Florida publisher of conspiracy books faces lawsuit over ‘Nobody Died at Sandy Hook’
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A Crestview man who publishes controversial books for the
edification and entertainment of
conspiracy theorists has been named in a lawsuit brought by the father of a child killed in 2012 at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut.
David Gahary is the principle officer of Wrongs without Wremedies LLC, which publishes as Moon Rock Books. The company currently markets 12 books, each bearing a provocative title along the lines of; “JFK Who How and Why,” “The Parkland Puzzle How the Pieces Fit Together,” and “America Nuked on 911.”
Wrongs without Wremedies is named in the lawsuit along with two men, Jim Fetzer and Mike Palecek. They, Gahary said, edit the work of various contributing authors and build books from those authors’ writings.
Moon Rock Books sells to customers around the world, Gahary said.
“These are people who don’t really believe the mainstream media, or as they say now, the fake news media,” he said. “They don’t believe what the government and mainstream media are telling them.”
conspiracy theorists has been named in a lawsuit brought by the father of a child killed in 2012 at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut.
David Gahary is the principle officer of Wrongs without Wremedies LLC, which publishes as Moon Rock Books. The company currently markets 12 books, each bearing a provocative title along the lines of; “JFK Who How and Why,” “The Parkland Puzzle How the Pieces Fit Together,” and “America Nuked on 911.”
Wrongs without Wremedies is named in the lawsuit along with two men, Jim Fetzer and Mike Palecek. They, Gahary said, edit the work of various contributing authors and build books from those authors’ writings.
Moon Rock Books sells to customers around the world, Gahary said.
“These are people who don’t really believe the mainstream media, or as they say now, the fake news media,” he said. “They don’t believe what the government and mainstream media are telling them.”
It alleges statements and assertions made about Pozner in the book “Nobody Died at Sandy Hook” “were designed to harm (Pozner’s) reputation and subject (him) to public contempt, disgrace, ridicule or attack.”
In the lawsuit Pozner, represented by the firm of Meshbesher & Spence, takes particular offense to an excerpt from “Nobody Died at Sandy Hook” which states Pozner knowingly possessed and distributed a falsified death certificate for his 6-year-old son.
The book advances the argument that no one died at Sandy Hook and the shooting that took place there was actually a FEMA exercise. It claims, the lawsuit said, that Pozner “was complicit in a grand conspiracy to fake the massacre.”
“Defendants acted with actual malice,” the lawsuit, filed in Wisconsin states. ”(They) published their statements knowing that the statements were false or with reckless disregard for the truth or falsity of the statements.”
The lawsuit also states the defendants “acted as a cabal to accomplish their defamation.”
It states Pozner has received death threats and has had to move several times due to the false statements published in the book. The lawsuit calls for nominal and exemplary damages due to the malice involved.
Gahary said he has not yet been served legal papers and has actually contacted the law firm representing Pozner to ask why.
He said he and the editors intend to mount an aggressive defense of their right to publish “Nobody Died at Sandy Hook” and other books, relying at least in part on the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in New York Times v. Sullivan.
New York Times v. Sullivan, a ruling handed down in the Civil Rights era, held that when a statement concerns a public figure it is not enough to show that the statement is false for a media organization to be liable for libel, an excerpt from the website “Oyez” states.
“These individuals who compiled the book are giving their opinion. There really shouldn’t be a situation where anyone should be held liable,” Gahary said. “Why is he (Pozner) filing a lawsuit when New York Times v. Sullivan knocks it out of the park?”
Genevieve Zimmerman, the attorney representing Pozner, did not respond Friday to requests for comment.
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