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Title: The LIAR Alex Jones now claims mental illness is responsible for his lies…
Post by: Kiwithrottlejockey on March 31, 2019, 05:31:37 pm

from The Washington Post…

Alex Jones is being sued for his false Sandy Hook hoax claims.
He blames ‘psychosis’.


In a new deposition, the radio host said that a past “psychosis” led him to believe “everything was staged”.

By KATIE METTLER | 8:50PM EDT — Saturday, March 30, 2019

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Alex Jones, the right-wing conspiracy theorist, has claimed be believed the Sandy Hook massacre was staged because he was suffering from psychosis.
 — Photograph: Jose Luis Magana/Associated Press.


TWO WEEKS AGO, lawyers representing the Sandy Hook families suing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones recorded a three-hour interview with him, a court-ordered formality that, under normal circumstances, would have remained private until the defamation lawsuit eventually went to trial.

But this case is not normal.

Jones — who was censored by Twitter, Apple, Facebook, YouTube and Spotify for his inflammatory rhetoric — has used his Infowars web show to speak publicly about the case and the people who are suing him — families of 10 Sandy Hook victims who were massacred during the mass shooting at the Connecticut elementary school in 2012. During one show, Jones brought his lawyer on-air to outline their defense strategy.

So on March 29, the Sandy Hook attorneys took the extraordinary step of posting the hours-long deposition of Jones to YouTube — in the spirit of “transparency,” they said.

“Alex Jones has tried to do everything he can to try his case in the media,” said Wesley Ball, one attorney in the team of lawyers representing the Sandy Hook families. Ball said the deposition was part of a motion filed by Jones's attorneys to ensure there was enough evidence against their client to proceed in the court.

“The best thing we can hope for is to get Alex Jones to trial,” Ball said. For now, he said they prefer to let the evidence and deposition speak for themselves.

The videos, published in two parts, offer a window into Jones's thoughts on the years-long smear campaign he and his Infowars show waged against the facts of the shooting at Sandy Hook, the integrity of the investigation that followed, and the families of the 26 children and educators who were killed.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7siWJ86g40 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7siWJ86g40)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XES-AydpIoc (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XES-AydpIoc)

Most notably, Jones refused to acknowledge whether his actions added to the grief and distress of those who had lost loved ones in the shooting, and he claimed the lawsuits filed against him were retaliatory for Hillary Clinton's failed presidential bid in the 2016 election. When shown short video clips of himself from his own TV show, Jones continuously claimed they had been manipulated or taken out of context.

He also blamed his years of misinformation and spin about the massacre on “psychosis”. Jones claimed that years of witnessing “corrupt” governments and institutions made him deeply skeptical of the “mainstream media” and the “agenda hidden behind things”.

“And I, myself, have almost had like a form of psychosis back in the past where I basically thought everything was staged, even though I'm now learning a lot of times things aren’t staged,” Jones said. “So I think as a pundit, someone giving an opinion, that, you know, my opinions have been wrong. But they were never wrong consciously to hurt people.”

Jones acknowledged that he now believes the shooting happened and that children were killed, even after years of calling the event a “hoax” and survivors “crisis actors” without evidence. But, he said he still believes there was a “coverup”.

“I still have questions about Sandy Hook, but I know people that know some of the Sandy Hook families. They say, ‘No, it's real’ — people I think are credible. And so over the years, I've — you know, especially as it's become a huge issue, had time to really retrospectively think about it,” Jones said. “And as the whole thing matured, I've had a chance to believe that children died, and it's a tragedy. But there are still real anomalies in the attempt to basically keep it blacked out that generally, when you see that in government, something's being covered up.”

During the questioning, the Sandy Hook attorneys outlined the main conspiracy theories Jones has broadcast during the last six years and provided evidence debunking each one. Jones acknowledged that some of the so-called anomalies that initially inspired his conspiracy theories were later proven to be false. But he stopped short of taking responsibility for creating those theories; he told the Sandy Hook lawyers he was simply reporting on Internet chatter and providing a platform for the free exchange of ideas.

Jones claimed that the media, corporate lawyers, “the establishment” and the Democratic Party tried to make it seem like he was obsessed with the Sandy Hook massacre and that it was his only “identity”. They “tricked” him into consistently debating it, he said.

“I see the parties that continually bring this up and drag these families through the mud as the real villains, the conscious villains attempting to shore up the First Amendment in the process,” Jones said. “I do not consider myself to be that villain.”

