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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: Sawdusty who wrote (409932)5/28/2003 9:05:21 PM
From: Raymond Duray  Read Replies (1) of 769670
 
BRITISH LIBEL LAW

Sarge,

Re: I'll point out that my understanding is that Britain has the most stringent libel and slander laws. If he can't back up what he says, he'd be sued repeatedly.


I don't know if you've gotten to the section of the book where Palast describes his efforts to "out" PM Tony Blair in the Guardian and on BBC Newsnight for the extraordinary access that is afforded to John Mandelson and other courtiers of the PM. It's quite incriminating w/r/t the corruption of Tony Blair. That said, Palast had to desist from his investigative reporting on Blair because Britain does not have "free speech" in the same sense that we do in the U.S. In fact, they don't have free speech at all. The Guardian and BBC Newsnight started to feel quite uncomfortable about their projected legal costs in a legal system where the truth is not a defense in a defamation case. In other words, Palast's employers could have been sued and lost, in spite of the fact that everything Palast said was true.

There are rare instances when I can say that the U.S. has a superior legal system. W/r/t free speech, this is certainly true.

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You might recall the extraordinary legal posturing that Richard Perle, the "Prince of Darkness", went through when the New Yorker published Seymour Hersh's condemnatory article about Perle's repulsive lobbying on behalf of Global Crossing and Hutchison Whampoa. Unable to stifle free speech and the truth here in the U.S., Perle sued Hersh and the New Yorker in Britain! What a scoundrel of the first order.

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