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To: Dead Corpse
"You do realize that slander is a crime don't you?"

First, it is not slanderous. If you think it is, please use all resources you can to do something about it. I dare or beg you too. Any way you want it.

I thought that slander was something that libertarians can tolerate. Who would enforce such a thing, BIG GOVERNMENT?

109 posted on 07/18/2007 1:35:07 PM PDT by lormand (Ron Paul - Surrender Monkey for GOP nominee.)
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To: lormand
First, it is not slanderous.

slander


A type of defamation. Slander is an untruthful oral (spoken) statement about a person that harms the person's reputation or standing in the community. Because slander is a tort (a civil wrong), the injured person can bring a lawsuit against the person who made the false statement. If the statement is made via broadcast media -- for example, over the radio or on TV -- it is considered libel, rather than slander, because the statement has the potential to reach a very wide audience.

So... yeah. Blatant misrepresentation of Paul's words and policies counts.

112 posted on 07/18/2007 1:36:57 PM PDT by Dead Corpse (What would a free man do?)
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