Alex Jones is off the air. His InfoWars studio and other assets auctioned off to pay a ridiculous but sinister-in-its-implications $1.5 billion court judgment to his “victims” – whose feelings he hurt.
No actual harm done was established.
Of a piece with – among other examples – the comparably disproportionate hammer that was dropped by the federal government on Volkswagen for the “crime” of hurting the feelings of the government. Which is what it came down to. Yes, VW cheated on emissions certification tests the government imposed on VW . . . by tailoring the software programming that controlled the operating parameters of its TDI (diesel) engines to pass the tests.
Which they did.
This is done routinely, incidentally. But VW was the first to get hammered as hard as it was – but not because of the “cheating.” The federal government rightly perceived the threat to its authority implicit in the “cheating.” The distinction is important to understand. If it were merely that VW’s TDI engines generated more than the allowable amount of oxides of nitrogen – or whatever it was at issue – the remedy would have been to impose a mandatory fix/recall and leave it at that.
But it became much more than that – because VW had done exactly that. It had figured out how to program its TDI-powered cars to pass the test. It wasn’t “cheating.” It was smarter than the test – and the testers.
Which is another way of saying VW hurt the government’s feelings.
Just like Alex Jones did those of his “victims.” No tangible harm was proved – in either case. In which case it is difficult to understand why Jones and VW were harmed so severely. Assuming you’re one of those odd ducks who has trouble understanding how there can be a “crime” when their is no victim.
If the premise is that those who cause harm must be held accountable for the harms they cause.
It is absurd – it is vicious – to “hold accountable” people (or companies) that have not been proved to have harmed anyone. Not a single victim of VW’s “cheating” was produced. It was enough that the federal government was affronted. 
Jones believed there were fishy circumstances surrounding the Sandy Hook school shooting.
His crime was openly saying so.
These are dangerous precedents – and as is always true with this sort of dirty business – the precedents are set by going after easy targets. Jones is obnoxious to some and easy to portray as a loud-mouthed jerk. VW was easy to portray as an environmental accoster – because it is easy to portray any car company that way nowadays. The average person having been conditioned to so regard them. Which has been greatly helped along by the car companies’ servile-guilty response whenever they are accused of being “polluters” by the Communists who control the federal regulatory apparat and the hyenas of the “media” that operate as the apparat’s propaganda arm.
The point being, they choose a target that most people will look at and think: Well, he ( or they) got what he (or they) deserved. Failing to grasp that they have just endorsed being on the receiving end of the same thing, whenever it suits whoever doesn’t like them.
It need not be the government, per se, that doesn’t like them. But the government is always the useful tool. In the case of Jones, it was the government’s courts – which were used to bankrupt (and thereby) silence him. In the case of VW it was the government itself, which claimed “victim” status rather than acting on behalf of asserted “victims.”
Either way, the precedent gets set. And once set, the precedent will be used. This is the danger of precedents. They serve to change both the law – and people’s perceptions of what is or ought to be legal as well as illegal. When the precedent was set that the federal authority had the lawful (constitutional) authority to impose a seatbelt requirement on car manufactures, it was inevitable that car owners would be forced (by law) to wear seatbelts. And then to pay for air bags. First just one. But that inevitably became two. Then four. Now six, at least, in most new cars.
And now that Jones has been bankrupted – and silenced – because he was adjudicated guilty of having hurt some people’s feelings, expect that precedent to serve as the foundation for similar assaults upon the assets, persons and livelihoods of pretty much anyone else on the same basis.
It is already on the verge of a prosecutable offense to criticize the policies/actions of the government of Israel. This is “anti-Semitic” – a snarl-word imputing a dislike of and even a hatred for people who are Jewish. It is used much the same as “anti-Vaxx” was used during the “pandemic” to pariah-ize people who wanted everyone else (as well as themselves) to be free to make their own decision regarding their bodies and what gets injected into them.
Under the senile old Grifter, the targets were “election deniers” and “threats to “democracy,” who were wanting to know whether the 2020 election was decided by people who had a right to vote (as distinct from votes that were counted) and who raised questions about such things as the Democrats’ nominee being undemocratically selected without anyone having voted for her in a single primary.
The take-home point is we are all Alex now.
Or could be.
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Does this mean one can only say nice things about those crazed Jews?
Jews know how to become rich, even though their noses are two sizes too big.
Can’t criticize them for having noses that stick out like sore thumbs.
I really can’t think of anything that the Jews have done in the past year that would warrant any criticism of any Jew.
Jews doing the Jew thing is what the Jews do and are purdy darn good at it.
Have to accentuate the positive, attenuate the negative.
Have a heart, have some compassion, you have to give Jews the benefit of the doubt.
Hamas and Hezbollah should stop fighting and give all of the Jews some hugs.
The right to “free speech” has been officially abolished.
