crimethink
17th April 2017, 06:22 PM
'Infowars' host Jones disputes persona in custody dispute
http://www.wral.com/talk-radio-host-alex-jones-argues-persona-in-custody-dispute/16648483/
AUSTIN, Texas — The right-wing radio host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones is a performance artist whose true personality is nothing like his on-air persona, according to a lawyer defending the "Infowars" broadcaster in a child custody battle.
Attorney Randall Wilhite said at a pretrial hearing in Austin last week that evaluating Jones based on his on-air comments is like judging Jack Nicholson based on his role as the Joker in "Batman."
But Kelly Jones described her ex-husband as "not a stable person," according to the Austin American-Statesman (http://atxne.ws/2pGyXLz ). She said he is threatening toward others, noting homophobic comments he's made about Democratic U.S. Rep. Adam Schiff and a challenge to fight actor Alec Baldwin. He broadcasts from home, she said, and that exposes their children to his incendiary behavior.
Jury selection in the case began Monday and Kelly Jones is seeking sole or joint custody of the children, ages 14, 12 and 9.
Alex Jones began on public access television in Austin and his "Infowars" programming on radio, YouTube and other platforms draws millions of listeners
Infowars.com, for instance, had 7.6 million global unique visitors from March 16 to April 14, according to Quantcast, which measures web audiences. Quantcast ranked Infowars.com 387th among all U.S. websites, not far behind Texas.gov, MLB.com and PBS.org.
Infowars.com has alleged that the Newtown, Connecticut, school shooting was a hoax and that the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks involved the federal government.
The Alex Jones YouTube channel has more than 2 million subscribers and more than 1.2 billion video views.
He drew praise from Donald Trump when Trump was a candidate for the White House, telling Jones in December 2015: "Your reputation is amazing. I will not let you down."
But the judge overseeing the custody case, state District Judge Orlinda Naranjo, told lawyers last week that the focus of the trial must be on the Jones children.
"This case is not about 'Infowars' and I don't want it to be about 'Infowars,'" she said.
Jones pays $43,000 a month to Kelly Jones, whom he divorced in 2015, the newspaper reported.
crimethink
17th April 2017, 06:26 PM
In Travis County custody case, jury will search for real Alex Jones
http://www.mystatesman.com/news/state--regional-govt--politics/travis-county-custody-case-jury-will-search-for-real-alex-jones/rnbWzMHnFCd5SOPgP3A34J/
At a recent pretrial hearing, attorney Randall Wilhite told state District Judge Orlinda Naranjo that using his client Alex Jones’ on-air Infowars persona to evaluate Alex Jones as a father would be like judging Jack Nicholson in a custody dispute based on his performance as the Joker in “Batman.”
“He’s playing a character,” Wilhite said of Jones. “He is a performance artist.”
But in emotional testimony at the hearing, Kelly Jones, who is seeking to gain sole or joint custody of her three children with Alex Jones, portrayed the volcanic public figure as the real Alex Jones.
“He’s not a stable person,” she said of the man with whom her 14-year-old son and 9- and 12-year-old daughters have lived since her 2015 divorce. “He says he wants to break Alec Baldwin’s neck. He wants J-Lo to get raped.
“I’m concerned that he is engaged in felonious behavior, threatening a member of Congress,” she said, referring to his recent comments about California Democrat Adam Schiff. “He broadcasts from home. The children are there, watching him broadcast.”
Beginning Monday, a jury will be selected at the Travis County Courthouse that in the next two weeks will be asked to sort out whether there is a difference between the public and private Alex Jones, and whether, when it comes to his fitness as a parent, it matters.
For Naranjo, who has been the presiding judge of the 419th District Court since January 2006, it is about keeping her eyes, and the jury’s eyes, on the children.
“This case is not about Infowars, and I don’t want it to be about Infowars,” Naranjo told the top-shelf legal talent enlisted in Jones v. Jones at the last pretrial hearing Wednesday. “I am in control of this court, not your clients.”
But for Alex Jones, at the peak of his power and influence, what emerges from the art deco courthouse on Guadalupe Street might shape whether he comes to be seen by his faithful as more prophet or showman.
Infowars as evidence
Alex Jones is an Austin original who, 21 years after he got his own show on Austin public access television, has become an unlikely popular and political force in the Donald Trump era, an ingenious and indefatigable conjurer of conspiracy theories about sinister global elites seeking to enslave the masses, who found, in Trump, a hero open to his shadowy narratives.
