Returning to duty Monday, November 7!

Alex Jones, the belligerent, hostile, influential media host of Infowars was held accountable for his lies concerning the murder of 20 first graders and six educators at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut on November 2012.

After a 4-week trial, the jury awarded damages to the eight families totaling almost $1 billion. Jones was not present in the courtroom when the verdict for damages was read.

For nearly ten years, Jones, the right-wing conspiracy activist, claimed the mass shooting was “completely fake,” a “giant hoax” perpetrated by opponents of the Second Amendment. As a result of Jones’s drumbeat of lies, families of Sandy Hook victims were forced from their homes due to the intense emotional stress and threats against their lives inflicted upon them by many of Jones’s followers.

Consistent with his utter lack of morality, Jones not only live-streamed the courtroom verdicts but was fundraising on his radio show urging “his viewers to send him hundreds of thousands of dollars to pay for an appeal.”

“Blah, blah! You get a million, you get a hundred million, you get $50 million!” Jones told his audience, in a contemptible rant. “Do these people actually think they’re getting any money?”

“Mr. Jones,” The New York Times reports, “a fabulist who was ruled liable for defamation over his lies about the 2012 massacre being a hoax, told viewers that the Democratic establishment was out to get him and that ‘your pennies counter their millions. The top headline on his website, which was covered in ads for the diet supplements he hawks, was about the verdict and linked to an appeal to buy his book.

“He planned to hold an ‘emergency’ broadcast for more than 16 hours to ‘save Infowars, he said, urging people to ‘flood us with donations.’”

In December 2019 ruling by Travis County District Court in Texas, Judge Scott Jenkins stated that “Mr. Jones and his lawyer had intentionally disregarded an October court order to produce witnesses and other materials to the plaintiff in the lawsuit, Neil Heslin, US media report,” the BBC reported.

“Mr. Heslin’s son, six-year-old Jesse Lewis, was killed in the shooting.

“The judge said their failure to co-operate ‘should be treated as contempt of court.’ In two separate orders issued the same day, the judge told Mr. Jones to pay $65,825 and $34,323 in lawyer fees incurred by Mr. Heslin.”

While Jones conceded that the Sandy Hook mass shooting was “100% real” this past August, it did not stop him from moving into more bogus narratives. He’s now “questioning Uvalde and what really happened there, or Parkland or any other event.”

“We’re not going away, and we’re not going to stop,” Jones said.

What will it take for supporters to see the truth behind Alex Jones’s immoral lies?

At this point . . . a miracle.