Posted on 01/23/2022 3:41:04 AM PST by Eleutheria5
Defamed widow for being in DC on 1/6, calls her an insurrectionist, even though she didn't take part in riot. Previously gave her $5K for baby, husband killed in Afghanistan.
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Is “insurrectionist” a term that is legally concerning? If someone is called an idiot in a public forum, is that defamation?
Sounds like she’s looking for a bigger payoff than she got first time around....
Calling a person a protester is not a slander. “Insurrectionist” is in no way analogous to “idiot”. One is an allegation of criminal activity, which is slander if untrue. The other is an opinion on the quality of a person’s mind.
She didn’t get the “payoff”. She was family of the widow, I find after closer listening. Baldwin called her and the entire family “insurrectionists,” and doesn’t even allege that they did anything wrong. But the protest “led to” the unlawful destruction of federal property. What ever happened to “mostly peaceful” protesting? Would he say the same to George Floyd protesters in Portland? Their protests led to at least one murder, and repeated assaults on a federal courthouse.
People today sue for anything they can get even if there wasn’t an event that actually happened....they just figure they’ll get a payoff before it even goes to court.
She and the other people in the lawsuit are being accused of a federal crime. This could impact potential employment, credit decisions, etc., without the defamed ever finding out why their were applications were declined.
In comparison, calling someone an idiot is just an emotional declaration with no criminal implications.
She didn’t get a “payoff”. That was a charitable donation before Baldwin defamed her and the other people.
What “payoff” you talking about Mister Baldwin supporter?
I worked a couple decades in a law office. No need to lecture me. In this case, though, I’d say there are three strong reasons to support the lawsuit, even if you don’t like all the litigiousness and lawyers in general.
1. It’s Alec Baldwin, a/k/a Annie Oakley.
2. It pertains to 1/6, and debunking the narrative that the likes of Alec Baldwin are pushing.
3. It would be a payoff that would benefit Riley McCullen’s orphaned son, who never got to see his father, because he was blown to bits outside Kabul Airport. Baldwin slandered his aunt, his mother, the whole McCullen clan, just because they were in Washington on 1/6, together with 800,000 other deplorables, almost all of whom did nothing wrong. They’re all “insurrectionists” now just for showing up, as well as racists, sexists, transphobics, and homophobic deplorables.
For all the foregoing reasons, Baldwin must pay.
This family is in my prayers. I hope that they are successful in their suit because they have been through so much with the loss and now to be set upon by a pack of rabid dogs. I pray Alec Bladwin gets the psychiatric therapy he desperately needs.
$5,000, crumbs from the table of a hollyweirdo who can’t be trusted with an antiquated pistol. Did he drop the check on the floor and bid the widow pick it up and say ‘thankee yer lardship, sir, may Gawd bless thee fer yer largesse’ as she genuflected?
He definitely needs some sort of help. What a crumbum.
Doesn’t matter to me who the parties are.....it’s still wanting a payoff.
OK. Play nice, then.
She should get her payoff while the dollar is still worth something.
It would be like calling a person a mafioso, if the mafia was never proved to be a criminal organization
And i hope she gets every single cent
I could say, (and probably have), so many awful things about this man. The trouble is, I’m accountable to God for what I do here on earth. Therefore, I have prayed for him and hope that he gets the help he truly does need. Who knows, maybe he will, and as a result becomes one of the very few narcissists to attempt a real change in their behavior.
“The act or an instance of open revolt against civil authority or a constituted government.”
https://www.thefreedictionary.com/insurrectionist
Revolt:
“to experience disgust or shock”
https://www.thefreedictionary.com/insurrectionist
Those do not strike me as “wrong” if one is at a meeting that describes the bad government has done and the fact that I'm sick of it, too.
In other words, being called a murderer is clearly wrong, but a harmless occasion could have all of us called “Insurrectionists,” similar to being called “Christians,” in offense. We just aren’t used to throwing such a word around.
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