🚀 go-pugleaf

Serenleono wrote:
> 
> Jeff Geurin <JeffG@mail.atl.bellsouth.net> wrote:
> 
> >Mad wrote:
> >>
> [name, address, and phone numbers snipped]
> >>
> >> likes to date/have sex with girls between the age of 13 - 15.
> >> use to live in Vista CA.
> >>
> >> just thought you all would be interested .......
> >>
> >> v/r pissed off father
> 
> >Buddy, you might want to stop doing that before this guy has your ass
> >in jail for libel.  I understand how you feel, but nowadays the criminal
> >has more rights than the innocent. Be careful.
> 
> It's good advice you give, but by quoting his whole article, you have
> yourself libeled the alleged molester.
> 
> Before the law recognizes a statement or comment as a civil libel, the
> statement must be published; i.e., when one person, in addition to the
> writer and the person who is defamed, sees or hears the material.
> And, technically, every republication of a libel is a new libel.
> 
> According to Judge Leon Yankwich in his book, _It's Libel or Contempt
> If You Print It,_ "In brief, the person who repeats a libel assumes
> responsibility for the statement and vouches for its truth as though
> it had been of his own making or on his own information, no matter how
> emphatically the qualifying words show that the statement is made on
> the basis of a source other than the writer himself."
> 
> You are responsible for what you repeat, no matter how vociferously
> you attribute the statement to a third person.
> 
> Let's think, people.  Let's be aware...and take care.
> 
> From:  Serenleono (Ian)
>        verax@atl.mindspring.com
>   http://www.mindspring.com/~verax/home.htm
> 
> One opinion vying in the wilderness.
Utter silliness Serenleono...To commit a crime and be convicted of it
you must prove INTENT.  There is no criminal intent in trashing the
clown who put the home phone of an enemy along with some nasty
statements about him.  However HE intended to cause public defamation of
character and IS (could be) guilty of a crime.  It is more of a civil
matter that would be dealt with by local courts, more so than local
police.