I’ve received this email from Roger Tattersall’s attorney (known as a solicitor in England) with the request that I post it. I’m happy to do so. Please see in the letter where the legal fund is being setup. – Anthony
To:
All those who feel offended and/or threatened by the actions taken against innocent climate enthusiast Roger Tattersall aka ‘Tallbloke’ as a result of the unsought anonymous drop of data from the person or persons known as ‘FOIA’.
That data is clearly in the public interest by virtue of having relevance to the wisdom of certain global policy decisions relating to energy use, energy supply and possibly global rationing of energy sources and the direct or indirect taxation of every individual on the planet for the foreseeable future.
Roger has been publicly libelled and abused across the world to the detriment of his reputation and has suffered distress, inconvenience and damage to property. The worst such offender appears to have been a contributor at ‘Scienceblogs’.
His privacy has been invaded and he and his family have been intimidated.
It is possible that treatment of that nature could be meted out to any persons expressing sceptical views about the so called climate consensus.
A clear signal needs to be sent out that such treatment is an abuse of process and a negation of free speech and democratic freedoms.
It is proposed to investigate all options open to Roger for the obtaining of suitable redress within the law. In the event that legal actions are considered appropriate it will be necessary to appoint suitably experienced Counsel to represent his interests and in this matter Roger’s interests coincide with those of all of who find themselves unable to feebly acquiesce in the pressure that is being applied to prevent them from exercising their hard won freedoms.
To that end, an appeal fund is being launched in order to finance the necessary steps. Contributions can be made via Roger’s Paypal account as displayed on his site (http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/) and all funds received for that purpose are to be transferred to the Client Account of his solicitors Wilde & Company.
Any funds not eventually used for necessary legal expenses will be donated to a selection of climate sceptic organisations. Accounting procedures will be put in place in compliance with the requirements of the UK regulatory system governing the proper use of Client monies held by UK solicitors.
Stephen P R Wilde. LLB (Hons.), Solicitor.
Wilde & Co. Cheshire England
LazyTeenager says
Someone is worried.
I see the consequences could be the light of TRUE inquiry by a court of law that shows who the real criminals are in climate “science.”
Danny V says: My donation receipt as follows. I edited his email address to include the “.
“This email confirms that you have donated £20.00 GBP to Roger Tattersall (rog”@”tallbloke.net) using PayPal.”
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Thanks Danny V my wife and I sent $50.00 Canadian or 30 pounds Brit. Apparently we had to do the pound thing before sending.
Donation from Oz sent
LazyTeenager;
Here is a bit of advice for Tallbloke. Don’t do this. You do not understand the consequences that follow from this>>>
Is that a threat?
Steve McIntyre says:
December 17, 2011 at 6:13 pm
£750 from Climate Audit. .
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WOW! Steve Mcintyre! THANK YOU on behalf of all of us here and especially tallboke and his family.
Great news!
LazyTeenager says
Here is a bit of advice for Tallbloke. Don’t do this. You do not understand the consequences that follow from this.”]
Pray tell………………………
Like they might do discovery on his laptops and router or something like that?
It took ages to donate, PayPal was crowded. How hard is it to get rid of your money? Glad I did it, anyway.
To:
All those who feel offended and/or threatened by the actions taken against innocent climate enthusiast Roger Tattersall aka ‘Tallbloke’ as a result of the unsought anonymous drop of data from the person or persons known as ‘FOIA’.
I’m one of them for sure.
Donation sent.
Here’s wishing you only the best in this situation, Tallbloke.
In his blog, Greg Laden has displayed the email addresses of some of the negative commenters, despite a disclaimer that they wouldn’t be used.
50 lb from the Alamo
Steve McIntyre says:
December 17, 2011 at 6:13 pm
£750 from Climate Audit. .’ ]
Thank you!!!
Thank you to all that donate / support Mr Bloke.
