Target of Alex Jones' attacks just committed suicide

[Gothmog]

Jones needs to rot in hell

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[sheshe2]

1. My heart breaks.

[Gothmog]

21. I am glad that Jones is beind sued

Mark Bankston has been busy http://juanitajean.com/a-quick-alex-jones-update/

Again, I don’t know a whole lot to tell you because depositions in the Jones care are still going on. All I can say is that when I do get a few minutes to talk to Little Bubba, he is tired but happy.

I can tell you this. The Jones lawyer in the Connecticut cases is not faring well.


Honey, it takes some real special abilities to be more unethical than Alex Jones.

And, if you listen to podcasts, This American Life is about Alex Jones this week and Mark’s client, Lenny Pozner is interviewed. The show is called Beware the Jabberwock. It is well worth your time, as is anything This American Life does.

[Vogon_Glory]

2. People like Jones have been lucky

Their victims turn their anger inward instead of outwards.

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25. While conversely

People like Jones turn their anger toward themselves outward in all directions.

[SHRED]

3. My reply

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[dlk]

13. This is Beyond Tragic-If Ever There was a Cause for a Wrongful Death Lawsuit...

The laws regarding internet harassment are painfully inadequate and require serious upgrading. No one should ever be subjected to this modern form of torture.

[SHRED]

16. That's true

[Gothmog]

22. These ripples of fear and tension and grief are everywhere. Nobody can hide from this epidemic

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[ck4829]

49. Indeed!

[Blue_Tires]

37. You're getting a follow once I find some space...

You can find me at @glitchy_ashburn

[SHRED]

39. Followed

[KT2000]

4. how very sad

Why is it even legal for someone to hound another person with lies. Freedom for some but not for others. Mr. Richman likely had many pressures on him. He did not need a master of cruelty coming after him.

[Initech]

5. Alex Jones has blood on his hands now.

[Blue_Tires]

38. This isn't even the first time, either

Hell, Nancy Grace had to deal with a bigger shitstorm and that was only ONE person...

[ck4829]

50. Yep

[dalton99a]

6. Kick

[mr_lebowski]

7. RIP Good Soul ...

FU Alex Jones, scumbag.

[pazzyanne]

8. ...

[DarthDem]

9. So Sad

[Hugin]

10. I'm beyond words.

Tragedy.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

11. Alex Jones and his ugly activists need to be charged in this.

They absolutely bare responsibility.

Rest in peace Jeremy Richman.

[2naSalit]

12. This has to become the end of

that fuckwads and all the other fuckwads like him.

[SunSeeker]

14. Horrific.

[LuvNewcastle]

15. Some people think that any speech is protected in this country,

no matter who it hurts and no matter if it's true or not. No one has the right to do what Alex Jones has done to those poor people in Newtown. I wish a court could remove his tongue.

[rusty quoin]

17. I actually don't know how to respond.

I know it is not violence because my heroes MLK and Mahatma Gandhi would disapprove.

The poor guy was driven to that. I didn’t know it was that bad. How horrible...

[ck4829]

18. ...

[malaise]

19. No words

[Gothmog]

20. Senator Murphy blames Jones for this suicide

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[Gothmog]

23. From Juanita Jean-Alex Jones Update

Juanita Jean's son, Mark Bankston, is representing a group of plaintiffs suing Jones in Texas state court. Here is the latest from Juanita Jean http://juanitajean.com/alex-jones-update/

As you have heard, one of the Sandy Hook parents took his own life yesterday. Jeremy Richman’s death happened at the offices of the foundation he had founded in his daughter’s name. Tragic doesn’t even begin to cover this.

Richman was one of the parents who sued Alex Jones in Connecticut. For those of you have asked, he is not one of my son’s clients.

Jones offered condolences. Ya know, through his lawyer.

Last Saturday night Jones was kicked out of Lucy’s Chicken in Austin after he tried to start a fight there and got ridiculed by the customers. This was a day or two after his deposition in Austin. This is the video that was captured.

[Gothmog]

24. Alex Jones tried to play the victim of a liberal attack -- this video shows what really happened

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[Chin music]

26. "When are you due??"

He's past due. Somebody died an awful lonely death bc we let this guy have too many chances.

[Gothmog]

32. I laughed at that line also

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33. Fucker would've swallowed that phone like an asprin. He could film himself shitting it out

if he had a big enough SD card.
Picking on a bunch of kids. This is what everyones afraid of in the coterie that follows him? STOP BEING AFRAID AMERICA.

[padah513]

27. I have a feeling that when we finally turn the page

On this part of our history, he'll have a lot of company rotting in hell with him.

