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.
He didn’t imply the parents were lying. He said it directly. Among many other things.
The place for him to make your claims was court. And multiple juries found him guilty. I don’t see how you can claim free speech was breeched when multiple juries found him guilty. In different states. It’s not some one off.
And if you want to know about the cases, you can look them up. They’ll have all the facts presented to the court in them.
It does not matter much to me in this case what the courts decided because it clearly violates the principle of free speech as I understand it.
To me, these decisions represent the decay of all our rights.
Your rights end where other’s begin. I don’t see how you can have that opinion on this when those affected by it have had so much trouble in their lives as a result.
The decisions made by the courts aren’t new precedence. They’re upholding what is already there. You can say you don’t like it and that they got it wrong, but reality indicates otherwise.