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From: ins_akaa@jhunix.UUCP (Ken Arromdee)
Newsgroups: net.religion,net.legal,net.misc
Subject: Re: Autodialing Falwell - a different perspective
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Date: Sat, 25-Jan-86 11:48:19 EST
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In article <426@cisden.UUCP> john@cisden.UUCP (John Woolley) writes:
>Steve Pope should be more careful.  He has (I think) opened himself up to a
>magnificent lawsuit by falsely claiming that somebody else has committed a
>crime.  That's called "libel".
>>You may not agree with the politics of harrassing Falwell,
>>but recall he advocates all sorts of violent things
>>such as abortion clinic bombings.  
>Dare we ask for a reference for this?  If Falwell hasn't in fact advocated
>bombings (and I've sure never seen or heard of him doing it), and if it can
>be proved you actually typed the article that appeared over your signature,
>you could be in a heap-o-trouble, Mr. Pope.

No. Falwell is a public figure, and the standards for concluding libel of a
public figure are much stricter.
-- 
"We are going to give a little something, a few little years more, to
socialism, because socialism is defunct.  It dies all by iself.  The bad thing
is that socialism, being a victim of its... Did I say socialism?" -Fidel Castro

Kenneth Arromdee
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