Posted on 02/04/2019 3:07:47 PM PST by Texas Fossil
In the wake of a short, out-of-context video put up on Twitter about a confrontation after the Jan. 18 March for Life, pretty much everyone in the media and politics decided to condemn a group of minors from Covington Catholic High School.
And then the facts started coming in.
According to the Cincinnati Enquirer, over 50 individuals who went after the Covington kids and didn’t retract their statements will potentially find themselves in court after lawyers for the most visible of the students “sent letters to media outlets, individual journalists, celebrities and Catholic organizations as the first step in possible libel and defamation lawsuits.”
The letter from lawyers representing high school junior Nick Sandmann were sent to individuals/organizations ranging “from presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren to actress Alyssa Milano; individual journalists including Maggie Haberman, Ana Cabrera, David Brooks; national media outlets like the The New York Times, CNN, GQ and TMZ; and the dioceses of Covington and Lexington as well as the archdioceses of Louisville and Baltimore.”
“The legal counsel representing Nick and his family, Todd McMurtry and experienced libel/defamation lawyer L. Lin Wood of Atlanta, have said they will seek justice for the harm allegedly done to the teen,” the paper reported.
Others who will likely be included in the suit will be NBC’s Chuck Todd, Newsweek writer/full-time weirdo Kurt Eichenwald, Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar, MSNBC host Joy Reid and actor/newly minted socialist Jim Carrey.
HBO host Bill Maher, who called Sandmann a “little p***k” who made a “d*** move at any age,” is also among the possible targets.
“They know they crossed the line,” McMurtry told the Enquirer. “Do they want 12 people in Kentucky to decide their fate? I don’t think so.”
(Excerpt) Read more at westernjournal.com ...
Yes, BIG deal.
MINOR !
Kenton County Kentucky is conservative and 94% white. Jury nullification won’t save these lying media scum bags. I would think after seeing the 14 minute video the boys’ attorneys produced that there is a Black Friday type queue of lawyers in front of everyone of those kids houses.
They need to throw in CNN’s parent company. AT&T probably has some pretty deep pockets. Notice up a deposition of Randall Stephenson, and maybe he’ll take an interest in reining in his unruly corporate children.
Thanks for all the links.
A lot happening.
This list reads like the third string holiday help at a far left DC ho house.
I did not know, thanks for info.
Thanks for posting the List.
It’s most important part of the article.
My gut tells me that the lead attorney in this smells blood in the water. And he is evidently a Big Shark.
I guess we wait.
In Kentucky especially in that kind of neighborhood, they look after their kids.
They don’t really trust most outsiders either.
CNN, Warner Media and AT&T? Big stuff.
It may not help with this lawyer.
Go get ‘em.
Yeah, what about that wood chipper Disney guy? I don’t remember his name, is it on the list?
And take his little bed bug Ann "I used to be relevant" Coulter with him.
The difference is that those students were not in the act of protesting at the time of the incident. They were pedestrians, minding their own business, while peacefully waiting for their bus ride home. In fact, they were the ones initially assaulted by the “Black Israelite” mob, and then by Nathan Phillips.
Otherwise, any one of us, who have attended a political rally, public hearing, or made any sort of public address, or filed a complaint to authorities, or set foot in a courtroom, &c., could be considered a public figure. There would be no statute of limitation, per se. The fact that we may have, at any point in time, conversed on a public telephone, sent e-mails over a common ISP, wrote opinions on a public forum, &c., or even paid our bills via the USPS, would remove our state of private citizen.
Under such a perversely twisted legal doctrine, one would necessarily be required to remain a secluded hermit, never interacting with any other human beyond the interior of our residence - and even that might be assailable, if the person with whom we made contact was not an immediate relation.
Consider that lawful marriage is a public act, requiring the permission of the state (which is why the state has say in issues of probate - the “marriage license” is a contract, and the state is a third party to the marriage). Therefore, under color of law, it may be asserted that a husband and wife are not private individuals, but rather they are a public corporation.
Everything, from filing a tax return, voting, registering for selective service, applying for a mortgage, owning property, &c may be construed as a public act that strip away the legal fiction of “privacy.”
The irony to all of this is that Roe v Wade is based upon the notion of a “right to privacy - found in the penumbra of the Bill of Rights” So one may, as a “private” individual, legally murder an unborn child .... but to have ever protested against such action, no matter how far removed from any other action, costs the protesting entity their right to privacy.
Do you see the rabbit hole this doctrine opens? Under it, there is essentially no such entity as a “private” individual.
Yeah, OK, I hope it works out.
You're preaching to the choir here, I'm on the student's side.
I just think the left-wing radicals and zealots will find a way to wriggle out of this.
Hell, Al Sharpton never paid a penny of the judgment that was brought against him for the Tawana Brawley matter. His liberal pals paid it for him, allowing him to claim he never paid and therefore never admitted defeat.
Hey, you don’t have to convince me, I’m with you.
I just have seen how these things work over the years.
Hillary Clinton should be in federal prison for what she did, as should several members of her campaign staff. If our legal system was fair, she would be. Do you think that’s going to happen?
I hope the Covington Kids make a boatload of money out of this. I hope they get their college educations completely paid for out of this. I hope they bring the hurt down on their attackers just like the Reade Seligmann and the other Duke LAX team members did against that a-hole Mike Nifong. That would be a delight to eye, ear, and soul.
I don’t expect it to happen though.
Ilhan Omar will probably have immunity under the speech and debate clause of the US Constitution as she us a newly minted Congresswoman.
I hope that is not true and all those named or given notice pay hundreds of millions collectively. Maybe it will be the biggest libel suit in US history.
This kid and his family just won the lottery, go get the bastards!
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