What an absurd country.
It would have been at least $835 million cheaper for Alex to just kill all the kids himself.
America is the most litigious society in the world, and our legal system has created an established compensation system for compensating people financially for incidental injury. This is in cases of accidental or incidental harm, not crimes like stabbing or assault.
Under this system, for example,a life is valued at $2m in the state of Virginia. Up to $5m in others.
( I couldn't quickly locate the stats for CT)
Alex Jones could have caused the death of all 26 children at Sandy Hook, and come out with a far lower punishment than he did by verbally questioning the official story.
Not only have we lost freedom of speech in this country, but the third pillar of basic rights we were founded on: The
pursuit of happiness ie
property. If your money can be confiscated because of something you say, then the rest of the so-called freedoms we have are pretty useless, particularly the one about shooting guns.
There is nothing anyone can say to me that would cause me to demand money from you.
The entire concept is absurd, and Alex was never allowed to defend himself anyway, but was just given a "default judgement" by this joke of a court. I don't think he even questioned the Sandy Hoaxers that much anyway, but mostly just allowed callers to call in and talk about how weird and kooky all these people were acting, and all the inconsistencies in the narrative.
Regardless, he should be able to say literally anything he wants without fines, in a free country. Even if you want to use extreme examples about North Korea or China or something, it is very clear the things you can and cannot say in those countries, and no one ever told Alex Jones "You are not allowed to question the Sandy Hook story."