tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post2611772252472193397..comments2023-09-15T04:27:57.129-04:00Comments on Commentarama: Libel Tourism Gets Its Passport CheckedAndrewPricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11312364467936820986noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-39934459166247698962009-12-21T15:53:11.794-05:002009-12-21T15:53:11.794-05:00NOTE: Apropos of this column, and while many of u...NOTE: Apropos of this column, and while many of us were watching in amused horror as Obama again made a fool of himself in Copenhagen, a somewhat positive development was happening at the UN. Although the Muslim lobby still got its way on "defaming religion," support for such measures was falling off rather substantially at the uber-tolerant UN. See: <a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/58825" rel="nofollow">Support for Religious 'Defamation' Measures Continues to Erode</a>.LawHawkRFDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17800255923675295515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-16248114129413049162009-12-20T22:58:49.716-05:002009-12-20T22:58:49.716-05:00HamiltonsGhost: As we legal beagles say, "an...HamiltonsGhost: As we legal beagles say, "anybody can sue--winning is the trick." Even in goofball California, it would be unlikely that any judge would let such a case get past the preliminary stages, and nearly impossible to find a jury that would award damages even if the judge did allow the case to go forward. Unlike certain districts in Michigan, our Muslim radicals haven't yet gained enough power to intimidate public officials into imposing crypto-sharia law for special districts.LawHawkRFDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17800255923675295515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-73544397089766615282009-12-20T22:49:08.057-05:002009-12-20T22:49:08.057-05:00Lawhawk--Does that mean that the founders of the I...Lawhawk--Does that mean that the founders of the Islamic college in Berkeley can't sue for defamation when the opposition to the college calls it nothing but a madrassah for training future sharia despots?HamiltonsGhosthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07777000856977635480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-44445718333290424972009-12-20T15:57:56.264-05:002009-12-20T15:57:56.264-05:00Libertarian Advocate: Many thanks. The English s...Libertarian Advocate: Many thanks. The English system has many good points, including not awarding multi-million pound damages to people too stupid to know you don't put a cup of hot coffee between your legs and drive away with the lid off. And they don't allow juries to consider the speeches of lawyers channeling dead babies to drive up punitive damages in frivolous medical malpractice cases while cheating on their cancer-stricken wives (philanderer John Edwards). But their libel laws were a truly huge hole in an otherwise very sensible system.LawHawkRFDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17800255923675295515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-7157861490035211382009-12-20T15:42:22.133-05:002009-12-20T15:42:22.133-05:00LawHawk:
Great piece. Encouraging to see signs th...LawHawk:<br /><br />Great piece. Encouraging to see signs that some semblance of sanity is beginning to clear the endemic brainfog that has so long afflicted our <i>cousins</i> across the pond.Libertarian Advocatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18245884833251725459noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-64415925561546674022009-12-20T13:31:48.415-05:002009-12-20T13:31:48.415-05:00NOT SO BREAKING NEWS: Dear Khalid bin Mahfouz died...NOT SO BREAKING NEWS: Dear Khalid bin Mahfouz died on August 18, shortly after his lawsuit died its final death here in America.<br /><br />The British legal community (with the American legal community soon to follow) has created a special subset of libel tourism for the bin Mahfouz type of lawsuit. Since it is specifically designed to protect Muslim terrorism and hide the truth behind Koranic fundamentalism, they have dubbed it <b>"Islamic lawfare."</b> Unlike the individual and specific tactics used in the other examples we've mentioned, Islamic lawfare is part of a grand strategy to suppress all criticism of the religion of peace worldwide.LawHawkRFDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17800255923675295515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-163633128798518322009-12-20T13:04:15.187-05:002009-12-20T13:04:15.187-05:00Andrew: That was Doctor Henrik Thomsen, a highly-...Andrew: That was Doctor Henrik Thomsen, a highly-respected radiologist. A Danish doctor makes a speech at a medical conference in Oxford, England questioning the use of American corporation GE's Omniscan equipment. His facts were certainly sufficient to raise serious questions, and as a result, medical warnings were issued. Did GE analyze and attempt to fix the equipment or accept the perfectly reasonable warnings? Nope--they took the easy route. Sue in England. The doctor's legal costs have now reached almost 400,000 pounds, and climbing. But I'm sure that's all great comfort to the twenty kidney patients who have developed a deadly condition from it, as well as the families of the five who have died from the same treatment.<br /><br />Needless to say, the doctor will not be making any speeches about his area of medical expertise in England until the law is changed.LawHawkRFDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17800255923675295515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-15254289604512329162009-12-20T12:49:01.567-05:002009-12-20T12:49:01.567-05:00Joel: I think you're right. The Brits are co...Joel: I think you're right. The Brits are coming to understand that the law can be both a sword and a shield. And they're finally catching on to the idea that certain portions of their society are using the law solely as a sword (a scimitar?). We owe so much to the English for our system of law that I'm pleased to see them fixing this large hole in an otherwise wonderful system of law.LawHawkRFDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17800255923675295515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-21235587524825014312009-12-20T12:44:05.314-05:002009-12-20T12:44:05.314-05:00StanH: I think this realization that they are lag...StanH: I think this realization that they are lagging behind the western legal world my be a first step in the right direction.LawHawkRFDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17800255923675295515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-15830372408210052902009-12-20T11:37:35.341-05:002009-12-20T11:37:35.341-05:00Lawhawk, I just read an interesting article on thi...Lawhawk, I just read an interesting article on this -- about a Danish doctor whose patients have experienced really severe side effects with a drug produced by GE. He revealed these side effects at a medical seminar, and GE launched a libel lawsuit against him -- spending over 300,000 pounds so far to shut him up. From the sound of it, the whole suit is frivolous, but that doesn't seem to matter in England.<br /><br />So much for freedom of speech!AndrewPricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11312364467936820986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-77922856758582579632009-12-20T10:29:26.352-05:002009-12-20T10:29:26.352-05:00LawHawk,
Change is in the Air. Not the hopey chan...LawHawk,<br /><br />Change is in the Air. Not the hopey changie thing from BO, but the kind that is saying enough is enough. NO MORE!!!!Joel Farnhamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15856960977033430002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-16279259500265797412009-12-20T10:26:40.606-05:002009-12-20T10:26:40.606-05:00We’ll see Lawhawk. The British had better assert t...We’ll see Lawhawk. The British had better assert their identity or become an oppressed majority. It seems the world has learned Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals,” use the system against system.StanHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07395708786509590321noreply@blogger.com