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Alex Jones blathers about 'Wizard of Oz' after getting hit with new $473M Sandy Hook judgement [1]
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Date: 2022-11-10
You may remember one month ago when a jury in Waterbury, Connecticut, awarded compensatory and punitive damages approaching $1 billion to families who sued conspiracy theorist Alex Jones for defamation. Jone and his InfoWars show made a lot of money promoting the fact-free conspiracy theory that the 20 6- and 7-year-olds and the six other adults murdered at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut, in December 2012 weren’t real. Jones spent years promoting the idea that a secret cabal controlling the world faked their deaths and hired dozens of people to spend the rest of their lives pretending to be in anguish over the deaths of their loved ones.
What was the motivation? To take away your guns. That was 20 years ago. Depending on your criteria, there have been no fewer than 100 children killed on school grounds in the United States since that time. No major federal gun laws have passed to mitigate this. If there is a hell, Jones will have a special place there.
On Thursday, Connecticut Superior Court Judge Barbara Bellis ruled Jones must pay $473 million in punitive damages. This comes on top of the compensatory damages he already faces. An attorney for the plaintiffs, Chris Mattei, told reporters that he believes the ruling “serves to reinforce the message of this case: those who profit from lies targeting the innocent will face justice.”
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