I never liked Jones, and paid little attention to him. Apparently this was beyond the grasp of those constantly looking for something to offend them.
While Alex is more of an entertainer than serious journalist he does spotlight some important issues and taking him off the air is in the end a threat to freedom speech.
We need more information that is free from political bias and less politically biased speech.
OK I woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning.
Who are “They” exactly? Oh we all love to think They are all unified around ruining your day, but They never seem to get noticed. They all hung out with Jeffery Epstein, yet there are no prosecutions of Them because his island playground was conveniently (strategically?) outside of the United States. They don’t like it when someone makes fun of Them, or hits Them with a pie, or doesn’t vote the way They want.
Some claim They are the international jewish community. I know a few jewish people, if they are somehow connected to a global cabal hell bent on dominating the globe, they’re certainly hiding it well.
Of course the more likely to be They group are the Davos crowd, with Their conferences and Ted Talks, where they sit around a plan Their plans. I tend to fall into this conspiracy theory, if only because I think They have the power, connections and means to at least try out Their various experiments.
But the most likely They are simply the greedy and power hungry. You can’t pull Them all into one group, because as soon as 4 of them get together they start destroying each other. But it is easy for Them to gang up and bully unsuspecting victims, only because the rest of us can’t imagine doing what they dream of. When They’re given an opportunity They takes it. And They have no remorse or pity for those who They conquer.
This is what the death of God has wrought. May his judgement be swift and decisive.
Alex Jones received a default judgment. He chose, for whatever reason, not to comply with discovery orders. So the judge handed him a default as sanction. Was the case frivolous? Yes. Was the amount absurd? Yes. But I don’t believe there were actual factual findings or even a trial, only the ultimate punishment for not complying with orders to compel. Seems like legal malpractice by his lawyers or stupidity on hie part.
Vivek Ramaswamy had Alex Jones on his podcast about a year ago. It’s shy of an hour long but is worth listening to. If nothing else, listen to the intro.
Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9N65IFPfso&list=PLYInnriafjG-DI799PkcdZVq2m1PdKmAB&index=32
I didn’t frequent InfoWars mainly because of the never-ending popups and ads. Nor did I listen to him all that often. Honestly over the last decade I’ve overwhelmed myself with information and had to cull it down. Nowadays it’s EricPetersAutos, Lew Rockwell, and ZeroHedge reading in the morning. Judge Napolitano, Tom Woods, and Brion Mclanahan podcasts in the afternoon.
Almost forgot….Lucky for Alex he didn’t get the William Cooper treatment.
What mattered is Jones had the right to speak. His type of speech is precisely the kind that needs protecting because it may be “hurtful”. Eric is right “we are all Alex Jones now”…Bastards.
It’s worse than that we’re all Alex now…. we’re also all Palestinians now!!!
All Government is Bad is an old Chinese saying….
But the (((US FEDGOV))) is the worst!!!
Because Goyim, no tribe members care about you talking animals!!!
YMMV….
“It is already on the verge of a prosecutable offense to criticize the policies/actions of the government of Israel.”
Yep.
Well, let’s not forget that at the Nuremberg trials in 1946, the U.S. and Great Britain tried and executed Julius Streicher for publishing an “anti-Semitic” newspaper, which was not even an official Nazi Party publication and was somewhat suppressed by the Party:
“Streicher’s behaviour was viewed as so irresponsible that he was embarrassing the party leadership; chief among his enemies in Hitler’s hierarchy was Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring, who loathed him and later claimed that he forbade his own staff to read Der Stürmer.”
Streicher was never a member of the German military, never deployed to the front, never worked at a camp. He never personally killed any Jews. He published cartoons of Jews with big noses and for that he was executed by two countries that supposedly have “freedom of the press” as official policy.
“…the evidence against Streicher came from his numerous speeches and articles over the years. In essence, prosecutors contended that Streicher’s articles and speeches were so incendiary that he was an accessory to murder, and therefore as culpable as those who actually ordered the mass extermination of Jews.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Streicher
Whatever actual crimes the Nazi regime may have actually committed against Jews (and others) this is fucking absurd.
But it is the precedent for the actions of the censors of today, who, ironically… condemn the Nazis for burning books.
Hi Eric,
Do you honestly believe they came for Alex Jones? And it was The Onion that bought him and shut him down? Just looking at it psychologically, Jones wanted to be shut down. He was a man that foamed at the mouth on conspiracies and click bait. The next story always had to be bigger and more sensational than the previous. I am sure after so many years of this it became exhausting.
I don’t think Jones is who he says he is. Sure, I have read of the links between him and Bill Hicks, but even if that wasn’t true he is a con man who made a lot of money off of people’s fantasies. He grew tired of the constant puffery…nothing more.
