifetime, there was a period where anyone who acted and sounded like Alex Jones would have wound up as inpatients in a neuropsychiatric ward, where they (hopefully) could get the help they so desperately needed.
liberalhistorian
(20,818 posts)any help, what he needs is to be bankrupted into permanent homelessness and then blackballed from any kind of employment ever again. He knows damn well how crazy and sick he sounds and that the shit he's promoting is crazy and sick, but, like the Coultergeist, he DOESN'T CARE because it makes such a profit. THAT Is what matters, all the money he's making. And that's even worse than him actually believing the sick shit he spews, knowing that it's fake but wanting to pocket all the dough he makes from the pain he causes and the ignorance he spreads and exploits.
backscatter712
(26,355 posts)If I said what I really wanted done to him, I'd violate DU's TOS...
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)cp
(6,640 posts)Initech
(100,081 posts)S.E. TN Liberal
(508 posts)The liars have to face consequences for the lies they tell.
moondust
(19,993 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,036 posts)3catwoman3
(24,007 posts)...is so cruel I can't even find words for it. I do not understand meanspiritedness.
Jones should be made to see the crime scene photos, bit he would ikely claain that those were faked, too.
gademocrat7
(10,661 posts)These parents have suffered unimaginable pain. I hope Alex Jones and Infowars are rendered financially bankrupt. They are already morally bankrupt.
Crunchy Frog
(26,587 posts)lunatica
(53,410 posts)Slander radio and tv.
Make them accountable for their self serving lies. The parents will win so it should make the rest of the hate mongers watch their words.
Hassler
(3,379 posts)InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,122 posts)GoCubsGo
(32,086 posts)Hope they clean his clock.
Chemisse
(30,813 posts)I can't even imagine how much additional pain this caused for those poor parents.
backscatter712
(26,355 posts)If I somehow met him on the street, I'd be highly tempted to punch his lights out. The shit he's said and done to the Sandy Hook and Parkland survivors and parents should cost him teeth.
And he's just doing it so he can sell his snake oil vitamin supplements. He's nothing but a grifter
SergeStorms
(19,204 posts)Bankrupt that son-of-a-bitch. But leave enough for his ex-wife and kids. They don't deserve to pay for Jones' psychotic bullshit for the rest of their lives.
Jones himself? If that asshole didn't have a microphone to scream into every day, and fleece his audience into buying his cheap, bullshit products, he'd be a sobbing, diaper shitting baby within a week.
Upthevibe
(8,053 posts)that I have for Jones....I just don't have any words... .I'm glad these parents are taking action....May their sweet children R.I.P.
BobTheSubgenius
(11,564 posts)Everything except the clothes on his back...unless they have value that could be realized and given to the parents, as well. A really nice leather jacket, cufflinks, zircon-encrusted tweezers. Whatever.
RhodeIslandOne
(5,042 posts)Straw Man
(6,625 posts)If he truly were delusional, I might have some pity on him. In fact, he's a grifter and a con man, which is all the more reason he should go down.
Laffy Kat
(16,383 posts)I'm all for the lawsuit but furious it had to come to this. If it goes to court those heart-broken parents and teachers and other survivors are going to have to look at evidence, photos, etc. I hope they take Jones for every fucking penny.
Awsi Dooger
(14,565 posts)The Annual Alex Jones 30 Year Sentence.
Countless Republicans will compete for the distinction every year.