October 25, 2007
There's More Than One Guilty
There is a storm a-brewin'. Big time. And it's not anything new at this point. It boils down to accountability. To responsibility. To doing the right thing - standing by your words and/or actions. And accepting the consequences.
I told y'all in THIS post that there is more to the Scott Beauchamp story than we had read. There had to be.
Well....surprise surprise. There IS.
Let's look at the definition of libel (taken from Dictionary.com):
"1. Law.
a. defamation by written or printed words, pictures, or in any form other than by spoken words or gestures.
b. the act or crime of publishing it.
c. a formal written declaration or statement, as one containing the allegations of a plaintiff or the grounds of a charge.
2. anything that is defamatory or that maliciously or damagingly misrepresents.
This whole thing started because Scott Beauchamp made up some horrific stories. And then it was compounded when TNR published them as fact. BOTH of those things together make it a crime. Libel is a crime.
Beauchamp finally, for whatever reason, came clean with his part. TNR? Has not. And THAT is comin' back to bite them. Big time.
Does knowing that TNR deliberately withheld the truth from us lessen what STB did? No. No it does not.
Does any of this make up for the horrible lies he told about our military? Not at ALL.
And no one is asking you to look past any of that. What is happening now, hopefully, is that TNR will have to pony up for THEIR part of it. For THEIR lies.
When a group of people commit a crime, we go after the entire group. From the point man to the get away driver. EVERYONE is guilty. EVERYONE should be held accountable for their actions.
THAT is what is happening now. Oh, TNR is still trying to hold on to their innocence...but it's all unraveling now. As it should.
So, as this continues to be a story throughout the blogisphere, just keep that in mind. No one is asking that we over look what STB did. We are simply asking that all those involved in this diabolical be held accountable. Period.
Read Blackfive's take on it HERE.
And, as usual, Michelle Malkin has about the best round up HERE.
Posted by Tammi at October 25, 2007 06:39 AM | TrackBack