i don’t agree with the suit....and i agree....freedom of the press. not like he lost a job or any prestige.
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I do not think you have had your coffee yet. I also do not think you intended to be naive or foolish however you have that. Here’s the thing. This judge from what he has done has now basically made it okay with a legal precedent to totally slander somebody with impunity. And no less a minor has been slandered. There is no wiggle room or left for interpretation as you say he stood there and said nothing. All witnesses can see it and that is the truth. It is only the left and their press that do the slandering. Do you see the conservative Tribune or any other conservative news outlets like Newsmax saying untrue stories and making things up and slandering? No you do not. So this precedent only gives the left free pass with a slippery slope that has no end to say anything they want about somebody with no repercussions. That is not what freedom of the press is or was or was too fine to be by our founding fathers. There has to be a limit. I pray that the other cases Go a different direction otherwise this case will be very very famous. My point is the defendant could have had things said about him much worse and the outcome would have been the same. The judge basically said it is just a matter of interpretation. So him standing there could have also been interpreted that he intended to beat the living crap out of the so-called Indian man. And that would have been just as acceptable and freedom of the press under this ruling.
There is a threshold. We have exceeded it. “The War” has started. It will get hotter. MUCH hotter.
If this judge’s ruling holds are all the Press has to do is accuse somebody of being a rapist or potential murderer or bigot or homophobic. When the person tries to defend themselves The Press can then say oh well certain Witnesses said that that’s what he was trying to do. When you ask for who those Witnesses are all the Press has to say is oh unnamed Witnesses but we have freedom of the press and freedom of speech. You see how dangerous this ruling is?. It is now a licensed to destroy anybody they want with impunity.
“So him standing there could have also been interpreted that he intended to beat the living crap out of the so-called Indian man.”
And nobody mentions that in the photo that seems to be “The Photo”, Sandmann isn’t even looking at Tonto. The “trajectory” of his gaze is to the side, and ahead of, the Indian.