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To: Hoplite; ninenot; sittnick; steve50; Hegemony Cricket; Willie Green; Wolfie; ex-snook; FITZ; ...
It's the same with your claims as to Bosnia's camps - Living Marxism was taken to trial and got their asses handed to them, having to in effect eat their words on the record.

Ha, ha! I got you on that!!!

Living Marxism "got their asses handed to them" because of the WEIRD British libel law which PUNISHES "malicious intent" even if the claim is TRUE.

Nobody really questioned the well documented claim by L.M. was false. They lost because they were leftists and as such they were likely to have hostile attitude toward big corporate mass media. They were punished for this presumable attitude.

In British law if you besmirch someone reputation with the TRUE statements you are GUILTY of libel if your intention is to damage the reputation.

More on this Living Marxism outrage:

The tears of the mighty

Now, Mr. Hoplite, you seem to know more than you pretend to.

43 posted on 10/10/2004 6:25:08 PM PDT by A. Pole (MadeleineAlbright:"I fell in love with Americans in uniform.And I continue to have that love affair")
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To: A. Pole
Compare and contrast Deichmann's statement from the story printed in LM:

The fact is that Fikret Alic and his fellow Bosnian Muslims were not imprisoned behind a barbed-wire fence. There was no barbed-wire fence surrounding Trnopolje camp. It was not a prison, and certainly not a "concentration camp," but a collection center for refugees, many of whom went there seeking safety and could leave again if they wished.

to the testimony of Deichmann and LM editor Hume at the libel trial:

There has never been any question in my opinion or in the article that I published that this camp was anything other than a grim place at which there were beatings, there were killings and there were rapes. There has never been any question of that. We have never argued contrary to that. - Michael Hume

I do not say that they at the time were able to leave and there - you know, there were fences, there were guards, which we have seen here, armed guards. - Thomas Deichmann

Do you see the difference there A. Pole?

Yeah, you got me alright - the only outrage over the LM verdict is from those interested in propagating the Serbian disinformation campaign waged over events in Bosnia.

44 posted on 10/10/2004 7:21:06 PM PDT by Hoplite
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