Reserectorman, you wrote:
Posted by: Resectorman
In reply to: Sonyboy who wrote msg# 4245
Date:8/25/2005 12:10:40 AM
Post #4248 of 4320
Sonyboy~~I guess you missed it. The judge already cleared Doug's name. As far as Jiggy goes, if you are dumb enough to play in traffic, then don't complain when you get his by a DC-Mobile.
Jiggy exercised his freedom of speech and Doug introduced Jiggy to due process. Have you ever thought that Jiggy out to pay Doug for the education Doug gave him? Lol
The judge did not clear Doug’s name completely. He only cleared it of the charge that he did something worthy of punitive damages in the Rao case. He was still found liable of civil conversion. While this isn’t the ultimate badge of disgrace, it is hardly a badge of honor.
And the judge certainly didn’t clear Doug’s name of the accusation levied against him by Pulitzer Prize winning columnist Jack Anderson of being untrustworthy. Nor did the judge ever proclaim that Doug’s long trail of apparently false and misleading press releases really proved that Doug could be trusted. Nor did he explain why we shouldn’t believe that Doug lied about the value of the SGD trade credits when he filed his last quarterly report so very long ago. While Doug didn’t come out of the Rao case too badly, his name was hardly cleared.
And as to the rest of your post, Resectorman, was that a threat against me? Did Doug authorize you to make what looks like a threat in his name?
Let me tell you something. You can take your threat and shove it. I don’t think Doug’s lawsuit against Jigfish worked out the way he had planned it, and I can guarantee you that if he tries to sue me I will make sure the amount of publicity he receives dwarfs what he received the last time around. And believe me, there is a lot more evidence that I can use to demonstrate Doug’s “untrustworthiness” than was available in April 2004.
What’s Doug going to do, anyway? Go to the Judge and cry “Sonyboy is being mean to me. He is always quoting my former writing and business partner, Pulitzer Prize winning columnist Jack Anderson, who said that I am ‘untrustworthy’. My feelings are so hurt, Your Honor. Make the Bad Man stop!” I’m sure that will go over real well with the Judge.
Of course, if he does try to sue me then it will just prove what I’ve been saying all along: Newspaper columnist Douglas Cohn—a man who by his profession should have a deep abiding respect for the First Amendment—will use legal thuggery to stomp on others’ First Amendment rights in order to prevent them from shining the light of day on his questionable business dealings. Douglas Cohn is a brilliant writer who could—if he chose to do so—use the written word to expose weaknesses in his opponents’ arguments. What sort of message would Doug be sending if he chose to sue me rather than use sweet evidence and logic to discredit what I am saying and show me the error of my ways? He would be sending out the message that he could not meet and defeat me on a level playing field of ideas. He would be demonstrating for all to see that he could not stand an open challenge and that he had to resort to using the legal system to foist oppressive legal fees upon me in order to shut me up. If Doug sues me then he will be declaring that discussion of his behavior as CEO of a public corporation should be removed from public view and dragged into the dark recesses of a courtroom. If Doug sues me he would be removing discussion from a forum where both poor and rich could speak the truth as they see it to a forum where only those who can shell out exorbitant legal fees can afford to speak. If Doug sues me instead of providing public information that would clear his name then he will only provide further evidence of his untrustworthiness.(In My Humble Opinion, of course.)
I do not believe it is in Doug’s interest to sue me. So I will leave this post on a question that I asked near the beginning: Did Doug authorize you to make this threat against me, Resectorman?
AI