I’m a kid and I have been called just about everything…….kids can’t effectively sue. But if my web page / blog was left a link – it seems my computer could be taken.
Tallbloke, we’re behind you all the way here in Alice Springs, Central Australia!
30 Pounds Sterling sent.
All the very best luck in the world for your upcoming action.
(P.S. A special place is reserved in heaven for Steve McIntyre!)
Tallbloke,
Having been, as a Ph.D. scientist and corporate representative, in major litigation for 10 years, I understand the consequences of this, and they are that you will be able to ream him/them a new one if you take it to a conclusion. Their costs for defending this will not be insignificant. Plus, they will lose. This is probably a different understanding of the consequences than those of keyboard warrior LazyTeenager.
I’ll be happy to help pro bono, as I’m extremely versatile with legal papers and cutting through the BS of what I assume will be sub-mediocre adversaries (I think that’s a gimme).
I participated in probably 30 depositions (including 10 of my own) in at least 6 states, and testified on the stand at least 8 times, including a 2-day fun fest of testimony by me one time.
Oh yeah, the result was a $160 million win !!! ….. and the destruction of a family of fraudsters not too dissimilar to these A-holes.
I’ll e-mail you on Monday (and make a donation). There’s something else I want to tell you (as you know I’m a West Yorkshire dude originally).
I’m in — $50
I think LazyTeenager is showing his lack of maturity.
My $50 Cdn is in your pot
@Lazy Teenager,
it seems that you do not know the difference between “freedom of speech” and “libel”. It also seems that you are not aware of the recent US case involving a blogger who was found not to be covered as a journalist when it came to making false statements about an individual.
If I am not being clear about that particular case, then let me explain: the blogger who represented herself in the court system believed that she should be covered as a journalist, and that she could make false statements about an individual. She lost.
From what I have read about the present situation, Tallbloke has a very good case against those who sought to libel him with their claims of guilt by association due to the police action. Michael Mann retweeted those comments hence he became a party to the alleged libel.
Since I am not from the UK or the USA, I do not know if in the UK there is a discovery process. If there is, then it is going to be “fun”, because Michael Mann could be in a lot of hot water over this incident.
Roger also has the right to institute legal action against the Norfolk plods because they have not actually shown that they have reason to believe that Roger has committed a crime. Their heavy handed invasion of his property and the confiscating of his computer equipment seems a little bit over the top.
Great stuff, Tallbloke. Another 50 GBP coming your way from Downunder.
philincalifornia says: Having been, as a Ph.D. scientist and corporate representative, in major litigation for 10 years, I understand the consequences of this, and they are that you will be able to ream him/them a new one if you take it to a conclusion. Their costs for defending this will not be insignificant. Plus, they will lose ——– I’ll be happy to help pro bono, as I’m extremely versatile with legal papers and cutting through the BS of what I assume will be sub-mediocre adversaries (I think that’s a gimme).
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Thank YOU so much, sir. God bless you and your family!
Tallbloke, I would bet there are at least 10 and probably 100
folk like philincalifornia who can REALLY help. That’s what good
folks do. You know the old saying “all it takes for evil to triumph is
for good men to do nothing”……. Isn’t gonna happen here. There’s
a lot of good folks out here that WILL do something 🙂
Fifty pounds on its way.
LazyTeenager says:
December 17, 2011 at 4:20 pm
“….Here is a bit of advice for Tallbloke. Don’t do this. You do not understand the consequences that follow from this.”
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Inspired (sic) by the poster known as “LazyTeenager” (oh do lazy teenagers really annoy the h### out of me) I have made my donation to the Tallbloke legal fund in “honor” (sic) of Lazy Teenager!
I encourage others to consider doing the same…. or in honor of “The Team” et al.
I agree about using the term “climate realist” , for that is the truth, we don’t deny warming(and the cooling) that is shown from data. Just that CO2 is the cause.
