"Cowardice asks the question...is it safe? Expediency asks the question...is it politic? Vanity asks the question...is it popular? But conscience asks the question...is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but one must take it because it is right." ~Dr. Martin Luther King

Monday 6 February 2012

More Than Defamation

Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "The Network Has More Work To do":

7:42 PM
The CAO and the Town Clerk were at the closed meeting that launched the defamation suit against residents so we will be finding out if they supported the idea or not.

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I can assure you, neither the CAO or the Town Clerk would be in the position of offering or withholding support for a lawsuit to be launched against residents of the community.

Several  Councillors in the room  claimed afterwards they were  unaware the resolution  passed gave the town solicitor authority to proceed with litigation.

I believe them .

On the other hand, Councillor Collins Mrakas and myself did not attend the meeting because the issue was not  the town's affair..

Another comment suggests litigation undertaken by myself against six individuals is being funded by tax dollars.

That is not the case.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Was the comment by 7:42 referring to the Aurora case or the Georgina one?

Anonymous said...

The past few days have been heavy going and the Culture Vulture will be realizing they under-estimated the town and its council. Since you are the only visible target for their fury, your comments will likely be worse than usual. Weed them out and, if necessary, have a slow day on your Blog. You have better things to do than sort garbage.

Anonymous said...

I'm not sure that I believe that a lawsuit was not discussed. What else could have been the subject of a conversation on possible defamation?

Anonymous said...

"Several Councillors in the room claimed afterwards they were unaware the resolution passed gave the town solicitor authority to proceed with litigation."

The resolution contained the following words: to "use any and all means to address potential defamation."

The subject of defamation is a very serious and offensive one and an obvious recourses is litigation, a law suit.

Perhaps the Councillors were being disingenuous, or downright stupid, for their post-meeting utterances.

Deputy Mayor McRoberts is the only one whose comments are credible; Gallo and Granger are not.

As to what the CAO and Town Clerk said by way of contribution during the meeting we don't know, and neither do you, since you were not present.

One must seriously assume that neither of these gentlemen would speak either for or against a lawsuit directed toward residents of the town.

But we DO NOT KNOW sine the matter was a closed session, and therefore confidential.

Which leaves us where?