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I mean, why aren't his assets seized and bank accounts frozen at this point?
Or is it only the poor that have to pay their fines?
The court is trying. He’s just playing a lot of games. Lots of the money is held by his parents or hidden in different shell companies. The court established that he and InfoWars are basically the same thing as far as the money is concerned, so he’s been trying to start new shows and businesses to further complicate things.
Court orders don’t automatically happen or always get enforced. Going through a divorce right now - lawyer told me that even if I do get an order that some of the shared debts are paid, he can just not. I’d have to go back to court and still get dinged on my credit.
If you're poor though they just put you in jail while they figure that stuff out. If they figure it out.
These are civil cases.
That's honestly just worse if true. How is this not criminal? He doesn't go to jail unless the state is what he's ripped off? You know, the one by the people for the people?
The 1st Amendment presents a very high bar for criminal prosecution of speech.
A bar over which he took off into fucking orbit! It's 100% because of rich, famous, right wing white guy privilege that he isn't in prison right now.
On the contrary, the more unpopular the speech, the higher the bar.
There's unpopular and then there's "no way someone without his immense privilege could ever get away with saying the exact same things without being tried in criminal court."
This is without a doubt the latter.
There isn't even a criminal law to charge them with.
How about harassment? Inciting violence? Reckless endangerment?
His disgusting crusade against the parents were undoubtedly all of those things and more.
They will not. This is a civil case its not like he owes the IRS. Man you said that so confidently and its got like 20 upvotes while being so clearly and easily serachable to be proved completely false. Lol this thread is full of morons
It may not apply to this case, but it certainly does apply in a wide way.
There is also this.
these days, if you say you are English they will lock you up in jail.
Of all the things that never happened, this didn't happen the most.
What, where?
In England
There are lots of ways to hide money and protect your assets, and many of them perfectly legal.
Lot of it stems from laws made to protect regular people in debt (bankruptcy laws, getting rid of debtors prison, etc) but people with money use them too
Imo it's a worthwhile price. Otherwise credit cards would just take money straight from your wages if they could.
Not when one of his victims has terminal cancer and can't cash out because Jones is playing keep away through the courts.
The problem is, shitty people are always going to abuse the laws. The goal, or at least the purported goal, is to minimize how many people get hurt when the law is abused.
Because America is entirely broken.
Completely empty comment just shitting on America, overwhelmingly upvoted. Lol what a fucking joke this place can be.
You’re free to leave. Unlike what America is becoming… you’ve got that freedom here.
Bye.
You're right, I can leave. Although I have that freedom in America too, so I'm not sure why you think that statement made any sense.
And just like with America I can stay and try to make it better. But I just regularly get reminded how low the common denominator is here. Keep defending it. Really proving what an intellectual independent thinker you are.
Yawn.
Whatever you say; Captain America. Should you be ironing your cape in preparation for the next big battle with…. everyone that thinks differently than you?
I call out an empty comment and you interpret that as attacking anyone who thinks differently than me? Brilliant. Lol
Maybe you should try to stop being so angry moving forward. I would like that for you.
You're projecting.
ROFL… k.
Explaining the many reasons why America is broken could take quite a while. Some sentiments are best summed up in a few words.
The post isn't about America, they could have easily explained why this particular system is broken. But, hey, empty shitting on America is simple and sure to get some upvotes. Definitely what we should all be aiming for.
You've somehow missed that Alex Jones is a US citizen, and part of the reason he can earn money from this game is because the US is so broken.
None of that is hard to understand.
Lol I love how I missed something that wasn't even said. Why not just admit you really don't know what's wrong? Or that, for all you know this could be progressing normally and reasonably?
It's one of the shittier things about Lemmy.
He's jumping through all the hoops rich folks use to hide their money, which means the courts have to jump through the hoops to get at it, and the court system is slow by comparison.
Sad when you realized who wrote the rules. Fairness is a dream.
Because in the US we have laws. Thankfully so or armchair lawyer loons like you would be running a muck. It doesn't really matter if he's a shitbag, but you can't just fuck with people because you don't like them.
It doesn't matter if I like him or not.
Court has ruled he needs to pay the fine, but instead of paying he is spending more money and doing ridiculous stuff like making this game. He is going against his court order. That shouldn't be allowed. Any less wealthy person would have had their assets seized at this point.
Yes the US has laws, but he is breaking them.
It doesn't really matter though if he has a pending court fine and he chooses to spend his money on something else. If he fails to pay the fine, there are repercussions. But this simply isn't grounds for freezing someone's bank accounts.
It's not illegal to buy something while you have court fines due. It's stupid maybe, but not illegal.
Why is it stupid when he is already facing financial ruin?
He makes his living by fucking with people he doesn't like and he certainly got off easy compared to the damage he's caused.
Lil' "bone apple tea" comin' atcha!
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