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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
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.
It's one of the shittier things about Lemmy.
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?
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.
(in the UK) - Once, my parents employed a builder who screwed them over and so they took the builder to court. They won the court case and the builder said, "sure, I'll go to the car to get my cheque book". Then he was never seen again. So poor people can also get away with not paying fines too!
(If they went through a bunch more hassle, they could have had him tracked down but by that point, with a young child and a messed-up house, it wasn't worth the effort, time and stress any more)
Sad when you realized who wrote the rules. Fairness is a dream.