As if anyone is surprised here. Gloria's stuff gets kicked for a technicality. Wyman gets kicked on technicalities (despite the fact these cases involve jurisdiction) and the ARDC tells me it simply cannot figure out how the Illinois Citizens Participation Act applies to Lawyers!
Well, let's take out a loan and buy the ARDC a clue. First of all, we have the Illinois and US constitutions. As if graft and corruption cannot figure out those 2 basic documents, one of which has functioned quite effectively for 225+ years, then we have a Federal Law, section 230 which says:
No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.
Which gives complete immunity to blogs such as mine.
The ARDC says that will not apply to me. Why? Who or what is telling them that? I want to know.
Also the ARDC has hinted at the fact, I cannot claim the traditional affirmative defenses to my case, namely: "fair reporting", "litigation reporting", "innocent construction" (which means that the most benign construction of any sentence or phrase must be used), and many other defenses developed under Illinois case law, nor can I used 43 USC 230 which is the internet immunity act which Congress and the US President thought was fair and fit to promulgate. Further, the Illinois and US Constitution First Amendment and Article X will only be utilized in "sparing amounts" and probably don't apply to me as a lawyer blogging on corruption.
Apparently lawyers cannot blog on corruption. We cannot make the world a safer place. We must choose between our law licenses and allowing the US to run amok and not in keeping with what the Framers wanted--freedom from tyranny.
The old enemy was the Red Coats which we shot on sight for their oppressive ways.
The new enemy is the bureaucracy and "rules" which do not follow the laws of the land for reasons which are a complete mystery.
Myself, Atty Ken Ditkowsky and Atty Amu Lanre are under attack for reporting corruption. Just as Daniel Ellsburg found a tough road, just as Julian Assange found a tough road, just as Eric Snowdon is finding that the world is a cold, cruel place, we suffer the same indignities.
But we will fight for YOUR rights to be free from oppression. When you get elderly, WE will be there, perhaps not as lawyers, but as bloggers and emailers to ensure that you will NOT be placed in a nursing home against your will, property liquidated to pay exhorbitant nursing home fees and then depleted and then you live on the streets, eating out of garbage cans, going to soup kitchens, living in SRO's and boarding houses until the day you die.
We don't want that for you. There are better ways.
And we will keep on talking and blogging and talking and blogging. We will tell the stories of those that have been there: Sykes, Tyler, Gore, Bedin, Wyman, etc.
You are not fogotten.
Read the ARDC Motion to Dismiss my appeal to the Illinois Court of Appeals because the Illinois Citizen Participation Act (anti SLAPP) supposedly gives me no protection from blogging about corruption:
It's short, just a few pages.
Now read my Response thereto--33 pages of US Supreme Court law and cases.
Let's see what the Illinois First District court of appeals does. I know they are under heavy fire from a whole lot of interest groups to get rid of me and Ken and other bugs that need to be squashed.
Let's see if there is any truth to the rumor that the US truly is home to the free and the brave.
Or has is the cottage industry so heavily entrenched over time and over decades and over "the machine" that there is no room for justice, for grandma and grandpa.
JoAnne
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