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Send your pennies to this guy.

A couple of years ago Mark got caught up in the Wayne Crookes "Libelpalooza" and, although the case died in a B.C. courtroom, Crookes has appealed and there are many bills still to pay. You can get the more details on Mark's particular situation re his blog, but one of the worrying things about Crookes' efforts is that he has sued people (Michael Geist, specifically) for linking to a site that linked to another site that contained allegedly defamatory material.

Now that's scary.

Free-D Update: Something About Being Called An "Ambulance Chaser" Obviously Went Down The Wrong Way

Richard Warman has followed up his original libel complaint against Connie Wilkins-Fournier and Mark Fournier of the ultra-Conservative e-bulletin board Free-Dominion with a second complaint based on the flurry of insults inspired by his first, of which "ambulance chaser" is among the least obscene. The whole list can be found here. "Unwashed hippy" and "devoted crypto-jew" are among my favorites.

And here is a link to an Anti-Warman site, where I found this speech to the ARA in which Warman outlines his techniques and modus operandi.