That’s exactly right. People reporting people and Lawfare bringing suit to others is our future.
It will. But who cares. He/She is.was a son of a bitch and deserves to be silenced will be the Battle Cry. And the sheep will respond Baaa.
I haven’t been following this, but the article call it a “defamation trial”. Defamation is a civil matter. Reading the article, you’d think the FBI was the plaintiff.
People can say all sorts of things about Biden, Hillary, the Director if the FBI, etc. You can stretch the truth and get away with it. They are public figures. Alex Jones made the stupid mistake of going after a private citizen. That’s very different.
Alex Jones caused extreme pain to the families of slain children. He did it on his radio show. Defamation suit is appropriate. If he’s a big boy he can either show what he said was true or he can pay up
Alex Jones does not represent conservative values.
He’s a news aggregator, fear peddler, and doomsday products huckster.
Nothing more.
The dawning of full fascism in former America.
“stop election deniers”
That’s exactly who they’re shooting for, as I’m sure they’re planning on stealing future elections too if they think they can get away with it. They just don’t want people to be able to freely talk about it. Even Fox News, the controlled opposition, won’t allow it.
Has any one of the 911 Truthers been sued by the families of those killed in 911? Did Bush or Cheney or the then head of the FBI or CIA sue the Truthers?
Did anyone associated with the Flight 800 incident get sued for saying it was taken out by a missile?
Did anyone get successfully sued for claiming this person or that person was a communist agent?
What makes the Sandyhook people so special? I can see them going after anyone who sent them death threats, doxed them, or stalked them.
Alex Jones wasn't the only one suspicious of Sandyhook. Why not go after those folks as well? Or are they only going after the guy who has bucks?
Reminds me of the self-righteous folks who went after 7-11 for selling the relatively tame Playboy and Penthouse magazines, while much raunchier stuff was readily available at any mom-and-pop liquor store.
It's all about the money and the publicity.
I’m not following this but didn’t he bring this on himself?
Dint know much about the other three, but have been following Robert Barjes off and on since 2020 and he is a stand up guy.
Didn’t Alex Jones deny, under oath, the existence of a bunch of texts or emails that his legal team subsequently produced? You know, perjury?
What the Nazis did to the Jews, Democrats will do to us.
Gone are the days when one could have an opinion. No factual data, but just an opinion.
I can’t say for sure if it’s true, but in my humble opinion (fill in the blank).
Nowadays if your opinion offends someone you can be dragged into court.
Did Jones actually claim the shooting did not occur, or did he merely suggest it was allowed to happen to advance the cause of “gun control”?
What all these hand wringing “they’ll do it to us too” articles are missing is one very important fact:
Jones is a LIAR
He’s built his entire career on lies. And in his Sandy Hook “coverage” his lies went to the point of claiming private citizens, not public figures who have a lower standard in the law against defamation, crisis actors who didn’t actually have kids die in this fake event that, according to him, never actually happened.
And to compound his lies he perjured himself.
The only people at risk are other lying scumbags who’ve built their career on scum. He’s NOT a conservative. He’s a glory hound LIAR.
Put him on trial for being a horrible human being. There’s not a jury on Earth that would find him not guilty. Because he’s guilty. IMHO
Barnes pointed out after noting a juror asked the court if the lawsuit against Jones can “stop election deniers” in future cases.
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And there we go.
Hell, I’ve had threats from certain Freepers about opinions “against the narrative” on Ukraine where they said I might expect a visit from the FBI... for a bloody opinion; not a threat. Anything slapped with the label “pro Putin” and I should expect a visit from the FBI. Thoughtcrime has arrived.
Since when has a civil lawsuit set a legal precedence as a matter of law?
Civil lawsuits don’t carry the burden of proof that a criminal trial does.