The Media Overstates Alex Jones' Case to Chill Speech: There Was No Trial On the Merits. Default Judgements Don't Make Sandy Hoax Real (e.g. A Default Judgement Also Wouldn’t Prove Santa is Real)
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From [HERE] and [HERE] Alex Jones was ordered by a jury to pay $45.2 million in punitive damages to the parents of a 6-year-old boy killed in the Sandy Hook school shooting.
The order follows a separate $4.1 million award granted by the same jury on Thursday for actual damages, or the harm suffered directly by the parents of the alleged murdered child. The case in Mr. Jones’s hometown is the first of several seeking damages for statements made after the shooting.
Neil Heslin and Scarlett Lewis, the parents of six-year-old Jesse Heslin who died in the 2012 shooting, sued Jones for defamation. A reporter on Jones’ Infowars radio show claimed that Neil Heslin lied about holding his dead son in his arms to trick people into thinking the shooting happened. Heslin and Lewis originally asked for $150 million in damages.
There was no actual contested trial. The court proceedings only pertained to how much Heslin and Lewis should be awarded in damages. Heslin and Lewis were given a default judgment against Jones in 2021 after Jones’ legal team did not supply the necessary documents for the lawsuit to proceed. [MORE]. The defaulting process results in an abrupt end and final end to litigation with the claimant declared the winner in the dispute and with a conclusive, enforceable judgment against the delinquent party, the loser. Sort of like the Bengals being declared champs at this year’s Super Bowl if the Rams failed to show up and play the game for some reason or if Andre Ward failed to make weight before fighting Kovalev; Kovalev would surely be declared winner by default. But don’t make it more than what it is; a win by default doesn’t mean that Kovalev/Bengals demonstrated anything substantive in reality.
Connecticut Superior Court Judge Barbara Bellis cited his "willful noncompliance" with the discovery process as the reasoning behind the default judgment ruling. [MORE] Default judgments are a drastic action because they confront the judicial preference for disposition on the merits. Default judgments don’t prove that something happened - they just mean someone lost a lawsuit where something was alleged. If an actual, contested trial defamation trial had taken place Heslin and Lewis would have had the burden to actually prove that Jones made false statements; not vice-versa. That is, the plaintiffs would have had to show that Sandy Hook was real - with actual authenticated, admissible evidence and testimony subject to cross-examination, credibility determinations and inspection in an adversarial process before a jury who would decide on the merits. But that never happened. In other words, if plaintiffs brought suit because Jones said Santa was fake and thereafter Jones failed to respond to the lawsuit, a default judgment would eventually be entered. Such a judgment wouldn’t make Santy real though. In The Spectacle The Dependent Media goes on pretending otherwise.
Once a default judgment was made by the court the only thing left for the jury to do was to determine the amount of damages for the alleged defamation. Jones participated in that part of the proceeding.
During the proceedings for damages, Jones admitted that the shooting was “100% real” after initially suspecting that the shooting was staged. Jones said during his non-trial testimony that he changed his position after meeting the parents of Sandy Hook victims and that “the media still ran with lies that I said it wasn’t real on air yesterday… They won’t let me take it back. They just want to keep me in the position of Sandy Hook man.”
Nevertheless, it is inaccurate to imply or claim that his post-default “admission” (during the damages portion of the case) was anything other than an effort by Jones to mitigate the amount of the damages. After all, if he did not make such a statement the damages could have been substantially higher. The media misleads the public making it appear that during an actual trial he was made to admit that he was a liar. As stated, there never was a trial because a default judgment was entered; only the penalty phase occurred. (here, it should be observed that this is the pattern with false flag episodes such as Dylann Roof’s trial (not a real trial because he fired his attorneys before trial started and was appointed attorneys for his sentencing. The trial was “fake” because he represented himself and did not raise a single objection to inadmissible statements and unautheticated evidence or properly cross examine any witnesses or conduct any discovery or investigation ) and Parkland (the alleged shooter already plead guilty. The hearing presently going on in the Parkland case is to determine whether defendant will get the death penalty). In said cases and in Jones’ case, the facts are not established during a contested, adversarial trial. Thus, the public will never know what actually occurred through such proceedings.)
Obviously, contrary to Dependent Media “analysis” his so-called admission during damages does not prove that Sandy Hook occurred. To the contrary, substantial amount of evidence shows that Sandy Hook was indeed a false flag or staged “cover story.” Don’t let massa’ media also do your thinking for you. For starters check out the video above. (the real question is why didn’t Jones participate and force the plaintiffs to prove their case? There is a substantial amount of material to use in defense of whether Sandy Hoax happened. What did he have to lose? or gain?)
This case was one of many related to Alex Jones’ claims about Sandy Hook. Jones lost another lawsuit by default in September 2021 which accused him of calling another Sandy Hook parent a liar. One more dealt with claims that Alex Jones falsely portrayed a man named Marcel Fontaine as the shooter. Fontaine later died in a fire while litigation was pending.
More proceedings are occurring to determine whether Alex Jones and Infowars are liable for any punitive damages.
