Alex Jones ordered to pay nearly $1 billion

[Michael Z]

He has been selling fear for the last 20+ years, distorting the truth to do so. A neighbor tried to get me listening to his nonsense way back.

 

[ohioboy]

Isn't this a civil case only at this point though? Civil court cannot jail him.

As it stands, no perjury charge is about, the type of court is non material, perjury is prejury. If the Judge say, found him in Contempt for some reason that is jailable if the Court wishes.

And [what he did wrong] wasn't criminal [as I understand it] ....... maybe it should have been ?

Defamation, as a chargeable criminal offense, is desuetude in this Country.

 

[RadishRose]

This is an interesting piece by the BBC on Jones-

Alex Jones: Will a huge legal award crush his Infowars empire?​

Will relatives of the Sandy Hook victims be able to collect the money - and does it mean he'll stop spreading lies?

He hasn't been deterred yet.

His empire has grown from a local public-access TV show in Austin, Texas to a multimedia company hawking nutritional supplements and survivalist gear.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-63251824

 

[Gardenlover]

Discernment or the ability to judge well comes to mind. Many people are led astray by lies that confirm their world views. Tickle their ears and they line up like sheep.

 

[dseag2]

"Only in America" they say!

Exactly who is it "that says"? Pot, meet Kettle.

March 22, 2016, 10:16 AM CDT / Updated March 22, 2016, 2:48 PM CDT
By Jon Schuppe
Rob Ford, the boisterous, hard-partying and scandal-plagued former Toronto mayor whose battle with a rare abdominal cancer forced him out of the 2014 election race, died Tuesday, according to a family statement released by his office.
His death comes just days after doctors said he was planning to resume treatment for a recurrence.

“With heavy hearts and profound sadness, the Ford family announces the passing of their beloved son, brother, husband and father, Councillor Rob Ford," his office said in a statement. “A dedicated man of the people, Councillor Ford spent his life serving the people of Toronto.”
Ford, 46, was a conservative who brought bombast to the buttoned-up world of Toronto politics, winning office in 2010 on a populist line of cutting government waste and improving public safety. His term was upended three years later, when a video circulated online that purported to show him smoking crack.
Ford said it was untrue. But accounts of his drinking, drug use and wild partying — including sexist and homophobic remarks — continued. He eventually admitted using crack during a "drunken stupor."