World Affairs Brief, October 14, 2022 — Copyright Joel Skousen. Partial quotations with attribution permitted. Cite source as Joel Skousen’s World Affairs Brief (http://www.worldaffairsbrief.com).
Alex Jones Ordered to Pay $965 Million to People who Claim they were Defamed:
Juries can really be stupid, especially when the judge is so biased she rigged the trial against defendant Alex Jones. The jury in Waterbury, Connecticut decided that Infowars host Alex Jones and his company, Free Speech Systems, should pay nearly a billion dollars for spreading a conspiracy theory that the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School never happened. It was a mistake I warned Alex about, and he later changed sides and admitted it was real (though instigated by government for gun control purposes).
Mainstream and alternative media often make mistakes but they are never sued with defamation, especially when they don’t name names. But the Plaintiffs distorted defamation law and the judge refused to allow Jones his first amendment defense.
Jones is confident the judgment will be overturned or drastically reduced on appeal, especially since the so-called defendants can give no evidence of monetary harm. This is a deep state operation to destroy Jones and get him off the air. Even though Jones is often bombastic and incautious, if his free speech is denied, all of us who make conspiracy claims based on partial evidence will lose this critical right to free speech.
Alex Jones’ attorney Norm Pattis confirmed this when he said, “It’s a huge verdict and it sends a chilling message… The message is, if you’re outside the mainstream media, if you’re challenging the orthodoxy, and the orthodoxy determines what you’ve said isn’t true, there’s now a body of law…that would say you’re responsible for what anybody says if you’ve uttered an untruth.”