[SWBTATTReg]

28. Jones is clearly inciting the crowd and not leaving. If you don't want to start a confrontation,...

leave. He didn't, kept mouthing off, and was being laughed at by everyone in there. Serves him right, being that he's got people sitting right there in front of him live, vs. him hiding behind a microphone mouthing off.

He'll find it a lot different when you mouth off in front of people at people...and not in front of a microphone. I liked it when they were laughing at him. That probably ticked him off more than anything.

[Chin music]

31. Talking about being man...w a white cellphone....

I'd have made the 5th Columnist eat that phone like a powdered donut. Temple shot...and down to the ground.

[redstatebluegirl]

29. Jones has blood on his hands this time.

[Chin music]

30. Look hard folks, those are the eyes of a man about to go, and nobody even knows.

I'm sorry Mr. Jeremy. I'm sorry you lost your kid, and I'm sorry this ugly UGLY nation let you down. I hear your message man. It's all over now. Rest.
Vaya Con Dios.
Looks like such a nice man.

[Gothmog]

34. Exclusive: NRA Official Sought Sandy Hook Hoaxer To Question Parkland Shooting, Emails Show

The f##king NRA is involved in this suicide https://www.huffpost.com/entry/exclusive-nra-sandy-hook-hoaxer-parkland-shooting_n_5c8aa54de4b03e83bdbe59eb

An official with the National Rifle Association corresponded with a prominent Sandy Hook conspiracy theorist to call into question the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, emails obtained by HuffPost show.

NRA officer Mark Richardson emailed Wolfgang Halbig, a noted harasser of parents of Sandy Hook Elementary School victims, to float a conspiracy theory about the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, where 17 people were killed last year.....

The uncovered email is even more troubling, given the recipient: Halbig, an Infowars contributor, is on the front lines of spreading false statements about the victims of Sandy Hook. He has spammed open records requests to Newtown officials for documents related to the cleanup of “bodily fluids, brain matter, skull fragments and around 45-60 gallons of blood,” The New York Times reported.

His discussions on Infowars have included the sickening theory that 6-year-old Avielle Richman didn’t die in the Sandy Hook shooting. In a 2018 email to Richardson, Halbig mentions the girl’s name in capital letters in the subject line.

Her father, Jeremey Richman, died Monday by suspected suicide. And in the past two weeks, two Parkland shooting survivors also died by suspected suicide.

Halbig is not alone in encouraging the harassment of Sandy Hook families. A legion of trolls inspired by Infowars and other outlets have made tangible death threats against many Sandy Hook parents. Lucy Richards of Florida was sentenced to five months in prison in 2017 after she sent Sandy Hook father Leonard Pozner a voicemail that warned, “You gonna die. Death is coming to you.” Pozner is suing Jones for defamation.

These e-mails came out in the deposition of Alex Jones by Juanita Jean's son, Mark. Alex Jones and company have blood on their hands together with the NRA

[Blue_Tires]

36. NRA is cancer

[Gothmog]

41. From my twitter feed

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[EleanorR]

35. NRA/Russia/Republicans

To turn the deaths of these poor children into a conspiracy harass rather than support parents who have lost children, it truly doesn't get any lower.

Russia and the republicans really want their cruel, paranoid, nutjob supporters armed, don't they?

[Gothmog]

40. Alex Jones is pushing conspiracy theories about the death of a Sandy Hook father who was suing him

Alex Jones is lower than pond scum https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2019/03/26/alex-jones-pushing-conspiracy-theories-about-death-sandy-hook-father-who-was-suing-him/223246?fbclid=IwAR31Kat4OqD9jIaj2cSRB-PSys0PQIXSST_KkaGY6aqiOI5MFKamuvkFXi8

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones made a series of conspiratorial comments following the death of Jeremy Richman, whose daughter Avielle was killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, CT. Jones questioned whether Richman really died by suicide, as is reported, and suggested that the death was timed to distract from “good news” that had come out about Jones.

Richman was found dead at his office building in Newtown the morning of March 25 in what police say is an apparent suicide. He was part of a group of Sandy Hook families who are suing Jones for defamation, arguing that false claims Jones made about the 2012 shooting spurred harassment and threats against them.

Following the mass shooting, Jones definitively and repeatedly said that the violence at Sandy Hook, which left 20 students and six educators dead, didn’t happen. After his public profile was raised, and particularly after a December 2015 appearance by then-presidential candidate Donald Trump on his show, Jones has sought to backtrack and spin his past comments in some cases while advancing new Sandy Hook conspiracy theories in others.

Jones commented on Richman’s death during his March 25 broadcast, repeatedly suggesting that Richman did not die by suicide. He also claimed that the timing of Richman’s death was suspicious and meant to distract from the release of the summary of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report on possible Russian interference in the 2016 election.