Sorry I am unable to contribute to Rogers fund because I’m one of the energy/food poor, though I work a 40+ hr week at a fair wage, one of the working poor. I’m taxed to poverty from carbon taxes, green energy policy’s and politically involvement of enviro NGO’s/groups in all branches of local government, the idea everything in life or makes life enjoyable should be taxed or regulated.
Funny, I have always been a person(even as a kid) involved with studying science, a environmentalist and a democrat for all my life, but have now become a conservative because of the lies and insanity from the CAGW religion for so many years. It all started with the same bunch back in the 70’s when human CO2 was causing the next ice age and then the CFC scare .. all bogus.
I’ve lost faith/trust in ALL sciences, and so is the next generation coming up. This maybe a shame or an awakening to question even the most well established understandings in science. Especially junk science that will cost future generations dearly from our mistakes to cure a problem that never existed…
I’m here as always fighting, if i can spread the word to the world of the NWO/WB/UN/EU involvement in this eco/green/carbon FAKE bubble and their fascist actions that has infiltrated our society, but I`m just living day to day trying to pay the bills for now.
I have hope that soon this albatross around our necks that strangles the truth will be removed to show how much we have done to make this a better world and stop condemned the poor to starvation, sickness and poverty from the flat earth unscientific elite.
I hope roger, your fight accomplishes something, but I fear that this may not be enough and nothing short of revolution/revolt will be the next step.
Interesting times we live in.
Good luck
Lance
Greg Laden is back-peddling a bit. His blog post no longer directly calls Roger a thief.
The original opening sentence is quoted here:
“Thieves who broke into Unviersity of East Anglia computers in 2009, stealing thousands of private emails thus compromising years of expensive scientific research and causing a fabricated and unnecessary political doo-doo storm, as part of a much larger campaign of harassment, have had some of their computer equipment seized by UK authorities…”
The revised wording is:
“Thieves who broke into Unviersity of East Anglia computers in 2009, stealing thousands of private emails thus compromising years of expensive scientific research and causing a fabricated and unnecessary political doo-doo storm, as part of a much larger campaign of harassment, are being pursued by the authorities, through the seizure of computer equipment that appears to be linked to the storage and dissemination of the stolen documents, and which has been seized under search warrant.”
I do not doubt that Greg Laden deliberately libeled Roger, knowing that his accusation was false. That would be very much in character for Laden. He is very dishonest.
For another example of his dishonesty, consider this. I posted the following comment to his blog:
1. No evidence was found that anyone “broke into” any of the UEA computers. The climategate emails were most likely leaked by a secretive, disgruntled whistleblower.
2. Nothing was destroyed and no research was compromised.
3. The leaked emails exposed a pattern of widespread wrongdoing, which richly needed the sunshine of exposure. The exposure was neither fabricated nor unnecessary.
4. Roger Tattersall is not a thief, stole nothing, and has been told that he’s not a suspect.
5. Nobody was arrested.
6. Luke 16:10
Acting as “moderator,” Laden changed it to the following, and posted it over my name, as if I had written it:
1. Evidence was found that someone “broke into” any of the UEA computers. The climategate emails were not leaked by a secretive, disgruntled whistleblower.
2. The leaked emails exposed nothing of interest.
4. Roger Tattersall may as well be a thief, even if he stole nothing, and has been told that he’s not a suspect.
5. Nobody was arrested yet.
6. DEUTERONOMY 3:1-7
Posted by: Dave Burton | December 15, 2011 10:16 PM
That was no honest error. That was deliberate lying by Greg Laden about what I wrote.
I then posted the following, which he simply deleted:
Do you think that’s funny, Greg? Changing my words to say the opposite of what I wrote, and attributing them to me?
When the Tamino and the Yale Climate Forum simply delete skeptical material, to promote The Cause, it is a shame, and very telling about their (lack of) confidence in the strength of their positions, but they are within their rights. But Greg Laden is far worse. He deliberately lied about what I wrote, and I have no doubt at all that his libel of Roger was likewise deliberate.