Posted on 08/20/2005 10:22:32 AM PDT by madfly
ARIVACA, Ariz. -- Jim Chilton is one of hundreds of ranchers targeted by environmental groups for allegedly allowing cattle to despoil the West's backcountry. Now Mr. Chilton is showing ranchers how to turn the tables on the green groups by using their own playbook.
The Center for Biological Diversity in Tucson is known for its lawsuits against ranching practices -- and for its methods of posting photos on the Internet that it says depict land destruction. So when the Center came after Mr. Chilton, he struck back with a defamation suit in Arizona Superior Court in Tucson last year.
He produced his own photos of lands the group claimed he spoiled in order to argue that their photos had exaggerated the damage. He snapped one photo, for example, of a hillside featured on the Center's Web site to show that what looked like barren earth was just a tiny patch surrounded by lush grass.
After a jury trial this year, Mr. Chilton was awarded $600,000, including $500,000 in punitive damages against the environmental group. "I had to decide whether I was a cowboy
(Excerpt) Read more at post-gazette.com ...
And another one. Bump.
The Arizona EnviroTaliban Lose one!
HURRAY!!!
Now if we could get the real dirt on Dr. Robin Osama bin Silver, their leader in Phoenix to take him out of play.
Two solutions to your dilemma.
First, you can go check the no-no list.
Second, and this is my personal preferred method, you can let the software that controls the posting page tell you the article must be excerpted. It does this based on the URL you supply.
One for the good guys! Great article!
Earth to Suckling: The law against defamation. You took pictures of isolated damage -- which your membership apparently helped cause and claimed it was the result of Mr. Chilton's cattle.
By the way, doesn't suckling generally describe a young pig? Or am I reading too much into this guy's name?
Mr. Suckling ... says payment of the award could financially devastate the group.
One can only hope Suckling is right, that the award for their reckless actions will bankrupt his center which appears to be for the defamation of ranchers.
Excellent news. Hope there are more victories against the Watermelons Jihad in the future.
I became very familiar with the Center while working for 10 years as a reporter for newspapers in the Southwest. Good outcome on the rancher's suit, but it barely scratches the surface of the problem. The Center usually uses the ESA in filing their suits. ESA needs serious reform
Can Alaska sue Hillary Clinton now?
stick it to'em
Thanks for the ping. Kudos to the Chiltons. We need more folks like them who will take a stand for all the other cattlemen getting screwed by these so-called environmentalist groups.
Thanks for the ping!
Good News.
Slowly but surely, we have pockets of common sense rising up and whacking the Anti American Watermelons across our nation.
"Arizona EnviroTaliban"
Great Phrasing and wording to describe the anti American Watermelons in Arizona and across our nation.
Thanks.
It fits with Dr Robin Osama bin Silver and Mullah Kirin Omar Suckling.
Keep it up.
The Green Jihadist Watermelons and regular Jihadists have zero sense of humor. This neat wording cuts them to their bone marrow.
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