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AndyS

(14,559 posts)
Thu Mar 24, 2022, 09:51 AM Mar 2022

The other 'Sandy Hook Lawsuit' . . .

Alex Jones will not attend deposition today in Sandy Hook defamation lawsuit LINK

A civil suit against Alex Jones has been going on almost as long as the one against Remington. Jones, on his InfoWars website in in his podcasts, promoted the idea that the Sandy Hook tragedy was a false flag operation with professional actors and Hollywood style special effects engineered by the Deep State to get support for gun control. Among other things Jones published pictures of the families, their addresses and contact information which resulted in so much harassment and so many death threats that they were forced to move and each time Jones published the new information so they had to move again. All on top of living through the agony of losing a child to the most horrific of crimes.

The families brought suit against Jones and his media company alleging defamation of their character with lies about the children's deaths.

After years of legal challenges, obfuscations, refusal to comply with court orders or provide discovery and ignoring court ordered sanctions the judge had enough and declared default judgement, the equivalent of a death penalty in civil court. There is nothing left but to access damages against Jones et al. In a last effort to defy any sense of decency he is refusing to show up for a deposition in the settlement hearing.

I write all this to remind anyone who reads it of the power of the Gun Culture. The entire ordeal these families suffered through was because Jones said 'they want to take your guns away.' For all the other conspiracies InfoWars foments, this one destroyed what was left of these families' lives. It is the insane infatuation with guns and the culture fostered by that industry that Jones used to promote his media company.

It is also an object lesson about the power of money and the ends to which industry will go to for it. The gun industry and the conspiracy industry of which Jones is a prime example will sink to any level to make another buck. For Jones it wasn't about 2nd amendment rights, it was about selling more male enhancement pills. The same with gun makers. It's the cash.

Only cash can oppose this monstrosity. It is a sad commentary but money talks and humanity walks. Get mad, get active and get even. Go here.


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The other 'Sandy Hook Lawsuit' . . . (Original Post) AndyS Mar 2022 OP
This is a brilliant and eloquent post! CaliforniaPeggy Mar 2022 #1
Kick for greater visibility! CaliforniaPeggy Mar 2022 #2
Well said. K&R for visibility. crickets Mar 2022 #3

CaliforniaPeggy

(149,308 posts)
1. This is a brilliant and eloquent post!
Thu Mar 24, 2022, 10:44 AM
Mar 2022

I am proud to know you and to support this incredibly important cause: the protection of the lives of everyone, but especially our children.

In no way should money be more important than saving their young vulnerable lives. The gun industry deserves our anger and our relentless efforts to claw back the rights that we all have to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Your sentences here say it all: Only cash can oppose this monstrosity. It is a sad commentary but money talks and humanity walks. Get mad, get active and get even.


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