Posted on 08/16/2005 7:45:14 AM PDT by Quilla
Cindy Sheehan's freedom of speech ends when she accuses the President of criminal conduct and killing her son. Such comments are not only bordering on libelous, but ARE libelous and slanderous.
In Milkovich V, Lorain Journal (1990) the Supreme Court in an opinion written by Justice Rehnquist ruled, that the First Amendment does not automatically shield expressions of opinion from being found libelous LINK
Thanks for the link!
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Many thanks for the ping! This is a really funny article, which gets the point across in a novel way.
Plus, he occasionally has pics of his dog, Cosmo.
:)
I always love to read his columns, but they don't get posted to FR as much as they once were.
Maybe you should post them, from now on. :-)
The moderators don't take too kindly to the articles I post.
:7)
-good times, G.J.P. (Jr.)
Oh well...it was just a thought. :-)
;)
Called libel by omission or libel by implication, cases like Mohrs received their biggest boost in 1990, when the U.S. Supreme Court held in Milkovich v. Lorain Journal that a newspaper columnist could be liable for implying that a witness lied in a judicial proceeding. Rejecting the newspapers argument that expressions of opinion never could be the basis for a libel suit, the court held that the dispositive question is whether a reasonable factfinder could conclude that statements in the article implied a verifiably false statement of fact about the plaintiff. If so, the court said, the First Amendment would not protect the article from a libel action.Link
My pleasure! :-)
And, she doesn't fit the part. Somebody seriously needs to tell her she's not as cute as she tries to talk. Lose the 15 yr old valley character, Cindee.
The Democrats in Minnesota are ahead of you.
Minnesota State Senator (DFL) Rebecca Loury, who lost a son in Iraq will be joining Cindee.
Also joining Cindee will be the FBI 9/11 whistleblower and hipster, Colleen Rowley who is running for Minnesota Senator. I'm almost expecting everyone to start wearing beads and flowers in their hair.
She looks like Peggy Seeger and sounds like a character from an episode of Sweet Valley High.
The incongruity is startling.
No wonder her husband wants a divorce from that loon.
Thanks for the clarification.
The case itself sounds very familiar.
Happy to help.
And the MSM is trying to convince us that she's a likeable and sympathetic figure.
But they tried that with John Kerry too and even his own voting block couldn't stand him, LOL.
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