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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mr. Whist who wrote (52885)	10/26/2000 8:12:00 PM
From: Scarecrow	Respond to of 769670

You can't legally call someone a murderer, rapist, perjurer, etc. unless they have been convicted of that crime in a court of law. To do so is potentially libelous. Only potentially -- there are several defenses to otherwise libelous speech... People on this thread who call Clinton a rapist or Bush a rapist are in the same boat. No difference. Neither man has been convicted of that crime in a court of law. MY POINT EXACTLY! So... follow along, now... if that's so, why hasn't Clinton sued Juanita Broadrick? Wouldn't you sue to repair the reputational harm caused by a false and malicious allegation?? Yet, he's strangely silent on that topic -- refusing to address it. Hmmmm... now, with the law on his side, you'd think defending himself against this scurrilous charge would be child's play (I'd assert that a law school intern could handle the case but.... you know....) The reason he won't sue for libel: truth is the first defense. He did it. He knows he did it. He won't deny it. And he won't sue for libel because it's true. Case closed.