[ExI] What is the latest word on Keith Henson?

[The Avantguardian]

--- spike <spike66 at comcast.net> wrote:
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> What do we do now coach?

Keep the print copy you have as evidence for Keith
when he gets out of jail. He can hire an attorney and
sue the Palo Alto Daily for libel. In fact, if he
thinks those threats on his life were genuine he might
want to start the lawsuit while he is still in jail as
numerous court dates and attorney's appointments will
keep him out the reach of potential assassins.

To wrongly accuse someone of a crime in print is the
textbook definition of libel. Ridiculously the
headline itself is contradicted in the very story
itself, if you read it carefully enough, where it
states that the jury was deadlocked on his threat
charges and only convicted him of "interfering with a
religion".

That's why they responded so fast and changed their
website due to the letter, because they know they left
themselves open and vulnerable. But they haven't
retracted the print copies and plenty of people read
that print version and that can't but detract from
Keith's otherwise stellar reputation and that damage
is redressable in civil court.

The PAD went out on a limb for $(ien701gy and defamed
one of our own in print. They OUGHT to pay a stiff
penalty. Of course Keith is the one who has to do it.


 

Stuart LaForge
alt email: stuart"AT"ucla.edu

"In Emptiness exists Good but no Evil.
Wisdom is Existence.
Principle is Existence.
The Way is Existence.
The Mind is Emptiness."

- Miyamoto Musashi, Kyoto period Samurai.


       
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