Sex & the Swastika

Ann Oy annoy at innocent.com
Tue Jan 11 18:36:29 CST 2000


rj wrote:
>pm
>> Hard to conceive of any American writer having legal problems over
>> anything he might say about a President.
>
>I'd say the libel laws would apply, particularly in the civil courts.
>They do here, anyway, as a recent case reported in the media
>demonstrated.  . . .

No one of minimal sanity or maturity would have wanted to mess with Nixon
or his pals who clearly played for keeps. There is no assurance of who was
on who's payroll nor is there any certainty of who was running the US
government at the time in question. Think spooks, ex-spooks, politics, drug
culture and geography.



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