{"id":1892,"date":"2011-09-11T20:52:19","date_gmt":"2011-09-12T00:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddempire.org\/weblog\/?p=1892"},"modified":"2016-03-18T21:22:15","modified_gmt":"2016-03-19T01:22:15","slug":"chip-coffey-cds-scifake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/2011\/09\/11\/chip-coffey-cds-scifake\/","title":{"rendered":"Chip Coffey C&Ds SciFake."},"content":{"rendered":"

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And the Lulz continues. Chip and Ron Tebo’s SciFake page have been going after each other for the last year or so. After some unspecified comments, Chip Coffey decided he’d had enough and called his\u00a0lawyer\u00a0to send (this)<\/a> to Ron and the\u00a0denizens\u00a0of SciFake. As usual I woke the “Hounds of Hell,” being “the legal agency\u00a0of Labrusky, Skinflint, Shyster, and his larger brother Leo. As usual the\u00a0senor\u00a0partners were busy with some vile thing, but I did sit down with Leo Shyster to go over the letter and this is what he said.<\/p>\n

Please note that this is NOT legal advice and it’s for\u00a0entertainment\u00a0purposes\u00a0only. I say this\u00a0because there are a number of you funseekers out there who take this and yourselves way to\u00a0seriously! You know who you are and I know who you are.<\/p>\n

Basically\u00a0the letter says this;<\/p>\n

Your webpage (SciFAke.com) “hosts posts” which are\u00a0damaging\u00a0to Chip Coffey. (A public person and\u00a0celebrity.) <\/strong><\/p>\n

We are preparing\u00a0litigation against some of the people who comment on your site.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Please remove the\u00a0relevant\u00a0comments at once. <\/strong><\/p>\n

and , defamation is not a protected form of\u00a0expression.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“…Well!” said Leo Shyster after sniffing around the letter for a\u00a0while. This is a pretty stinky kettle of fish. They didn’t send this to you did they?<\/p>\n

“OMG no” I said, ” not this time anyway. I got this off of Ron Tebo’s SciFake web page.”<\/p>\n

“Sheeze of all the dumb things.” said Leo.” First off, this is really a Cease and\u00a0Desist\u00a0letter\u00a0even\u00a0though those words \u00a0ain’t on it. C&Ds are\u00a0legal\u00a0time-line starts for the most part. and part scarifying devices. They server to mark the\u00a0beginning\u00a0of a legal action while at the same time pointing out whatever is offending the “client.”<\/p>\n

This Chip Coffey\u00a0probably\u00a0takes\u00a0umbrage\u00a0over some of \u00a0of the the SciFake comments and wants the publisher\/editor to know it. He’s also probably\u00a0interested is crushing any negative comments on that page and encouraging people to stop talking about him unless it’s of a\u00a0complementary\u00a0nature.”<\/p>\n

“How do you know so much about Chip Coffey?” I asked.<\/p>\n

“Simple,” He said. “A lot of lame junk like this gets passed around when some dufus gets their panties in a wad. People make all kinds of stupid comments on news items and forums. Some people take this stuff a little too\u00a0personally and it’s best to ignore trolling pages like SciFake anyway unless you are into such things. \u00a0But some people want to\u00a0challenge whatever it is that pissed them off. The only legal way is to take them to court and convince a judge that the comments are damaging or\u00a0defamatory\u00a0in some way. The problem with this crap is the\u00a0statement\u00a0has to be\u00a0factual\u00a0or at least sound factual. If it’s an\u00a0opinion\u00a0than it’s not actionable.<\/p>\n

“Why do you think SciFake is\u00a0trolling\u00a0Chip Coffey?” I asked.<\/p>\n

“I don’t think they are trolling him per-say,” he said. “they are certainly muck-raking the paranormal\u00a0business\u00a0and creating\u00a0controversy. Chip Coffey being a paranormal\u00a0celebrity\u00a0is a fair target. \u00a0I’ts not illegal or\u00a0anything\u00a0unless it breaks into\u00a0libel.\u00a0Libel\u00a0though\u00a0is\u00a0freaking\u00a0hard to prove, especially over some\u00a0stupid\u00a0comments on a web page. Of course Chip could just sue to make trouble for Mr Tebo. There is lots of precedent for that kid of thing, but Ron Tebo could hire a\u00a0lawyer\u00a0fight it and spend a lot of money in the process. Sometimes people do that just to squash critics, but any real public figure\u00a0wouldn’t\u00a0bother\u00a0because there is really no such ting as bad publicity. ”<\/p>\n

“But this is not a criminal thing or a tort of defamation or really\u00a0anything” he said.” It’s just saber rattling. They e correct about one thing, defamation is not protected by the\u00a0Constitution, but defamation is very hard to prove.<\/p>\n

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  And the Lulz continues. Chip and Ron Tebo’s SciFake page have been going after each other for the last year or so. After some unspecified comments, Chip Coffey decided he’d had enough and called his\u00a0lawyer\u00a0to send (this) to Ron … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","WB4WB4WP_MODE":"","WB4WP_PAGE_SCRIPTS":"","WB4WP_PAGE_STYLES":"","WB4WP_PAGE_FONTS":"","WB4WP_PAGE_HEADER":"","WB4WP_PAGE_FOOTER":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1892"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2781,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892\/revisions\/2781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}