America’s biggest lowlife
NEWS SAYS Alex Jones has peddled wretched lies about the kin of slaughtered children. We should all cheer the Newtown families & the defamation suits they’ve filed against ...
Radio host Alex Jones (r.) – who repeatedly lies about Sandy Hook massacre being a hoax – is being sued for $2 million by parents of two murdered kids.
THERE’S NO DENYING this: Parents of two slain Sandy Hook students want “Infowars” host Alex Jones to pay for his “heartless and vile” lies about the slaughter.
The conspiracy theorist — who insists the slayings of 26 people at the Newtown, Conn., school never happened — was targeted in a pair of $1 million lawsuits for his twisted rants tied to the bloodbath.
“In the five years following the tragedy, (Jones) has repeatedly and unequivocally called the Sandy Hook shooting a hoax,” read the suit filed by Neil Heslin, whose 6-yearold son Jesse Lewis was among the 20 murdered first-graders.
The 18-page filing by Heslin mentioned media motormouth Jones’ “long history of harassing the Sandy Hook parents with defamatory lies.”
The parents of Noah Pozner — the youngest victim of the slaughter inside the Sandy Hook Elementary School — joined Heslin in filing their own suit Monday in Austin, Texas, where Jones’ business is based.
Leonard Pozner and ex-wife Veronique De La Rosa filed the other lawsuit, citing a particularly heinous commentary from Jones in November 2016.
“After years of dealing with hoaxers, it was clear that I needed to do something. Jones’ comments continued to fuel online hate groups. His type of show vilifies victims and incites hate,” Pozner told the Daily News.
“I have to be Noah’s voice. I have to be, because his voice was extinguished,” he said of his son. “I’m doing this for past and future victims.
The lawsuits cited Jones’ oft-repeated and unfounded allegations as “the rickety structure of (his) colossal lie about Sandy Hook.”
“I’ve watched a lot of soap operas,” said Jones, suggesting the grieving parents worked off a script. “And I’ve seen actors before. And I know when I’m watching a movie and
when I’m watching something real.”
The program hosted by Jones was responsible for “a series of false, hurtful and dangerous assertions” about the parents of the slain kids after the December 2012 killings, the suit added.
On “Infowars” Tuesday, Jones backpedaled on his earlier statements, saying he was dubious of public relations “talking points.” Now, however, he said, “I believe your children died and I’m sorry they died but I didn’t kill them.”
The Constitution protects him, Jones said.
“It is every American’s right to question any big event,” he said. “Especially when its seized on to take the basic liberties of Americans, like the Second Amendment and First Amendment.”
The suits filed by Pozner and De La Rosa mentioned Lucy Richards, a Florida woman who left threatening voicemails and sent ominous emails to the murdered boy’s dad.
“Look behind you it is death,” read one of the messages.
Prosecutors in her case said Richards was a reader of the “Infowars” website, and she was banned from visiting Jones’ online operation as part of her sentence.
In March 2014, Jones accused De La Rosa of staging a bogus interview with CNN host Anderson Cooper about the death of her child.
“Mr. Jones knows that Veronique De La Rosa did not participate in a fake interview from a remote location,” the suit states.
“Mr. Jones knew there was no blue screen, and that Veronique De La Rosa and Anderson Cooper were standing in front of the Edmon Town Hall in Newtown. He does not care. He lies anyway.”
And just 10 months later, Jones declared that Sandy Hook was “a synthetic, completely fake . . . in my view, manufactured. I knew they had actors there, clearly. But I thought they killed some real kids.
“It just shows how bold they are . . . I mean, they even used photos of kids killed in mass shooting here in a fake mass shooting in Turkey, or Pakistan.”
Those comments echoed another alleged Jones conspiracy theory that Noah Pozner, buried two years earlier by his devastated parents, was “killed” in a mass school shooting in Pakistan.
In fact, the suit alleges, Noah’s photo was simply used in a collage of school shooting victims created by a local woman.
Both filings name Jones and Infowars LLC, while the Heslin suit adds reporter Owen Shroyer — who claimed in a June 2017 broadcast that the dad lied about seeing a bullet hole in his dead son’s head.
“Shroyer’s report was manifestly false,” the lawsuit charged. “In addition, a minimal amount of research would have caused any competent journalist not to publish the defamatory accusation.”
The suits also reiterate an appalling assortment of Jones’ comments dismissing the murders as fiction, including a July 2015 monologue where he compared the brutal killing of innocents with a trip to Disney World.
“When you take your kids to see the Haunted House and ghosts are flying around, it’s not real, folks,” he said.
“It’s staged. I mean, a magician grabs a rabbit out of his hat . . . I don’t know what the trick is here. I’ve got a good suspicion.”