Sandmann’s lawyer announces Nathan Phillips to be sued, despite his shallow pockets
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One of the attorneys representing Covington High School student Nick Sandmann and his parents confirmed to LifeSiteNews that Native American activist Nathan Phillips, and some of the others who have received notices from the attorneys, “will be sued.”
Lin Wood, an Atlanta-based lawyer, told LifeSite yesterday that Phillips’ “lies and false accusations” against Sandmann and the other Covington students are “well documented.”
They’re well-documented, all right. And most people—even many of those who’ve followed the story plenty closely—don’t know how extremely vicious Phillips was towards the boys, as I pointed out in this post. He repeatedly committed the malicious and purposeful character assassination of a bunch of high school students, and would have gotten away with it if the longer videos hadn’t surfaced.
He deserves to be sued, even though he almost certainly doesn’t have the money to pay. It’s important to set a precedent about defamation and its consequences—although perhaps the precedent set will be that, if you defame someone and you’re not rich, you won’t suffer much and you’ll get more than your 15 minutes of fame. I have little doubt that many leftist groups will fall all over themselves to provide good attorneys for Phillips.
I would urge everyone to read the excellent piece entitled “Shame Storm” about the consequences of being persecuted by howling and crazed SJW mobs on Twitter. It was written by the brilliant young conservative Helen Andrews, who was interviewed last night by Brian Lamb on C-Span.
Yes he does deserve to be sued … and I imagine that suits him well, as you suggest, and perhaps whatever moneybags is behind him. –Would this be our pal George?
He deserves it, and the fact that he won’t pay much money because he doesn’t have it is not important. Presumably other defendants will pay more than enough to cover the attorneys’ fees for the Sandmanns.
Besides slandering this young man on national TV, Phillips is reported to be doing some possibly illegal fund-raising. Indian tribes in America have enough trouble without being “represented” by such a shifty character.
If those young men don’t walk away with a series of serious “wins,” there’s no justice left in this world.
Sue them all bankrupt!
Found it! Helen Andrews, Q&A, Brian Lamb, just under an hour:
https://www.c-span.org/video/?456640-1/qa-helen-andrews
I see she’s the managing editor of the Washington Examiner. Thanks, j e !
One of the very few Facebook friends I still have who a flaming liberal posted a meme honoring the “heroic” Phillips and complaining, in non-family-friendly language about the horrible racist teenagers.
The MSM have made this guy out to be a literal “hero” when he’s just another example of a useless lefty agitator. If this lawsuit can help change that perception (I’m guessing it won’t), then it will accomplish some good.
One of the defects in our legal system is that while, as the winner of legal action, you can get a monetary penalty imposed on the guilty, you or the state often can’t collect it.
The guilty party may not have any real assets.
Or, if canny, they can try to hide or transfer some of their assets elsewhere.
If they can afford lawyers they can use all sorts of legal maneuvers to dodge payment–see Al Shapton.
They can try to disappear–see the case of Tawana Brawley,
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They can claim to be unable to work, or deliberately take very low paying jobs, so that they won’t generate enough income to make any meaningful payments towards paying off their penalty.
It seems to me that when Judges hand out these essentially meaningless financial penalties against guilty people who can’t or won’t pay, the alternative to not paying substantially towards their penalty, and in a reasonable but short period of time, ought to automatically be jail time.
If this means bringing back debtor’s prisons, so be it.
” he almost certainly doesn’t have the money to pay.”
We still have three debtors prisons Virginia. Alas, now they are just tourist attractions.
https://infogalactic.com/info/Debtors%27_Prison_(Worsham,_Virginia)
Good. Bear in mind the old axiom “The process is the punishment”.
A suit will just bring Mr. Phillips more coverage (and zero financial penalty), which will suit him just fine and not provide a deterrence for others.
Isn’t there any criminal action which might be taken which might result in jail time?
Snow on Pine beat me to it. Have things changed enough since Brawley/Sharpton to cause real consequences for Phillips?
CNN should be good for Nate’s tab.
An investigation of his possible 501(c)3 infractions for fraud might be fruitful.
clap, clap, clap.
I do hope the high school student and his family win. And, I feel that suing the “not so deep pockets” proves that it is NOT about the money.
Follow the money. Someone is financing the odious fellow. His financiers are accomplices to libel and slander. Go after the deep pockets.
One silver lining; some of those celebrities have the ability to pay, make them pay “through the nose”.
You can be sure this joker already has a chunk of a book deal in the works. Doesn’t matter if he’s an illiterate stool.
Better to have him as a party than just a witness.
“Mr. Phillips, tell the jury how you escaped from the Nebraska State Penitentiary before the age of 25.”
Phillips is now enough of a famous hero to enough people to find himself gifted through Go fundme or somesuch, or maybe just given a job at a college as a “diversity and equity” facilitator, to make this worthwhile. Absent a judgement against him, this episode will be his ticket to the good life.
Retail Lawyer — if Phillips gets some idiots fo fund his defense, then I hope they have the pleasure of seeing all their money go to the boys, in the same way that Stormy Daniels’ supporters got to watch Pres. Trump pick up their bucks.
https://www.npr.org/2018/12/11/675872841/stormy-daniels-ordered-to-pay-trump-293-000-in-fees-in-defamation-lawsuit
If big chief, spiritual drummer shows up with a full set of teeth, we know Soros is there in the not so dim shadows.
He needs to face bankruptcy for his vicious deed,
j e delivered the goods with the reference to Helen Andrews above. Just finished the video, which I think was very interesting. She knows about the “Shame Storms” from personal experience.
Her essay is published in the magazine First Things. I shall now go and read it, at
https://www.firstthings.com/article/2019/01/shame-storm
Again, thanks, j e .
Yes. Good.
Apply heat to this tom-tom tappin’ sleazeball.
We’ll see if the MSM runs interference for him.
Yes, good. He should be sued, and he should lose.
Then, all those who quoted him, without further investigation or corroboration, it should be easier to win judgements. And lots of those others DO have deep pockets.
Plus, a judgement against Phillips might make it tougher for him to travel? Maybe just a bit more coordination with his donors, tho that might show up in legal issues, too.
He sounded feeble-minded to me in some of he interviews. Will this give him sympathy? Better he should jus disappear, but I do like Cornhead’s scenario, too! In any case, I would like to see him made an example of.
Phillips has some “non-profit” NGO that he raises funds from and lives off. No indication it has any other purpose that to subsidise him. Sandmann should take all that.
Follow the money. Someone is financing the odious fellow. His financiers are accomplices to libel and slander. Go after the deep pockets.
Yes. Finding the people who pay Phillips is not easy as they hide behind groups like this.
I found the site a couple of weeks ago but don’t have the link now. He had his photo in Vogue magazine last year.