re: #19 teleskiguy

Alex Jones is a festering pus wound on our Republic. He’s so deranged. And lately he’s had a few of his listeners freaking shooting cops!

Aren’t there laws that cite speech that incites violence?

I always thought inciting violence was against the law. At least that’s how Tom Metzger and his white supremacist group got hit with a $12.5 million dollar judgement against them up in Portland, OR in relation to the murder of Ethiopian exchange student Mulugeta Seraw.

I believe it’s referred to as “vicarious responsibility” or something of that nature. One of these, it’s most likely how Pam Geller and Robert Spencer will be taken down.

In 1988, Tom and John Metzger sent their best White Aryan Resistance (WAR) recruiter to organize a Portland skinhead gang. After being trained in WAR’s methods, the gang killed an Ethiopian student. Tom Metzger praised the skinheads for doing their “civic duty.”

Center attorneys filed a civil suit, Berhanu v. Metzger, asserting the Metzgers and WAR were as responsible for the killing as the Portland skinheads. In October 1990, a jury agreed and awarded $12.5 million in damages to the family of the victim, Mulugeta Seraw.

In 1994, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to review Metzger’s appeal, allowing Center attorneys to begin distributing funds from the sale of WAR’s assets. The principal beneficiary is Seraw’s son, Henock, who receives monthly payments from WAR’s bank account.

splcenter.org