BTPer files frivolous suit

We've established that the recent Tea Parties were organized by idiots, but now it's becoming even more obvious just how out of touch they are with this planet.

Here's the background. It seems that someone has set up a blog ridiculing the Tea Parties:

http://teablogging.net

I didn't know about this blog until just a few days ago. As the pop-up media has cheered the Tea Parties, dissenting blogs haven't received any coverage that I know of.

Anybip, that blog is now the target of a libel suit in small claims court by some nobody named Michael Leahy. Leahy helped start a right-wing Twitter account and is heavily involved with the Tea Parties.

Leahy's complaint is that the blog exposed the fact that he has several tax liens and suggested that this may be a sign that he is a tax cheat.

Note that the blog doesn't come right out and call him a tax fraud. The blog is merely speculating.

Although Michael Leahy isn't even famous enough to receive a Wikipedia article (unlike a writer of the same name), he has chosen to place himself in the public eye by helping organize so many political activities. So it's not unfair for a blog to speculate on whether having multiple tax liens makes him a tax cheat.

In other words, Leahy has no case.

I think Michael Leahy is just trying to suppress criticism. This is almost certainly a SLAPP suit, and the court needs to come down hard on him.

The Far Right has a history of trying to silence critics. We've seen it in the NKU arrest, and we're seeing it now. The free flow of ideas is alien to them.

(Source: http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/5/19/733183/-Liberal-blogger-sued-for-libel-by-teabagger-Michael-Leahy)