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To: epicure who wrote (214352)	8/3/2007 12:45:34 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793838

In the US you can be completely wrong about public figures, but as long as you have no "malice"- you skate Whereas in Britain you can be complete accurate about public figures and still lose. The Daily Telegraph lost Galloways suit over publishing his name in the list of Oil for Food bribes found in the Iraqi Oil Ministry, even though the legitimacy of the docs was not questioned. Now Parliament has censured Galloway, using the same evidence.

To: epicure who wrote (214352)	8/3/2007 1:50:01 PM
From: DMaA	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793838

I'm not worried a bit about citizen on citizen slander and libel. When the court threw out Jerry Falwell's suit against Larry Flint over a feature that had Falwell talking about having sex with his mother in an outhouse, made sense to me. Consider the source. I'm far more worried about the state stealing reputations and freedom from innocent citizens. That's where we need to focus our attention. I'd think a healthy and fair libel law would be somewhere between our system and the UK one.