weemba@brahms.BERKELEY.EDU (Matthew P. Wiener) (03/26/86)
I would like to ask the legal experts if the following would be grounds for libel/slander or the like out in the real world. (I am aware that electronic bulletin boards are questionable as evidence.) The statements are completely false and require an extremely twisted misreading of my postings. I would like to ask the powers that be if they plan to let this garbage continue. Money is spent transmitting this stuff. And if they are grounds for libel, then this user is repeatedly using the net for illegal activity. I am directing all followups to net.news only. Message-ID: <2749@pyuxd.UUCP> >Aren't I just awful for pointing this out? Aren't I "rude"? I make >no apologies. Let Matthew Wiener tell his "side" of things, the side of >history that leaves out pogroms, ghettoization, inquisitions, holocausts, >as if they never happened. Message-ID: <2773@pyuxd.UUCP> > As Wiener, you have posted drivel of the sort "well, I was >brought up by anti-Christian Jews, and only recently have I learned of >the real goodness of Christianity", denying the importance or even the >existence of sanctioned and condoned religious persecution of your supposed >ancestors. Message-ID: <2789@pyuxd.UUCP> > Matt would say "but, gee, I learned >after renouncing Judaism and later learning about Christianity that it >wasn't bad, that history isn't the way I thought it was, that Christianity >isn't guilty of things like the Inquisition, the pogroms, the Crusades, >the Holocaust, etc. despite what everyone says". ucbvax!brahms!weemba Matthew P Wiener/UCB Math Dept/Berkeley CA 94720