Infowars founder Alex Jones has reportedly hired lawyers who also represent a neo-Nazi to defend him against defamation claims totaling more than 1 million dollars filed by the families of seven children who were killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.
Jones has claimed that the massacre, which resulted in 20 children and six adults being killed, was a hoax, and that the families being interviewed in the media were “crisis actors.”
The New York Times reported on Tuesday that Jones has hired Marc Randazza and Jay Wolman of the Las Vegas-based Randazza Legal Group. The Times notes that those lawyers also represent Andrew Anglin, the co-founder of a neo-Nazi website known as the Daily Stormer.
Anglin is currently being sued after followers of his website subjected a Montana women to an onslaught of anti-Semitic slurs and threats.
Jones is seeking to have all the lawsuits brought against him dismissed. In addition to the lawsuits brought on by families in Connecticut, Jones also faces two in Texas. Those lawsuits are seeking more than $1 million in damages from Jones, InfoWars and Free Speech Systems LLC.
A district court judge in Travis County, Texas, scheduled a hearing for the first of the Texas lawsuits to take place on Aug. 1, the Times noted.
The suits pose a formidable legal threat to Jones’s business.
“We are going to be mounting a strong First Amendment defense and look forward to this being resolved in a civil and collegial manner,” Randazza told the newspaper. He added that Jones has “a great deal of compassion for these parents.”
Jones has repeatedly created conspiracies regarding the Sandy Hook shooting, which occurred on Dec. 14, 2012. In 2016, he said, “I’ve watched a lot of soap operas, and I’ve seen actors before. And I know when I’m watching a movie and when I’m watching something real.”
3 thoughts on “Lawsuits against Alex Jones by Sandy Hook victims totaling over $1 million in damages”
He works for Judea, Inc. His job is to create “conspiracy theories” by the truckload; all to discredit 9-11 Truthers by lumping 9-11 with absurd conspiracy theories. His job is to lay smoke screens to protect jewry. If it was up to me, he’d be climbing the stairs to the gallows. There’s only one punishment for traitors.
I see this as a money grab. The families are just being opportunistic, and very likely were put up to it by Democrat operatives to shut down his media operation. Be good if he could establish that this latter was the driver.
Apart from that, of course it’s a 1st Amendment issue; ‘. . or abridging the freedom of speech, . .’, for what we have here is that no injury by way of mental suffering was intended by him as he was convinced that there was insufficient evidence on which to say that indeed people had died and so was being dispassionate about the matter when he expressed his opinion.
His counsel will argue that matters like slander and libel should only apply if it can be proven that there was intent to hurt someone’s feelings or reputation, otherwise 1A is dead.
Also too in his favour is that he didn’t even know any of the families and so that rules out any possible malice towards them.
If it goes against him, the new line up at the Supreme Court will inspire him to appeal to the Supreme Court, for Gorsuch replaced Scalia last year, and likely Barrett will now replace Kennedy.
Should now go very well for 1st Amendment issues. ed note–you’re missing the big picture here Michael.
What this entire event was about from the very beginning was catching a big fish, and no, I don’t mean Alex Jones, but rather the growing 9/11 truth movement. 9/11 was such an explosive event in and of itself, but also what followed, meaning the invasion and destruction of Iraq, which was to be just the first of many. They HAD to discredit this ‘movement’ and the ‘Sandy Hook never happened’ fiasco was the bait. They needed to have this movement discredit itself with whoppers like SH and it did, and now it is time to make it ‘official’ with crushing lawsuits so that nothing any of us say can be believed.
He works for Judea, Inc. His job is to create “conspiracy theories” by the truckload; all to discredit 9-11 Truthers by lumping 9-11 with absurd conspiracy theories. His job is to lay smoke screens to protect jewry. If it was up to me, he’d be climbing the stairs to the gallows. There’s only one punishment for traitors.
Dear Walt, – A Home Run Comment sir. I can’t agree more.
Here’s a good one that “stuffs” Jonestein pretty nicely.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJKNvVwkSNA
I see this as a money grab. The families are just being opportunistic, and very likely were put up to it by Democrat operatives to shut down his media operation. Be good if he could establish that this latter was the driver.
Apart from that, of course it’s a 1st Amendment issue; ‘. . or abridging the freedom of speech, . .’, for what we have here is that no injury by way of mental suffering was intended by him as he was convinced that there was insufficient evidence on which to say that indeed people had died and so was being dispassionate about the matter when he expressed his opinion.
His counsel will argue that matters like slander and libel should only apply if it can be proven that there was intent to hurt someone’s feelings or reputation, otherwise 1A is dead.
Also too in his favour is that he didn’t even know any of the families and so that rules out any possible malice towards them.
If it goes against him, the new line up at the Supreme Court will inspire him to appeal to the Supreme Court, for Gorsuch replaced Scalia last year, and likely Barrett will now replace Kennedy.
Should now go very well for 1st Amendment issues.
ed note–you’re missing the big picture here Michael.
What this entire event was about from the very beginning was catching a big fish, and no, I don’t mean Alex Jones, but rather the growing 9/11 truth movement. 9/11 was such an explosive event in and of itself, but also what followed, meaning the invasion and destruction of Iraq, which was to be just the first of many. They HAD to discredit this ‘movement’ and the ‘Sandy Hook never happened’ fiasco was the bait. They needed to have this movement discredit itself with whoppers like SH and it did, and now it is time to make it ‘official’ with crushing lawsuits so that nothing any of us say can be believed.