A court case where the method is far more important than the result

In the following Project veritas video, James O’keefe video, a teacher who had been secretly filmed by a Project Veritas associate, sued for defamation and lost.

To be honest, I think it was a weak bust. A teacher who, for all we know, had a really difficult large class of tough kids who make teaching a near impossibility, not saying it is this way, but its more than a little easy to believe it was, had a routine he did where he offered to let students fight him. No idea if this ever really happened and no idea if it wasn’t a schtick to earn street cred with students.

But there is one thing that is critically important and critically good about this case:

The judge decided 100% based on what was true and not true.

He decided against the claimant as there could not have been defamation because what was said about him and the video evidence showed it to be true.

This is as central to classical civilization as anything can be.

In communism as we are learning very quickly, what is true does not matter but what collective the parties involved are imputed to belong to. If the plaintiff is white and the defendant is black there will be a different outcome than if they belonged to other groups as assigned by the authorities’ prevailing ideology.

In Islam, it is very similar but much simpler.

The decision again, has nothing at all to do with truth, and everything to do with whether or not Islam is advantaged or disadvantaged by the information presented.

Defamation, liable and slander in any culture that is an intact descendant of Greek thought, MUST make its verdicts based on what can be shown to be true using logic, reason, and evidence.

But in Islam it is 100% based on what serves the interests of Islam and its position of authority. What is true plays exactly no part in any verdict.

This is not me saying it. This is codified in The Cairo Declaration of Human Rights presented to the UN via the OIC as official doctrine.

So whatever you feel about this odd case between what I think is a high school teacher and Project Veritas, we can rejoice that at least our legal system at that time and that place is intact.

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Canadian artist and counter-jihad and freedom of speech activist as well as devout Schrödinger's catholic

One Reply to “A court case where the method is far more important than the result”

  1. “Defamation, liable and slander in any culture that is an intact descendant of Greek thought, MUST make its verdicts based on what can be shown to be true using logic, reason, and evidence.”

    Proving guilt or worse, proving innocence.

    Logic, Reason and Evidence.
    The Law. Offended. Hate Crimes.
    Prove one of these, and every defense
    Is thrown to the lions of the times.