So it looks like net kook Warren Kinsella has made good on his threat to sue Mark Bourrie of Ottawa Watch for a quarter of a million dollars. Mark’s wife exposes the emptiness of the net kook’s complaint.
From my wife, Marion:
“Right. He’s suffered damages. He filed the lawsuit the day he announced he was the new media columnist for the National Post.
My take on this is that if the net kook is really so worried about his reputation, he’d stop trying to bully people into silence. That’s done more harm to it than any of the statements he’s trying to censor.
Update: Correction, the net kook is asking for $600,000, which makes it even more laughable considering his reputation isn’t worth 6 bucks let alone 6 hundred thousand.
Update II: If you want to help out, you can donate to the screw Kinsella fund.
Time to start up a defence fund. I’m good for a hundred bucks or so to give that netkook a kick up the backside. If someone sets it up (I have no idea how to do it) I’ll honour this pledge.
You can count me in too, Dr.Dawg.
There is a lot of discussion here about what constitutes libel/defamation and what are the available defences. For the benefit and interest of all, I’ve posted a brief primer of Canadian libel law over at Cerberus.
Ted
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