Re: West Coast Railway

MarBau (marbau@aol.com)
12 May 1997 19:03:22 GMT

This keeps going round in circles but there are two points I'd like to
make.

If the WCR trackage fees (or whatever they are called) are so above board,
fair and equitible, doesn't it then strike you as odd that these figures
are kept secret from the public? The sale price of the SEC and all of the
other asset sales were not kept secret. What makes these figures
different?

Secondly, trying to shoot the messanger has never worked! Show me a post
where I made a "false statement" I have certainy offered my opinion on
many occasions. If you have mistaken my opinion for a statement of fact,
that is your problem, not mine.

<<<Might I also suggest that such a course of action is a very
good way of having legal action brought against you.>>>

I'd be very interested to hear how WCR would sue me for libel as I reside
in the USA. Even if I lived in Australia there would be no case. Perhaps
you raise this preposterous threat because I'm getting a little close to
the truth. Come to think of it, sue me. I'd get a free trip home and WCR
would have to turn over their books to the court if they were to make a
case against me! (Otherwise they could not prove that what I said wwas
uuntrue!) Even if a judgement was made against me I have no assets in
Auustralia except for my railway super!
It is extremey doubtful that anyone will ever be sued as a result of
something they posted on the web. Some mighty big companies here in the US
have tried and in every case the judge threw the case out.(In the US the
service providers are not even obigated to identify their customers to
ANYONE And if these lawsuits don't work here in the US, the country that
invented libel suits, I doubt they will ever work anywhere else.

BTW, do your employers know you are