It's difficult to watch this... but I have to count myself on the side of those whose sensors are going off...
RAMS seems to have good intentions- seems to be concerned and determined- actually, I would say that's not really in question. What I have a hard time understanding is how this is productive... how this will help anything. I'm not against all lawsuits- just ones that are unnecessary or unspecific. Pegging "some people" against "other people" seems a bit too silly, to me.
The extra effort to sound... legal... just doesn't fit right. Perhaps RAMS is just taking his interest a bit too far.
I think efforts are better spent leaving the litigation to the lawyers and the debate to the debaters- the court of public opinion is where we reside, and I don't think the jury would look too kindly on an over-reaching lawsuit aimed at how people think- regardless of what the intentions of this suit would be.
The "truth movement" certainly has done wrong- they have certainly offended and been callous and stupid and hurtful- some have been downright violent and dangerous... but the vast majority of them just don't get it. Rounding them up in to court will not change that- and if you think that making an effort to legally silence them will change that- you're going to be making a very big- and very dangerous mistake.
Unlike proving that Jesus doesn't exist in court- when the conspiracists lose (and they will predict that they will)- the court will simply be enveloped into the conspiracy- of course they lost, and of course that just means they're right... Try to silence them by force, and you only play into their fantasies.
And, personally- I have serious issues with bringing people into court because they believe- no matter what that belief is. Issues of the mind should not be the concern of the court, the government, or anyone else. People have a right to be stupid, and you simply cannot force individuals into belief; attempting to do so only strengthens their resolve.
Those individuals which have been personally threatened or personally damaged by slander or libel from any individual no matter what "Strange" they belong to should seek the advice of an attorney- not the other way around.
Your post is well timed and most legitimate in questioning.
If you think it through carefully, what is the overall point of the constant bantering with individuals that are not only conspiratory in light of facts proving the opposite, but for what purpose is this 'skeptic' movement.
1000's of posts, most excellent, for what purpose? Has it stemmed the tide of defamatory conspiracy charges?
However, in litigation, if proven sound through defamation, the issue is not damage award, (everyone keeps worrying how the attorneys are paid), per se, but a benchmark that then becomes the same stalwart, immutable, that 'Strange 2' loves to imbue with conspiracy.
As it is, it is 'us' against 'them', without any sort of ramification for such. Just a loose cannon of accusation, that basically is saying, "all parties involved in 911 conspired to kill 3000+ people." That is really the bottom line of fact of the woowoo movement of 911 conspiracy. Our response, since we are reason based, is simply to counter, infinitum. That results in nothing but fuel for them.
But what happens if that is illegal if proven cause is established in 'any' court of law regarding injurious slander. Arm and Hammer just won in that regard and so has many organizations for this sort of thing.
And consider;
There is a lot of FDNY fireman, First Responders, Police, and others who are quite disturbed with LC, the crap on YouTube, Google, S for T, Prison Planet, Rosie, Rense, etc etc. And they are on the net too, and they watch TV, and read forums and they see videos and watch YouTube and they are collectively amazed. And they want to do something in counter wonder to stop the vitriolic assault on their vocation, their lives, their being.
All I have done is what I did as a free agent contractor for NASA, against Strange 1, and what I am and will do with Strange 2. This is not rocket science. It is establishing precedent not to engage to do harm with slander and libel and defamation.
Whatever 'alarms' are going off among anyone herein this forum, escapes me, other than the constant banter with conspirators who delight in assaulting a very unhealed national injury with out and out accusations of murder, techno gibberish and insults. All of which in toto, accomplishes nothing.
That is the issue.
RAMS
