CajunConservative wrote: “They don’t have the right to slander and libel people without consequence.”
slander: Oral communication of false statements injurious to a person’s reputation.
libel: A false publication, as in writing, print, signs, or pictures, that damages a person’s reputation.
No disrespect, but how did they slander and/or libel someone?
There can hardly be any 1st Amendment protections against this defamation, as published in the Judge’s Memorandum Opinion, http://www.mdd.uscourts.gov/Opinions152/Opinions/Snyder1030.pdf
“Plaintiff alleges that Defendants committed several
intentional torts against him when they intruded upon and staged protests at the funeral for his son, a Lance Corporal in the U.S. Marines Corps who was killed in Iraq, and published defamatory information about Plaintiff and his family on the Internet.” P1
“They [the defendants] also maintain several websites ... . On one of WBC’s websites, www.godhatesfags.com, the Defendants posted specific comments that Plaintiff and his wife “raised [Matthew] for the devil,” “RIPPED that body apart and taught Matthew to defy his Creator, to divorce, and to commit adultery,” “taught him how to support the largest pedophile machine in the history of the entire world, the Roman Catholic monstrosity,” and “taught Matthew to be an idolator.” {Page 2]