A bit of Legalese

Looks to me like people don’t know the law and are law suit happy.  So what I was friendly and wished you well then when you listened to the libel and blocked me,  I said something you didn’t like, you defamed me when you continued with the gossip and calling me “obsessive”. 

Let’s see you called it harassment so let us see what national law and state law calls harassment “Cyberharassment differs from cyberstalking in that it may generally be defined as not involving a credible threat. Cyberharassment usually pertains to threatening or harassing email messages, instant messages, or to blog entries or websites dedicated solely to tormenting an individual. Some states approach cyberharrassment by including language addressing electronic communications in general harassment statutes, while others have created stand-alone cyberharassment statutes.”  According to the NCSL at http://www.ncsl.org/research/telecommunications-and-information-technology/cyberstalking-and-cyberharassment-laws.aspx

LexisNexis Custom Solution for Tennessee Code says it is

“39-17-308.  Harassment.

  (a) A person commits an offense who intentionally:

   (1) Threatens, by telephone, in writing or by electronic communication, including, but not limited to, text messaging, facsimile transmissions, electronic mail or Internet services, to take action known to be unlawful against any person and by this action knowingly annoys or alarms the recipient;

   (2) Places one (1) or more telephone calls anonymously, or at an hour or hours known to be inconvenient to the victim, or in an offensively repetitious manner, or without a legitimate purpose of communication, and by this action knowingly annoys or alarms the recipient;

   (3) Communicates by telephone to another that a relative or other person has been injured, killed or is ill when the communication is known to be false; or

   (4) Communicates with another person or transmits or displays an image without legitimate purpose with the intent that the image is viewed by the victim by any method described in subdivision (a)(1) and the person:

      (A) Maliciously intends the communication to be a threat of harm to the victim; and

      (B) A reasonable person would perceive the communication to be a threat of harm.”

Tenn. Code Ann. § 39-17-308

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Title 39  Criminal Offenses
Chapter 17  Offenses Against Public Health, Safety and Welfare
Part 3  Disorderly Conduct and Riots

Tenn. Code Ann. § 39-17-308  (2013)

So tell me in all that I’ve said where I’ve broken any of these laws.  Even in my personal blog there were no threats and no names.  Even within my friends responses to the blog no names or threats were involved.  So I am done worrying about you. 

How about I respond with the continued defamation of myself, more directly the libel?  Do I need to remind you what those legal words mean.  I was gossiped about by a group and my name was used.  This gossip has damaged my reputation and I am not pleased by this. 

I still have all of my chats that show what I said to people.  Do you have the chats that show I said anything inappropriate or harassing? How about all those chats where I was defamed, want to show those to a judge?