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To: malakhi
No, you were careful to tiptoe around the issue without being explicit.

I tiptoed around nothing. there is no evidence to assert that MS haarmed his widfe. There is plenty of evidence that he was conflcited and should have been removed as guardian to be replaced by next of kin, not the state.

You are flat-out wrong, but I won't take you to court for expressing your (uninformed and erroneous) opinion.

The opinion is informed and the truth. I simply described the TS case where the state ordered a severely disabled woman death by an unusual method, starvation and dehydration. You support it, the shoe fits perfectly and the evidence is rife throughout these threads.

Slander and libel are not protected speech.

The invoking of slander and libel on these threads by people who do not understand that they are terms in law that have specific meaning is simply an effort to squelch debate. Kind of a fascist thing.

751 posted on 06/16/2005 9:51:52 AM PDT by jwalsh07
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To: jwalsh07
There is plenty of evidence that he was conflcited and should have been removed as guardian

Obviously the Florida courts disagreed with you.

The opinion is informed and the truth. I simply described the TS case where the state ordered a severely disabled woman death by an unusual method, starvation and dehydration. You support it, the shoe fits perfectly and the evidence is rife throughout these threads.

Please do me the courtesy of not imputing beliefs to me. I think I have a little better idea of what I think than you do.

You said, "there is little doubt in my mind that you support state ordered killings by unusual methods of the severely disabled.". You may believe this to be true, but your opinion is both uninformed and erroneous. I support nothing of the sort.

The invoking of slander and libel on these threads by people who do not understand that they are terms in law that have specific meaning is simply an effort to squelch debate.

Slander and libel are torts, whether it comes from you or from someone like Hannity. The difference between you and Hannity is that you are tiptoeing around the edges, posting anonymously, to a small audience, and you likely have little in the way of assets to make an action against you worthwhile. Hannity is a whole different ballgame.

But that doesn't mean that explicitly calling someone else a murderer is not libel. Slander and libel are NOT protected speech, and pointing it out when someone skirts either one is not "squelching debate".

Kind of a fascist thing.

Slander and libel laws are fascist? Who knew?

I could just as easily say that your throwing around terms like "fascist" is an attempt to "squelch debate".

759 posted on 06/16/2005 10:09:42 AM PDT by malakhi
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