Justice takes too long, especially these days when creepy crooks and lunatic liars keep getting away with their crap.
But finally (finally!) justice has come for one of them – that sleazy peddler of bloated lies – Alex Jones. He was found guilty of lying for years about the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings in which children were butchered by a maniac wielding a military-style assault weapon. Jones was ordered to pay almost $50 million to the parents of those children, with more judgments against him waiting in the wings.
In case you’ve forgotten, Jones, on his radio show and website (“Infowars”), said the Sandy Hook massacre was a “hoax,” that the parents and others were “actors” who pretended the children were killed so it would pressure the government to confiscate people’s guns. Jones kept repeating variations of that stupid lie for years.
His audience of gullible conspiracists swallowed that lie and so many others hook, line and sinker. The grieving parents of those poor dead sweethearts were intimidated, harassed and threatened by Jonesian true believers.
And what was in it for Jones? Money, money and more money, plus political clout among power-mad politicians enamored of loony conspiracy theories – the loonier the better. None of them believe the Big Lies they spout. No matter. Gullible people eagerly buy the lies and keep opening their wallets for the biggest liars. Among some people, outrageous lies, these days, are much more popular and entertaining than homely truths.
Even during his court appearances, Jones kept up his toxic in-your-face lunatic bluster, the same way he big-mouth blustered at the nation’s Capitol before the vicious insurrection attempt on Jan. 6, 2021.
In the courtroom, it was almost – almost! – comical when presiding Judge Maya Guerra Gamble had to remind Jones what truth is.
“You must tell the truth when you testify,” she told him. “This is not your (radio) show.”
Then she said there is a big difference between an “alternative reality” and truth-telling in a court of law.
“In the law,” the judge said, “truth is a real thing.”
And then, like a stern teacher admonishing an unruly student, she said this: “You believe everything you say is true, but it isn’t. Just because you claim to think something is true does not make it true. It does not protect you. It is not allowed. You’re under oath.”
Were the judge’s lessons lost on Jones? Of course. It was, after all, just a “witch hunt,” he insisted after his court appearance. At one point, when the plaintiff’s attorney told Jones his own lawyers had inadvertently given him (the plaintiff attorney) copies of his phone text messages, Jones suddenly lost his bluster and looked as if he saw a freight train coming at him. Sweat oozed from his face. His bluster turned into a stutter. A classic “caught red-handed” moment.
Here are just some of the Big Lies that Jones vomited up through the years: The 911 terrorist attacks were an inside job by Deep State functionaries; the government most likely had a hand in the bombings in Oklahoma City and at the Boston Marathon; the shooting deaths at the high school in Parkland, Florida was a “Deep State false-flag operation” meant to foment a civil war; the movie-theater killings in Aurora, Colorado was another “false flag” incident of mind control, as were the mass shootings in Las Vegas and Orlando.
After the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing by home-grown terrorist Timothy McVeigh, Jones told his avid radio listeners this: “I understood there’s a kleptocracy with psychopathic governments – clutches of evil that know the tricks of control.” That line is typical of the paranoiac garbage spewed by Jones and other conspiracy theorists today – to name just one, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene. When will justice come for them too? We’ve waited long enough.
On his show, Jones has raked in millions by peddling dietary supplements, toothpaste, bullet-proof vests and brain pills. Be advised: the brain pills do not work.