Complaining that Richman’s reported suicide means he won’t get a “fair trial” in the defamation lawsuits he is facing, Jones questioned the known facts of Richman’s death saying, “I mean, is there going to be a police investigation? Are they going to look at the surveillance cameras? I mean, what happened to this guy? This whole Sandy Hook thing is, like, really getting even crazier.”

[RussBLib]

42. Whew

It's not enough the guy lost his child to a school shooting, but to have to put up with all these conspiracy theory nuts claiming the massacre was staged? I can't imagine.

[Gothmog]

43. From the Washington Post-NRA officer enlisted a Sandy Hook truther to sow doubt about Parkland shoot

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The subject line of his emailed response included, in all caps, the name Avielle Richman, one of the 20 students killed in Newtown. For years, Halbig has accused Richman’s parents of falsifying the first-grade girl’s death, writing on his website that their intention was “to steal money from hard-working Americans.”

Jeremy Richman, her father, a neuroscientist who had founded the Avielle Foundation in his daughter’s name, died in an apparent suicide on Monday, following the apparent suicides of two teenage survivors of the Parkland shooting.

The deaths returned the nation’s focus to the two communities, which have been besieged by online abuse and threats stoked by conspiracy theories that depict the victims as “crisis actors.”

But the correspondence shows how an officer of the NRA saw these theories as potentially useful to his cause. The inquiry, sent from Richardson’s work email, was evidence of the curious handshake in which the gun-rights organization has found itself with the most extreme purveyors of Internet falsehoods.

“The NRA literally drives conspiracies about school shootings to fear monger gun owners to buy more guns,” David Hogg, a survivor of the Parkland shooting who has become a prominent advocate for gun control, wrote on Twitter.

[dalton99a]

44. +1

[Gothmog]

45. From a father of a Patkland victim

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[Gothmog]

46. We Got Alex Jones' Deposition Video. It Was A Predictable Disaster For Him.

Poor Mark was nervous the first 30 minutes of the depo but settled down and have fun
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/we-got-alex-jones-deposition-video-it-was-a-predictable-disaster_n_5c9d06fae4b03218ee1ca133

Infowars host Alex Jones was questioned earlier this month for three hours by the lawyer of a Sandy Hook parent who has accused him of perpetuating an abhorrent hoax. It did not go well for Jones.

“Like I told you, most of this stuff I can’t even remember,” Jones says about the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting at one point in a video deposition released to HuffPost.

The deposition, which was released publicly on Friday, shows Jones in the hot seat as he attempts to explain his reasoning for spending years falsely claiming that the school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut ― which left 20 children and six adults dead ― was a hoax. He is being sued by nine family members of loved ones who died in the shooting, including Scarlett Lewis, who is suing Jones for intentional infliction of emotional distress. Lewis is represented by Mark Bankston of the Texas law firm Farrar & Ball. HuffPost has also included the full transcript.

[Gothmog]

47. NYT-How Alex Jones and Infowars Helped a Florida Man Stalk Sandy Hook Families

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Over several years, Mr. Jones gave Mr. Halbig’s views an audience by inviting him to be a guest on Infowars, his radio and online show. Infowars gave Mr. Halbig a camera crew and a platform for fund-raising, even as Mr. Halbig repeatedly visited Newtown, demanding thousands of pages of public records, including photos of the murder scene, the children’s bodies and receipts for the cleanup of “bodily fluids, brain matter, skull fragments and around 45 to 60 gallons of blood.”

Given practical support and visibility by Mr. Jones, Mr. Halbig hounded families of the victims and other residents of Newtown, and promoted a baseless tale that Avielle Richman, a first grader killed at Sandy Hook, was still alive.

The deposition and its details about Mr. Jones’s operation and his interactions with Mr. Halbig was made public on Friday, days after Avielle Richman’s father, Jeremy Richman, killed himself in Newtown’s Edmond Town Hall, where Avielle Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to brain science that the family established in their daughter’s name, had an office.....

The heightened profile Mr. Halbig gained through Mr. Jones and his skepticism about mass shootings drew him into the orbit of the National Rifle Association, as well. On Feb. 15, 2018, the day after 17 people died in a mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., Mark Richardson, a program officer for the N.R.A., emailed Mr. Halbig to stir doubts about the facts of the shooting, according to a document in the Texas lawsuit that was first reported by HuffPost.

Referring to Sandy Hook, Mr. Richardson wrote to Mr. Halbig that “there is so much more to this story,” wrongly speculating in the message that the Parkland shooter “was not alone.”

[ck4829]

48. Still disturbing