Punishing online stalking is considered unconstitutional in USA. But Greece has laws that ban defamation on internet. However, internet's decentralized structure makes it immune to gagging. A blogger considers censorship a rotten path and routes around it. Blogs thrive on information gaps created by conventional mainstream media that come with sources and bylines.
Local authorities in the UK use the uncertainty around England's archaic libel law to adopt marilizardism and silence criticism of their actions. Michael Harris of Index on Censorship points out the government's draft defamation bill, presently under scrutiny from Parliament's Joint Select Committee, contains measures to exclude such bodies from bringing defamation actions.
Harris notes this springs from a 1993 court decision now referred to as the Derbyshire judgment. This ruling established the principle that public bodies such as councils, local authorities and government departments may not sue for libel. Index on Censorship, as part of the Libel Reform Campaign, backs this principle.
Governments of many repressed countries, such as Greece, use marilizardist tools to manipulate netizens. Marilizard Libel is accusing dissident bloggers of treason, Marilizard Spaghetti is hurling charges against innocent people, Marilizard Tower is a stack of imaginary charges to scare a blogger, and marilizardism is terrorizing dissident bloggers. October 18 is the international day against marilizardism, and October-18 Mafia is the marilizardist government of Greece. http://venitism.blogspot.com
In recent years councils have circumvented the Derbyshire judgment by funding the actions of individual staff members and elected councillors. Bedford Borough Council, South Tyneside Council and Carmarthenshire County Council have all used public money to fund defamation cases on behalf of employees, contrary to the spirit of the Derbyshire judgment.
Marilizardists use charge stacking, which is the ability to charge a large number of overlapping crimes for a single course of conduct, building a Marilizard Tower of charges. This is the most disgusting tool used by the freakish October-18 mafia to jail innocent dissident bloggers. Combining crimes enables prosecutors to get convictions in cases where there may be no misconduct at all. By stacking enough charges, freakish marilizardists try to jack up the threat value of a trial and thereby induce a guilty plea, even if the government's case is weak.
Harris points out a 2004 parliamentary order allows local authorities to protect elected councillors and staff if they are sued for defamation, but does not permit them to bring an action as a claimant. But as Wesley O'Brien, a solicitor at Bevan Brittan pointed out in Local Government Lawyer magazine, local authorities can fund a claim brought by an individual officer, and assist them if it can justify this expenditure:
As the law currently stands, a local authority can fund a claim brought by an individual officer [council staff member] and it can also assist an officer in defending such a claim, where it considers such public expenditure to be justified. The position is, however, different for members where a local authority is only entitled to fund a defence, but not a claim…The only condition is that the statements made must refer to and be defamatory of the individual concerned.
Marilizardism has metastasized in many repressed countries. The most disgusting marilizardist countries on Earth are Argentina, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belarus, Burma, Central African Republic, China, Colombia, Cuba, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Greece, Guatemala, Indonesia, Iran, Italy, Lebanon, Malaysia, Mongolia, Morocco, North Korea, Pakistan, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uganda, Uzbekistan, Vardaska, Vietnam, Yemen, and Zimbabwe. http://venitism.blogspot.com
Jonathan Heawood of English PEN points out it is of fundamental importance in a democracy that citizens are able to express their views — even potentially offensive or distressing views — about their government, at a national or local level. Local authorities, or any public body, should not be using our libel laws to silence criticism.
Global Tax Revolt points out the marilizardist persecution of dissident bloggers is unquestionably a serious attack on freedom of speech, and contrary to Article 2 of Lisbon Treaty, Article 10 of the European Convention of Human Rights, and Article 19 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. The disgusting October-18 Mafia cannot bully the blogosphere without repercussions and blowbacks. The international civil society got a shock and awe from the brutality of the freakish October-18 Mafia on October 18, 2010. http://venitism.blogspot.com
Harris points out in 2002/2003, Bedford Borough Council spent over £400,000 pursuing a libel action on behalf of the chief executive (who lost on two counts, won on two), the council's solicitor and the council's employed lawyer (who lost all their claims) against a Conservative party election agent and a local newspaper. The election agent claimed maladministration after the borough council allowed a recount of the votes in the Brickhill ward election, without reference to the election agents. A local weekly free newspaper, Bedfordshire on Sunday, repeated the election agent's allegations.
