Posted on 01/23/2019 9:58:02 AM PST by Based Newsman
Attorney Robert Barnes on Fox and Friends this morning.
"We’re Giving Major Media, Celebrities 48 Hours to Apologize to Covington Kids or Face Lawsuit"
BARNES: Because these are all private citizens and many of them minors and kids the law is that saying anything about them is libel. And you don’t have a defense of actual malice all you have to prove is negligence. So a lot of these journalists who have been saying false statements about these kids, false statements about the kids at the Lincoln Memorial, false statements about various photographs that are related to the school, slurring and libeling the entire school and all the alumnae of the school and all you have to prove is that they were negligent in doing so. At this standpoint at this point in time it is clear that anyone who continues to libel about these kids has done so illegally and can be sued for it.
FOX and Friends: Why do you want to do this? Why do you want to help the families?
BARNES: Well the nature of libel lawsuits is that they generally are very hard to bring. They cost between a quarter of a million and a million dollars to bring. That’s how much powerful people will use for their legal fees to defend such suits. So I wanted to equalize the playing field. These are people who couldn’t afford to bring this claim on their own behalf. That’s why I offered my services for free because somebody needed to stop this from occurring to other kids across the country… Everybody is now
FOX and Friends: I understand you want to give 48 hours notice. That’s your plan.
BARNES: Everybody is now on 48 hours notice. So by Friday everybody needs to retract and correct any false statements they have issued about these kids. That means any major member of the media. That means any celebrity. That means anybody with a substantial social media platform. If you have said anything false about these kids. They are willing to to offer you a 48 hour time period, a period of grace, consistent with their Christian faith, for you to through confessions get redemption to retract and apologize. If you do not in the next week you may be a defendant in a lawsuit.
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Pocahantas will claim she can’t be Sioux because her Grand mamma said she was Pawnee. /s
HalleluYah!!
Civil court is different than criminal court. Civil court is generally easier, depending on the venue.
And for the alleged defendants in this case; money talks.
I like that one best. And it’s true. We deplorables are on the chopping block, right along with him.
If the democrats win, everyone loses. Well, except for the elitest class.
This is real, check his Twitter.
Dumber and Dumber still.
Everyone will apologize, “I am sorry they took it so badly,” or some such. It will have the word “sorry” in it or “apologize” but it will not be an apology. It will actually blame the kids and express regrets that things didn’t work out properly for the left.
There could be hundreds oflawsuits here. I pray they ALL go forward.
He is no light weight:
“The Constitution protects it all, and Robert Barnes protects it for you. In fact, very few (if any) practicing attorneys in America have ever won precedent-setting, high-profile, life-changing cases in First Amendment law in civil cases, tax cases and criminal cases. Robert Barnes has achieved all three.
1. WESLEY SNIPES’ ATTORNEY – THE “UN-WINNABLE” TAX LAW CASE
In United States vs. Wesley Snipes, Robert Barnes’ stunning jury-won, not-guilty felony verdicts for Wesley Snipes led the government, for the first time in 30 years, to stop even using the term “tax protester” as a reason to prosecute people. Yes. We have a right to free speech.
2. RALPH NADER’S ATTORNEY – BALLOT ACCESS SUPREME COURT CASE
In Ralph Nader vs. Brewer, Robert Barnes’ five-year court case went up to the U.S. Supreme Court and had more than a dozen governments trying to overturn the Robert Barnes-led victory. But the case led to a decision that experts in election law and the First Amendment agreed was “groundbreaking” and a “severe blow” to the government’s attempts to prohibit people circulating petitions for the cause and candidate of their choice. The decision also strengthened access to the ballot and First Amendment rights in all election cases.
3. PRISON SUICIDE – ESTATE OF MILLER V. TOBIASZ
In Estate of Miller vs. Tobiasz, Robert Barnes and the Barnes Law team achieved a full victory in the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, vindicating the rights of two young brothers. Barnes made the government pay for its indifference to a suicide in their custody of the brothers’ mentally ill older brother, expanding the rights in cases of inmate suicide for all.”
. . . and that the judge doesn’t allow “I was just reporting what another newspaper said” as a defense.He shouldn’t allow that, because the newspapers are all in a conspiracy. “People of the same trade seldom meet together, Adam Smith wrote, “even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.”
All major newspapers cooperate with wire services, and a wire service is a virtual meeting of journalists. It is naive in the extreme to assume that they do not conspire against the public. In fact, they do so in broad daylight. They conspire to go along and get along ideologically, and to propagandize in favor of each others’ “objectivity" and savaging the reputation of anyone who questions it.
THANK GOD!!!!! That someone found enough manhood to FINALLY push back.
It’s more than overdue.
God bless their efforts and may they be successful beyond their wildest dreams.
They need to experience what they put us through.
The only way to stop a bully is to give it back blow for blow.
Screw them with the pineapple.
What time is 48 hrs up
Barnes law received bomb threat???
Yes. As per gateway pundit.
I hadn’t heard that but it would not surprise me.
Funny how they get their panties in a wad about using the wrong pronoun and call us haters for it, and then turn around and spew such vile hatred.
An apology should be just the beginning. It will acknowledge their guilt and thus the need for serious consequences, court costs as well as cash to all those slandered by the media and celebrities, etc. Also, the Indian drummer should be charged for harassment and intimidating non threatening children and also sued for damages. The Indian drummer undoubtedly will receive payment from the no Trump media and assorted other interested parties.
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