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The left-pigs do actually believe that they know everything.
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When the left loses a child it is just as devastating and tragic as anyone else though. And there is no doubt that anyone who deliberately increases that pain deserves his/her own special hell. But who is to say whose pain is greater than anybody else? If I publicly said Sandy Hook is a hoax, I could be subject to justified severe criticism and be labeled the idiot I would be. But that is all that would happen because to sue me would probably cost as much or more than anybody would likely get out of me if they took everything I have.
If the fact that Alex Jones was wealthy is the only reason a lawsuit was brought against him, that is wrong.
I have done some reading up and, if it is true they did what the news accounts say they did, there have been some bad actors who have been arrested and punished. And there is one fact in the scenario where the 'media company' owned by Jones--it doesn't specifically say Jones himself--falsely accused somebody of being a suspect in the massacre:
". . .Marcel Fontaine was in the middle of a legal battle with Jones, seeking damages for the media company’s false reporting that he was a suspect in the Douglas High School massacre. After his image was disseminated across the internet, he was allegedly harassed and threatened, per
court documents. . ."
That is malicious, materially damaging and, if true, then yes Jones or his company should absolutely be subject to lawsuit for that kind of damaging slander or libel whichever it was.
I would never argue on the side of Alex Jones for anything he or his company does that is materially damaging. I will argue that just expressing his opinion that the Sandy Hook massacre is a hoax is not justification in itself for a lawsuit. When he encourages lawlessness or violence in no way, he shouldn't be sued for being an idiot. Indeed anyone who takes the information and runs with it in an illegal and materially harmful way should be liable for punishment.
People here at USMB frequently say hateful and what is intended to be hurtful things to me and about me pretty much every day. A few seem to make it a daily activity. If somebody reads one or more of those comments and acts in a way that is materially harmful to me, should I sue the USMB or the members who said stupid and/or dishonest stuff? Or should I sue the person who actually harmed me?
There should never be lawsuits allowed just for hurt feelings. We all should be able to express our opinions about anything without fear of lawsuit short of intentionally encouraging illegality. The media errs when it pushes the idea that just being a Sandy Hook massacre denier is what Jones is being sued for. That is not illegal however stupid. But nobody should be able to do malicious material harm to another with impunity and that should be the narrative emphasized.
Jurors deliberate damages for tormented families in the first of three cases against Alex Jones and Infowars
www.deseret.com
