From The Blog Of Walker:
Thursday, December 2, 2010
Show your support for Mark and Connie Fournier
If you’re in Ottawa, you might want to think about showing up in court for this. Via my inbox:
I am sending this email to my friends who are in the Ottawa area, and/or who are bloggers who might have readers in the Ottawa area because I am hoping to get people to come out to our Motion hearing on December 7th, and I hope that you will be able to come, or, at least, to help us spread the word.
In this Motion, Richard Warman will, once again, attempt to get personal information on Free Dominion “John Does” that he claims have defamed him. We intend to make some very important arguments about the culture of the internet and the context of forums and blogs that makes them different from other, “publications”.
We would REALLY appreciate having a lot of seats filled with our supporters at this hearing as this will be the first time the new law that was made in our Divisional Court hearing will be tested, and we think the precedent is going to be extremely important for freedom of speech on the internet, as it could raise the bar significantly as to what should be considered “defamatory”.
The hearing will take place at 9am on Monday, December 7th at the Court House at 161 Elgin St. in Ottawa.
Please pass this message along to anyone you think might be able to come.
And, if you are the praying type…please remember us on Tuesday!
Connie
I will pray for you.