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Gloria Allred to West Palm Beach prosecutor: You really should go after Rush, you know
Hotair ^ | 03/09/2012 | Tina Korbe

Posted on 03/09/2012 2:33:25 PM PST by SeekAndFind

Go figure: Gotcha lawyer Gloria Allred has proved herself more than willing to embroil herself in the controversy that continues to plague radio host Rush Limbaugh. The president of the Women’s Equal Rights Legal Defense and Education Fund sent a letter to the county prosecutor of West Palm Beach, Florida, to call for an investigation into whether Limbaugh violated Florida defamation law. From TPM:

Allred cites Section 836.04 of Florida Statute, which says that “whoever speaks of and concerning any woman, married or unmarried, falsely and maliciously imputing to her a want of chastity, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree.”

“Mr. Limbaugh has publicly acknowledged that his reference to Ms. Fluke as a ‘slut’ and ‘prostitute’ were baseless and false,” Allred writes. “In view of the fact that Mr. Limbaugh resides in your county and allegedly made the false statements concerning Ms. Fluke in your county as well, this letter is directed to your office.”

Limbaugh might have spoken falsely — in case the question lingers, Sandra Fluke is not actually a prostitute — but whether he spoke maliciously is another matter. His apology could be construed to bolster the case either for or against him. For him, in that his apology states clearly that he had no intention to cause harm to Ms. Fluke. Against him, in that his apology might be taken as evidence that he thinks he did cause harm to her — and that might be used to suggest he originally spoke with the intention to harm her.
Limbaugh’s point in calling Fluke a “prostitute” was not to discredit Fluke herself or to imply that she actually takes money for sex, but to illustrate the grubbing nature of her argument for the administration’s contraception mandate. Limbaugh’s argument was not particularly refined, but it was also not malicious in either the normal or legal sense of the word.
No matter — that I’m parsing the legal definition of malice in this case indicates just how overblown it has become. Limbaugh has become — for the time being at least — a liberal whipping boy and Sandra Fluke has become a sainted martyr.
As further proof of the latter, the PR firm of former Obama adviser Anita Dunn on Monday started to represent Fluke pro bono. The left is clearly invested in her as a campaign prop, as Bill O’Reilly explained on his program last night.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: gloriaallred; rushlimbaugh; sandrafluke
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To: SeekAndFind
Sandra Fluke wants to be the next Gloria Allred.

She already is a slut.

21 posted on 03/09/2012 3:04:44 PM PST by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: SeekAndFind

DO IT! I would love to see fluke under testimoney having to tell everyone that she thinks healthcare should include sex changes. I hope it’s on TV.


22 posted on 03/09/2012 3:06:33 PM PST by Linda Frances (Only God can change a heart, but we can pray for hearts to be changed.)
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To: allred
FLUKE DELIVERY, FLUKE DELIVERY
23 posted on 03/09/2012 3:07:40 PM PST by TigersEye (Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
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To: SeekAndFind
This from the same Gloria Allred who said she likes getting groped by TSA?

-PJ

24 posted on 03/09/2012 3:10:05 PM PST by Political Junkie Too (If you can vote for President, then your children can run for President.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Gloria Allred has a closet. Just need a good investigating reporter to see what’s in it.


25 posted on 03/09/2012 3:20:05 PM PST by dragonblustar (Allah Ain't So Akbar!)
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To: SeekAndFind

We should sue FLuke for defamation of tax payers as would be providers of moneys she is too afraid to charge her clients.

This homosexual sexual harassment of the tax payer in QUID PRO QUO is disgusting disrespect of the highest kind.


26 posted on 03/09/2012 3:26:45 PM PST by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security Whorocracy & hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: JudgemAll
Hell,...it is bigger than just Gloria...see this:

Factor Investigation: Ex-Obama Official Running Sandra Fluke

27 posted on 03/09/2012 3:36:04 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: SeekAndFind

Gloria Allred: The female Al Sharpton.


28 posted on 03/09/2012 3:39:44 PM PST by GreenHornet
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To: EGPWS
"Gloria, you ignorant fluke"

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29 posted on 03/09/2012 3:41:28 PM PST by digger48
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To: SeekAndFind
I want to know when we can expect these laws to be enforced:

Massachusetts General Laws:

CRIMES, PUNISHMENTS AND PROCEEDINGS IN CRIMINAL CASES

TITLE I.

CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS

CHAPTER 272.

CRIMES AGAINST CHASTITY, MORALITY, DECENCY AND GOOD ORDER

Section 36: Blasphemy

Whoever wilfully blasphemes the holy name of God by denying, cursing or contumeliously [without respect; in a disdainful manner] reproaching God, His creation, government or final judging of the world, or by cursing or contumeliously reproaching Jesus Christ or the Holy Ghost, or by cursing or contumeliously reproaching or exposing to contempt and ridicule, the holy word of God contained in the holy scriptures shall be punished by imprisonment in jail for not more than one year or by a fine of not more than three hundred dollars, and may also be bound to good behavior.

