Alex Jones has been ordered to pay over 4 million dollars to two of the parents of the dead Sandy Hook children. Now, Alex Jones is a liar in my opinion. He lies for money. To be more accurate he lies to get your money. He lies to so he can sell you things. His lies can be cruel like saying the Sandy Hook mass shooting of those schools children was staged and the people were actors. Parents lost their children and then they have to deal with the harassment and threats cause by Alex Jones’s lies and by the people that believed those lies. Of course now he wants you to buy more products from him to help him pay his judgment. In reality what he wants is for you to pay him money so he can continue to lie.. What is the reason he lies? Money. His business makes over 800,000 dollars a day so 4.1 million will be made up in a week .The man is filthy rich because he is a liar.* What in the hell is wrong with this world when the lie becomes the product that a person sells and you buy it. Of course Alex Jones was at the January 6th pep talk for the insurrection. The “Big Steal” was and still is a lie but hey there was money in this lie and of course that is always a great motivator. How much money has all of them made off the “Big Lie”? I bet hundreds of millions. Lying shouldn’t pay but it does.
None of us are always truthful. I try to be but just like the rest of us I am not perfect. When we are young we are taught that there is a difference in the lies that we tell. I remember being told as a child telling a “Little White Lie” meant to spare a person some pain or embarrassment was not a bad thing and can be in fact a good thing, a kind thing. We are taught that not all lies are created equal. The problem is where you draw the line. How many times have we caught someone in a lie and then when you have called them on it they point that little white lie that you told. I am pretty sure that has happened to more than one of us on more than one occasion. So what is the answer? Hell if I know. We can say honesty is the best policy and in most cases it is, just not always. Trump lied to us about the seriousness of Covid and admitted it in an interview with Bob Woodward. He hid the truth he claimed because he didn’t want to cause a panic. Now I have to ask, was this a situation where one lie is covering up another lie? He claimed that by hiding the truth he was trying to show leadership. Over a million Americans have now died and the numbers are still climbing. Is lying to the American people showing leadership? When Bill Clinton lied to Congress and the American People was that what he was showing, leadership? If that is true then we have really lowered our standards of what leadership is. I saw a posting on Twitter that was warning us about the new Covid variant. All I said was “mask up folks this ain’t over yet” and I still do mask up. Well you would have thought that I has just told the biggest lie in the world by the responses and insults that I got. The facts are there that masks do help that is why they are used in hospitals. None of us would want to have surgery if people did not wear masks because they help stop the spread of germs. Are they the cure? Of course not. Some lies just don’t go away.
Why does America accept anything other than the truth. That Big Mac that looks so inviting in the McDonalds commercials looks nothing like what we actually buy but we still buy it. That Whopper from Burger King doesn’t look anything like what you buy. My favorite is the Subway sub that looks so piled high with meat and then when you actually get one it is really nothing. Why do we accept less than what we are told we are going to get? I really don’t have an answer because just like too many of us I too still buy. What happened to truth in advertising? Better question may be was there ever really truth in advertising? Because we are so willing to accept so little I think that has also how we view our government. How many times have you heard a person saying that all Politician’s lie to justify their vote for a candidate that has been caught lying? I don’t think that all lie but let’s just say “some are more truthful than others”. One of the most honest Senators I think I ever voted for was Russ Feingold and he lost to Ron Johnson who in my opinion was one of the most dishonest Senators. What is wrong with the truth in America. The most honest President in my lifetime was Jimmy Carter. He lasted one term. The most dishonest President in my lifetime is Donald Trump and he only lasted one term. Is there a lesson in that. Honesty doesn’t pay, but if you lie too much that doesn’t pay either? One thing that I have noticed in my lifetime is that lying from Vietnam to Covid has always cost American lives.
Social Media is now in the forefront of the fight between the truth and the lie. Sometimes I think the lies are winning. Trump fought like hell to keep his Twitter account. Why? Because it is a very easy way to lie and not be held accountable. It is a very easy place to lie and not have to be answerable to the press for that lie. He can just say fake news without having to explain why it is fake news. It can help people feed their racism and bigotry while being an anonymous coward. A person like Alex Jones can use social media to spread conspiracy theories without thinking that he can be held accountable. People have to be held accountable for the harm that they do when they lie but Social media just helps too many avoid accountability. The 1st amendment was not created to protect the liar. It was put there so the truth was not hidden from the American people not to protect the lies. When lying is suppressing the truth then we are witnessing the abandonment of the 1st Amendment.
*Since the writing of this the Jury has now awarded the parents an additional 45 million in punitive damages. Still way short of the 150 million that was asked.
Former Infowars employees admit that Alex Jones is a compulsive liar (yahoo.com)
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