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continues James. "Kurt's point was that this guy had said bad things about him and he should have at least said them to his face. This was one of those situations where both people were at fault."



Ummmm, no. This may work at recess for a 2nd grader, but in the adult world it does not excuse assault if your victim allegedly wrote bad things about you. It just makes it premeditated assault.

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"Basically he wants to use what I might say as a weapon," says James. "I think his political agenda is to write whatever he wants with impunity."



What a radical political agenda. If the founding fathers had wanted us to be able to write whatever we want with impunity, they surely would have said something about it in the Bill or Rights or somewhere.

I don't know if it has ever been established that Gram actually used the "F" word with reference to Kurt. But even if he did, Kurt is, in this context, what he has always wanted to be: a public figure. This means that it is only libel if it is known to be a falsehood. One does not even need to prove that the printed claim is true, only that it is consistent with their public persona.

Dragging everyone into court in order to prove whether one person called the other a fag, and whether the other person was then justified in assaulting them, complete with showings of "Put Your Finger in my Ass #4" as evidence is just what porn needs to prove that it really is the "adult" industry.

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