Father of Sandy Hook victim awarded $450 K in defamation suit

Leonard Pozner, the father of the youngest victim in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, Noah Pozner, 6, won a judgment for $450,000 in a defamation suit against the editor of a book claiming the massacre was faked.

A Wisconsin jury determined the amount to be paid to Pozner, a Jewish man whose son was among 26 people killed at the Connecticut school.

The award came after the judge ruled that Pozner had been defamed by James Fetzer and Mike Palecek, the editors of the book, "Nobody Died at Sandy Hook," claiming the government staged the killing to advance stronger gun control restrictions. According to the book, Pozner faked Noah's death certificate to advance the conspiracy. Thus making the book a conspiracy theory about a conspiracy.

Fetzer, 78, is described on his Wikipedia page as "a former professor of the professor of the philosophy of science at the University of Minnesota Duluth and a conspiracy theorist." In the 1990s he promoted JFK's assassination conspiracy theories and later the 911 conspiracy theories and Holocaust denial, just to name a few. In a display of clear irony, he called the judgment "absurd" and plans to appeal, according to the Wisconsin State Journal.

Palacek, whose fanboy is Howard Zinn,  has already settled with Pozner for an undisclosed amount, according to The New York Times.

Noah Pozner

Pozner is a party to multiple lawsuits against those who claim the massacre was faked, including the execrable Alex Jones, the online provocateur and conspiracy theorist who runs Infowars. 

Jones has also made claims to the effect that the parents of Sandy Hook victims are part of a plot to take away firearms. He has also made claims that the Oklahoma City bombing, the September 11, 2001 attacks and the moon landings were all government planned scams and that big businesses have colluded to create a  "New World Order" through "manufactured economic crises, sophisticated surveillance tech and inside-job terror attacks that fuel exploitable hysteria".

In other words, Jones is one of the most prolific liars in the nation.

It's a good thing these people are holding their stinky feet to the fire.

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Alex Jones of InforWars being sued by Sandy Hook parents

Many people take Alex Jones seriously. That's probably due to the notion that he says things that conspiracy theorists want to believe, so they do. Sometimes Jones makes claims that are so far out over his skis that he needs to be held accountable.

The families of two kids who were killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre filed suit against Infowars head for his claim that the Connecticut shooting never happened.

The whole thing was a hoax, he claimed.

Leonard Pozner and Veronique De La Rosa, the parents of Noah Pozner, and Neil Heslin, the father of Jesse Lewis, filed separate defamation lawsuits Monday against Jones seeking over $1 million in damages.

The suits were filed in Travis County, Texas, the home of InfoWars, Jones' media company.

Mark Bankston, a lawyer for the plaintiffs, called Jones' accusations "goulish."

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"Even after these folks had to experience this trauma, for the accusations next five years they were tormented by Alex Jones with vicious lies about them," Bankston told the Huffington Post. "And these lies were meant to convince his audience that the Sandy Hook parents are frauds and have perpetrated a sinister lie on the American people."

Six teachers and 20 first-grade students were gunned down on December 14, 2012 by the gunman, a mentally ill young man who first shot and killed his mother and took her legally-owned guns to continue the slaughter before killing himself.

Noah Pozner

The lawsuits allege that Jones insisted the shooting was staged and this resulted in the encouragement of other crazy people to make death threats against the victims' families.

"So, if children were lost at Sandy Hook, my heart goes out to each and every one of those parents. And the people who say they're parents that I see on the news. The only problem is, I've watched a lot of soap operas. And I've seen actors before [he's one of them]. And I know when I'm watching a movie and when I'm watching something real," Jones said at the time.

Jones and InfoWars did not comment on the lawsuit.

There's a difference between freedom of speech and defamation.


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Suing the Company that Grew the Banana You Slipped On

The Second Amendment is under attack as usual. Nine families of those killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, which occurred in Connecticut two years ago, filed a lawsuit Monday against the manufacturer of the AR-15 Bushmaster rifle and Riverview Gun Sales, the shop that sold the weapon used in the shooting by Adam Lanza. In all, 26 people were killed by Lanza, including his mother. It is truly a tragedy.

The claim being made is that the weapon was designed for the military and should not be available to the public because it is unsuited for hunting or home defense. This, of course, makes it the perfect weapon for what the U.S. Constitution meant for citizens regarding the right to bear arms. It has nothing at all to do with hunting and everything to do with the tyranny of a government that wishes to run roughshod over the people.