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Bake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-22-03 09:44 PM
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7. Truth is an absolute defense to defamation
In other words, it's not libel/slander if what you say about them is the truth, end of case. If I were the city's attorney, I would pull some quotes from freeperland and put 'em up on big 3 x 5 (feet) easel exhibits in the courtroom. Not just the ones where they refer to "Klintoon" and "Hitlery" but the ones where they talk about all Dems being traitors and deserving to die and stuff like that. The really vile stuff. Lord knows there's plenty of it there.

It's also hard to see where they've been damaged. Since I don't see this as a case of libel per se, they would have to prove actual damages. I suspect that's going to be hard to do. No damages, no case.

Bake
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