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Louis Farrakhan files $5B defamation suit against ADL over ‘false’ antisemitism claims
The New York Post ^ | 10/21/2023 | Kathianne Boniello

Posted on 10/21/2023 11:29:42 AM PDT by thegagline

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To: kaktuskid

I don’t know if this is true or not, but I read somewhere that if Hitler was alive today and he was brought into an American court to be put up for trial for all his atrocities against the jews, they wouldn’t be able to get a conviction or have a really hard time getting one because there would be no paper trail. There is no documentation that Hitler ordered the Holocaust (though there are eyewitnesses, long since deceased, who were there when he verbally did).


21 posted on 10/21/2023 12:44:33 PM PDT by lowbridge ("Let’s check with Senator Schumer before we run it" - NY Times)
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Louie’s Chickens — coming home to roost.






22 posted on 10/21/2023 12:50:25 PM PDT by AnthonySoprano (Hi Impeachment is necessary since Deep State is blocking )
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To: ansel12

Maybe luck. More likely his lawyers chose the venue deliberately.

Once they get a jury of Harlem blacks, with no jews because they all mouthed off on social media the last few days and get excluded...

Lawfare’s chickens... coming home ... !


23 posted on 10/21/2023 12:53:24 PM PDT by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: thegagline

Dibs on the popcorn franchise...


24 posted on 10/21/2023 1:03:43 PM PDT by Migraine
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To: ansel12

This is like Hamas suing ISIS, as far as I’m concerned.


25 posted on 10/21/2023 1:17:16 PM PDT by Alberta's Child (If something in government doesn’t make sense, you can be sure it makes dollars.)
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To: thegagline

Good


26 posted on 10/21/2023 1:18:46 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: Alberta's Child

True.


27 posted on 10/21/2023 1:21:36 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: thegagline

I seriously expected this to be a Babylon Bee article, LOL!!!


28 posted on 10/21/2023 1:41:25 PM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: kaktuskid

If Hitler were alive today, he would deny saying anything about killing Jews and claim he was misquoted by conspiracy nuts
In short, he would be a Democrat


29 posted on 10/21/2023 1:44:41 PM PDT by AppyPappy (Biden told Al Roker "America is back". Unfortunately, he meant back to the 1970's)
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To: Berosus

“Why is he still alive?”

The “Mothership” needs a new pilot.


30 posted on 10/21/2023 1:53:50 PM PDT by equaviator (If 60 is the new 40 then 35 must be the new 15.)
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To: Berosus
It seems that the especially wicked live far too long. Soros, Schwab, Farrakhan, too many more.

Are they clinging onto life because they believe there is nothing after, or is God giving them additional time to repent of their sins?

And then there are the truly good, who God takes far too early. Like the young man who died on our family farm almost forty years ago. Killed in a freak tractor accident. He was only nineteen.

"The good die young," my grandmother said later that night. That's the only answer I've ever found, now on the cusp of fifty.

31 posted on 10/21/2023 2:46:21 PM PDT by Ciaphas Cain (America will need de-liberalization just as Germany had de-nazification.)
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To: thegagline

why not 5 trillion or 5 quadrillion?


32 posted on 10/21/2023 3:39:49 PM PDT by Strident ("Hi, my name is Joe and I am powerless over making $#!7 up")
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To: thegagline

Who to root for? Louie or the ADL.

Tough one but in this case I root for Louie.


33 posted on 10/21/2023 3:55:39 PM PDT by Maine Mariner
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To: Marchmain

“Can specious lawsuits be thrown out by a judge?”

Yes. One possibility is that the ADL moves to dismiss the case on the basis of Milkovich v. Lorain Journal Co., 479 US 1 (1990). There, SCOTUS held that a statement of opinion is not defamatory unless it implies a false statement of fact. There’s no defamation action for a statement like “_____ is the worst president in history” whether the blank is filled in with Biden or Trump. Calling someone an anti-Semite is arguably in the same category. It’s not like saying “He painted swastikas on a synagogue.”

If the allegedly defamatory statement does concern a matter of fact, then, as others have pointed out, truth is a defense. ADL could move for summary judgment based on Farrakhan’s extensive record of public condemnation of Jews and Judaism.

In either of these scenarios, the judge could toss the case without letting Farrakhan ever get to a jury. I predict that that’s what will happen (unless Farrakhan, having gotten his headlines, withdraws his case first).


34 posted on 10/21/2023 7:15:42 PM PDT by Eagle Forgotten
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To: Ciaphas Cain

I figure the individuals you mentioned have lived so long because Heaven doesn’t want them, while Hell is afraid they will take over.


35 posted on 10/21/2023 11:57:11 PM PDT by Berosus (I wish I had as much faith in God as liberals have in government.)
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To: thegagline

If he ain’t, who is?


36 posted on 10/22/2023 6:58:03 AM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Militia to the border! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: Ciaphas Cain

“The good die young,” my grandmother said later that night. That’s the only answer I’ve ever found, now on the cusp of fifty.”

Since my recent birthday started with the number eight, I must not be good!


37 posted on 10/22/2023 7:37:47 AM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Militia to the border! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: kaktuskid

If Hitler had lived to go to trial, he’d have said “I neffer killed anyvun…I vas only giffing orders!”


38 posted on 10/22/2023 7:46:22 AM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Militia to the border! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: Eagle Forgotten

Amazing. Thanks!


39 posted on 10/22/2023 9:25:21 AM PDT by Marchmain (boo!)
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