"Paulbot"? When you've got nothing else, appeal to ridicule huh? LOL. The irony of those belonging to a base of any sort or buying into the continued existence of a bipartisan system while plugging their ears at the slightest hint of anything not status quo referring to others as "bot". Gets me every time.
With that said, Paul's right to bring his case is not predicated in any way on whether or not it will end up winnable. Surprised I had to tell you that; you with all your vast legal knowledge.
And that should just about conclude the discussion on demonstrated understanding of how the law works. Now let's discuss the comedy gold that makes up your previous post.
Therein lies another example of your failure to grasp simple concepts concerning personal injury, as outlined in my own previous post. Whether or not a slight is actionable is purely up to the slighted. Now to those who don't resort to false dilemmas and begged questions when considering the sources of Paul's beliefs and character, there is sufficient proof in his voting record, his conduct, the on-record statements of those who have known him his entire career, like former heads of the NAACP and others for whom sheltering/defending a racist would run counter to their vested interests, and finally in the words of the newsletter publishers who are on record disavowing any active participation by Paul, to be able to make up their own minds without a color by numbers rebuttal from Paul on every single point.
The phrase "I won't even dignify that with a response" is older than Paul. It is used sometimes when the truth of a matter is evident to those who want to see it, in this case because there is enough in the public record of deeds over time to provide clarity on a person's nature.
The point here is that your decision, and that of others like you, is to cherry pick one item out of 40 years of political existence and then resort to unrepresentative sample and sweeping generalization to make that the entirety of what Paul is about. Your right to pull this does not dictate Paul's response to it.
I could go into a whole LOT of detail about what a double standard really is, given the sudden rise of the Republican base as Anti-Bigotry Superheroes now that it's time to get rid of Ron Paul while the same group has elevated whining about so-called "race pimps", using "race cards", and trotting out the same tired crime statistics in an attempt to portray blacks as a blight on American society to a fine art.
Same people who whine every Martin Luther King day about why he gets a holiday while ripping a guy who voted for it as a racist.
Same people who want to bomb Iran in defense of a foreign regime with its own lobby that plays the race card at every criticism while bashing blacks for nearly the exact same complaints about America under almost the exact same circumstances (except of course for the UN stepping in and creating a sovereign nation out of Compton).
You'll call those straw men. I'll call that a discussion you really don't want to get into about racial politics in this country, and for that reason the last thing you want to bring up to me is double standards involving action of any type involving racism and the American public and political participants.
You might at least have made an effort to anticipate the mention of on-record racially questionable speech by at least one other Republican candidate before zeroing in on this topic and Paul. Be sharper than the usual dreck who get into this. No? Okay.
Back to your post. If you want to be taken seriously, once again. You will have to provide something more than poisoned wells, begged questions and generalizations. You talk as though nothing about the history of American finance was available before Youtube appeared. You'd be wrong there. The Fed was a mistake since inception. Offshoring jobs, destroying the manufacturing base and converting the country to a service only economy was stupid and suicidal long before the computer. So is blowing up the Federal budget by a couple billion per war and lying to the public about why you're doing it.
For you to be disingenuous and arrogant enough to try and hustle readers into some Candyland of your own creation where people supporting Paul's views have no trough of experience or historical precedent to reach into besides a 7 year old website half devoted to morons? You've got nothing to substantiate this and since you don't, you simply beg the question. It's this way because you say it is. And you do this while ridiculing Paul advocates about the same thing involving Paul's statements. You were discussing double standards, no?
"The sign of a truly principled person is when you're willing to retain those principles in the face of a situation where standing firm hurts you."
Most up front admission of not knowing anything about Ron Paul that I've ever read. Thanks for saving me tons of time trying to figure out where you're coming from.
By the way. Libel, slander, and defamation have been here in various forms for thousands of years. They were never actions for which there were no consequences. Whether or not those consequences were visited upon someone was and still is the choice of the victim. Nothing about the first amendment has changed that.
You (author) are merely another one of millions in this country who assumes freedom from accountability is a rider to freedom of speech. Stupid assumption - if not dangerously so. And that's how it should be. Because one has, and will always be, only as good is one's word.
The irony in your article is that you're attempting to call Paul out for abandoning his word while defending the right of those he's suing to shirk any accountability for theirs. Please tell me your association with Techdirt is naught but an internship. I'd hate to think they're paying for such oversights.
