A Love Letter From Jason Bowman…

Dear Mr. Bowman,

I have reviewed your letter, and I don’t see any evidence for your deeming. Deeming, that is another funny word. What is a deem, do you mean a doom? “O.E. deman “to judge, condemn, think, compute,” from root of dom.” So, in your own judgment, you have been libeled? Perhaps they did not teach you this at Harvard, Mr. Bowman, but, as I am sure you learned at Harvard, “in propria causa nemo iudex” — loosely, “in one’s own cause no one is judge.”

I guess this is a Harvard trick—you pass along your doom, and hope that the sucker who receives it complies with it, thus generating the appearance of its being an equitable doom approved by two people. I do not think your doom is equitable. I have reviewed the primary source materials on this site, and, while some of the content strays into the realm of subjective view, it is certainly not out of line to have such views of someone to makes himself a public figure, as by holding press conferences.

Also, “a number of untrue slurs” is non-specific. You cannot sue for “a number of dollars.” You must sue for this or that number of dollars—one hundred, five hundred, two hundred, or whatever it is. So what is the number? If it is “a number”, you must know what the number is, unless you have not quantified how many of the statements are untrue—in which case, I wonder how you could know it is a number greater than one. Zero is also a number, so perhaps you are correct—there are a number of untrue slurs here. That is, zero untrue slurs.

Had you thought first, you would have provided a specific number of slurs, and you would have outlined them. But this brings me to an even greater problem with your letter—although not binding everywhere, I think BC’s Libel and Slander act is persuasive: “It is not necessary in an action for libel to set out in the pleading or process obscene passages, but it is sufficient to deposit in the proper registry the book, newspaper or other document containing the alleged libel, together with particulars showing precisely by reference to pages, columns and lines where the alleged libel is to be found.”

Therefore, we see that for you to commence the sort of action you would like to commence, at least in British Columbia, you would have to deposit the offensive material in the registry—and you would have to make specific reference to the material—“pages, columns, lines.” Just tossing the article into the old Registry and saying “it’s offensive,” not good enough. Harvard must be quite the trip—what did you learn there, anyway? Can you do the Harvard accent? Say rawther for me, come on, do it! Anyway.

I like these articles so much that I might just mirror them.

I gotta say, this guy is perfect for a caricature for an idiot. You couldn’t have picked a more facially funny (if not factually inaccurate) kinda guy. And when he said that bit about the “reach around”, OMG that was just TOO much!