Friday, June 8, 2012

Defending Bloggers from Attacks, Intimidation, and Frivolous Lawsuits

David French "There have been a series of new and particularly pernicious attacks on bloggers’ free speech. For those who haven’t been following the story, roughly three weeks ago a number of conservative bloggers (both independent and affiliated with larger publications) began investigating the story of Brett Kimberlin, a radical domestic terrorist who’s been funded by several prominent leftist donors. As the investigation gained momentum, Red State’s  Erick Erickson  was subjected to a “SWAT” attack, where a fake call is made to local police reporting a shooting at the blogger’s home. Erick is not the first blogger to experience a SWAT-ing."
...."Today at the American Center for Law and Justice, we announced that we’re representing Ali and the National Bloggers Club. We intend to aggressively respond to any and all attacks on bloggers’ free-speech rights. The truth is a defense to frivolous libel claims, and the law exists to protect free speech, not enable its attackers. It is appalling and inexcusable that major leftist organizations fund a convicted domestic terrorist. It is even more appalling that the price of reporting these facts is a campaign of threats and legal intimidation."
David French is a Senior Counsel for the ACLJ. A Kentucky native, David is a 1994 graduate (cum laude) of Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts and a 1991 graduate (summa cum laude, valedictorian) of Lipscomb University in Nashville, Tennessee.


GOP Senator Calls On DOJ To Investigate ‘SWAT-ting’ Attacks Targeting Conservative Bloggers

Megyn Kelly Airs Audio From ‘Swatting’ 911 Phone Call Targeting Conservative Bloggers    "Gallagher said that police responded to the call with helicopters and drawn weapons, waking up Frey’s family in the middle of the night. Gallagher also says that conservative bloggers are being targeted by a tactic known as “Google bombing” in which large amounts of erroneous and personal data is released – including false arrest records – to embarrass those targeted conservative bloggers."

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