“Alex Jones and his Infowars’ umbrella of radio shows, YouTube and Facebook broadcasts, Internet website and tweets turned out to be Trump’s secret weapon,” Roger Stone, probably Trump’s oldest and closest political confidant, wrote in his book “The Making of the President 2016.” “His fiery words have struck a chord in the nation and he speaks for millions. In fact, more people follow Alex than watch Fox News or CNN.”
In addition to broadcasting his radio show on some 150 stations, Infowars.com had 7.6 million global unique visitors between March 16 and April 14 according to Quantcast, which measures web audiences and ranked Infowars.com 387th among all U.S. websites, not far behind Texas.gov, MLB.com and PBS.org.
But Jones’ most important listener is the president of the United States.
During the campaign and into his presidency, many of Trump’s most defining themes and questionable assertions either originated with or were popularized by Infowars: Hillary Clinton for prison. Hillary Clinton is gravely ill. Bill Clinton is a rapist. President Barack Obama founded ISIS. The election is rigged. Millions of immigrants voted illegally. The news media covers up terrorist attacks. The “fake news media … is the enemy of the people.” Obama spied on Trump.
In December 2015, thanks to Stone, Trump appeared via Skype on Jones’ show.
“Your reputation is amazing,” Trump told Jones. “I will not let you down.”
Since Trump became president, Jones has purported on air to be in regular direct telephone contact with the president, apologizing for not always being able to answer the phone when the president calls. Last week, Jones said that the president had invited him to Mar-a-Lago but that he had to beg off because of family obligations.
Recently, Jones faulted Trump for falling for the “false flag” that it was the Syrian government, and not its enemies, that deployed chemical weapons against civilians, but he says he understands the political expedience involved and remains hopeful that Trump will reclaim the anti-globalist mantle.
Naranjo, meanwhile, said she had never seen or heard Jones on Infowars until Wednesday’s hearing, when Kelly Jones’ legal team started previewing Infowars videos it would like to play for the jury.
The first was a clip from a July 2015 broadcast in which Jones had his son, then 12, on to play the latest of some 15 or 20 videos he had made with the help of members of the Infowars team who, Jones said, had “taken him under their wing” during summer days spent at the South Austin studio between stints at tennis and Christian camps.
“He is undoubtedly cut out for this, and I intend for him to eclipse what I’ve done. He’s a way greater person than I was at 12,” said Jones, turning to his son. “I love you so much, and I didn’t mean to get you up here, sweetheart, and tell people how much I love you, but you’re so handsome, and you’re a good little knight who’s going to grow up, I know, to be a great fighter against the enemy.”
“So far this looks like good stuff,” Wilhite said. Naranjo OK’d it for viewing by the jury.
But Bobby Newman, the attorney for Kelly Jones guiding the court through the Infowars clips, was laying the groundwork for the argument that there is no separation between Alex Jones, father, and Alex Jones, Infowarrior.
“This is the world he has planned for his kids,” said Newman, quoting Alex Jones at a recent hearing insisting that what he says on the air is what he believes.
Next up was a video of a recent conversation between Jones and Stone on Infowars that quickly escalated into an expletive-studded, gay-bashing rant by Jones directed at Schiff, the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee investigation of Trump’s Russia ties, in which, Schiff has suggested, Stone and Jones might be entangled.
Jones’ rant ends: “You got that, you ******* son of a bitch? Fill your hand,” echoing John Wayne’s warning in True Grit” to a man he’s about to shoot and kill.
“This is nothing but a response to a congressman who called him a Russian spy,” said David Minton, another lawyer representing Alex Jones.
“What possible relevance does that have?” Minton asked. “They want to throw the stench in the jury box and never get the stench out. It has nothing to do with parenting.”
A few days after his Schiff riff, Jones characterized it on-air as “clearly tongue-in-cheek and basically art performance, as I do in my rants, which I admit I do, as a form of art.”
“When I say, ‘I’m going to kick your ass,’ it’s the Infowar,” Jones said. “I say every day we’re going to destroy you with the truth.”
Jones’ rhetoric is perpetually at a pugilistic fever pitch.
