Recently, I wrote an article about Paul Staines (you know him better as 'Guido Fawkes') stealing images and bandwidth. Now I'm getting threatening emails from his lawyer, Donal Blaney (you can't see those, but you can see my replies).
To put it bluntly, I suspect that I am being targeted not because of what I said, but because of who I am.
Blaney appears to be very closely aligned to Staines personally, professionally and politically. He also appears to be an odd choice of lawyer for a libel case (if indeed one is truly in the offing), as his specialty/background is tax law.
Via Donal Blaney, Paul Staines has been badgering me to reveal my home address or retain the services of a lawyer in an effort to bully me into silence without true recourse to law.
It's The Alisher Usmanov Affair all over again.... and I'd appreciate your support. Again.
After all, if some jumped-up blogger with a lawyer for a mate came after you, I'd be in your corner and slugging it out without hesitation.
'Guido Fawkes' was silent on the matter of the Alisher Usmanov business. Why was that?
Oh, and 'Guido Fawkes' stole my photograph as well.
7 comments:
Count me in Justin!
First out of the gate again. People will begin to talk*.
Cheers, Justin.
(*If they're allowed.)
Let them talk. Bring us a cup of tea while you're downstairs, will you?
Turn my back? Never!
Mmm. Well, Paul is good at picking on people who are smaller than him.
Thing is though, he also wants to be famous and move in important circles. And the trouble is, if he does that then his past actions (and indeed his past) are likely to come under scrutiny from people who are bigger than him.
Libel law is not my specialist area, nevertheless, I am not famous for missing a trick. If they won't bring the fight to me, I am happy to jump on the bandwagon rolling towards them.
GuF's training continues here and in a comment here also.
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