The Sandy Hook lawyers said the deposition was part of a series of them they are taking that will help the judge decide if there is enough evidence to move the case forward. If that happens, lawyers from both sides will have an opportunity to take additional depositions in preparation for a trial to determine if Jones caused the victims' families undue harm.

During the deposition, Jones was posed this question: “Mr. Jones, are you finally prepared to admit that you have, indeed, caused these families a substantial amount of pain?” attorney Mark Bankston asked. “Are you prepared to admit that?”

“I am not prepared to sign on to whatever you and the mainstream media make up about me,” Jones said.


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Katie Mettler (https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/katie-mettler) is a general assignment reporter for The Washington Post. She previously worked for the Tampa Bay Times in St. Petersburg, Florida. At Indiana University, she gained a BA in journalism.

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Related to this topic:

 • VIDEO: Key moments from Alex Jones's Sandy Hook deposition (https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/national/key-moments-from-alex-joness-sandy-hook-deposition/2019/03/30/4c029776-a1ad-4f6b-b766-713ab6b2aaeb_video.html)

 • Alex Jones banned from Facebook? His videos are still there — and so are his followers. (https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2018/11/05/alex-jones-banned-facebook-his-videos-are-still-there-so-are-his-followers)

 • Twitter has permanently banned Alex Jones and Infowars (https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2018/09/06/twitter-has-permanently-banned-alex-jones-infowars)

 • YouTube, Apple, Facebook and Spotify escalate enforcement against Alex Jones (https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2018/08/06/apple-facebook-spotify-remove-alex-jones-content)


https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/03/31/alex-jones-is-being-sued-his-false-sandy-hook-hoax-claims-he-blames-psychosis (https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/03/31/alex-jones-is-being-sued-his-false-sandy-hook-hoax-claims-he-blames-psychosis)


Title: Re: The LIAR Alex Jones now claims mental illness is responsible for his lies…
Post by: Kiwithrottlejockey on April 01, 2019, 10:30:05 am

Alex Jones is a filthy, harmful, parasite organism which has somehow managed to infect the human race.

This parasite needs to be wiped out for the protection of not only the human race in general, but also to protect all the stupid gullible simpletons who believe the bullshit he spouts.


Title: Re: The LIAR Alex Jones now claims mental illness is responsible for his lies…
Post by: Im2Sexy4MyPants on April 03, 2019, 03:45:40 pm
Communism is a filthy, harmful, parasite organism that needs to be eradicated from the face of the earth

the worst of these are white trash lowlife communist they are anti-freedom anti-human scum


Title: Re: The LIAR Alex Jones now claims mental illness is responsible for his lies…
Post by: Kiwithrottlejockey on April 03, 2019, 08:45:46 pm

NEWS FLASH: Alex Jones is a proven LIAR who now admits he is also MENTAL.

What does that say about the stupid simpletons who listen to and believe his bullshit, eh?


Title: Re: The LIAR Alex Jones now claims mental illness is responsible for his lies…
Post by: Im2Sexy4MyPants on April 05, 2019, 08:06:54 pm
us has a thing called free speech something you won't find in China or Cuba

the stupid story is a weapon of mass distraction


Title: Re: The LIAR Alex Jones now claims mental illness is responsible for his lies…
Post by: Kiwithrottlejockey on April 05, 2019, 08:52:42 pm

NEWS FLASH: Alex Jones is a proven LIAR who now admits he is also MENTAL.

What does that say about the stupid simpletons who listen to and believe his bullshit, eh?


Title: Re: The LIAR Alex Jones now claims mental illness is responsible for his lies…
Post by: Im2Sexy4MyPants on April 06, 2019, 10:33:34 am
the thing is AJ built a news empire from scratch

mainstream news has just proved they have lied about trump  for 2 years

are you guilty of making mistakes?

I hold you responsible for being a white trash demon possessed scumsucking communist blood-sucking flea that needs to be exterminated with extream predigest    


Title: Re: The LIAR Alex Jones now claims mental illness is responsible for his lies…
Post by: Kiwithrottlejockey on April 06, 2019, 12:11:18 pm

Alex Jones claimed he was suffering from “psycosis” ... in other words he is admitting he is mentally ill aka GAGA.

So we can deduce from that admission that Alex Jones is a mentally-ill person spewing out the ravings of a mentally-ill mind.

And he has announced to the world he suffers from mental illness.

Just goes to show how fucked-in-the-head clowns are who believe his mentally-ill rantings & ravings, eh?

Including the clown from Woodville, NZ.


