Remember when the Left was all a twitter (and I don’t mean they pontificated in 140 characters or less) about the “chill wind” descending on free speech from the Bush Administration. They let their hatred for Republicans and conservatives to transform their reason into a leather-bound fetish freak. They should have been more concerned with a hot desert blast coming from the Arabian Peninsula in the form of libel tourism. The Moving Picture Institute has created The Libel Tourist, a short documentary detailing Rachel Ehrenfeld’s experience with a dust storm, created by the courtroom bloviating of Islamic supremacist Khalid Bin Mafhouz, that threatens to bury the West’s freedom of speech under a mass of lawsuits. From the YouTube summary: This documentary short film, produced by the Moving Picture Institute, shows how Saudi billionaire Khalid Bin Mafhouz exploits the British legal system and sues for libel whenever he is the subject of a terrorism accusation. Directed by MPI fellow Jared Lapidus, the film explains how Mahfouz filed a libel suit against Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld, author of Funding Evil; How Terrorism is Financed — and How to Stop It. The suit was not filed in the United States, where the book was
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