Back in March, after Baldwin, playing Trump on “Saturday Night Live,” said he got his information on aliens from Alex Jones, Jones challenged Baldwin to a million-dollar charity bout — “I’ll get in the ring with you, and I will break your jaw, I will knock your teeth out, I will break your nose, and I will break your neck.”
When, just after the election, Jennifer Lopez lamented about Trump at the Grammys, Jones responded that Trump “doesn’t want to bring people in from Somalia where women are sold on slave blocks. Why don’t you go to Somalia for five minutes, lady; you’ll be gang-raped so fast it’ll make your head spin.”
Naranjo said she wouldn’t allow the jury to hear the Schiff diatribe, but she allowed two other clips, including one showing Alex Jones smoking marijuana in California, where it is legal. Naranjo didn’t review the Baldwin and Lopez clips, and it’s not clear whether Kelly Jones’ attorneys will seek to include them in the trial.
Big legal bills
Every record in the Jones case has been under seal since the divorce proceeding was initiated in Hays County in 2013. In January, the court denied Kelly Jones’ motion to unseal the record, granting a motion by Alex Jones — or simply A.J., as he is known in all the court filings — to keep them sealed
For good measure, Naranjo said last week she was placing a gag order on all the litigants.
At the previous pretrial hearing, on April 7, Naranjo ruled against Kelly Jones and her lawyers on a couple of key motions.
Earlier this year, her lawyers had moved to add to the trial a $7 million emotional distress tort claim against Alex Jones.
His lawyers said it was too late to prepare a defense against a new claim with 172 separate allegations. Naranjo agreed and promised to expedite a second trail on the tort claim.
“They’d like to drag it out for two years, and she’ll be crushed and she’ll be bankrupt,” said Robert Hoffman, the Houston attorney who is Kelly Jones’ lead counsel, in arguing for rolling the tort claim into the trial.
“She already is, for all practical purposes,” said Hoffman, who said she owed his firm $200,000, about all she had in the bank.
Her attorneys also filed a motion to require Alex Jones to help pay her interim legal fees to better enable her to rescue her children from his clutches.
“I don’t think there’s another case in Travis County with three children whose welfare hangs in the balance like this, except maybe a (Child Protective Services) case,” Hoffman said.
“This is a wonderful mother who has had her kids turned against her,” Hoffman said.
Wilhite said the crux of Kelly Jones’ problem is that she has gone through one set of lawyers after another and some $3.5 million since her divorce settlement, much of it pursuing fruitless motion after motion that actually cost her access to her children each step of the way.
And she already receives $43,000 a month from her ex-husband.
Naranjo rejected the motion that Alex Jones should have to contribute more, noting that the average Travis County juror won’t understand why Kelly Jones’ monthly stipend is not enough to cover her legal bills.
“It is not within the realm of experience of their lives,” Naranjo said.
”They are not going to believe the amount of money that has been spent on this,” the judge said.
“This case is not about Infowars,” Naranjo said. “But, for some reason, this family has done very well. Otherwise, there wouldn’t be five lawyers on one side of the table and three over here, because of the business this family is in.”
Meanwhile, Alex Jones has remarried, and his new wife is expecting a child, who, his lawyers said, might arrive during the trial.
crimethink
17th April 2017, 07:49 PM
If Jonestown is making enough money to support his ex-wife to the tune of $43,000 PER MONTH, it shows just how profitable Jonestown's (dis)information is. His cult members are paying for that.
That's Kosher-level confidence art.
singular_me
18th April 2017, 04:12 AM
this OP shows the absurdity of the gov melding in divorces... unless there is child neglect/abuse... the gov should stay AWAY
statism starts there... gov intervention is never the solution.. the gov melding in your bank accounts is beyond absurd!!!
dont like so much AJ anymore and do not support monetarism (and its gold digger mentality) but maybe these supplements are really effective if they sell so well after all
further... if the control opposition disappears and I think AJ was speaking 75% the truth, then it will just be another blow for the alternative media. But nothing happens by accident. AJ takes the fall and alternative media will follow suit. I just feel sorry fo AJ who became more of a controlled opposition as his success grew but that is what happens when allowing media monopoly in the first place.
osoab
18th April 2017, 02:10 PM
So Violet is wanting to put the screws even further to AJ? 43k/month isn't enough?
That's what he gets for marrying a jewess.
According to this GLP thread, Jones got hitched to another one.
