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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth
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To: Crimson Ghost who wrote (52832)7/15/2005 6:14:08 PM
From: American Spirit   of 173976
 
Rightwing terrorist loses libel suit against Michael Moore
Judge quashes suit against filmmaker Moore

(* the rightwingers should notice the judge sound Moore was very factual, just as he was in his criticism of GW Bush and the Saudi connections)

By Reuters
DETROIT -- A federal judge has dismissed a $20 million libel and defamation lawsuit filed against filmmaker Michael Moore by the brother of Oklahoma bombing conspirator Terry Nichols.

The suit, filed in October 2003, stemmed from statements Moore made about James Nichols in "Bowling for Columbine," his 2002 documentary on gun violence in America.


Nichols charged that the documentary wrongfully implied he was involved in the April 1995 bombing of the federal office building in Oklahoma City that took 168 lives. He also said it intentionally inflicted emotional distress on him.

U.S. District Court Judge Paul Borman on Wednesday issued a 25-page ruling for Moore.

"The court finds that defendant's statements were factual and substantially true statements," Borman wrote in his opinion.

Moore, who interviewed James Nichols on his farm in Decker, Michigan, said the brothers and Timothy McVeigh made "practice bombs" there before the Oklahoma City bombing.

James Nichols was arrested shortly after the bombing and charged with possessing explosive devices on his farm. He was also held as a material witness in the bombing. But criminal charges against him were dropped due to a lack of evidence.

McVeigh was executed in June 2001 for detonating the truck bomb made of fuel and fertilizer while parked beside the building.

Terry Nichols was convicted of manslaughter in a federal court and sentenced to life without parole.

Among the statements that James Nichols objected to was one in which Moore said, "Terry Nichols was arrested and received a life sentence. Timothy McVeigh was executed. But the feds didn't have the goods on James, so the charges were dropped."

Borman ruled the statement "was literally true and accurately reported the government's dismissal of the charges" against Nichols.
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