[maine-iac7]

If I wrote a novel about a real person and portrayed that person as a pedophile (which he was not), and covered my slander up under the guise of my story was just fiction, would that be OK?

obfuscation: to make something obscure or unclear, especially by making it unnecessarily complicated - or - about as convoluted as any post here

[Shadowfax]

BLAST!!!!!

I've lost the title for most convoluted post.

Well, I'm still in the running for most tortured post.

[Always Right]

obfuscation: to make something obscure or unclear, especially by making it unnecessarily complicated

The point was fairly straight forward. Sorry it went over your head.

[Always Right]

I'll give you a real example, maybe that would help. I write a novel about fictious slave family during the civil war. If I write in my book about Abe Lincoln molesting a little slave girl, would that be OK? I mean my book is just fiction, right? So what if I slaughter the character of an American Hero and have no real basis for it.