The empty threat of a bad example
You might remember a little while back that unter-blogger Guido Fawkes threatened to sue Tim Ireland for defamation. Well, Guido turned out to be more piss and wind than sturm und drang.
It’s been three weeks since Tim’s heard anything from the tax lawyer handling Guido’s case. Most of the communication involved pressing Tim for his home address and for him to fork out on a lawyer of his own.
Tim made a detailed public rebuttal. After waving his dick about, it turns out Guido wasn’t able to make it stand up:
Paul Staines (aka ‘Guido Fawkes’) was told to put up or shut up… and he chose the latter option.
On the subject of legal bullies, ‘Guido thinks it important to face down the clowns’. Who are we to disagree?
Tim’s a good friend of mine so obviously I’m doubly happy to see him face down this cocksure little shit. That interest declared, I also like to think that my support of freedom of speech extends beyond personal friendships. There’s some that can’t say the same.
Posted on February 20th, 2008 at 9:05 pm
Lost for words. Cheers, mate.
Thanks for the Guido/Schillings link, too. It’s been a hectic month, but I think I missed that particular bout of willy-waving.
I try not to get personally abusive about people I’ve never met. Since I tend not to get personally abusive to people’s faces, it seems unfair to do it hidden online.
That said, everything that I have read on various blogs of all colours over the past months have convinced me that Guido is an utter twat. Well done to Tim for standing up to him.
Guido is a penis shocker, tell me something I don’t know…
Some things are worth repeating.
I feel cheated. I practically accused him of being an apartheid agent-of-influence, and I didn’t get so much as a snarky comment…
Guido is pretty embarrassing for bloggers, especially political ones.
Still, maybe that’s the point. Mission accomplished.