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upi402 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-11-11 09:06 PM
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SPLC; sue Palin like it did Metzger for $12.5Million
Edited on Tue Jan-11-11 09:37 PM by upi402
The civil suit SPLC filed against Tom and John Metzger and their organization was controversial even among some progressives, but SPLC was able to establish in court that the murder of Seraw had been directly inspired by the Metzgers’ call to turn hate into action and thereby the Metzgers’ statements were direct incitements to violence rather than constitutionally protected speech

"The upshot was a $12.5 million judgment against the Metzgers and WAR that took all the property and forced them out of the San Diego area."

http://zengersmag.blogspot.com/2010/10/church-program-honors-southern-poverty.html

I guess it wouldn't have to be the Southern Poverty Law Center or the Anti Defamation League. But they have the right stuff. Metzger is still paying Mulugeta Seraw's family I believe.
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upi402 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-11-11 09:34 PM
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1. Mulugeta Seraw was murdered by Metzgers White Arian Nation
Edited on Tue Jan-11-11 09:38 PM by upi402
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulugeta_Seraw

On the night of 12 November 1988, Ken "Death" Mieske, Kyle Brewster, and Steve Strasser, members of groups known as East Side White Pride and White Aryan Resistance (WAR), were driving around Portland with their girlfriends, headed home. The three confronted two black men, including Seraw, who had been dropped off in front of his apartment.<1> Subsequently, Seraw was beaten to death with a baseball bat on Southeast 31st Avenue.<2> The three perpetrators and their girlfriends left Seraw in a puddle of his own blood


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somone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-11-11 09:57 PM
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2. Yes, hit them in the pocketbook
Edited on Tue Jan-11-11 09:57 PM by somone
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TNLib Donating Member (683 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-11-11 10:03 PM
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3. I think this is why Palin is being quiet
she knows that she is going to be slammed with law suits.
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upi402 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-11-11 11:54 PM
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4. expect a war for tort reform
Edited on Tue Jan-11-11 11:55 PM by upi402
The next media distraction, if the victims and families sue her, them, the media assclowns et al
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