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Protecting Authors, Journalists, and Bloggers from Litigation Jihad

January 31st, 2008 — Rachel Ehrenfeld, U.S. law, UK, activism, books, censorship, counterjihad, litigation jihad, terrorism

What You Can Do:

From activist Naomi Ragen:

Friends,

I have been anxiously following the travails of courageous author Rachel Ehrenfeld, who dared to expose the Saudi connection to terrorist funding, and has since been hit with one frivolous and ridiculous lawsuit after another. From personal experience, I can tell you that this is the way that fanatics and the enemies of free speech wear down and intimidate authors with the guts to tell the truth. They wear them down financially, because lawyers are expensive and you have to use a lawyer even if you are completely innocent and the other side are self-serving, immoral liars and/or idiots with absolutely no case. They wear you down emotionally, because you have to face court dates, and public scrutiny, and the fear of some clueless judge (like the one in Britain Rachel faced) finding you guilty and imposing multi-million dollar fines against you.

Now, the capital of freedom and of publishing, New York, is about to pass legislation that will stop the success of the kind of lawsuits facing the Rachel Ehrenfelds of the world, protecting them from the insanities of foreign justice. You can help to see this law passed. Below, details. Please, please get involved. Brigitte Gabriel, another author I admire, has written the letter below. Please write the assemblymen involved, Please write influential editors of influential papers. Help us to see this happen!!

Naomi

For more articles,please visit my Web page at: http://www.NaomiRagen.com

From Brigitte Gabriel, ACT For America:

Libel Terrorism Protection Act

We are concerned with the bi-partisan “Libel Terrorism Protection Act,” introduced in the New York Assembly and Senate by Assemblyman Rory Lancman (D) and Senator Dean Skelos (R).This bill has been introduced to protect New York authors who investigate and expose the enablers of terrorism from libel lawsuits filed in foreign courts.

Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld, author of Funding Evil: How Terrorism is Financed – And How to Stop It, was the target of one of those lawsuits. The wealthy Saudi who filed the lawsuit against Dr. Ehrenfeld in the United Kingdom has successfully silenced more than 40 authors and publishers, including many Americans. If these lawsuits are allowed to continue, the ramifications for our cherished freedoms of speech and the press are chilling and ominous. The sooner “The Libel Terrorism Protection Act,” is signed into law, the sooner New York – the publishing capital of the U.S. and the free world – and New York authors will be protected from meritless and frivolous libel suits filed in foreign jurisdictions.

The “Libel Terrorism Protection Act” directly affects me (Brigitte). My first book, Because They Hate, was published by a New York publisher. My second book, scheduled for release later this year, will be published by that same New York publisher. Passage of this New York law will bring much-needed legal protection to the work I am doing. If you agree that this protection is essential to preserve the ability of authors like myself to speak out on matters of terrorism, please carefully read the action items below and then ACT! today. Thank you!

ACTION ITEMS

If the links don’t work, please just Google to get this information!

For those of you who live in New York State, please contact your Assembly Member and State Senator today. Contact them either by phone or email or both. Tell them you are calling in support of the “Libel Terrorism Protection Act,” bill number A9652, and ask for their support of the bill. The links below will take you to a listing of New York’s Assembly Members and Senators
http://senate.state.ny.us/senatehomepage.nsf/senators?OpenForm
http://assembly.state.ny.us/mem/

In addition, if you have time, contact the Chair-person of the Judiciary Committees in both the Assembly and the Senate. The bill has been referred to these committees. Ask for the chairperson’s support for the bill. The links below will take you to the chair persons of the Assembly and Senate Judiciary Committees.
Helene E. Weinstein http://assembly.state.ny.us/mem/?ad=041 (Assembly)
http://senatordefrancisco.org/50/default.aspx (Senate)

Write a short letter to the Editor of your local newspaper, explaining the background of the bill and why it’s needed. Elected officials usually monitor letters to the editor as one way to keep their fingers on the local pulse.

For those of you who do not live in New York State, please contact the two Judiciary chair persons identified above. When you do, emphasize how important this bill is, that it is a model for other states and the federal government, and thus it has national implications – which is why you, a resident of a state other than New York, are contacting them. You, too, could send letters to the editor of New York newspapers. This would demonstrate to the press, public and New York legislators that “the nation is watching.”

Forward this email to other people you know, using the forwarding link at the bottom.