Section 38: Disturbance of assembly for worship

Whoever wilfully interrupts or disturbs an assembly of people met for worship of God shall be punished by imprisonment for not more than one year or by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars.

Section 14: Adultery

A married person who has sexual intercourse with a person not his spouse or an unmarried person who has sexual intercourse with a married person shall be guilty of adultery and shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than three years or in jail for not more than two years or by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars.

Section 15: Polygamy

Whoever, having a former husband or wife living, marries another person or continues to cohabit with a second husband or wife in the commonwealth shall be guilty of polygamy, and be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than five years or in jail for not more than two and one half years or by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars; but this section shall not apply to a person whose husband or wife has continually remained beyond sea, or has voluntarily withdrawn from the other and remained absent, for seven consecutive years, the party marrying again not knowing the other to be living within that time, nor to a person who has been legally divorced from the bonds of matrimony.

PART IV.

Section 17: Incestuous marriage or sexual activities

Persons within degrees of consanguinity [related by blood] within which marriages are prohibited or declared by law to be incestuous and void, who intermarry or have sexual intercourse with each other, or who engage in sexual activities with each other, including but not limited to, oral or anal intercourse, fellatio, cunnilingus, or other penetration of a part of a person's body, or insertion of an object into the genital or anal opening of another person's body, or the manual manipulation of the genitalia of another person's body, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than 20 years or in the house of correction for not more than 21/2 years.

Section 18: Fornication

Section 18. Whoever commits fornication shall be punished by imprisonment for not more than three months or by a fine of not more than thirty dollars.

Section 34: Crime against nature

Whoever commits the abominable and detestable crime against nature, either with mankind or with a beast, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than twenty years.

Section 35: Unnatural and lascivious acts

Whoever commits any unnatural and lascivious act with another person shall be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred nor more than one thousand dollars or by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than five years or in jail or the house of correction for not more than two and one half years.

Section 16: Open and gross lewdness and lascivious behavior A man or woman, married or unmarried, who is guilty of open and gross lewdness and lascivious behavior, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than three years or in jail for not more than two years or by a fine of not more than three hundred dollars.

Text of the Massachusetts School Law of 1642
Forasmuch as the good education of children is of singular behoof and benefit to any Common-wealth; and whereas many parents & masters are too indulgent and negligent of their duty in that kind. It is therfore ordered that the Select men of every town, in the severall precincts and quarters where they dwell, shall have a vigilant eye over their brethren & neighbours, to see,
first that none of them shall suffer so much barbarism in any of their families as not to indeavour to teach by themselves or others, their children & apprentices so much learning as may enable them perfectly to read the English tongue, & knowledge of the Capital Lawes: upon penaltie of twentie shillings for each neglect therin.
Also that all masters of families do once a week (at the least) catechize their children and servants in the grounds & principles of Religion, & if any be unable to do so much: that then at the least they procure such children or apprentices to learn some short orthodox catechism without book, that they may be able to answer unto the questions that shall be propounded to them out of such catechism by their parents or masters or any of the Select men when they shall call them to a tryall of what they have learned of this kind.
And further that all parents and masters do breed & bring up their children & apprentices in some honest lawful calling, labour or employment, either in husbandry, or some other trade profitable for themselves, and the Common-wealth if they will not or cannot train them up in learning to fit them for higher employments.
And if any of the Select men after admonition by them given to such masters of families shall find them still negligent of their duty in the particulars aforementioned, wherby children and servants become rude, stubborn & unruly; the said Select men with the help of two Magistrates, or the next County court for that Shire, shall take such children or apprentices from them & place them with some masters for years (boyes till they come to twenty one, and girls eighteen years of age compleat) which will more strictly look unto, and force them to submit unto government according to the rules of this order, if by fair means and former instructions they will not
Text of the Massachusetts School Law of 1642

The Old Deluder Act (1647)

From Records of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England (1853), II: 203

It being one chief project of that old deluder, satan, to keep men from the knowledge of the Scriptures, as in former times by keeping them in an unknown tongue [alluding to Rome], so in these latter times by persuading from the use of tongues, that so that at least the true sense and meaning of the original might be clouded and corrupted with false glosses of saint-seeming deceivers; and to the end that learning may not be buried in the grave of our forefathers, in church and commonwealth, the Lord assisting our endeavors.

It is therefore ordered that every township in this jurisdiction, after the Lord hath increased them to fifty households shall forthwith appoint one within their town to teach all such children as shall resort to him to write and read, whose wages shall be paid either by the parents or masters of such children, or by the inhabitants in general, by way of supply, as the major part of those that order the prudentials of the town shall appoint; provided those that send their children be not oppressed by paying much more than they can have them taught for in other towns.

And it is further ordered, that when any town shall increase to the number of one hundred families or householders, they shall set up a grammar school, the master thereof being able to instruct youth so far as they may be fitted for the university, provided that if any town neglect the performance hereof above one year that every such town shall pay 5 pounds to the next school till they shall perform this order.