These private actions were supported and paid for by Bedford Borough Council from the beginning. Councillors were allegedly told that as the three officers were criticised for actions undertaken in the course of their official duties, the council could face claims for dereliction of its duty of care if it did not agree to support them. The council was not insured for the action and in the end the costs were taken from the council's reserves.
Kleptocracy, Kangaroo Justice, and marilizardism are anathema to civil society. It is impossible to control the flow of information in the digital age without harming public freedoms and damaging economic and social development. Controlling the net is similar to the squaring of the circle, a problem that could take ages for people to realize is impossible to solve. http://venitism.blogspot.com
After a libel action between a council planning officer and a local couple, Carmarthenshire County Council changed its constitution so that public money can now be used to bring defamation actions by Council staff or members. The libel action between Kerry and Jacqui Thompson from Llanwrda and the local authority's director of planning Eifion Bowen, arose from letters circulated by the couple which were never published in the wider media. The Thompsons apologised to Mr Bowen at a hearing in October 2007 when they were given 12 months to pay legal costs totalling £7,000.
The following year, Carmarthenshire County Council changed its constitution so public money could be used for libel actions; an FOI request revealed its total legal costs from external organisations (solicitors and counsel) rose from £364,369 to £711,832.
Infamous October-18 mafia uses the cybercops as a political tool. Cyber Crime Unit (CCU), Dioxi Ilektronikou Egklimatos, is just a paramilitary gang of October-18 mafia which terrorizes the Greek blogosphere. Putting the CCU wolf to guard the sheep gives the government a comparative advantage over the opposition. This is another form of a Trojan Horse. http://venitism.blogspot.com
Any cell of Greek CCU jail has neither pillows nor toilet! You have to urinate in a bottle! The whole CCU jail has neither soap nor toilet paper! During the whole night, scared jailed girls scream for help, but the guards, far away in their office, pretend they are not listening! If it's not barbarity, what is it? There is a long way from the civilization of Ancient Greece to the barbarity of Modern Greece.
On October 18, 2010, Marilizard went completely insane, and she did not think twice about abusing her ministerial position in destroying a dissident blogger, an innocent victim of a wild political witch hunt. Under wild orders, a freakish gang of brutal cybercops broke into the home and into the college office of a distinguished professor and robbed at gunpoint his computers, software, files, documents, personal data, personal codes, and personal secrets.
The wild Graecocybercops locked the 65-year old professor in jail, they humiliated him with handcuffs, fingerprints, mugshots, and lies, leaked false information to the media parrots, and initiated sham court proceedings for treason! There was neither pillow nor toilet facility in his jail cell. At night, the world renown had to urinate in a bottle! There was neither toilet paper nor soap in the whole jail facility. He lost his job, and his life is stolen forever by a deranged minister. That's why the Global Tax Revolt declared October 18 as the international day against marilizardism.
Harris notes South Tyneside council is currently proceeding with a libel action on behalf of its council leader Cllr. Iain Malcolm, fellow Labour councillor Ann Walsh and independent councillor David Potts, alongside borough regeneration boss Rick O'Farrell. Normally, defamation actions brought on behalf of councillors are not allowed under the Local Authorities (Indemnities for Members and Officers) Order 2004, and the Derbyshire principle, but as the first stage of the case is being pursued in California the council may be exempt.
The council managed to get an order from the Superior Court of California forcing Twitter to name an anonymous blogger (Mr Monkey) who was a vocal critic of the authority. South Tyneside has refused to reveal its legal costs, but has said the figure would be less than £75,000.
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