My friends at FD have "gone dark." Since they hosted my very personal "Miss Emily has died" and "Letters to Miss Emily"- my very personal accounts of my "second dead wife's death"- I hate to see it- but cannot blame them:
Today, Ontario Superior Court Justice Robert Smith issued an order in the Richard Warman vs Mark and Connie Fournier and John Does defamation case heard September, 2013. In addition to ordering that we must pay Warman $127,000, Justice Smith issued an injunction against us ordering we that never publish, or allow to be published, anything negative about Richard Warman. This means we are barred for life from ever operating a public forum or a blog (even about cookie recipes) where the public can comment. If we do so, any one of Warmans handful of supporters could, and probably would, use a common proxy server to avoid being traced, plant a negative comment about Warman on our site, and we would both be charged with contempt of court. If that happened --unlike in the Ottawa courtroom where we were blocked at every turn from presenting a defense-- we actually would have no defense. We would both go to jail. This life sentence was imposed for our terrible crimes of voicing our honestly held beliefs and allowing others to do the same. Defamation law, in its current state, is entirely inadequate and counterproductive when applied to the internet. Now it is being used as a tool of censorship. Effectively!
Neither precedent nor the law mean anything to people like this. They just make it up as they go along to suit their needs.
Thats how fascism takes root.
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Juba Doobai! | August 2, 2013 at 2:42 am
Against the law but dont uphold the law. Even the judges are lawless in Obamas America. I want us to deport every single last illegal alien. No amnesty, no free tuition, no protest marches. Deport them and their offspring, born here or not. You dont break the law and benefit from it....”