Alex Jones declines to put on a defense in defamation trial

[brooklynite]

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Source: Boston Globe

WATERBURY, Conn. (AP) — Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones declined to put on a defense Wednesday at his defamation trial in Connecticut and was back in Texas in advance of closing arguments over how much he should pay for promoting the lie that the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting was a hoax.

The jury of three men and three women is being asked to decide how much Jones should give the families of eight victims and an FBI agent who all testified they have spent almost a decade being targets of harassment by those who believe the shooting didn't happen and that they are “crisis actors.”

Jones, who outside the courthouse insisted that he has never been linked to the direct harassment or threats against the families, was found liable by default last year for defaming them and intentionally inflicting emotional distress. The judge ruled that he had repeatedly violated court orders to share financial documents with the plaintiffs.

The plaintiffs rested Wednesday after presenting several videos from Jones' Infowars show, including advertisements featuring him testifying in the defamation trial about the products sold on his platforms.

Read more: https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/10/05/nation/alex-jones-declines-put-defense-defamation-trial/

[Wibly]

1. The other thing he will decline

Is to pay. The guy is a total socio-psychopath. He does not care.
You can fine him until the cows come home and he will not pay.
Good luck getting the money out of him some other way as well. You can bet he socked it all away in some off shore account where the US government can't get to it.
If the courts really want justice they'll put this creep in a room with all the folks he's harmed and let them decide to how to exact their due retribution.

[thucythucy]

4. I'd settle for the courts driving Infowars

and any connected business into bankruptcy, forcing them to shut down.

Also driving Jones into actual, real bankruptcy, seizing everything he owns, and docking any future revenue until everything he owes is paid.

And putting him in prison for a nice long time after being found guilty of contempt of court.

Forcing the victims to enact their own punishment would probably just traumatize them further. Why should the mother of a slaughtered child be responsible for doing what we as a society are pledged to do?

But I understand the sentiment.

[Evolve Dammit]

2. Lock Him Up. If he's mentally ill then he needs serious psychiatric help. I think it's an act.

[Midnight Writer]

3. I'm fine with him owning us libs by not defending himself.