You weren't the one with your picture all over the news being called a member of a hate group. You didn't have your customers asking you about it. You didn't get death threats. The suit was not carried out, this was mediated. This was by NO means frivolous, and actually they got off easy. The Fresno group are not just fake names on a website, we are real people, with real jobs and businesses in this city who were smeared big time all over our local news, and the country too for that matter.
Amen! Great response to a ridiculous poster.
Let me tell you what it feels like to go to a "tailgate picnic" in the park and when you arrive you read a letter ON FRESNO CITY LETTERHEAD that calls you a hate group and that you're having a hate picnic and a bunch of other crap that wasn't true. It was actually frightening. This small gesture makes up for it a little. Jim Robinson was maligned and mistreated by the Human Relations Commission.
In actuality I have been the subject of many defamatory articles, one which falsely alleged that I had been arrested and charged for an act of terrorism in blowing up a women's restroom at a nightclub. I have been the subject of defamatory articles which alleged I am a terrorist and extortionist.
ladyinred you stated that:
You weren't the one with your picture all over the news being called a member of a hate group. You didn't have your customers asking you about it. You didn't get death threats. The suit was not carried out, this was mediated. This was by NO means frivolous, and actually they got off easy. The Fresno group are not just fake names on a website, we are real people, with real jobs and businesses in this city who were smeared big time all over our local news, and the country too for that matter.
In actuality, I once had a company put up a web site about my in which I was called the "King of Bedwetters". A picture of me was altered to show me drenched in urine. This was done by the same company that damaged my vision through laser vision surgery.
To both of you: you have put words in my mouth that I have never said. Jim Robinson did the right thing when he sued the City of Fresno. I simply find it interesting that the anti-lawyer / complaints about "frivoulous" lawsuits / "we need tort reform" sentiment that pervades this forum are absent from this thread.
What I think this shows is that some Freepers believe in "justice for me", but not "justice for thee".