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Columnist Threatens to Sue Blogger
floppy ears writes "Pseudonymous blogger Atrios has been threatened with a subpoena and lawsuit for defamation. Apparently Atrios used a headline 'Diary of a Stalker' in reference to Donald Luskin. In response to the posting, several anonymous commentators made some allegedly libelous statements about Luskin, and now Luskin has hired an attorney and started making threats and demands. The funniest thing is that Luskin has previously referred to himself as a stalker in his own headline: 'We Stalked. He Balked.'."
There are death/violent threats against Luskin contained on the blog in question. It's one thing to call someone a bad name, its another to assist in the advocacy of violence against another. That crosses the line. It appears Luskin wants those removed. If that happens, it looks like the suit will be dropped. Not all to unreasonable. Defending threatning behavior is not defending the 1st Amendment.
Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.
The "big" picture is that the economy started tanking WHILE CLINTON WAS IN OFFICE, LONG BEFORE THE ELECTION.
The economy has had THREE STRAIGH QUARTERS OF GROWTH, with the last being the highest in almost 20 years (doubling the previous quarter). Even the NYT, the home of Mr. Krugman's left wing rants, the bastion of left wing spin, agrees that Bush gets the credit for it.
I'll ask again (as I've asked before, not in this thread) what exactly do you want? You want unemployment to disappear overnight? And who do you expect to do that? These people on the left just can't accept that Bush may have done something right, it makes them hate him even more. You know why? Because a year from now, if the trend continues, there's absolutely no platform for any of the nine dwarves to stand on.
I hope you guys on the left are realistic enough to elect Lieberman in the primary, he's the only one of those guys I can stomach.
Stupid sexy Flanders.
I hope this guy wins. It's high time bloggers learned that you can't just go posting whatever the hell you want all day long on the public internet with impunity.
Scientology does nothing of the sort. Otherwise all those crazy wackos with hate stories about Scientology would NOT BE on the Net, would they. Duh. All that Scientology does is fight to keep its own intellectual copyrighted property off of its enemies hands - which is pretty sensible in light of the vicious attacks it has received. See http://www.theta.com/goodman/letter.htm