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Post by Deleted on Oct 19, 2019 4:36:36 GMT
"Leonard Pozner, whose son 6-year-old Noah was killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre, was awarded $450,000 in damages by a Wisconsin jury from a defamation lawsuit filed in response to conspiracy theorists claiming the Newtown tragedy never occurred. James Fetzer and Mike Palacek, co-authors of the 2016 book titled, "Nobody Died at Sandy Hook" claimed that the shooting -- where 26 people died, among them 20 children -- was a staged political scheme, rather than a tragic massacre that took many lives on December 14, 2012 in Newtown, Connecticut... Pozner hopes the ruling in his case helps others pursue legal action against conspiracy theorists looking to spread lies. "Today, I believe that hesitation ends and the countless other victims of Mr. Fetzer and other conspiracy theorists like him who use the internet to harass and defame, will now have the ability to pursue legal action against their abusers," he said. " edition.cnn.com/2019/10/16/us/sandy-hook-father-defamation-suit-award/index.htmlThank goodness. Finally, some good news. The fact that we live in a country w/so many loons, who promote conspiracy theory after theory, is still the bad news.
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Post by lesserknownpea on Oct 19, 2019 6:31:26 GMT
Those who deny this make me ill. I’m glad for the decision, but horrified it came to this.
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Post by AussieMeg on Oct 19, 2019 7:35:41 GMT
WTF is wrong with ****s like Fetzer and Palacek, that they could believe that crap, and then publish a goddamn book about it?!?!
I hope the appeal is not successful, and those two pricks are sued into oblivion.
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Post by rainangel on Oct 19, 2019 9:43:24 GMT
Good!
I hope this will set precedence, all of the parents sue these assholes, and that they will take Alex Jones down with them.
These parents have been harrassed and accosted by these loons for years. Like losing their children in the worst way possible is not enough, they also get to be re-traumatized regularly by crazypeople.
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Post by LavenderLayoutLady on Oct 19, 2019 9:53:25 GMT
Good for that father, but damn that it should even have come to this.
That book had to have been self published, right? Tell me I'm right. No publisher would have let that get through, right?!
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Post by keithurbanlovinpea on Oct 19, 2019 10:11:41 GMT
That book had to have been self published, right? Tell me I'm right. No publisher would have let that get through, right?! Good Lord, I hope so. I would have sued the publisher too
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Post by Deleted on Oct 19, 2019 13:00:45 GMT
Nope. Not self-published: "Several years ago a small publishing house called Moon Rock Books published a 455-page volume that argued the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre had never happened.... The book’s publisher, Dave Gahary of Moon Rock Books, also agreed to stop selling the book as of June 30 in a separate settlement. He said that after meeting Mr. Pozner in May and hearing his story for himself, he now believes him." I hope he gets sued into wisdom too. www.nytimes.com/2019/06/18/nyregion/sandy-hook-victim-court-ruling.html
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Post by Deleted on Oct 19, 2019 13:06:50 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Oct 19, 2019 13:08:02 GMT
"Palacek and the book publisher's parent company Wrongs Without Remedies LLC both settled with Pozner and their cases were dismissed.
Fetzner is solely responsible for the payment awarded to Pozner. "
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Post by Julie W on Oct 19, 2019 13:32:51 GMT
Good for him!
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Post by Peamac on Oct 19, 2019 14:12:17 GMT
So glad to see this! His family has been through so much b/c of those horrible conspiracy theorists!
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