We came across a defamatory (slanderous and libellous [sic]) page authored by you at http://www.greaterthings.com/News/FreeEnergy/Directory/Hydrogen/AmericanGroupCompanies/

It is unauthorized, taken out of context and built specifically to defame our company.

As you are not our customer, you do not not know what you are talking about and the intent of your page is to maliciously defame.

We have seen this kind of tongue and cheek kind of Internet posting before, and you are on very dangerous and libellous [sic] legal ground in what is known as "tort-ville".

We will bring immedate [sic] legal action if the page is not removed, and without any further comment from you.

We also demand to know who the party is that you allowed to post an anynomous [sic] defamatory comment as follows:

""Buyer Beware

From: ***
Sent: Sunday, May 23, 2004 7:14 PM
Subject: FreeEnergy.GreaterThings.com Contact

In January of 2004, company which placed an add on one of your pages (they call them self "ROY UNION") offered me to purchase their product (HYDROGEN BOOSTER CANDLE GENERATOR). I paid, to be exact $111 US-D, but no product was ever received.
And money was never returned. I was trying to locate those people, but was unsuccessful.

I am really frustrated. It happen to me first time. I don't know what to do.

May be I should just contact FBI.""

First we never placed any such add [sic] on your pages

If this information as to who this person above is is not provided will bring legal action to discover it through the proces of legal Discovery in a lawsuit

We license our products and do not "sell" them; so if this party is "real" he has violated a license agreement and you are assisting in the breach of contract and interferring [sic] in the contract which is an actionable claim directly against you for damages.  We will then sue you both.

"Loose lips sink ships" is a good axiom here. We are not affiliated with World Genesis and just as they should not be related to us, nor should we be related to they.  Besides - you don't know what our product is.  You are not our customer.

We reserve our right to demand a retraction and correction and will formally be back in touch with you very soon to have it posted and or demand free advertising to correct this ongoing travesty you have posted causing harm to us since apparently according to you own web page July 25, 2003.

You will find the prevailing root cases on the subject Gertz v Welch  418 U.S. 323, 94 S. Ct. 2997, 41 L. Ed. 2d 789  (06/25/74) and New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254 (1964) will dictate you need to take this very serously [sic] and correct these things as we demand.  There are other specifically Internet defamation cases that will drive litigation to be filed against you which you will then find very painful to your pocket.

You have duty to ascertain if information is true as cast in the light you publish it before printing it and posting defamatory "questions" to the world with intent to maliciously defame.

Aside from your page having out of date information, it lists items and things on our webserver but not on our site for public viewing.  Becasue [sic] we have copies of them does not mean it is our product.  It is not. You have therefore built a site with intent to defame, and we will bring legal action immediately if it is not removed.

We will continue to scour the Internet for any and all links or ripple effect damages due to your posting.  Since this was indexed in Google, the damages go very deep already.

We have found that people who do not understand the defamation laws and duties in regard to publishing often fall very hard in a court of law.

This was not a wise thing to do, and when we find other indications of damages which eminate [sic] from this posting, you will find out how "for real" these "guys" are.  You will find out that this company is backed by and born of,  a law firm.

First, from a human perspective, I perceive that you seem to be living in some kind of cloak-and-dagger existence.  Your paranoia is creating monsters where there are none.  I'm not one, and the customer who you declined sending one of your books and whom you declined a refund, is likewise probably not any threat to you.  It seems to me that your assessment of him could be considered slander where all you had to go by in making your determination was his Russian sounding name.  He lives in New York, as clearly stated on his invoice.

You accuse him as follows: "This guy was a a thief trying to steal our product to be manufactured in another country to be re-imported here as then his own."  Perhaps he should be charging you with slander and taking legal action against you.  What grounds do you have to make such a charge?

Even then, you should have given him a refund.  You have a right to refuse service, but not a right to refuse a refund.

That constitutes fraud on your part.

Instead of acknowledging your error and correcting the situation, you then make a ridiculous excuse for why you did not fulfill the order.  According to your own site, your book, which he ordered, contains no "how-to" information that any customer could use to "steel" your technology.

First you denied that any such situation existed as was claimed in his email posted on my site.  Then, when I produced evidence to support the email, you changed your story.  And your story gives further grounds to question your ethics of business practice, giving me due reason to provide a community service by pointing this out to other potential customers.

As a watchdog and reporting organization, we have a compelling reason to post your remarks so that people can see you for what you are.

I don't think the Attorney General's office in your state will be taking your side when I report these matters to them on Monday.

I wish it didn't have to come to that.  I was hoping you would make good, and I could remove the notice of non-refund.  Instead, you are only giving me more evidence to question your ethics.

The images I posted on the page came from your site, and are posted in thumbnail view, which is protected by law.  I don't think a case could be made that I can get in trouble for having the wrong image for the thing I am describing, especially when I am being careful in my reporting, and because in my best determination the associate was correct and according to your site.  You have not provided specific information as to which image is incorrect.

I know of no law that states that you cannot link to a site, even if the site requests no links to it.  Your site is a public website.  There are no passwords required for access to the pages I link to (at least there were not at the time of this writing, that I know of).

As for "confidential communications" you did not indicate in your first email that the correspondence was confidential.  I have a statement on my website contact page saying, "Please indicate if you wish your comment to be kept private."  Even then, there can be compelling reasons to publish the communication for the purpose of establishing evidence for public view.
http://greaterthings.com/contact.htm 

When you threaten me with legal action, I take your threat to the courtroom of the Internet for the jury of my peers.  In my opinion, this is an inexpensive way to keep me from going to a court of law where justice rarely prevails but is subverted by bribes and powers-that-be biases and loyalties that have nothing to do with serving truth.

As for my coverage of your company, I make no claims that it is an "authorized" page (no authorization is required), in fact from the beginning I had a notice at the top of the page that there is no relation to your company and that the page is being provided as an information service.

The location to which the email was forwarded in the East is outside legal counsel in D.C. serving in a pro bono capacity.

Defamation is when incorrect information is posted. 

Defamation
\Def`a*ma"tion\, n. [OE. diffamacioun, F. diffamation. See Defame.] Act of injuring another's reputation by any slanderous communication, written or oral; the wrong of maliciously injuring the good name of another; slander; detraction; calumny; aspersion.

I am only posting that which I sincerely believe to be factual.

Sincerely,

Sterling D. Allan
June 5, 2004 2:45 pm MDT

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