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To: T'wit

Read what I wrote, instead of reading into it. Making that statement as a declarative charge is, in fact, defamation if untrue. Making it as an opinion, or as speculation, on the other hand, is not.


41 posted on 05/14/2004 8:57:45 PM PDT by lugsoul (Until at last I threw down my enemy and smote his ruin on the mountainside.)
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To: lugsoul
Making that statement as a declarative charge is, in fact, defamation if untrue. Making it as an opinion, or as speculation, on the other hand, is not.

The question, I think, is whether a reasonable person reading the statements would have reason to believe that the author had more basis for believing them to be true than he, in fact, had. In many libel actions, a person who is sued may defend himself by showing that he had sufficiently good reason to believe the statement to be true.

42 posted on 05/14/2004 11:37:37 PM PDT by supercat (Why is it that the more "gun safety" laws are passed, the less safe my guns seem?)
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To: lugsoul
I did read it, of course, and it sounds more like an accusation than a friendly warning.

In fact, I wrote my statement in plain declarative sentences and I believe it is true in all particulars. I do not write lies. We have discussed the supporting facts in detail in other threads, including highly qualified medical testimony from FR physicians looking at, e.g., Terri's bone scan. There is also evidence based on her blood chemistry that has yet to be brought out.

So what part of my post do you find false and defamatory?

46 posted on 05/15/2004 5:17:18 AM PDT by T'wit ("To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society" - Theodore Roosevelt)
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To: lugsoul

So all we have to do is say "in my humble opinion" (IMHO) and then we can say whatever we want. Yahoo!


69 posted on 05/16/2004 7:42:53 PM PDT by Saundra Duffy (Save Terri Schiavo!!!)
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