Posted on 11/22/2004 5:15:41 AM PST by No Longer Free State
'Freeper' sued
President Bush's 60-million-vote re-election triumph might have helped Inside the Beltway readers forget those 36 days in late 2000, when it seemed that Al Gore's squads of lawyers might deprive Mr. Bush of his narrow victory in Florida. Providing moral support for Mr. Bush during the Florida recount nightmare were members of FreeRepublic.com.
The "Freepers," as they call themselves, staged pro-Bush demonstrations across the country, from Palm Beach County to Washington, D.C., — where their chants of "Get out of Cheney's house" reportedly were loud enough to rattle Mr. Gore's nerves inside the vice presidential residence at the Naval Observatory.
Now, four years later, a Freeper says he is being bankrupted by a Democrat's lawsuit over a Dec. 2, 2000, protest in Connecticut.
"I am broke and thousands of dollars in debt," writes Jim Bancroft, who led a pro-Bush rally in front of the New Haven, Conn., home of Democratic vice-presidential candidate Sen. Joe Lieberman.
At the 2000 rally, Mr. Bancroft explains, he intervened when the leader of a Democratic counterprotest rushed toward former state Sen. Tom Scott, who was speaking from the back of Mr. Bancroft's truck.
"I thought he was going to attack someone on the truck: either me or Tom," says Mr. Bancroft. He stopped the Democratic protester, who was then hustled away by police.
"Tom and I decided not to press charges for assault or trespass on my truck, and let him go. Nine months later, the man filed suit against me for assault. I am not joking — nine months later."
The result: Thousands of dollars in legal bills for Mr. Bancroft, who has been working temporary jobs since he was laid off during the telecommunications industry meltdown of 2001...
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I hope you dig in and fight like a pit bull. Of course that is easy for me to say, since I'm not the one being sued. However you decide, good luck Race.
BUMP!
I hope this makes the RAT scurry from the glare of public light like the cockroach he is. Please keep us updated.
Prairie
Good luck, put this one behind you, Race.
Unnnggghh!
Not that it is my dog in the fight, but I agree. The newspaper article is a free countersuit for clearing your name and damaging the democrat slime machine. It is not about money, and this scammer knows how to keep from paying even if you win the case. The sooner you can get this off of your back do so.
Lawyer games are for rich men and thieves.
Take heed. Lawyers will tell you anything to "keep the meter running". Telling you to fight for what's "right". Pushing your revenge button. Don't fall for it. Get out as quickly as you can. The only "winners" are lawyers.
Sounds to me like the plaintiff doesn't want to have his deposition taken if there's a mutual release in the works.
Taking this case to trial and then suing the plaintiff's counsel for malicious prosecution may be where you have to go. Or, perhaps you'll sign mutual releases tomorrow. Who knows? And maybe you will receive enough to refund your previous expenses on this case.
In any event, please don't worry about this article hurting your chances of a mutual release. God is in control.
His lawyer sucks.
Diapers, not curtains. And held in place by a broken fan belt. (
BUMP
I was there for two days but never heard any dolphin music.
Tipper and Al also made a rear entrance escape from the Observatory into Georgetown one Saturday or Sunday afternoon during the Freeps. It was played by the press as a nonchalant afternoon stroll and coffee break, but later revealed (I think by Katrina Gore) to be an escape from "Get out of Cheney's house!" Apparently it was driving them absolutely bonkers.
TIPPER GORE: Things like that, yes, and, and sometimes … things that we don't want to say on your program, and, some people saw that they were buses from "churches," but it was organized. The one thing that, that they did mainly was reach the bedrooms of our children, and Albert was still in school locally, and trying to study, so we rearranged, you know, they … kids moved to a different part of the house, and I was trying to think of a way that we could kind of laugh about this since obviously it was out of our control, there wasn't anything anybody could do so I got all the boom boxes in the house and … I remember sort of what the government did with Noriega … I thought we'd try that, and I aimed them at, toward, you know, where the crowd …
WALTERS: The crowd?
TIPPER GORE: … And I put nature sounds on and turned it all the way up. And at least the kids laughed.
60+ million Bush voters @ $1 each would solve the problem.
I don't dispute that Tipper played dolphin music, but she probably needed a more potent boombox.
This was on a thread last week. Jim, gave him permission for an internet fund drive. I sent him a $10.00 money order.
What has beens they are.
LOL!!!
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