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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: MrsSmith on February 15, 2009, 11:58:46 AM
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Ian David
(1000+ posts) Sun Feb-15-09 08:44 AM
Original message (http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x5057519)
chrisTo-Fascists continue to wage war against Michael Schiavo
The following is from an obviously reich-wing source:
Cyberbullies At Topix’s Schiavo Forum May Be Unmasked
Posted on Saturday, 14 of February , 2009 at 10:39 pm
© By June Maxam
The cyberbullying, flaming days of Michael Schiavo and his birds of a feather who have been flying anonymously on the Terri Schiavo forum at Topix may be about over—at least the anonymous part.
Removed portions of Ian's post
Following a recent Internal Affairs investigation conducted by the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Department, it has been determined that Michael Schiavo, the man who killed his former wife, Terri Schindler Schiavo, by dehydration, claiming that she would want to die in such an inhumane manner because she was incapacitated, has been using taxpayer-owned sheriff’s department resources and taxpayer time to engage in public attacks on the Schindler family and others involved in the Schiavo case, in essence, defrauding the taxpayers.
More:
http://www.northcountrygazette.org/2009/02/14/topix_cyberbullies/
Ooops, Ian may have messed up...
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The article itself is interesting...Ian missed the most important parts, but I'm not going to post any more for obvious reasons. :-) All I can say is that it appears that anonymous posters can be sue for defamation and libel...and prosecuted in some states.
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Schiavo harrasses people he needn't even be in contact with but the fundies are persecuting HIM?
Am I reading that right?
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Schiavo harrasses people he needn't even be in contact with but the fundies are persecuting HIM?
Am I reading that right?
No, I don't think so. It says bullying OF Shiavo, not by him.
There are a lot of issues here, but the 1st Amendment one is the most important.
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No, I don't think so. It says bullying OF Shiavo, not by him.
There are a lot of issues here, but the 1st Amendment one is the most important.
Are you sure?
Following a recent Internal Affairs investigation conducted by the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Department, it has been determined that Michael Schiavo, the man who killed his former wife, Terri Schindler Schiavo, by dehydration, claiming that she would want to die in such an inhumane manner because she was incapacitated, has been using taxpayer-owned sheriff’s department resources and taxpayer time to engage in public attacks on the Schindler family
And I don't harassment is not a 1st amendment right.
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Following a recent Internal Affairs investigation conducted by the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Department, it has been determined that Michael Schiavo, the man who killed his former wife, Terri Schindler Schiavo, by dehydration, claiming that she would want to die in such an inhumane manner because she was incapacitated, has been using taxpayer-owned sheriff’s department resources and taxpayer time to engage in public attacks on the Schindler family
That is a conclusion, not a fact. The mischaracterization of Shaivo's LEGAL decision to let his wife finally go after the torture her parents and "well wishing" busybodies put that poor woman through is not "killing." I assume the conclusion about "using sheriff department to harass" is equally invalid. Asking the law to find and prosecute potential lawbreakers is NOT "harassment" of those lawbreakers.
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On further reading there is more here -- strange doings indeed...