Title: Re: The LIAR Alex Jones now claims mental illness is responsible for his lies…
Post by: Im2Sexy4MyPants on April 08, 2019, 02:41:07 am
you have proved over and over again that you suffering from “psychosis

If you don't believe me just read all your mental anti trump rant headlines you are totally retarded, ktj as nutty as a fruitcake

oops looks like you been spreading fake news again your headline turns out to be bullshit fake news

Alex Jones’ lawyer: If you want the Infowars host silenced, you’re scarier than he is

You’ve probably heard by now that Alex Jones of Infowars plans to defend himself against charges that he defamed the families of folks killed in the mass shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown in 2012 by claiming some form of psychosis.

You heard wrong. You swallowed a meme, becoming the very thing you say you scorn — a dupe to a hateful, half-baked piece of misinformation.

I know this because I represent Alex Jones in three suits pending against him in Connecticut. He faces a related suit defended by separate counsel in Texas.

Alex Jones is not psychotic. He plans to defend himself on the same grounds that protect those who take such joy in ridiculing him: the First Amendment right to freedom of speech.

In a video deposition posted online by plaintiffs’ lawyers, he says he was influenced by “something like psychosis” when he opined that Sandy Hook was a hoax. Jones haters seized on this hazy metaphor like starving children diving at crumbs
.

The Sandy Hook lawsuits allege that Jones defamed the families by denying the mass shootings took place. For those of us who live in Connecticut, it’s hard to take seriously the denial of a reality you lived through. We lost family and friends at Sandy Hook. We saw colleagues grieve.

Let’s set the record straight: Alex Jones believes that there was a massacre at Sandy Hook. He entertained the possibility that it was all a hoax when events were fresh. He hosted people who wondered aloud why the FBI would claim there were no homicides in Sandy Hook the very year 26 people were murdered. Just today I received an email from a lost soul claiming it’s all a hoax.

Jones never encouraged people to visit the homes of the surviving family members. He did not himself state that the deaths of children were faked by families seeking financial gain or elevated status as spokesmen for gun control. These assertions about Jones have become urban legend — repeated so often they are taken as true. We are eager to test these assertions in open court and to let a fair-minded jury evaluate the actual evidence — if the cases ever actually get to the point of a jury trial.

The cases should be dismissed. Alex Jones hasn’t defamed anyone; he has engaged in extreme speech, a form of speech we’ve cherished since the days of the penny press.

The truth of the matter is Jones has a right to his opinions, no matter how outlandish. That he discomfited the suffering is truly unfortunate. But our newfound instinct to make symbols of survivors in our roiling political debates about such things as gun control transforms them into public figures in the contested terrain of political speech. Declaring these folks to be off-limits is a misuse of pathos. Victims used to mourn in private.

Folks should spend a lot less time taking shots at Alex Jones and more time wondering what makes Jones possible. It’s the same sort of question Trump haters ought to ask. Millions of voters and listeners flock to these men not because they are crazy but because they offer alternatives to mainstream narratives that fail to resonate with folks who have little to gain from tuning into CNN, MSNBC or reading the pages of The New York Times.


Before I chose to represent Alex Jones, I ignored him. His views were too extreme for me. He wasn’t a figure I hated; he just didn’t matter. He was the town crier warning the end is neigh.

Now I defend him from you — you, who want him silenced — because you scare me more than he does.

There is no mob quite so terrifying as a self-righteous mob. Suppressing speech because it offends a majority of folks gives the power to censor speech. We’re close to banning speech simply because it is hateful. Even Mark Zuckerberg now wants new legislation to limit speech. We’ve gone from wanting information to be free to fearing the heterodox.

What motivates hate is fear. Alex Jones and his listeners are afraid of what this country is becoming. You are afraid of Alex Jones and his outlandish conspiracy theories. You’re more alike than you think.

Fight your differences out in the marketplace of ideas. But let’s not fall down the bottomless pit of censorship. Alex Jones is not psychotic, and neither, I suspect, are you, although some days I’m not so sure about either of you.

Norm Pattis is an attorney based in New Haven.

https://www.courant.com/opinion/op-ed/hc-op-norm-pattis-alex-jones-0406-20190405-howpjy3tq5eqhcvttscjbcawhq-story.html



Title: Re: The LIAR Alex Jones now claims mental illness is responsible for his lies…
Post by: Kiwithrottlejockey on April 08, 2019, 01:55:38 pm

Watch the two videos, dumbcunt.

