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He can afford to pay. He's living it up, spending to the tune of 100k per month, still spreading misinformation, still going on shows, still making money.
If any of us owed even a couple hundred bucks, they'd garnish our wages and put us out on the street. But rich people get to keep eating steak every night and living in luxury, while crying poor.
"Those penis pills aren't going to sell themselves." -- Advertisers on Alex Jones' shows.
He apparently advertises his own products. Shitty white label crap. No advertisers. I do get my info from Knowledge Fight though, so could be incorrect 😀
No way he can afford to pay 1.5bil
Then he should pay 100% of his worth and live penniless as a pauper for the rest of his days. Any and all assets and earnings above minimum wage should be garnished for the rest of his life. Let him be an indentured servant.
They should take everything he has and kick him out onto the streets. Then, when he’s out begging for money, there should be a guy following him so that when someone hands him a dollar it is taken from him immediately.
Let him starve to death on the streets.
I totally agree that Jones should have been punished for the harm he and his platform has caused, but I also felt like the cartoonish amount of money they expected him to pay was venturing into "cruel and unusual" territory.
I don't think that it is of any benefit to the people that the courts can throw a $1,500,000,000 bill at an individual and it is not contested or lowered, even if he is an abhorrent human being. $1.5bn is basically a shorthand for "permanent abject poverty" for the vast majority of any person alive today, and we can apparently punish people with this?
A bill this large should be paid by multinational companies, not citizens.
Won't someone think of the felons!?