M’learned friends, we all know that I am not somebody who does things by halves. Once again, I have entered a conflict through the Internet.

Indeed, like the last time such an event as this occured on Youtube in the case of Hadleigh Roberts vs. nobnp4uk.

If it please the court, we shall now discuss the case of Libertarian Party vs. Hadleigh Roberts.

The first piece of evidence, nay, the remarks at the heart of this case, took place at 4:05 PM Jul 25 on Twitter, where Mr. Roberts (the defendant) wrote:

Hahah Norwich North. Just heard creepy libertarian kid got 36 votes!
4:05 PM Jul 25th

Then, a representative of the Libertarian Party, Henry North (whose real name is Rohen Kapur)  launched the following accusation:

Why is he creepy Do you want me to tell him so that he can get a libel case against you?
8:38 PM Jul 25th

Immediately afterwards, at 20:41, the following message was delivered from the plaintiff via the contact page on Mr. Roberts’ website, http://hadleigh.eu :

Come on then fess up  Whats so creepy about us?
Up until 1914 the British Political system was highly libertarian  So its not so long ago
Free trade existed in one quarter of the globe thanks to the British Empire
Is that creepy feeling getting worse yet?

It seems that the Libertarians don’t believe the state should control rules on punctuation or communication, as it curtails the individuals right to bang their skull on the keyboard.

Humouring “Mr. North”, Mr. Roberts replied:

I don’t think you can libel against an opinion. Not a very Libertarian thing to do either.
8:48 PM Jul 25th

So after this amusingly hypocritical accusation, the Libertarian substantiated the case:

Offense against the person, When not there to defend it… Libel Published word ( twitter is publishing) defaming person
10:39 PM Jul 25th

Again, never knowing when not to bother using rational argument, commented:

I can see the headlines now. “Libertarian Party claims libel after mouthy student in France calls candidate “creepy” on Twitter”
2:40 AM Jul 26th

Though I look forward to the amusing possibility of being extradited from France for calling somebody “creepy”, I can’t see it happening.

However, I am suitably flattered that a casual (and inoffensive) remark from me is enough to count as “defaming” someone. The candidate in question (whose name I don’t know) clearly lost a good deal of his reputation, which might seriously damage the whopping 36 votes he got in the Norwich North byelection.

So apart from regaining a massive blow to his popularity, the Libertarians have little to gain from all this. They certainly won’t be winning any money; as a student, I don’t have any apart from my recent paycheck of 300 Euros (not even the currency they want) and 50 Euros of that already went on Amazon.fr

I will also add further to the irony in that on his blog, “Henry North” calls a Labour party member a word beginning with C. Not “creepy”; a four letter word. How’s that for defamation? Even Clarkson got in trouble for that.

Still, I could use the publicity!

(PS. How long before the Libertarian trolls migrate to this blog and take this obvious, yet truthful, bait? Thanks for the extra hits, guys!)
Answer: 5 hours. Though my website was down for a few of those.

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