<html><div style='background-color:'><P class=RTE>Doug,<BR><BR></P>
<DIV class=RTE>Just so you're clear, I also oppose shutting down V2020 or using a moderator as a response to the posts you cite. That is consistent with what I've said about this one.</DIV>
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<DIV class=RTE>Hey, is Dale Courtney going to add you to the list of people who don't use their own names on posts? Next he's going to call you an 'Intolerista.' Watch out.</DIV>
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<DIV class=RTE>Sunil<BR><BR><BR>>From: <heirloom@moscow.com><BR>>To: lpall@moscow.com<BR>>CC: vision2020@moscow.com<BR>>Subject: [Vision2020] Please define libelous? You're the lawyer, you tell me!<BR>>Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 20:49:11 GMT<BR>><BR>>Dear Miss Pall,<BR>><BR>>On V2020 you wrote: That tore it. The anonymous, libelous posting... you<BR>>also said the list is flawed and
it needs to be reformed.<BR>><BR>>Im sure you know the state code for Libel, but for the benefit of the<BR>>lesser trained audience here it is in black and white: TITLE 18 CRIMES AND<BR>>PUNISHMENTS CHAPTER 48 - LIBEL 18-4801.<BR>>LIBEL DEFINED. A libel is a malicious defamation, expressed either by<BR>>writing, printing, or by signs or pictures, or the like, tending to<BR>>blacken the memory of one who is dead, or to impeach the
honesty,<BR>>integrity, virtue or reputation, or publish the natural or alleged<BR>>defects, of one who is alive, and thereby to expose him to public hatred,<BR>>contempt or ridicule.<BR>><BR>>When Tom Hansen, Nick Gier and others quote from 'Dougsploch' is that not<BR>>equally anonymous and libelous? When Junior Varsity<BR>>Douger j_v_douger@yahoo.com(and all of his other pseudonyms, New Man,<BR>>Captain Kirker, etc, etc, etc.) makes statements about a citizen of the<BR>>community and puts his address on the net so that the individual is afraid<BR>>for their family members is that not equally anonymous and libelous? Where<BR>>was your angst and outrage at those times. When a so-called history<BR>>teacher at a state sponsored institution makes statements about a dead man<BR>>on Moscow mountain and in the process impugns his character is that
not<BR>>libelous? As I recall you, B.J. Swanson, Joan Opyr, Melynda Huskey, Keely<BR>>Emerine Mix, JeanC, Shirley Ringo, Bill London, Darrell Keim, Sunil<BR>>Ramalingam, Barrett Schroeder and Nils Peterson, were all silent for these<BR>>instances!<BR>><BR>>Maybe you all should plug the name of Jack Van Deventer, Doug Jones, Doug<BR>>Willson, Dale Courtney, Roy Atwood, Tom Garfield, Peter Leithart, Bob<BR>>Hieronymus or Paul Kimmell into your V2020 post and let me know if you<BR>>still feel the same way. I thought that B.J. Swanson said it best: at<BR>>least a public shaming is in order. Maybe you could all line up, put the<BR>>fellow in stocks in friendship square and you could all pick up 5 smooth<BR>>stones and cast them at the culprit.<BR>><BR>>Let him that is without sin cast the first stone!<BR>><BR>><BR>>lemeno
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