Mr. & Ms. Amerikkka
April 18th, 2005 at 1:12 pm by Preston Taylor Holmes
Digger’s Realm reports that Stephen and Virginia Pearcy (a/k/a Mr. & Ms. Amerikkka) are now threatening certain bloggers with lawsuits over coverage of their anti-American soldier-hanging-in-effigy exploits.
Mark Butterworth looks to be the first victim of the Pearcy’s hurt feelings – read this post concerning a phone call he got from Mr. Pearcy not long ago. Understandably, this has pissed Mark off, and hopefully he will countersue for the emotional distress of receiving a phone call from a Marxist.
More on Stephen (“For the last time, I wasn’t in RATT!”) Pearcy and his bearded man-wife Hagatha here and here.
UPDATE:
To clarify, which I think is necessary due to some of the comments here and at Digger’s place, I don’t support the whole “contact the employer” strategy. It’s not that different from Michael Rogers’ gay outing crusade against other bloggers by harassing the bloggers’ webhosts. Contacting employers may even be worse, since you’re going after someone’s livelihood. Is it illegal? Probably not. Is it a questionable tactic? Probably.
This caveat does not change the fact that I would still like a bear to shit in Steven and Virginia’s mouths while they sleep.
April 18th, 2005 at 1:29 pm
Hagatha! Haha
April 18th, 2005 at 1:31 pm
On a more serious note, when is urging people to voice their displeasure with someone’s actions illegal?
April 18th, 2005 at 1:33 pm
From my limited legal knowledge, I don’t think it is, Digger. It sounds to me that the Pearcys are merely trying to intimidate. We’ll see if they really want to try and take something like that to court.
April 18th, 2005 at 1:39 pm
Stephen And Virginia Pearcy Threaten Bloggers With Lawsuits
You remember the Pearcy’s, the ones who hung a soldier effigy from their second house in Sacramento while they ran off to Berkeley forcing their neighbors and tenants to deal with the fallout of their political hate speech. Well…
April 18th, 2005 at 2:57 pm
Ratt! Oh geez.. my co-workers are going to stare because I can’t stop laughing!
April 18th, 2005 at 4:20 pm
Won’t that make them hypocrites? I mean, they are pissed because someone else is expression their free speech in retaliation to their own free speech?
Liberals. Geez. Hell, even liberals are better than these losers. Let’s get a gang together and toss their asses over the mexican border.
April 18th, 2005 at 4:21 pm
Attn Genius: One doesn’t have to commit an illegal act in order to be sued.:roll:
April 18th, 2005 at 4:32 pm
I will countersue for damages, attorney’s fees (if I can’t get some pro bono work), and court costs, but I am going to wait for Pearcy to file against me, although I think I could probably make a pre-emptive strike on a number of issues like prior restraint, and anti-SLAPP suit law.
If he does go to an attorney who actually knows the law, Pearcy will learn that he’s as bad a lawyer as an American.
April 18th, 2005 at 6:16 pm
You know, with these libertards, I really don’t know any conservative equivalents on the opposite spectrum. Just how nuts can someone get?
Apparently, very.
April 18th, 2005 at 6:53 pm
Stephen And Virginia Pearcy Threaten Bloggers With Lawsuits
You remember the Pearcy’s, the ones who hung a soldier effigy from their second house in Sacramento while they ran off to Berkeley forcing their neighbors and tenants to deal with the fallout of their political hate speech. Well…
April 18th, 2005 at 8:34 pm
California Sickos
Remember Stephen and Virginia Pearcy? They’re the lovely little California couple who thought a great way to express their opposition to the war in Iraq would be to hang an effigy of a dead American soldier on their house (twice). Well, now it seems t…
April 18th, 2005 at 9:14 pm
Hey Pearcy – get the fuck out
You, Mr. Pearcy & Mrs. Pearcy ARE NOT AMERICANS. Let me tell you why. You denounce America by saying fuck our government, and burn the American flag. You are no longer Americans in my mind, and
April 18th, 2005 at 10:49 pm
Actually, Mark, I was half joking about the countersuit. I don’t think you’ll actually be sued – I think it’s just a bunch of blustering from a couple of polesmoking idiots.
And thanks for the lesson in civil litigation, Ralph. Without you, I’d be adrift on a sea of ignunce.
April 18th, 2005 at 11:30 pm
Great posts today. Are you taking Enzyte now?
Be nice to Ralph. You should see the trolls the Frog Blog keeps sending.
April 19th, 2005 at 9:57 pm
Butterworth is truly an idiot! He’s one of those pathetic soles who rotely repeats that same old cliche, “Free speech has consequences.” He expects that statement to end the discussion.
Well, Mr. Misguided-Issue-Spotter-Butterworth, if something said is “free speech,” then, by definition, it is “protected speech.” That means it’s supposed to be protected from UNLAWFUL consequences.
When the Pearcys placed the dummy on their house, they engaged in protected speech. Your defamatory speech and tortious interference with Ms. Pearcy’s business relationship–your so-called “consequences”–were not protected speech. Your “consequences” are exactly the kind of thing from which the First Amendment is intended to protect us all.
Butterworth is an idiot who gives conservatives a bad name.