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To: Poohbah
It was a joke like this stupid post. Anybody going to sue me for calling this post stupid??? Can you prove it isn't stupid??? Can you prove that the poster isn't trying to intimidate the posters at the Free Republic???
241 posted on 10/24/2003 11:57:41 AM PDT by Porterville (American First, Human being Second; liberal your derivative lifestyle will never be normalized.)
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To: Porterville; Chancellor Palpatine
It was a joke like this stupid post.

If said FReeping actually occurs after subpoenas go out...you're going to find that the judicial branch is not noted for its sense of humor. They're actually, in my opinion, rather stuffy about such things.

Anybody going to sue me for calling this post stupid???

Opinions regarding someone's utterances or writings are not actionable.

If someone came onto this board and stated that "So-and-so is a murderer," identifying you by your real-world name, I'd be one of the folks telling you to sue the poster and hold him to account for his libel.

Can you prove it isn't stupid???

No, because that's a qualitative opinion, and is not provable.

Can you prove that the poster isn't trying to intimidate the posters at the Free Republic???

It is impossible to prove a negative in formal logic. That is why the state bears the burden of proving the accused guilty; that is why the defendant in a libel case NOT involving a public figure bears the burden of proving that their statements were factually true.

340 posted on 10/24/2003 12:34:11 PM PDT by Poohbah ("Would you mind not shooting at the thermonuclear weapons?" -- Major Vic Deakins, USAF)
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