CONSTITUTION OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS: Excerpts

Article II. It is the right as well as the duty of all men in society, publicly, and at stated seasons to worship the Supreme Being, the great Creator and Preserver of the universe. And no subject shall be hurt, molested, or restrained, in his person, liberty, or estate, for worshipping God in the manner and season most agreeable to the dictates of his own conscience; or for his religious profession or sentiments; provided he doth not disturb the public peace, or obstruct others in their religious worship. [See Amendments, Arts. XLVI and XLVIII.]

Article III. [As the happiness of a people, and the good order and preservation of civil government, essentially depend upon piety, religion and morality; and as these cannot be generally diffused through a community, but by the institution of the public worship of God, and of public instructions in piety, religion and morality: Therefore, to promote their happiness and to secure the good order and preservation of their government, the people of this commonwealth have a right to invest their legislature with power to authorize and require, and the legislature shall, from time to time, authorize and require, the several towns, parishes, precincts, and other bodies politic, or religious societies, to make suitable provision, at their own expense, for the institution of the public worship of God, and for the support and maintenance of public Protestant teachers of piety, religion and morality, in all cases where such provision shall not be made voluntarily.

And the people of this commonwealth have also a right to, and do, invest their legislature with authority to enjoin upon all the subjects an attendance upon the instructions of the public teachers aforesaid, at stated times and seasons, if there be any on whose instructions they can conscientiously and conveniently attend.

Provided, notwithstanding, that the several towns, parishes, precincts, and other bodies politic, or religious societies, shall, at all times, have the exclusive right of electing their public teachers, and of contracting with them for their support and maintenance.

And all moneys paid by the subject to the support of public worship, and of the public teachers aforesaid, shall, if he require it, be uniformly applied to the support of the public teacher or teachers of his own religious sect or denomination, provided there be any on whose instructions he attends; otherwise it may be paid towards the support of the teacher or teachers of the parish or precinct in which the said moneys are raised.

Any every denomination of Christians, demeaning themselves peaceably, and as good subjects of the commonwealth, shall be equally under the protection of the law: and no subordination of any one sect or denomination to another shall ever be established by law.] [Art. XI of the Amendments substituted for this].


30 posted on 03/09/2012 3:43:15 PM PST by daniel1212 (Come to the Lord Jesus as a morally destitute+damned+sinner,+trust Him to forgive+save you+live..)
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To: SeekAndFind
Gloria, Rush will eviscerate you. It will be fun to watch.

And, geez, get another dress!
31 posted on 03/09/2012 3:43:54 PM PST by aruanan
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To: SeekAndFind
Allred cites Section 836.04 of Florida Statute, which says that “whoever speaks of and concerning any woman, married or unmarried, falsely and maliciously imputing to her a want of chastity, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree.”

Someone appearing in public begging for birth control pills and contraceptives has pretty much answered any reasonable questions about her chastity.

And there are still laws on the books in other states that call for the arrest of those who fail to drink milk or who fall asleep wearing shoes.
32 posted on 03/09/2012 3:55:17 PM PST by aruanan
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To: SeekAndFind

“But Gloria, isn’t that law hopelessly outdated in today’s society? Isn’t it an antiquated throwback to the Victorian-era double standards of sexual morality, merely a symbol of patriarchal condescension ?”

A reporter with cojones would ask her THAT, but I’m not going to hold my breath waiting/s;)


33 posted on 03/09/2012 3:58:54 PM PST by Frank_2001
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To: SeekAndFind

Idiot, you cannot claim you are not a public figure and ask to appear before congress where you proceed to show your well used ass to the world.


34 posted on 03/09/2012 4:00:01 PM PST by org.whodat
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To: SeekAndFind

According to the online dictionary http://www.yourdictionary.com/slut
the definition of a SLUT: A slut is a derogatory term used for a person - usually a woman - who engages in casual sexual behavior. (noun)

So what am I missing here???


35 posted on 03/09/2012 4:09:34 PM PST by blueyon (The U. S. Constitution - read it and weep)
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To: SeekAndFind
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36 posted on 03/09/2012 4:10:39 PM PST by SkyDancer
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To: SeekAndFind

Too bad there wasn’t more attention paid to comdoms before Armold knocked up his housekeeper!!!

That woman was a 3-4 bagger, IMO.


37 posted on 03/09/2012 4:13:56 PM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: SeekAndFind

38 posted on 03/09/2012 4:21:42 PM PST by Lizavetta (You get what you tolerate)
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To: SeekAndFind

I doubt rhetoric meets the definition of defamation under statute.


39 posted on 03/09/2012 4:23:37 PM PST by lastchance ("Nisi credideritis, non intelligetis" St. Augustine)
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To: SeekAndFind
Well apparently fluke can afford a high powered attorney by way of Anita Dunn but can't afford birth control.

Shut up Gloria.

40 posted on 03/09/2012 4:52:45 PM PST by jackv (The darkness hates the light!)
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