Want to see Alex Jones new wife? (http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message3504492/pg1)
osoab
18th April 2017, 02:12 PM
this OP shows the absurdity of the gov melding in divorces... unless there is child neglect/abuse... the gov should stay AWAY
You are showing your ignorance by not realizing a marriage license issued by the state gives the state standing in the divorce process.
singular_me
18th April 2017, 02:18 PM
You are showing your ignorance by not realizing a marriage license issued by the state gives the state standing in the divorce process.
fortunately I knew this pretty well too... I even started a thread once about the marriage license inc
a bad memory... but further you also prove my point but coming from another angle
your remark doesnt take into account that I am the only voluntaryist left standing here, I keep posting about non coercion over and over... so plz dont lecture me about the state.
crimethink
18th April 2017, 03:01 PM
According to this GLP thread, Jones got hitched to another one.
Want to see Alex Jones new wife? (http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message3504492/pg1)
Two Jewesses? That's strong evidence that Jones himself may have been born Kosher.
singular_me
18th April 2017, 05:12 PM
EDIT: see CT giving a Osab thank which makes no sense because when it is about somebody CT hates he is happy that the gov intervenes ... NWO loves double thinking/talking.
Meanwhile I am the ignorant for being anti-statism and exposing coercion 24/7.
wishing drastic gov melding for adversaries will just get one the same treatment. The NWO knows that the universe is holographic and will use this immutable LAW against us til we are ALL dead. Slavery was never addressed rightfully and now we are all slaves.. same principle
osoab
18th April 2017, 06:47 PM
EDIT: see CT giving a Osab thank which makes no sense because when it is about somebody CT hates he is happy that the gov intervenes ... NWO loves double thinking/talking.
Meanwhile I am the ignorant for being anti-statism and exposing coercion 24/7.
wishing drastic gov melding for adversaries will just get one the same treatment. The NWO knows that the universe is holographic and will use this immutable LAW against us til we are ALL dead. Slavery was never addressed rightfully and now we are all slaves.. same principle
jealousy is unbecoming of ladies
crimethink
18th April 2017, 08:24 PM
EDIT: see CT giving a Osab thank which makes no sense because when it is about somebody CT hates he is happy that the gov intervenes ... NWO loves double thinking/talking.
Shabbos Goy (?) Alex Jones claims to be "against the New World Order," but has (at least) twice applied for a "marriage license" from the Babylon System. Jones accepted the power of the State when he asked it permission to marry. Had he not asked for that "marriage license" the first time, he wouldn't be going through this shakedown and expose. And then he did it again!
I'm sorry you're too clueless - or dumb - to understand this.
crimethink
29th April 2017, 07:46 AM
InfoWars’ Alex Jones Loses Custody Case, Ex-Wife Wins Right to Decide Where Children Live
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/04/27/infowars-alex-jones-loses-custody-case-ex-wife-wins-right-to-decide-where-children-live.html
Alex Jones' Custody Trial: 10 WTF Moments
http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/lists/conspiracy-theorist-alex-jones-trial-10-wtf-moments-w479317
midnight rambler
29th April 2017, 09:30 AM
InfoWars’ Alex Jones Loses Custody Case, Ex-Wife Wins Right to Decide Where Children Live
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/04/27/infowars-alex-jones-loses-custody-case-ex-wife-wins-right-to-decide-where-children-live.html
Alex Jones' Custody Trial: 10 WTF Moments
http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/lists/conspiracy-theorist-alex-jones-trial-10-wtf-moments-w479317
When I was first introduced to Violet (AJ was showing her off as if she was some trophy) I thought to myself, "What an odd choice." I got the impression that the most important person in Violet's life was Violet - apparently I was right. This was 17-18 years ago when AJ shared a small studio with Stadtmiller in Stadtmiller's office.
crimethink
29th April 2017, 04:47 PM
When I was first introduced to Violet (AJ was showing her off as if she was some trophy) I thought to myself, "What an odd choice." I got the impression that the most important person in Violet's life was Violet - apparently I was right. This was 17-18 years ago when AJ shared a small studio with Stadtmiller in Stadtmiller's office.
It does sound like they are identical, and the "opposites attract" maxim was converse in their relationship. Both narcissistic mental cases.
midnight rambler
29th April 2017, 04:50 PM
It does sound like they are identical, and the "opposites attract" maxim was converse in their relationship. Both narcissistic mental cases.
Yeah, something like that. lol
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