The Gorilla From Wasilla Threatens the Slanderers

Now that Sarah Palin is free to do pretty much whatever she wants, she's also free to take legal action against those who have made a career of defaming her. Gateway Pundit has an excerpt from her attorney's warning to those who think that continuing to slander and libel her is a good idea:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 4, 2009

On July 3rd, 2009, Governor Sarah Palin announced her intent to resign her gubernatorial duties and transfer the powers of Governor to Lt. Governor Sean Parnell.

Almost immediately afterwards, several unscrupulous people have asserted false and defamatory allegations that the “real” reasons for Governor Palin’s resignation stem from an alleged criminal investigation pertaining to the construction of the Wasilla Sports Complex. This canard was first floated by Democrat operatives in September 2008 during the national campaign and followed up by sympathetic Democratic writers.1. It was easily rebutted then as one of many fabrications about Sarah Palin. Just as power abhors a vacuum, modern journalism apparently abhors any type of due diligence and fact checking before scurrilous allegations are repeated as fact...

To the extent several websites, most notably liberal Alaska blogger Shannyn Moore, are now claiming as “fact” that Governor Palin resigned because she is “under federal investigation” for embezzlement or other criminal wrongdoing, we will be exploring legal options this week to address such defamation. This is to provide notice to Ms. Moore, and those who re-publish the defamation, such as Huffington Post, MSNBC, the New York Times and The Washington Post, that the Palins will not allow them to propagate defamatory material without answering to this in a court of law. The Alaska Constitution protects the right of free speech, while simultaneously holding those “responsible for the abuse of that right.” Alaska Constitution Art. I, Sec. 5. http://ltgov.state.ak.us/constitution.php?section=1. These falsehoods abuse the right to free speech; continuing to publish these falsehoods of criminal activity is reckless, done without any regard for the truth, and is actionable.

This all comes out of "reports" that there is some mystical indictment ready to come down regarding the Wasilla Sports Complex that was built in 2002, and that's why she suddenly resigned. For more information on just how spurious that allegation is, see Don Surber's report.

It was irritating to see the local KTLA Channel 5 10pm anchorman spreading the same disinformation on the air Friday night. Without any substantiation or investigation of the charges he said that "there were rumors on the internet of a pending indictment", and that might be why she resigned. It was incredibly sloppy reporting, and unfortunately, not inconsistent with the declining level of journalism at that station since long-time anchor and editor Hal Fishman died a couple of years ago.

For the record, there are also "rumors on the internet" about that anchor's sexual orientation, but I digress.

A free Sarah Palin should be a terrorizing thought to those who think they've destroyed her. I have a feeling she's made from a lot tougher stuff than they are, and with the backing of a lot of supporters, her enemies are going to wish they had left her alone.