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Offline Oscar Navarro

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Gen. Walker and Supreme Court Decision
« on: January 07, 2019, 07:21:57 PM »
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Did you guys know that if it had not been for Oswald missing Gen. Walker by a hair federal law could still protect public figures against libel? I didn't until today. It turns out that back in the sixties Gen. Walker had successfully sued for libel several news outlets and won around $3 million in damages. One of those news outlets, The Associated Press, took the matter to the Supreme Court arguing for the damages to be overturned. In Associated Press vs Walker, 389 U.S 28 (1967) in a 9-0 decision the Justices ruled that even though the Associated Press may have knowingly printed false and malicious information about Gen. Walker that the Constitutional guarantee of free speech by public officials against libel extended to private persons in the public arena.

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Gen. Walker and Supreme Court Decision
« on: January 07, 2019, 07:21:57 PM »


Online Steve M. Galbraith

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Re: Gen. Walker and Supreme Court Decision
« Reply #1 on: January 07, 2019, 07:45:14 PM »
Did you guys know that if it had not been for Oswald missing Gen. Walker by a hair federal law could still protect public figures against libel? I didn't until today. It turns out that back in the sixties Gen. Walker had successfully sued for libel several news outlets and won around $3 million in damages. One of those news outlets, The Associated Press, took the matter to the Supreme Court arguing for the damages to be overturned. In Associated Press vs Walker, 389 U.S 28 (1967) in a 9-0 decision the Justices ruled that even though the Associated Press may have knowingly printed false and malicious information about Gen. Walker that the Constitutional guarantee of free speech by public officials against libel extended to private persons in the public arena.

textfiles.com/conspiracy/walker.txt
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Walker
Just to suggest a slight change: public figures CAN sue for defamation (and win) but as the Court ruled in the Walker case he, as a pubic figure, had to show "malice" on the part of the accuser and not simply that the charges were false.

Previously this requirement only applied to public officials (this was the 1964 New York Times vs. Sullivan ruling where Sullivan was an Alabama Public Safety Commissioner) but with this case it also applied to so-called public figures.

But it's an interesting story, thanks.

I took out the videos in my reply.

Offline Eddie Haymaker

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« Reply #2 on: January 07, 2019, 10:53:21 PM »

Why would LHO target the far right walker
and the "communist" Kennedy?

Does LHO strike you as politically confused?
or an "anyone will do" assassin who seeks fame?

I couldn't imagine walker and JFK being friends - they are opposites
LHO voted for JFK
In return JFK was super restrained in dealing with the Cubans
So is left leaning on foreign policy
Why kill JFK?

What say you regrading LHO's motive's?


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Offline Oscar Navarro

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« Reply #3 on: January 07, 2019, 11:19:36 PM »
The mad queer x general was involved in this up to his redneck W.A.S.P ears

Besides being a decorated war hero in both WWII and Korea Gen. Walker had one other outstanding quality...he was a staunch anti-communist.

Offline Oscar Navarro

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« Reply #4 on: January 07, 2019, 11:25:24 PM »
Why would LHO target the far right walker
and the "communist" Kennedy?

Does LHO strike you as politically confused?
or an "anyone will do" assassin who seeks fame?

I couldn't imagine walker and JFK being friends - they are opposites
LHO voted for JFK
In return JFK was super restrained in dealing with the Cubans
So is left leaning on foreign policy
Why kill JFK?

What say you regrading LHO's motive's?

That answer would require it's own thread. In brief summation Oswald was a political zealot with had an overinflated opinion of his role in history.

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Offline Walt Cakebread

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« Reply #5 on: January 07, 2019, 11:50:49 PM »
Besides being a decorated war hero in both WWII and Korea Gen. Walker had one other outstanding quality...he was a staunch anti-communist.

Yes ...That may be true....And Walker was aligned with Adolph Hitler and his band of Nazis in that regard...and J.Edgar Hoover also was fanatical anti communist....

Offline Oscar Navarro

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« Reply #6 on: January 08, 2019, 12:41:39 AM »
Yes ...That may be true....And Walker was aligned with Adolph Hitler and his band of Nazis in that regard...and J.Edgar Hoover also was fanatical anti communist....

JFK was also a staunch anti-communist. So were Conrad Adenauer, Winston Churchill, Francisco Franco and Charles de Gaulle. I think even Clement Attle was a staunch anti-communist. Anti-communism united many from different political outlooks.

Offline Walt Cakebread

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« Reply #7 on: January 08, 2019, 12:43:06 AM »
The mad queer x general was involved in this up to his redneck W.A.S.P ears

I totally agree, Mr O'b.....

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« Reply #7 on: January 08, 2019, 12:43:06 AM »