"...five disgruntled readers have filed a class-action lawsuit against President Jimmy Carter and his publisher, Simon & Schuster, alleging that his 2006 book Palestine Peace Not Apartheid contained numerous false and knowingly misleading statements intended to promote the author's agenda of anti-Israel propaganda and to deceive the reading public instead of presenting accurate information as advertised.
In a press release, one of the attorneys, Nitsana Darshan-Leitner stated: "The lawsuit will expose all the falsehoods and misrepresentations in Carter's book and prove that his hatred of Israel has led him to commit this fraud on the public. He is entitled to his opinions but deceptions and lies have no place in works of history."
Adam Rothberg, a spokesman for Simon & Schuster, said in a statement sent to The Washington Post: This lawsuit is frivolous, without merit, and is a transparent attempt by the plaintiffs, despite their contentions, to punish the author, a Nobel Peace prize winner and world-renowned statesmen, and his publisher, for writing and publishing a book with which the plaintiffs simply disagree. It is a chilling attack on free speech that we intend to defend vigorously.
Political Bookworm - President Carter named in $5 million lawsuit over his "Palestine" book
The above is exactly what conservatives have warned about and railed against: attempts to muzzle words and ideas with which one disagrees...
...and a great argument for loser-pays tort reform.
"European political structure is built upon a very different tradition of constructivist rationalism; the future is endangered by the failure of many conservatives to see the dangers in a European and global governance, popular with the US administration, that lacks democratic accountability and threatens liberal freedoms."
https://www.hillsdale.edu/news/imprimis/archive/issue.asp?year=2008&month=06
In a press release, one of the attorneys, Nitsana Darshan-Leitner stated: "The lawsuit will expose all the falsehoods and misrepresentations in Carter's book and prove that his hatred of Israel has led him to commit this fraud on the public. He is entitled to his opinions but deceptions and lies have no place in works of history."
Adam Rothberg, a spokesman for Simon & Schuster, said in a statement sent to The Washington Post: This lawsuit is frivolous, without merit, and is a transparent attempt by the plaintiffs, despite their contentions, to punish the author, a Nobel Peace prize winner and world-renowned statesmen, and his publisher, for writing and publishing a book with which the plaintiffs simply disagree. It is a chilling attack on free speech that we intend to defend vigorously.
Political Bookworm - President Carter named in $5 million lawsuit over his "Palestine" book
The above is exactly what conservatives have warned about and railed against: attempts to muzzle words and ideas with which one disagrees...
...and a great argument for loser-pays tort reform.
"European political structure is built upon a very different tradition of constructivist rationalism; the future is endangered by the failure of many conservatives to see the dangers in a European and global governance, popular with the US administration, that lacks democratic accountability and threatens liberal freedoms."
https://www.hillsdale.edu/news/imprimis/archive/issue.asp?year=2008&month=06
