ed note–and with that statement on the part of Alex Jones, the engineers of the entire ‘Sandy Hook Hoax’ operation put together at the HIGHEST LEVELS of the very same ‘NWO’ against which Jones and his followers claim to be fighting, can toast each other over what has been a brilliant operation in psychological warfare and can celebrate what is for all intents and purposes a case of ‘Mission Accomplished’.
We at this humble little informational endeavor warned a decade ago when all this nonsense began that saner minds needed to get to work putting this fire out before it engulfed everything, warnings that were for the most part completely ignored. Remember, it didn’t begin with Jones, but rather with James Fezter, Gordon Duff, Jeff Rense and the rest of ‘the gang’ who originally claimed it was a ‘Mossad Death Squad’ that killed all those kids, doing so without as much as a micro-ounce of proof, circumstantial or otherwise.
Now, doubtless there are those, including some of the characters listed above, who are cheering at the bitter end of what has been Alex Jone’s ordeal, but they shouldn’t. Their heads are on the chopping block as well, they just don’t know it yet.
What this case has done is to establish BEYOND ANY REASONABLE DOUBT in the public’s mind that any and all ‘movements’ dedicated to bringing ‘alternative’ viewpoints to the heavy and heady events taking place today are not just unreliable, but libelous in the various positions/statements they take and make. The issue surrounding Jones’ suit which doubtless is going to squeeze him of every penny he owns for the rest of his life and which could send him to prison for perjury happens to be the mass murder at Sandy Hook elementary, but soon there will come other lawsuits where ‘troothers’ are dragged into court over statements they have written/said involving other contentious issues such as–
–The Hollerco$t
–Israel’s attack on the USS LIBERTY
–Israel’s murder of JFK
–Israel’s involvement in 9/11
–Israel’s involvement in Covid
etc, etc, etc…
We said it 10 years ago, to hordes of ‘troothers’ with hands clamped over their ears, and we’ll say it again–
YOU CAN FIGURE IT OUT NOW, OR YOU CAN FIGURE IT OUT LATER, BUT EVENTUALLY, JUST LIKE BEING IN A BURNING BUILDING, CIRCUMSTANCES BOTH BEYOND YOUR CONTROL AND IMPOSSIBLE TO AVOID ACKNOWLEDGING WILL BRING YOU TO THIS VERY POINT WHERE YOU ARE FORCED TO ‘FIGURE IT OUT’ AND PRETTY MUCH WITHIN THE VERY PARAMETERS DESCRIBED HEREIN.
Associated Press
For years, bombastic far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones ranted to his millions of followers that the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting was a hoax, that children weren’t killed and that parents were crisis actors in an elaborate ruse to force gun control.
Under oath and facing a jury that could hit him with $150 million or more in damages for his false claims, Jones said Wednesday he now realizes that was irresponsible and believes that what happened in the deadliest school shooting in American history was ‘100% real.’
Jones’ public contrition came on the final day of testimony in a two-week defamation lawsuit against him and his Austin-based media company, Free Speech Systems, brought by Neil Heslin and Scarlett Lewis, the parents of 6-year-old Jesse Lewis. Their son was a first grader who was among the 20 students and six teachers killed at the school in Newtown, Connecticut, on Dec. 14, 2012.
‘I unintentionally took part in things that did hurt these people’s feelings,’ said Jones, who also acknowledged raising conspiracy claims about other mass tragedies, from 911 to the Oklahoma City and Boston Marathon bombings to the mass shootings in Las Vegas and Parkland, Florida, ‘and I’m sorry for that.’
But an apology isn’t enough for Heslin and Lewis. They said Jones and the media empire he controls and used to spread his false assertions must be held accountable.
‘Alex started this fight,’ Heslin said, ‘and I’ll finish this fight.’
The parents testified Tuesday about a decade of trauma, inflicted first by the murder of their son and what followed: gun shots fired at a home, online and telephone threats, and harassment on the street by strangers, all fueled by Jones and his conspiracy theory spread to his followers via his website Infowars.
A forensic psychiatrist testified that the parents suffer from ‘complex post-traumatic stress disorder’ inflicted by ongoing trauma, similar to what might be experienced by a soldier at war or a child abuse victim.
At one point in her testimony, Lewis looked directly at Jones, who was sitting barely 10 feet away.
‘It seems so incredible to me that we have to do this — that we have to implore you, to punish you — to get you to stop lying,’ Lewis told Jones.
Courts in Texas and Connecticut have already found Jones liable for defamation for his portrayal of the Sandy Hook massacre as a hoax involving actors aimed at increasing gun control.
Now, Heslin and Lewis are asking the jury in Austin for $150 million in compensation for defamation and intentional infliction of emotional distress. They will also ask the jury to assess additional punitive damages.
Jurors began considering damages Wednesday. Once they determine whether Jones should pay the parents compensation for defamation and emotional distress, it must then decide if he must also pay punitive damages. That portion will involve a separate mini-trial with Jones and economists testifying to his and his company’s net worth.
Jones’ attorney asked the jury to limit damages to $8 — one dollar for each of the compensation charges they are considering — and Jones himself said any award over $2 million ‘would sink us.’
At the end of Jones’ testimony, Mark Bankston, an attorney for the family, pulled a crumpled dollar bill out of his pocket, showed it to Jones, and put it down in front of the parents.
‘The day Sandy Hook happened, Alex Jones planted a seed of misinformation that lasted a decade,’ parents’ attorney Kyle Farrar told the jury in closing arguments. ‘And he just watered that seed over and over until it bore fruit: cruelty and money.’
During his testimony, Jones said he’s tried in the past to back off the hoax claims, but ‘they (the media) won’t let me take it back.’
Jones — who has been banned from major social media platforms for hate speech and abusive behavior — has portrayed the lawsuit as an attack on his First Amendment rights and complained that he’s been ‘typecast as someone that runs around talking about Sandy Hook, makes money off Sandy Hook, is obsessed by Sandy Hook.’
Eight days of testimony included videos of Jones and Infowars employees talking about the Sandy Hook conspiracy and even mocking Heslin’s description in a 2017 television interview that he’d held his dead son Jesse’s body ‘with a bullet hole through his head.’ Heslin described that moment with his dead son to the jury.
Jones was the only witness to testify in his defense. And he came under withering attack from the plaintiffs attorneys under cross examination, as they reviewed Jones’ own video claims about Sandy Hook over the years, and accused him of lying and trying to hide evidence, including text messages and emails about Sandy Hook. It also included internal emails sent by an Infowars employee that said ‘this Sandy Hook stuff is killing us.’
At one point, Jones was told that his attorneys had mistakenly sent Bankston the last two years’ worth of texts from Jones’ cellphone.
And shortly after Jones declared ‘I don’t use email,’ Jones was shown one that came from his address, and another one from an Infowars business officer telling Jones that the company had earned $800,000 gross in selling its products in a single day, which would amount to nearly $300 million in a year.
Jones has already tried to protect Free Speech Systems financially. The company filed for federal bankruptcy protection last week. Sandy Hook families have separately sued Jones over his financial claims, arguing that the company is trying to protect millions owned by Jones and his family through shell entities.