It is critical that we help get this legislation passed. We cannot allow those involved in terrorism to succeed in silencing those who would expose their activities. Please ACT! today. And if you can financially help us make this nationwide grassroots lobbying effort successful, please click here:
https://www.donation-net.net/Act4America/donate.cfm ?dn=1097&commid=1687484&id=17022

Thank you for your support and your activism.

Brigitte Gabriel, Founder and President
Guy Rodgers, Executive Director
ACT for America

P.O. Box 6884
Virginia Beach, VA 23456
www.actforamerica.org

ACT for America is an issues advocacy organization dedicated to effectively organizing and mobilizing the most powerful grassroots citizen action network in America, a grassroots network committed to informed and coordinated civic action that will lead to public policies that promote America’s national security and the defense of American democratic values against the assault of radical Islam. We are only as strong as our supporters, and your volunteer and financial support is essential to our success. Thank you for helping us make America safer and more secure.

https://www.donation-net.net/Act4America/donate.cfm
?dn=1097&commid=1687484&id=17022

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Striking Back at Litigation Jihad

January 22nd, 2008 — Rachel Ehrenfeld, U.S. law, UK, YouTube, activism, books, counterjihad, litigation jihad, terrorism

The Libel Tourist

Fighting Financial Jihad -
The Libel Terrorism Protection Act – Soon in NYS

(Originally posted on The Terror Finance Blog
by Rachel Ehrenfeld on January 21, 2008 at 17:42)

NY State Assemblyman Rory Lancman gets it. Concerned with the growing threat of the Islamist Financial Jihad on our freedoms, Lancman authored the Libel Terrorism Protection Act in New York with Senate Deputy Majority Leader Dean Skelos.

They announced the new legislation on the stairs of the NY Public Library last week.

Lancman explained in Human Events:

When we think about those fighting the war on terror, we of course first think of our soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq. They are on the front lines, risking their lives to protect our country. We also think about our local cops and firefighters and first responders. They are defending our cities, unearthing terrorist plots and rushing to the scene of attacks to save and rescue lives.

But every American has an obligation to do their part, in whatever way they can, to contribute to victory over Islamic fundamentalism. So while soldiers fight, cops protect, and even individual citizens who “see something” make sure to “say something,” our journalists and authors discover and publish the truth about terrorists and their enablers the financiers, frontmen and terrorism-friendly regimes who provide the financial, logistical and political support and cover which enable the terrorists to exist, operate and strike.

The 19 men who boarded airplanes on September 11, 2001 and flew them into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a Pennsylvania field were merely the tip of a long and elaborate sword aimed at the West, a worldwide network of moneymen, coordinators, facilitators, propagandists and apologists who compose the terrorist network which delivered those 19 men to American airports.

The ability of our journalists, authors and press to expose these enablers and inform the American people, to discover and report the truth, is the most important weapon we have in the war on terror. The information they unearth informs not just the general public, but policymakers who must make choices about strategies and tactics, resources and priorities, allies and adversaries, in how best to fight this war. Without their work, we are all merely groping around in the dark.

The terrorists and their enablers know this.

That’s why American journalists and authors who relentlessly and doggedly pursue the truth about terrorism networks are being met with a barrage of libel lawsuits in kangaroo courts on phony-baloney libel charges in overseas jurisdictions who donât share our belief in freedom of speech or a free press.

England seems to be the enablers’ favorite forum, perhaps because since it is a Western country we might expect it to have libel laws which reflect what we Americans assume to be common Western values about freedom of speech, and to give an English libel judgment the same stamp of approval we would give an American one. In fact, America’s commitment to free speech and a free press is unique in the world. English libel law has barely evolved over the centuries. Authors are guilty until proven innocent, lack of negligence on the part of the author is irrelevant, statements of opinion are hardly more protected than statements of fact, an author=s unsuccessful effort to prove the truth of a statement can bring punitive damages and libel is even punishable as a misdemeanor crime.

New York author Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld, who has written extensively on terrorist financing, has experienced libel terrorism firsthand. Twenty-three copies of her book, Funding Evil: How Terrorism is Financed and How to Stop It, were sold in England over the internet. Additionally, a chapter of her book was available for viewing on the website of an American television network. On that basis, she was sued for libel in England by a Saudi businessman whom she identified in her book as a terrorist enabler through his financial support of organizations with terrorist ties.

