The Wardman Wire

Sam Norton has had a reply to his latest correspondence from Mr Mark Brewer, which I reproduce below:

From: Mark Brewer
To: Sam Norton
Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 8:56 PM
Subject: RE: your cease and desist request to me

Sir

Neither English nor American law permits you to engage in what you term “fair comment” with respect to a private company, nor with respect to a private individual - namely, me. Obviously the law does not allow one to cloak his conduct with such sophistry and then go about defaming someone.

Your unreasonableness in the face of my request that you stop defaming me is appalling. Your persistence in doing so without even seeking to know the truth, by talking to me for example, proves that you are in fact acting out of complete malice. Libel with malice, a malignancy of heart, is intolerable in civilized societies.

Mr. Walker is in no way a victim of anything done or not done, said or not said by me. I have no idea what you are on about in saying such a thing. I cannot fathom your judgmental presumptiveness in telling me to apologize to him.

I reiterate my demand that you stop your defamatory blogging and invasion of my privacy. If you do not, I will seek redress in the courts of the country where I live - the United States. As your solicitor will have told you, you are subject to jurisdiction here as you knowingly libeled me on the worldwide web, you know me to be a resident of the USA and you know and intend to injure me where I live in the USA.

Your solicitor also will have told you that you are subject to service of process for a suit in the United States under the Hague Convention. You will then have to answer for your conduct in the venue where you intentionally caused me harm. I hope you understand this.

Mark Brewer

Wrapping Up

At this point I am making no comment.

Although I find it interesting that neither Unity (who is number 2 on Google for “Mark Brewer) or myself (who is number 3) have had a Cease and Desist Notice.