20-Year-Old Republican Website Owner Sued by Former Democrat Senator

Talon News / GOP USA ^ | July 31, 2003 | Jeff Gannon

[Monty22]

The truth is an absolute defense against libel/slander lawsuits. The web site owner should have no problems getting this thrown out.

[E.G.C.]

Here are my observations on this subject.

This is just another case of the liberal/progressive/moderate crowd acting so hypersensitive over what appears to be a parody that's been put on for no profit whatsoever.

I did read the article and I know for a fact based on what I've been researching here in Oklahoma there's no liability for defamation unless you're making money for these things. Now, I may be wrong on that because that was a portion of law on Libel and Slander but there was a section where you could be sued for defamation if you made money for doing so.

One of the good things about message boards like this is you can pretty discuss things without having your name revealed. The only people know you is by your screename and any other info you volunteer to give out.

The left is really going to have to get a grip on itself and realize that by continuing to act like this in a childish immature that it is they and not we who being looked upon as wanting to quelch free speech.

The idiot filing this frivilous lawsuit is clearly doing so to try to bankrupt this young man simply because he doesn't like what was said about him.
Regards.

[Timesink]

The truth is an absolute defense against libel/slander lawsuits. The web site owner should have no problems getting this thrown out.

Even more importantly, public political figures automatically cede practically all of their rights not to be publicly ridiculed by others. Unless the web site creator was committing true, classic libel (creating a site that looked like an actual MSNBC.com page saying the senator beat his wife or somesuch lie), the RAT has no case whatsoever.

Not only will this suit be thrown out, a number of people will start hosting mirrors of the parody site just to piss off Abourezk and ensure far more people see it. (Though not nearly as many as would host mirrors if it were a Republican doing the suing, of course.)

[marvlus]

That's precisely the problem. The laws are not being enforced on the wrongdoers of the Internet.

[Abundy]

Typical liberal/fascist. For these types, "Free Speech" = approved speech. i.e., as long as they are speaking they can say anything they want, but if someone else is speaking they must approve the content...

[prairiebreeze]

Thankfully I don't know of the book. So if this were to ever come to fruition, DU would have to have a link to FR and vice versa.

Sounds like a lib "idea".

Prairie

[prairiebreeze]

Yes. The lawsuit is the minor story here, the BIG NEWS (at least to me) is this obviously anti-Semitic, very pro-Arab, Hezbollah/Aziz/Castro fan who used to be a US Senator! To borrow Michael's phrase: JUST DAMN!! Prairie

[jonalvy44]

I posted about this a month ago or so and the admin here removed it simply because I said I was gonna donate to his cause...good grief.

We could've been helping this kid out a while back...

[King Prout]

I've never even heard of him before. From his own CV, he stands self-condemned as, at the very least, a traitor-wannabe and disgusting hypocrite.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Jimmy Abourezk was the worst Senator ever to come out of South Dakota, bar none. He made McGovern and Daschle look sane and well-adjusted. He quit after one term because he was likely to lose in a landslide.

[thegreatbeast]

I thought it was just another dim gone around the bend until I came across the real story: "Abourezk left the Senate and later founded the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee. He recently called on Arabs to "intensify their move to explain their points of view to the American public which is dominated by the Israeli media machine."
One thing, you got to hand it to the Arabs, they do stick together, even if it is to the detriment of our country.

[Experiment 6-2-6]

But, AS ALWAYS, you have to read to the bitter end to get to the best part:

Abourezk took New York Air to court for false imprisonment and intentional infliction of emotional distress for not letting him off a plane that was delayed three hours on the tarmac.

[fella]

What's the matter? Cann't he take a joke?

[prairiebreeze]

One thing, you got to hand it to the Arabs, they do stick together,

Except for governing themselves of course. Then you are either fighting and bickering on the side of your war lord against your fellow countrymen or you are lounging around on the dole of your monarchy, dictator or cleric.

Prairie

[prairiebreeze]

He made McGovern and Daschle look sane and well-adjusted.

Good grief! An apt and chilling description. Brrrrr!

Prairie

[Capitalism2003]

any lawyers here? Let's give this guy some help!

[Impy]

Wow, he must be really bad to beat those two.

I think I will add Jim Abourezk is a TRAITOR to my about page.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Abourezk was also responsible for helping sink the man that succeeded him, Sen. Larry Pressler. For years he went around making smears of Pressler with the leftist media in the state (I believe including one of Pressler being gay). The guy is a lunatic.

You might also add one-term (1965-67) NE Congressman Clair Callan, also perhaps one of the most leftist individuals the state ever sent to Congress (namely due to the loss by Goldwater in '64, Callan couldn't survive reelection). This 83-year old nitwit put himself firmly on the side of Anti-Americanism with the recent Iraqi action in asking a federal court if Dubya was guilty of "war crimes."

[Impy]

Were nutcases like him the reason the GOP gained more seats in 1966 than it had prior to 1964?

[fieldmarshaldj]

"Were nutcases like him the reason the GOP gained more seats in 1966 than it had prior to 1964?"

That was one, also the 'Rats winning a number of traditionally GOP seats that they shouldn't have, and the 6-year curse of a 'Rat administration (if you count JFK-LBJ as one). The GOP, ironically, would've had at least 8 or so fewer seats going into 1966 had it not been for them winning ultra-'Rat Southern seats in '64 (in AL, for example, the all-'Rat delegation in 1962 (as it had been since 1901) became majority GOP (5-3) in one fell swoop, but then dropped to 3-5 'Rat in '66, and the GOP would not regain a majority there until 1997). Some of these, of course, were temporary gains, and wouldn't be solidified for, as with AL, until the '90s.