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Posted on 09/19/2007 4:42:18 AM PDT by backhoe
Here we go, again:
Richard Warman Attacks FD
Tonight we answered a knock on our door and we were served with papers from Richard Warman (famous human rights complaint filer).
Below is the text of the papers were received. Apparently Mr. Warman is planning to take us to court over some of the comments he found when he was self-googling.
We would really appreciate the help of those of you who are gifted in online research. Any of the comments he is complaining about that can be proven to be true would, I believe, be dismissed in court.
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SUPERIOR COURT OF JUSTICE
Plaintiff
6. States that "[i]evitably his crusade has lead [sic] to people offering unlawful death threats against him.
Ottawa, Ontario, K1P 6L5 |
That’s precisely the treatment that Warman obviously deserves.
Thanks for your nice comment.
John / Billybob
Does Landmark Legal have a Canadian chapter?
A Hole
bttt
And a bully.
Interesting progressive picture that’s “proof” of global warming.
Beyond that, I’ll need to read this article later.
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18 Sep 2007 21:35 Connie Fournier
Here is the latest from co-sysop Connie:
I deleted behind the 8 ball because he was trolling, but I will address his question.
I couldn't disagree more with the white nationalist point of view, but I am also disgusted by people who would use the government and the courts to try to shut down everyone they disagree with.
Marc Lemire has been fighting Richard Warman's complaint with the CHRC and he has been winning because Warman has been caught doing things like posting on white nationalist sites under fake ids. (Thus the links to the white nationalist sites in my post).
The information that Marc Lemire has provided us is verified court evidence that shows what Warman has done in the past. I am not going to refuse to take it because it was given to me by Marc Lemire.
This Warman character is a trolling, stalking, bullying, malicious jackal.
I'm sure he's rubbing his hands with glee in anticipation of even more lawsuits!
What a sphincter-boy!
I quake in terror...
While there is some speculation Little Dick is a Rump Ranger, I prefer not to lower myself, and merely style him a bully, thug, and abuser of the law.
Besides, my lawyer is the former Federal Magistrate for the Southern District, and he eats little "solicitors" like Dicky for lunch...
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Warman better be ready for the fight of his life on this one.
I've heard rumors to that effect, although I'd heard the sex was with his sister...
( ~ducking!~ )
It's not often I agree with Steve Benen, but he makes a good point about trawling through comments sections of blogs of any stripe in order to cast aspersions on the blogger. It gets worse when political candidates do it to discredit opponents, the context in which Benen discusses it here:
For quite a while, conservatives have embraced an annoying strategy -- trawl through liberal comments sections in the hopes of finding intemperate remarks. The right then takes these comments to "prove" that the left is made up of unhinged radicals.The practice has always been rather self-defeating. In fact, about a year ago, Kevin Drum came up with a sensible maxim: "If you're forced to rely on random blog commenters to make a point about the prevalence of some form or another of disagreeable behavior, you've pretty much made exactly the opposite point." Eventually, the practice was even given a name: "Nutpicking."
It's not easy to build a community with a free and open comment section. If it's worth anything, the blogger has to allow a wide range of views from opponents and allies alike. The blogger has to trust that more extreme views will get challenged by other commenters or address them him/herself. Deleted comments and blocking commenters to achieve a homogeneous community eventually adds nothing but an echo chamber to the blog, and the comments become boring -- just an extension of the blogger.
Under those circumstances, it might be reasonable to judge the blogger by the comments. However, for those of us who have run comments sections for a few years and allow (sometimes through gritted teeth) all sorts of criticism and scolding on the blog, making assessments of the blogger by individual comments -- nutpicking -- is both unfair and undermining to the free exchange of ideas on blogs such as Captain's Quarters and TPM. It pressures bloggers to excise comments rather than just respond to them, as the nutpicking never includes those responses.
Danny Glover at Beltway Blogroll says that bloggers have the power to stop nutpicking -- and he's right. Rather than scan through comments on blogs to find the nutcases every time some significant event occurs, we should focus on the blogposts themselves. We should all allow commenters to represent themselves and not the blogs on which they comment. Otherwise, comments sections will either get so policed as to become boring and inconsequential, or bloggers will simply close them down in order to exercise total control over their message.
I prefer a debate, and I welcome anyone willing to honestly engage in my comments section. Only trolls need not apply.
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