In those videos, Alex Jones declares he suffered from ‘psychosis’ … in other words he admits to being ga-ga … fucked-in-the-head … mentally ill.

Therefore, whenever he opens his mouth, what comes out is the mentally-ill raving of a lunatic.


Title: Re: The LIAR Alex Jones now claims mental illness is responsible for his lies…
Post by: Kiwithrottlejockey on April 08, 2019, 01:57:26 pm

I hope the court finds against him and awards multiple millions of dollars in damages to each plaintiff.

Teach the mentally-ill liar a lesson about telling nasty lies about other people.


Title: Re: The LIAR Alex Jones now claims mental illness is responsible for his lies…
Post by: Im2Sexy4MyPants on April 08, 2019, 09:29:12 pm
(https://scontent.fwlg2-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/56702277_2714867211889072_5050003124794687488_n.jpg?_nc_cat=104&_nc_ht=scontent.fwlg2-1.fna&oh=3d4b84a6db7a211957a929f76639c115&oe=5D400846)

funny how loony ratshit lefties take things out of context on purpose so they can pretend their stupid lie is the truth


Title: Re: The LIAR Alex Jones now claims mental illness is responsible for his lies…
Post by: Kiwithrottlejockey on April 09, 2019, 11:12:00 am

I've always KNOWN that Alex Jones is mentally ill.

And he has shown I was always RIGHT by admitting it in the video clips I posted in this thread.


Title: Re: The LIAR Alex Jones now claims mental illness is responsible for his lies…
Post by: Im2Sexy4MyPants on April 09, 2019, 12:21:06 pm
I don't believe anyone on this planet cares a rats arse what you think or say
they gave up on you a long time ago and left you here all alone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ck_6duAXvw


Title: Re: The LIAR Alex Jones now claims mental illness is responsible for his lies…
Post by: Kiwithrottlejockey on April 09, 2019, 12:56:58 pm

In addition to being a LIAR, Alex Jones is also fucked-in-the-head ... ie...ga-ga ... ie...psychotic ... ie...mentally ill.

And by his own admission too.


Title: Re: The LIAR Alex Jones now claims mental illness is responsible for his lies…
Post by: Im2Sexy4MyPants on April 09, 2019, 01:48:44 pm

he will get off I can't see anything he has done wrong

Robby Parker was the reason lots of people thought the whole thing was fake
note how he was laughing and smiling when he first came out to talk to the press then composed himself to the sad father
perhaps it was his way of coping with all the pressure
but tell me he didn't make it seem fake

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sino1wwm3cs


Title: Re: The LIAR Alex Jones now claims mental illness is responsible for his lies…
Post by: Kiwithrottlejockey on April 09, 2019, 07:40:04 pm

Alex Jones is a self-admitted ga-ga, fucked-in-the-head mental retard.

What does that say about the diminished mental capacity of those who follow his every word, eh?


Title: Re: The LIAR Alex Jones now claims mental illness is responsible for his lies…
Post by: Im2Sexy4MyPants on April 09, 2019, 09:23:28 pm
your talking about yourself again


Title: Re: The LIAR Alex Jones now claims mental illness is responsible for his lies…
Post by: Kiwithrottlejockey on April 10, 2019, 05:16:50 am

Yep, Alex Jones is a mental retard, alright.


Title: Re: The LIAR Alex Jones now claims mental illness is responsible for his lies…
Post by: Im2Sexy4MyPants on April 10, 2019, 12:23:57 pm
you're a mentally ill cocksucker



Title: Re: The LIAR Alex Jones now claims mental illness is responsible for his lies…
Post by: Kiwithrottlejockey on April 10, 2019, 01:30:21 pm

Keep going...

...it's always entertaining when you're making a complete & total dick of yourself.

Still doesn't change the fact that Alex Jones, by his own admission, is ga-ga. ie... fucked-in-the-head.


Title: Re: The LIAR Alex Jones now claims mental illness is responsible for his lies…
Post by: Im2Sexy4MyPants on April 10, 2019, 04:01:06 pm
talking about yourself again ;D

you know about dick :o


Title: Re: The LIAR Alex Jones now claims mental illness is responsible for his lies…
Post by: Kiwithrottlejockey on April 10, 2019, 05:43:49 pm

It's all in these two videos: Alex Jones announcing to the world that he suffers from psychosis, ie... mental illness. IN HIS OWN WORDS!!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7siWJ86g40 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7siWJ86g40)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XES-AydpIoc (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XES-AydpIoc)