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The Lynching of an American Hero

• https://www.lewrockwell.com By Llewellyn H. Rockwe

As John Frahm puts it, "This massive 49 Million Alex Jones trial award is corrupt and is a harbinger against free speech of all sorts. And he had two other trials to go. This is really serious. Pure evil. They declared their intent. Free speech of every sort has just been targeted for destruction and lock down under a social credit system. If you offend someone you can be destroyed.  If you question a narrative you can be destroyed.   

Beware." 

In a free society, there should be no suits for "defamation." You don't own your reputation, and people should be free to determine what they think of you, based on their own assessment of the evidence. As the great Murray Rothbard explains, "0ur theory of property rights can be used to unravel a tangled skein of complex problems revolving around questions of knowledge, true and false, and the dissemination of that knowledge. Does Smith, for example, have the right (again, we are concerned about his right, not the morality or esthetics of his exercising that right) to print and disseminate the statement that 'Jones is a liar' or that 'Jones is a convicted thief' or that 'Jones is a homosexual'? There are three logical possibilities about the truth of such a statement: (a) that the statement about Jones is true; (b) that it is false and Smith knows it is false; or (c) most realistically, that the truth or falsity of the statement is a fuzzy zone, not certainly and precisely knowable (e.g., in the above cases, whether or not someone is a 'liar' depends on how many and how intense the pattern of lies a person has told and is adjudged to add up to the category of 'liar' -an area where individual judgments can and will properly differ). 


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