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British Woman's Twitter Comments Spark Expensive Libel Claims
An anonymous reader writes with this excerpt from the BBC: "A woman who complained about an unpaid £146 invoice is facing a libel battle that could cost her more than £100,000. Lesley Kemp, 55, took to Twitter claiming that a company based in the Middle East had failed to pay her promptly for transcription work. Now the firm is suing Mrs Kemp, of Milton Keynes, for defamation, claiming up to £50,000 in damages and a further £70,000 in costs. The company, Resolution Productions, based in Qatar, has yet to comment."
It is as unexpected a pairing as Barack Bush
Not really, if you think about how similar Bush and Obama have been. On foreign policy, Obama mainly continued Bush's foreign policy. He expanded drone strikes. On domestic issues, Bush was more to the left than you would expect. He had a huge expansion of medicare, for example. Dick Cheney supported gay marriage before Obama did (he also flip-flopped while he was still in office).
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."