What’s shocking is not that an English court found against Dr. Ehrenfeld (not only was the deck stacked against her in any event but Dr. Ehrenfeld, as a matter of principle and financial inability to defend herself overseas, declined to show up for her show trial), but that New Yorkâs courts have refused to recognize its jurisdiction over the Saudi businessman in order to hear Dr. Ehrenfeld’s suit to declare this libel judgment unenforceable in New York. Dr. Ehrenfeld lives and works in New York, her assets are in New York, and the English judgment requires her to take actions in New York to prevent her book and its assertions from ever reaching England again.

As Americans and as New Yorkers, we must to act to protect our journalists, authors and press.

Legislation which I have authored in New York with Senate Deputy Majority Leader Dean Skelos will overrule New York’s highest court and give Dr. Ehrenfeld the opportunity to make her case here in the United States. It will give New Yorks journalists, authors and press the tools they need to continue to fearlessly expose the truth about terrorism and its enablers, and will ensure that New York, and America, remain a beacon of free speech and a free press. Other states will, we hope, follow New York’s lead, and Congress itself will act to protect the entire country from the scourge of libel terrorism.

Mr. Lancman is a New York State Assemblyman, a Democrat in the Twenty-Fifth District, Queens.

Further information is available on: www.acdemocracy.org.

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Boycott Unilever: Help the Transatlantic Counterjihad

December 10th, 2007 — Atlas Shrugs, Boycott Islam, Europe, Geert Wilders, Islam, Rachel Ehrenfeld, YouTube, activism, cartoon censorship, censorship, counterjihad, video

Update 3/30/08:

Geert Wilders Floods 1389 Blog – Fitna Movie HERE

Fitna, The Movie Is Here – Where to See It?

Update 2/27/08: What did the near-worldwide YouTube outage have to do with Geert Wilders’ new movie? Click here to learn more! Fitna, The Movie: Due Out This Week

Boycott
Islam

From Atlas Shrugs:

Many of you have written me asking how you could help in any small way the fight against the Islamisation of Europe. Here is one way.

BOYCOTT UNILEVER

Long time Atlas readers know how much I admire Geert Wilders. I admire Wilders (the Dutch anti-Islamist politician) and I want to help him. If wish to join me you will have to stop using products such as Dove, Ben and Jerry’s, Lipton Tea and other brands of the Anglo-Dutch multinational Unilever. Last week one of the Dutch Unilever directors started an anti-Wilders campaign because “Wilders is evil, and evil has to be stopped.”

Brussels Journal has it all here.

This is the moral illness infecting the world, the inability to distinguish between good and evil

Why does Unilever allow its director to do this?
Perhaps because, as one of the comments at TBJ says:

A time back during the situation with the Danish cartoons a Danish company known as Arla Foods was hit pretty bad. They had recently invested a lot building up their clientelle in the Middle East only to have their sales plummet to zero as a result of the backlash over the cartoons. It is not unlikely that Unilever is afraid of a similar backlash against Dutch companies once Wilders’ film about Islam gets released. Unilever is trying to pro-actively stem the tide.

UPDATE: From the comments section:

File a complaint with Unilever at: http://www.unileverusa.com/resources/contactus.asp

Canadians: there is no province listed – therefore put a U.S. state in the appropriate box and explain in the contents why you have done so – otherwise your e-mail won’t go through as the state is required.

The following is a list of all products shown at their site: All, AXE, Ben & Jerry’s, Bertoli, Breyers, Caress, Degree, Dove, Good Humor, Hellmann’s, I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter, Klondike, Knorr, Lawry’s, Lever 2000, Lipton, Lipton Sides, Pond’s, Popsicle, Promise, Q Tips, Ragu, Country Crock, Skippy, Slim-Fast, Snuggle, Suave, Vaseline, Wish-Bone, Wisk

Once again another company bends over backwards to appease and please Islam. I am personally sick and tired of corporate entities and politicians cowering in the face of political Islam. With each concession made a little bit more of our children’s future disappears. Hit these bast–ds where it hurts – their annual profits and don’t buy their goods. But take it a step further and take a couple of seconds to write and tell them the reason for boycotting their products. Geert Wilders is the ONLY politician out there with the guts to put his life on the line and say enough to Islam. Are we going to let him stand alone? Normally I purchase many of products on the list. But I won’t buy these items any longer. I will not financially support companies that sell out to political Islam.