Posted on 08/26/2009 12:08:15 AM PDT by Cindy
SNIPPET: "Saudi billionaire Khalid bin Mahfouz died in Jeddah last Saturday."
SNIPPET: "The serial libel tourist Khalid bin Mahfouz is dead. But the jihad against the West he helped fund, together with pernicious British libel tourism practices, are alive and well. Unfortunately, the U.S. government did nothing to stop his activities on either front when he was alive. Now Congress has the opportunity to reverse Mahfouz’s legacy of libel tourism. New York State, Florida and Illinois have already passed anti- libel tourism laws, and another was just passed unanimously by the California legislature."
SNIPPET: "A law to protect Americans free speech is a legacy Mahfouz never intended. He was so successful in his efforts to stifle reports about him that amazingly the Western media refrained from reporting his death. However, his libel tourism led to the Free Speech Protection Act 2009, now pending in the Senate. It should pass the bill as soon as it reconvenes so that U.S. based investigative journalists, researchers and publishers no longer fear foreign libel lawsuit, but resume to expose the likes of Mahfouz before they do us more harm."
SNIPPET: "Rachel Ehrenfeld’s book, Funding Evil, and Millard Burr’s Alms for Jihad were banned in the U.K. after Mahfouz’s libel tourism hobby was rewarded, as many times before, by Justice Eady ruling against them in London’s High Court."
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Don’t hold your breath waiting for Obama to sign the bill even if it gets to him.
I agree, however, time will tell.
GOD is having a long week...albeit a good one so far.
“Death of a Libel Tourist”
Yep, Ted Kennedy finally gave it up and will be seeing Mary Jo aright quick.
Satan is too, BTW.
>>GOD is having a long week...albeit a good one so far.<<
If we could only discern His timeline. But He is having His way lately.
Sadly, the leftists won’t see the signals.
Maybe Mary Jo will have a say in where he ends up...
I have never heard of this guy, and I have no clue what “libel tourism” is.
Her job in the afterlife is to shove him into the elevator and push the "down" button.
Justice at last.
Unlike the U.S.A., which has laws where is very difficult to sue for libel and slander, England has more lenient laws. Libel tourism is where the plantiff sues in a country(England) where it is much easier to win in a civil court.
The Saudi in this article was just such a libel tourist. He sued in an English court author Rachel Ehrenfeld(an American resident) and won a judgment against her after she wrote of him and his family’s financial support of terrorism.
Libel tourism: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libel_tourism
and an article about the Islamic dirtbag/billionaire: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khalid_bin_Mahfouz
What is a “libel tourist”?
Public figures like to sue for libel in England, because truth is not a defense.
Correction to my #14: truth IS a defense, but the burden is on the defendant to prove every aspect of what he said, and that level of proof is often hard to achieve.
ON THE INTERNET:
http://www.google.com/search?&rls=en&q=libel+tourism&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
http://www.youtube.com/user/libeltourist
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVS02uJfiPk
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