If you’re going to parody someone, what’s the big fricken deal about including an “about this blog” that says “no, not really” or something like that. You don’t have a right to misrepresent someone.

Krishnaswamy is a race-baiter. There is nothing on Clarey’s blog that is racist per se. Many of his followers are black. Similar sentiments can be found on Another Black Conservative. Krishnaswamy as a hypersensitive liberal Indian thinks he has exclusive rights to the definition of “racist.”

His initial impersonation violated Google’s terms of service. That was the reason he changed the anti-blog. Clarey is hardly a well known economist and radio personality in all but the loosest terms. Speaking on a radio station a few times doesn’t open up someone to defamation.

California, where Krishnaswamey lived is more protective of speech than other states. He got away from legal responsibility, but he’s an absolute nutter to spend most of his spare time trolling obscure blogs and making a personal mission out of attacking someone whose views are far from racist.

Also, why did Clarey remove all the things that Sanjay is criticizing? Seems to me that Clarey got called on his offensive comments and now he is doing clean up. As if that will get his credibility back. Yeah, I live in MN and I have heard the guy on 1500. Now that he has deleted and cleaned up his blog it seems like he is scared – I don’t know what to think of him. Frankly, this makes him look like an @$$.

Also, how is he getting around MN Stat 543.19 subd 1(a)(3)? Basically it says that MN will not exercise personal jurisdiction over out of state tort defendants when the cause of action lies in defamation or privacy. The attorneys are going to have to get the courts to ignore the legislature. Good luck with that! I also do not understand the whole state court thing… I suppose the amount in controvery is not high enough.

This one will be fun to watch. I cannot imagine that Clarey prevails…

Just wanted to calm any fears that the law suit is about quelching the freedom of speech. The impersonation web site in its previous form was certainly an impersonation, face, name, e-mail everything. In its current form it’s debateable if its defamitory, though people have the right to lay whatever criticism they want.

Regardless, wanted to make sure that people knew the intention is not to somehow limit the freedom of speech.

Additionally, I’m betting nuts to bolts “Blog Watcher” is Sanjay himself.

Enjoy!