Comment below: --- In [email protected], anonymousff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: **SNIP** > > Tom has arranged for a $50,000 legal retainer to sue > Ben the lier. If Ben posts a fully apologitic statement in which he > admits in every line that he, and not Tom was wrong and he apologizes > for wrongfully accusing Tom for it in an unambiguous, convincing, > non-finger pointing way, the suit will not be filed. Any hint that > he's being insincere and Tom will see Ben in Court. If Ben posts > anything to Fairfield life on any subject becept a convincing apology > and agreement that he is a flake, the lawsuit against Ben will be > filed and a few days later Ben will receive his subpoena. Tom doesn't > want to stiffle Ben's freedom of speach. But he doesn't want to read > the words of a lier who reprements himself as totally innocent of any > wrong doing. The lawyers will prove otherwise. Tom has more money > set aside for more prosecuition, counter suits and to fight malicious, > frivilous law suits against him. He's also got every email Ben ever > sent to him, notes of every phone conversation, every email he ever > sent to Ben or others about Ben. Some of it will curl your hair. > **SNIP TO END**
Tom, $50k is quite a large retainer to sue a private individual for defamation and libel. And from what I've read of Ben's posts, and as a lawyer (albeit one who doesn't get $50k retainers), I don't see how you'd make a case. Your suit would likely be considered frivolous. Perhaps the people who have hurt you in your life did so because they were radiating the hurt and ignorance in their own. To whatever degree that is true, it certainly doesn't minimize or mitigate the pain and suffering that you have endured and continue to wrestle with. But the expansion of misery and suffering to others can't diminish or resolve your own. I'm sure you know that. Why not use your legal fund to establish some foundation or project that serves to alleviate suffering rather than increase it. If Ben is the scoundrel you know him to be, why not let him reap the consequences of his behavior without enmeshing you in it, too? If Nature is due to deliver Ben the consequences of his bad karma you don't have to volunteer to be the carrier of that karmic delivery. That's just a response to what you've written and, as you know from a previous post of mine, I do not share your opinion of Ben. But, then perhaps you know more of him than I. Or perhaps you're wrong in your evaluation of his character. I don't know all the details (not do I think it's necessary that I need to); but solely as a human being who cares about others and prefers to see the expansion of happiness rather than the converse, I'd ask you to consider this response to your posting as a sincere and candid reaction from your environment to what you are projecting into it. Thanks for taking the time to consider this. Marek ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Need Help? Get Help! Tools and Strategies for Healthy Drug-Free Living</a>. http://us.click.yahoo.com/wI.OUB/dbOLAA/d1hLAA/0NYolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