Hi RG,
Maybe. But the judgment was real enough. And he hasn’t stopped his schtick. Check out his Rumble channel (linked in my article). If he were wanting to fade away and enjoy the money he’s made, I expect he would be doing that.
I don’t know, Eric. I smell government psych op and taxpayer money all over him. Because we are truly know that if he wasn’t government controlled he would have been shut down many years ago.
RE: “If he were wanting to fade away and enjoy the money he’s made”.
Yepp’ers. There’d be retirement photos galore of beachside/poolside lounging, or of a ranch somewheres with displays of his paintings, never his voice to be heard online again.
The dog, it barks.
Alex Jones or Bill Hicks or whatever, that’s not the point. Eric’s right, the judgement was enforced and the U.S. legal system works on precedent and that’s now been well and truly established. If he is a psyop actor this would fit comfortably into his mission. A jackass loud mouth saying stuff that incites all the hoi polloi to bray in agreement or opposition appropriately. It then serves to expose commentators and gives serious a legal avenue to threaten them.
‘It is already on the verge of a prosecutable offense to criticize the policies/actions of the government of Israel.’ — eric
And the Senate plans to delete your ‘on the verge’ qualifier next month:
S.4127 – Antisemitism Awareness Act of 2024
‘To provide for the consideration of a definition of antisemitism set forth by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance for the enforcement of Federal antidiscrimination laws …’
https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/4127/text
A companion measure, H.R. 6090, passed the House in May. Senate majority leader Schumer has said that he will bring S.4127 to the Senate floor during the current lame duck session, probably in December.
The Antisemitism Awareness Act nullifies the First Amendment. Then we will all be reduced to lowly field hands on the zionist plantation, facing whippings from our cruel overseers if we mouth off about ‘those who cannot be criticized.’
‘It is already on the verge of a prosecutable offense to criticize the policies/actions of the government of Israel.’ — eric
When a commenter posted the following info, I didn’t believe it. I thought it was some kind of sly, antisemitic prank. But apparently this is real:
‘Germany will provide a one-time payment of $236 (€220) to Holocaust survivors, to help them cope with the impacts of the Hamas-led October 7 attacks in southern Israel.
‘Berlin will compensate 113,000 Holocaust survivors in Israel in the form of $27 million (€25 million), according to the German finance ministry.’
https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/12/europe/israeli-holocaust-germany-payout-october-7-intl/index.html
Poor, occupied Germans. First the US kicked them to the curb by blowing up their gas pipeline. Then little Israel, spying their prostrated form in the gutter, cried out in pain as it stole their wallet.
As Trump’s neocon warmonger nominations foreshadow, Americans are the next occupied population that is about to get roughed up and pickpocketed [again].
Much like the “Anti-BDS” laws that have cropped up over the last decade. These laws, like seat belts, tobacco, etc., will only metastasize as time goes on. Eventually you will be told to worship the nation/state of Israel or face sanctions.
Objecting to supporting, with your taxes, this modern Tower of Babel will be downright criminal. God will not be mocked, we will suffer the consequences of such actions.
States that already have anti-BDS laws on the books:
https://www.newsweek.com/pro-palestinian-protest-states-colleges-illegal-bds-1895292
‘the hyenas of the “media” that operate as the apparat’s propaganda arm’ — eric
Brazen lies of the Lügenpresse:
‘There Were Signs’: How the Polls Anticipated Some of Trump’s Key Gains
‘It was always on the table for Mr. Trump to sweep the swing states as he sailed to victory last week. Pre-election polls did capture these [rightward] shifts [among blacks and hispanics] fairly clearly, and repeatedly.
‘Some of those gains may have been surprising, even to election analysts. But to a great extent, the pre-election polls had it right. Not only did they correctly suggest that the presidential race would be close overall, but they also anticipated Mr. Trump’s inroads among groups that typically tilt heavily toward Democrats.
‘While not always perfect, the available polling did provide hints that cities, like so much of the country, were on a path to the right.’ — New York Slimes
https://archive.ph/C5KJe#selection-1225.0-1225.142
No. ALL LIES. For weeks before the election, nearly every commentator here at epautos observed that support for Kamala was nearly nonexistent in their communities, despite the NYT/Siena polls consistently showing Kamala ahead in all or most swing states as the election approached. In fact, Trump won them all.
Now, with after-the-fact cherry picking of poll data, mendacious reporterette Kaleigh Rogers would have us believe that the media espied ‘signs’ of restless minorities. But they still got the winner completely wrong.
Let’s set the sleaze right out on the table: the NY Times editorial board, as well as its claque of mockingbird commentators, AGGRESSIVELY endorsed Kamala. And just as in 2016, the editorial slant twisted and inverted the ‘news’ coverage into useless advocacy agitprop. Big Media is inherently, internally corrupt. Its ‘journalistic ethics’ are a rancid fiction.
Death to the Lügenpresse.