So, Alex Jones, the carney shill from Austin, Texas, lost in court, again. (more loses to come!). The judge in the punitive damages trial awarded the plaintiffs almost a billion dollars, not an insignificant amount. The living, breathing scumbag, Mr. Jones, blew off the award with a challenge:"try to get it" message. He's scrambling to hide his millions behind shell companies and declarations of bankruptcies, but in the end, this home-grown mental case will pay up, no matter his bleak future. His backers, those deranged individuals who attach their fantasies to a pathetic personality, will go along with his slide into obscurity. They will have to find another Texan who can give voice to their perverted dreams and otherwise shallow lives.
An excellent recap of Jones' career was written in an NYT column, describing his rise as a "bloviating" red-faced liar. It started in 1995, awhile ago, really. But, as can happen, given the microphone of internet connections, he was able to fool the gullible, uneducated fringe that seems to have grown over the years in a society broken by political hacks for whom truth is not a factor in their work. Jones is more than a despicable human being; he's a terrorist, picking on the weak and down trodden among the public. We know these folks, decent persons, suffering from tragedies beyond their control. The weak legal structure offers little protection from these mongers of conspiracies that stretch belief by any measure. First Amendment rights are trumpeted as inviolable, and hence they pursue the goal of convincing a few sad cases that there could be some truth/facts among their many statements.
Will his career go down into history as yet another example of aberrant behavior? We hope so.
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