A U.S. bankruptcy court trustee is planning to shut down Alex Jones’ Infowars media platform and liquidate its assets to help pay the $1.5 billion in lawsuit judgments Jones owes for repeatedly calling the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting a hoax.
In an “emergency” motion filed Sunday in Houston, trustee Christopher Murray indicated publicly for the first time that he intends to “conduct an orderly wind-down” of the operations of Infowars’ parent company and “liquidate its inventory.” Murray, who was appointed by a federal judge to oversee the assets in Jones’ personal bankruptcy case, did not give a timetable for the liquidation.
Jones has been saying on his web and radio shows that he expects Infowars to operate for a few more months before it is shut down because of the bankruptcy. But he has vowed to continue his bombastic broadcasts in some other fashion, possibly on social media. He also had talked about someone else buying the company and allowing him to continue his shows as an employee.
Imagine court like a classroom, but with actual consequences attached. There are very basic rules, and you already know them. You don’t speak out of turn, you present your arguments with logic and respect, and you don’t ask an army of wackos to threaten the teacher for handing out homework.
So adults shouldn’t be allowed to share a negative opinion of a judge…? They should be treated like a child, who has to sit at a desk and can only provide polite, sweet, respectful feedback when asked…?
Why?
Why is that the model we should aim for in a free country?
I understand maintaining basic decorum so the judge can be heard and waiting one’s turn to talk, but why does the judge need to be treated like that? He’s not God; he’s not my dad; he’s someone who has to do his job, and I can have an opinion of him.
In a free country, decorum is not legally imposed.