Alex Jones ordered to pay nearly $1 billion to families of Sandy Hook massacre victims [More]
I’ve never particularly been a Jones enthusiast– I know Mike didn’t much care for him but I was on his program once and was happy for the opportunity. That said, what you or I think of the guy is irrelevant to this, the most absurdly disproportionate, dangerous, and un-American verdict order I have ever heard of. That it would be countenanced in a U.S. court shows how serious the power structure is to shut down forbidden speech.
How many of Jones’ “millions” of followers committed an illegal act? How many “threats” were actually sentiments? How many transitioned into actual meatspace attacks?
And as long as I dragged Mike’s name into this, he knew what it was like to be blamed for the actions of others.
Who does the Jones verdict and sentence chill and discourage? Who is turning cartwheels?
Time was the left at least pretended to be all about free speech. That’s for the benefit of the useful idiots and to accelerate social degradation — until there’s the confidence that masks can be dropped, as just happened with this order.
There’s a very good question that needs answering. It is such a good question that it has been asked, and sometimes answered, for so long that it was originally asked in Latin.
In Latin it is “Qui bono?”
In English it is “Who profits or benefits from this?”
https://effectiviology.com/cui-bono/
27 victims at Sandy Hook, IIRC.
$1B divided by 27 is about $37M per family.
What did Jones do that was so terrible, again? Want to see copies of the coroner’s reports and death certificates? Show skepticism of authorities’ claims when those claims couldn’t be verified independently? Note publicly that the whole tragedy was politically useful to the Left?
What did he say that was fundamentally untrue on its face? And if some evidence or document would have gotten him to stop and let it go, why couldn’t (wouldn’t?) anyone simply show it to him?
That’s what FOIA requests are for, but all his were denied. Why?
Not that I expect anyone to actually answer any of these questions, but the whole thing feels like a setup.