Alex Jones Seeks $100,000 in Court Costs From Sandy Hook Victim's Family

[babylonsister]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/report-alex-jones-seeks-dollar100000-in-court-costs-from-sandy-hook-victims-family?ref=home

Alex Jones Seeks $100,000 in Court Costs From Sandy Hook Victim’s Family

Infowars founder and conspiracy-theory aficionado Alex Jones is reportedly seeking more than $100,000 in court costs from a Sandy Hook family suing him for defamation. A hearing will begin Wednesday in the lawsuit filed by Veronique De La Rosa and Leonard Pozner, a couple who lost their 6-year-old son in the Sandy Hook Elementary school shooting in December 2012. The couple argues that Jones’ claims of the shooting being a hoax led to a barrage of death threats against them, ultimately forcing them to relocate seven times. A separate hearing scheduled for Thursday stems from another defamation lawsuit—one filed by Marcel Fontaine, a man falsely identified as the Parkland school shooter on the Infowars website. In both cases, Jones is reportedly playing the victim by arguing the defamation allegations are an attempt to silence him, The New York Times reports. In court filings submitted ahead of trial this week, Jones and his lawyers argue the Pozner family’s lawsuit aims “to silence those who openly oppose their very public ‘herculean’ efforts to ban the sale of certain weapons, ammunition, and accessories, to pass new laws relating to gun registration and to limit free speech.”

[TexasTowelie]

1. .

[mnmoderatedem]

2. just when you thought that putz could not sink any lower

[rurallib]

5. It's republican trait these days

there is no lowest limit

[marble falls]

3. No shame at all. What a total loser...

When I moved to Austin in '99 he was a cable access show - I thought he was a comedian.

[ProfessorGAC]

4. An Attempt To Silence Him?

Yes, that's exactly what it is Alex, you idiot! They are trying to silence you from making up stuff out of whole cloth and causing other people pain.

An attempt to silence him. What the heck else would it be? A monetary means to getting him to shut his lying trapper.

[Nitram]

6. Jumping the shark, is he? Does this suggest it isn't a scam and he really believes that crap?

Pretty expensive publicity if he doesn't.

[Dorn]

7. What an unbelievably horrible thing to do

Here is a bit more from the NYT article -- how incredibly twisted does is he to use this justification?

Mr. Jones is trying to have the Pozner and Fontaine cases dismissed under the Texas Citizens Participation Act, which protects citizens’ right to free speech against plaintiffs who aim to silence them through costly litigation.

[JDC]

8. F right off Alex

[NoMoreRepugs]

9. That some of our fellow Americans listen to this

sack of shit and a few act out on his "theories" should give everyone here pause, the INSANE live amongst us and who knows what they are capable of.

[calimary]

10. Lower than low.

He would know, of course.

[dlk]

11. For Those of Jones' Ilk, There is No Bottom to Sink To

He can always find a lower place to go.

[SunSeeker]

12. I hope those poor parents take Jones for every penny he's worth.

[struggle4progress]

13. "I was innocently entertaining millions of potential serial killers, with adorable little stories

about child sex-slavery rings masquerading as pizza parlors or gigantic conspiracies to disarm deranged citizens with fake news about elementary school massacres! But I was really only motivated by the desire to improve their lives by providing them with my dietary supplements! Research show that crazy people who take Vitamin P often hear the broadcasts of the mothership more clearly. And Vitamin Q can help you see the demons controlling everyone who disagrees with me! Then, suddenly and unexpectedly, I was unfairly sued!"