[jwalsh07]

The only important thing is, when's liberty call?

Well Jim, that is the whole point. Lawyers like Palpatine, and if he's a lawyer his posts on this site indicate he's a God awful one, lost the debate on Terri Schiavo.

So, like a good little lefty, when the facts abandoned him and when the law didn't go his way, he decided to make the implied threat of the courts wielding the defamation hammer.

I, for one, don't appreciate being threatened. Especially by punks who post on the internet under assumed identitities.

Liberty is a dream that can never be grabbed while the judicial system and lawyers like Palpatine use it to advance in the courts what they have failed to convince the people of. Simple as that.

[Pan_Yans Wife]

Liberty... Navy lingo... time off the ship.

[concerned about politics]

Liberty is a dream that can never be grabbed while the judicial system and lawyers like Palpatine use it to advance in the courts what they have failed to convince the people of. Simple as that.

I've always refered to that as "facist litigation". If you get what you want from the voters, go around them.

[Torie]

I am not sure what Palpatine is suggesting is libel, since I have chosen not to participate in the subject threads, but if someone is typing that the subject in question is/has committed attempted murder, that seems more in the nature of an errant legal opinion than libel. The underlying facts of who did what to whom are presumably not that much in dispute. But I am wading in sort of blind.