Me: <Does the Fifth Amendment cover when we can hear you *thinking* it at the top of your mental voice? :-)>
Dana: <Military law has always drawn a distinction between "mutiny" and "dumb insolence">
and Jacqui: <And what about Orac's remark to Dorian that a statement of fact cannot be insolent?>
<grin> I can make a good guess to what Dana was thinking about my beloved Fearless Leader and it'll be a cold day down below when I admit *that* as fact ...
(OTOH, knowing Dana, it'll still be entertainingly stated :-))
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Merci, Sally!
Jacqui said:
<And what about Orac's remark to Dorian that a statement of fact cannot be insolent?>
Not to mention that in U.S. law, a statement of OPINION generally will not be considered libelous. Oh, and I think we can assume that Blake is a public figure, so additional latitude is given before negative statements will be considered defamatory.
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