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It
was
probably
inevitable
that
Alex
Jones
would
wind
up
suing
the
Sandy
Hook
parents.
After
years
of
calling
them
crisis
actors
who
faked
the
murders
of
their
own
children
and
encouraging
his
deranged
supporters
to
harass
them
for
years
on
end,
Jones
is
now
demanding
that
they
make
him
whole
for
his
pain
and
suffering.
Jones,
a
sentient
shitpost
who
is
rapidly
transforming
into
a
case
of
explosive
diarrhea,
is
trying
desperately
to
fend
off
the
sale
of
his
company
Free
Speech
Systems
to
the
owners
of
the
satirical
website
The
Onion.
And
because
the
parents
of
the
Sandy
Hook
kids
are
supportive
of
the
sale,
he’s
happily
willing
to
paint
a
target
on
their
backs
again.
The
issue
is
the
structure
of
the
bid
package,
in
which
the
parents
who
sued
in
Connecticut
agreed
to
disclaim
some
of
their
proceeds
in
favor
of
the
parents
who
sued
in
Texas.
Because
of
the
gross
disparity
in
their
damages
awards
—
$1.4
billion
compared
to
$50
million
—
the
Connecticut
plaintiffs
are
legally
entitled
to
97
percent
of
the
proceeds
of
the
sale.
To
ensure
that
the
Texas
plaintiffs
were
better
off
under
a
deal
with
The
Onion’s
parent
company
Global
Tetrahedron
than
with
the
Jones-aligned
bidder,
a
shell
company
calling
itself
First
United
American
Companies
LLC
(FUAC),
the
Connecticut
plaintiffs
agreed
to
disclaim
enough
of
their
share
to
make
the
Texas
plaintiffs
$100,000
better
off.
By
my
math,
that’s
about
$537,500.
The
asset
transfer,
along
with
a
promise
to
share
future
ad
revenues
with
the
Sandy
Hook
families,
convinced
Chapter
7
Trustee
Christopher
Murray
that
The
Onion’s
offer
maximized
value
for
all
creditors,
despite
the
fact
that
it
was
lower
than
the
competing
bid.
FUAC
is
already
challenging
this
decision,
filing
a
highly
incendiary
motion
to
disqualify
Global
Tetrahedron
that
made
allegations
of
gross
impropriety
against
Murray.
Murray
responded
with
a
threat
to
seek
Rule
11
sanctions
against
FUAC’s
lawyer
Walter
Cicack.
Jones
has
been
screaming
bloody
murder
on
his
show
about
the
Justice
Department
under
Trump
throwing
Murray
and
The
Onion’s
CEO
Ben
Collins
in
jail,
as
well
as
predicting
that
Elon
Musk
is
going
to
ride
to
his
rescue.
(He’s
not.)
And
last
night
he
went
one
further
and
filed
an
absolutely
batshit
complaint
against
Murray,
Global
Tetrahedron,
and
the
Connecticut
Sandy
Hook
parents
demanding
that
US
Bankruptcy
Judge
Christopher
Lopez
stop
the
sale,
declare
FUAC
the
winner,
and
order
the
putative
defendants
to:
a.
Cease
to
use,
directly
or
indirectly,
any
Jones
IP
Rights;
b.
Cease
from
using
any
reference
to
Alex
Jones
in
their
business
or
operations
or
suggesting
or
inferring
that
they
have
any
rights
to
use
of
Alex
Jones’s
name
or
persona;
c.
Return
to
the
business
offices
of
FSS
and
to
the
control
of
Alex
Jones,
who
is
the
duly
elected
Manager
of
FSS,
all
assets
of
FSS
and/or
Alex
Jones
that
have
been
taken;
d.
Identify
to
Alex
Jones
all
assets
(tangible
or
intangible)
of
FSS
and/or
Alex
Jones
known
to
have
been
taken
and/or
secreted;
e.
Cease
and
refrain
from
(i)
any
interference
with
the
operation
and
management
by
Alex
Jones
of
the
business
of
FSS,
including
InfoWars,
and
(ii)
dealing
with
any
and
all
third
parties
in
matters
that
relate
to
or
concern
the
assets
of
FSS
and/or
Alex
Jones,
without
the
express
written
permission
of
this
Court;
f.
Cease
to
advise
or
publish
that
any
of
the
Enjoined
Parties
owns
or
has
acquired
the
right
to
own,
any
assets
or
business
of
FSS
and/or
Alex
Jones,
including
without
limitation
any
Jones
IP
Rights;
and
g.
Notify
in
writing
all
persons
to
whom
any
of
the
Enjoined
Parties
has
told
they
own
or
have
acquired
the
right
to
own,
any
assets
or
business
of
FSS
and/or
Alex
Jones,
including
without
limitation
any
Jones
IP
Rights,
and
advise
them
that
statements
previously
made
to
the
contrary
were
made
in
error.
Leave
aside
the
whole
prior
restraint
thing.
How
Murray
is
supposed
to
simultaneously
convey
the
assets
to
FUAC
and
return
them
to
Jones
—
who
voluntarily
filed
for
Chapter
7
liquidation!
—
is
not
entirely
clear.
But
this
document
was
drafted
by
apparently
experienced
bankruptcy
counsel
who
are
unaware
of
the Barton
doctrine,
which
bars
suits
against
a
bankruptcy
trustee
without
leave
of
the
court.
They
also
seem
to
think
that
media
defendants
have
some
kind
of
magical
shield
of
invincibility
when
it
comes
to
issues
of
public
importance,
so
the
trail
court
verdicts
should
be
treated
as
presumptively
overturned.
And
if
Jones
hadn’t
defaulted
in
both
courts,
perhaps
he
could
have
made
that
point
to
the
jury.
Anyway,
it
violates
Jones’s
free
speech
rights
to
sell
his
IP
to
gun
control
advocates,
and
he
intends
to
seek
monetary
damages.
Also,
the
judgments
against
him
are
unfair
because something
something
Hillary
Clinton.
And
if
that
wasn’t
nutty
enough,
Texas
Attorney
General
Ken
Paxton
has
entered
the
chat.
LOL,
what
even
is
federalism,
amirite?
Alexander
E.
Jones
and
Official
Committee
Of
Unsecured
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