International Law

Legal threats fired in blog war

By John Hirst

On January 24th 2008, at 12.32pm, Guido Fawkes posted this, with the rather dubious claim entitled "How Guido Destroyed Hain's Ambitions in 12 Months". With the post was an accompanying political cartoon, at the bottom of which read "richandmark.com".

On January 25th 2008, at 10.43am, James Kirkup blogged a post entitled "Who is Guido working for?", and posted the same political cartoon used by Guido in his post. Generally speaking, if I use material from elsewhere on the internet, I source it with a link and/or post a Hat-Tip. But, if I use a Steve Bell cartoon, for example, because he has already signed it with his name and it includes a copyright symbol, I don't tend to bother.

The first comment beneath James Kirkup's post is:

"Guido Fawkes's avatar

Have you paid me for the use of that picture?

Guido Fawkes 25 Jan 2008 11:14

Doh!".

This from the man who has stated: "I do rip off images from the BBC website because I regard them as public property".

Recently, I tipped off the BBC that another conman was plagiarising their website. I did so because he had libelled a good friend of mine, and was earning revenue from advertising, and I thought that he was taking a liberty. As I understand it, Guido earns revenue from the adverts on his blog, therefore he is treading on dangerous ground.

I don't think he is in a very good position to start a blog war with Tim Ireland. My only argument with Tim Ireland is that I cannot find the place to register on his blog to enable me to leave a comment! I have plenty to argue with Guido but he won't pick a fight with me. I even pinched his cartoon that he took issue over with James Kirkup, and did not pay him for it, and arranged for it to be photoshopped and altered the image and the name richandmark.com. Still, he did not want to come out and play. Rather, the BNP wallah hides in his trench and has sought the free advice and assistance from a solicitor who is a Tory-cum-fascist and has been legitimately described as a racist. Then up pops German Greer claiming to be a qualified psychiatrist and giving his quack diagnosis that Tim Ireland is mentally unbalanced. And taking Rachel North London's name in vain to support his invalid claim. Never mind Shane Greer, it should be shame Greer!

Thankfully, we have the likes of The Sandwell Weasel Eater, Unity, and Justin. Henry North London gets a mention in dispatches.

Full post as published by prisonlawinsideout on February 02, 2008 (boomark / email).