Re: LordRhynn, please answer
"Paulbot"? When you've got nothing else, appeal to ridicule huh? LOL. The irony of those belonging to a base of any sort or buying into the continued existence of a bipartisan system while plugging their ears at the slightest hint of anything not status quo referring to others as "bot". Gets me every time.
With that said, Paul's right to bring his case is not predicated in any way on whether or not it will end up winnable. Surprised I had to tell you that; you with all your vast legal knowledge.
And that should just about conclude the discussion on demonstrated understanding of how the law works. Now let's discuss the comedy gold that makes up your previous post.
Therein lies another example of your failure to grasp simple concepts concerning personal injury, as outlined in my own previous post. Whether or not a slight is actionable is purely up to the slighted. Now to those who don't resort to false dilemmas and begged questions when considering the sources of Paul's beliefs and character, there is sufficient proof in his voting record, his conduct, the on-record statements of those who have known him his entire career, like former heads of the NAACP and others for whom sheltering/defending a racist would run counter to their vested interests, and finally in the words of the newsletter publishers who are on record disavowing any active participation by Paul, to be able to make up their own minds without a color by numbers rebuttal from Paul on every single point.
The phrase "I won't even dignify that with a response" is older than Paul. It is used sometimes when the truth of a matter is evident to those who want to see it, in this case because there is enough in the public record of deeds over time to provide clarity on a person's nature.
The point here is that your decision, and that of others like you, is to cherry pick one item out of 40 years of political existence and then resort to unrepresentative sample and sweeping generalization to make that the entirety of what Paul is about. Your right to pull this does not dictate Paul's response to it.
I could go into a whole LOT of detail about what a double standard really is, given the sudden rise of the Republican base as Anti-Bigotry Superheroes now that it's time to get rid of Ron Paul while the same group has elevated whining about so-called "race pimps", using "race cards", and trotting out the same tired crime statistics in an attempt to portray blacks as a blight on American society to a fine art.
Same people who whine every Martin Luther King day about why he gets a holiday while ripping a guy who voted for it as a racist.
Same people who want to bomb Iran in defense of a foreign regime with its own lobby that plays the race card at every criticism while bashing blacks for nearly the exact same complaints about America under almost the exact same circumstances (except of course for the UN stepping in and creating a sovereign nation out of Compton).
You'll call those straw men. I'll call that a discussion you really don't want to get into about racial politics in this country, and for that reason the last thing you want to bring up to me is double standards involving action of any type involving racism and the American public and political participants.
You might at least have made an effort to anticipate the mention of on-record racially questionable speech by at least one other Republican candidate before zeroing in on this topic and Paul. Be sharper than the usual dreck who get into this. No? Okay.
Back to your post. If you want to be taken seriously, once again. You will have to provide something more than poisoned wells, begged questions and generalizations. You talk as though nothing about the history of American finance was available before Youtube appeared. You'd be wrong there. The Fed was a mistake since inception. Offshoring jobs, destroying the manufacturing base and converting the country to a service only economy was stupid and suicidal long before the computer. So is blowing up the Federal budget by a couple billion per war and lying to the public about why you're doing it.
For you to be disingenuous and arrogant enough to try and hustle readers into some Candyland of your own creation where people supporting Paul's views have no trough of experience or historical precedent to reach into besides a 7 year old website half devoted to morons? You've got nothing to substantiate this and since you don't, you simply beg the question. It's this way because you say it is. And you do this while ridiculing Paul advocates about the same thing involving Paul's statements. You were discussing double standards, no?
Gotta move on.
LOL
"The sign of a truly principled person is when you're willing to retain those principles in the face of a situation where standing firm hurts you."
Most up front admission of not knowing anything about Ron Paul that I've ever read. Thanks for saving me tons of time trying to figure out where you're coming from.
By the way. Libel, slander, and defamation have been here in various forms for thousands of years. They were never actions for which there were no consequences. Whether or not those consequences were visited upon someone was and still is the choice of the victim. Nothing about the first amendment has changed that.
You (author) are merely another one of millions in this country who assumes freedom from accountability is a rider to freedom of speech. Stupid assumption - if not dangerously so. And that's how it should be. Because one has, and will always be, only as good is one's word.
The irony in your article is that you're attempting to call Paul out for abandoning his word while defending the right of those he's suing to shirk any accountability for theirs. Please tell me your association with Techdirt is naught but an internship. I'd hate to think they're paying for such oversights.
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Was ripping the Mac project off from Jef Raskin and then taking credit for its creation himself also a licensing agreement?