On January 10, 2024 at 3:00 pm, Chris Oldham wrote:
Dear Mark, First please let me wish you success in your trial against Mann. You are in the right, and had you been the New York Times or Washington Post, I suspect the court would have granted your previous motions to dismiss Mann's claims well before now. Mann's lawyers will probably try the usual tactics of trying to throw off and befuddle a pro se party by constantly objecting, but given how you handled Mann's counsel during your deposition, you'll do fine.
My questions:
1. Will there be any way to follow the daily happenings in the Mann case? For example, will anyone on your team be posting a daily synopsis?
2. With regard to your OfComm matter, will the proceedings in March be in the nature of a trial where the court receives live testimony from witnesses and documents or will it be more like an appellate argument here in the US where the court merely hears argument from counsel and rules on matters of law? (Given the picture of the Ofcom team included in today's post, your case takes on even more importance to rein in Ofcom's power and preserve some liberty in Britain.)
Thank you and please do not have another heart attack!
On January 10, 2024 at 3:01 pm, Idaho Bob wrote:
Hi Mark. Since you'll be cooling your heels in the DC cesspool of justice for the next few weeks, a locale devoid of culture, fine cuisine, and the arts, I'm curious what you're planning to do with your spare time. Are you planning to visit any of the participants in the worst unarmed insurrection in the history of the country, or would that action poke the uniparty Deep State a bit too directly while you're appearing in another of their discredited courtrooms?
On January 10, 2024 at 3:01 pm, Kitty Bits wrote:
Dear Mark, did you hear the recent Tucker Carlson interview of Professor Willie Soon? I wish he could testify on your behalf. He's a true scientist, not a charlatan like mr. un man lee.
No one in the main stream media is reporting on the trucker and farmer protest in Germany. I'm so grateful that Elon Musk took over the twits and created X where I can follow Eva Vlaardingerbroek and see what's really going on in Europe. In France imams are now being allowed to bleat their call to prayer at some beautiful old Catholic Cathedral. Is there hope for France?
God bless you with increased strength and great success in court!
On January 10, 2024 at 3:02 pm, Ross Spence wrote:
Every one of Michael Mann's predictions about the climate has been wrong, but he did have enough foresight to know that the DC courts and a DC jury would help him bully anyone who dares to question him. Mark, perhaps it is a good thing your trial ultimately got set in mid-January, when the jurors' very walk to the courthouse will be a refutation of Mann's global warming hypothesis.
On January 10, 2024 at 3:04 pm, Dan Phillips wrote:
Howdy Mark-
So is the English High Court anything like American jurisprudence wherein the punishment is in
the process (as you say) and has a 98% success rate?
Is it but a quixotic quest on your part?
You are a courageous man and I wish you the very best outcome.
Dan
Telford TN
On January 10, 2024 at 3:05 pm, Benjamin Bumgardner wrote:
Hey Mark. Hoping for the best for your health and the trail of the millennium. Maybe if you had gotten the same judge as the Notre Dame student paper guys your ordeal would have been over ten years ago. If you lose due to the jury you will end up with in DC, will you appeal or go the way of Mann himself and just never pay up?
On January 10, 2024 at 3:05 pm, Michael Cavino wrote:
Hi Mark,
You mentioned back in November that you be will representing yourself at the trial next week given the rising legal fees associated with the tenor of Mann's suit. So, I am curious how is Mann paying for his legal counsel in this suit (and the lawsuit he lost up in Canada). How many others are funding this lawfare?
Best of luck for a successful trial and improved health!
Liberty Stick Regards,
Michael
On January 10, 2024 at 3:06 pm, Joe Cressotti wrote:
I enjoyed watching Tucker Carlson's interview with Willie Soon the other day, especially the part where he talks about Michael Mann. I am hoping that with your trial, Mark, the story of Mann's fraud gets out more broadly. It is a shame how few people know the story, especially among conservative media. Or so it appears to me.
On January 10, 2024 at 3:07 pm, Suzanne Reny wrote:
Wishing Mark and his lawyers a great sojourn in DC. Hope all goes swimmingly for you in London too. Maybe visits to the Smithsonian can help pass the time getting over the sight of the hockey stick shyster in court every day.
On January 10, 2024 at 3:07 pm, Amy Torno wrote:
Hi Mark! I'm a new club member! My husband got me a membership for Christmas, and I'm so excited to be here! Best of luck in DC next week!
On January 10, 2024 at 3:08 pm, The Notorious Mr. J wrote:
Greetings and continued improving health for you. Your radio voice seems to get stronger with every broadcast. Best of luck in your battle in the swampy nether regions of the American judicial system.
As we face the oncoming avalanche of global elections this year shouldn't we doubt our fondness for personality cults and accept the existence of Grey Eminences lurking behind curtains, lots of them? The sock puppets placed before us as the presumed captain of the ship are maybe just that. I have an impossible time convincing myself that the likes of Joe Biden or Justin Trudeau actually run anything. And for all the fearsome reputation Donald Trump has acquired as some sort of modern Ming The Merciless, truth be told he really came across as more of a Jim Hacker who could barely make the gears of DC budge. Superheroes are found only in comic books and their interminable spin off movie franchises.
On January 10, 2024 at 3:09 pm, Bill Dekker wrote:
Dear Mark,
Wishing you all the best in your upcoming trials and tribulations. Your success is much needed even if it ends up only being a respite such as is proving to be the case in Canada with their online internet censorship legislation and likely revival of their hate crimes laws.
If Lord Moulton's realm of manners either shrinks towards nothingness or becomes culturally unrecognizable to those who assembled English Common Law and wrote the American Constitution, then is it inevitable that a lack of personal conscience will be replace by something else? Would this be an AI driven total surveillance state or increasing anarchy or something else?
Warm Regards,
Bill
On January 10, 2024 at 3:11 pm, Michael Seth wrote:
Hi Mark, Now that our police have been accurately identified as the "little messengers" of those who hate us, what message do you suppose they'll send us next? I guess if in a month or two SCOTUS requires that Trump's name appears on all 50 fortified ballots, a new message will soon follow. We already know that simply being outdoors in Washington DC on certain days will get you felonized and that Canadian journalists probably shouldn't go outdoors at all. With pandemic fatigue and an isolationist mindset gripping the Deplorables, I fear it's time for something big. Good thing we thoroughly vetted all those crossing our borders...Best of luck and good health next week in court!
On January 10, 2024 at 3:18 pm, Kelly Walter wrote:
Mark,
Given your 12 year slog through the dirty, stinking, rotten, corrupt American "justice" system, do you have any advice regarding how to stay the course through disappointing setbacks.
On a lighter note, my son claims that "Till There Was You" is the song of the 20th century. What say you?
Thanks for staying the course and continuing in the battle. And all with such aplomb and joy for living.
On January 10, 2024 at 3:18 pm, George Pereira wrote:
Mark,
The main common trait of many of the most virulent societal trends is deviancy to the far left.
The trans movement seeks to normalize massive drug use, mental illness as normal, the mutilation of children as normal. Deviancy to the far left.
The CDC wants to normalize fat and obesity as normal and healthy. They have stated healthy is healthism and is bad and it's OK to be unhealthy. Deviancy to the far left.
LGBTQXYZ blah blah blah has their satanic sights set on children. Deviancy to the far left.
Americans are pushed aside everywhere, out of hotels, their homes, their schools, their hospitals so America can become a flophouse for the world. No border no country. Deviancy to the far left.
The hated AR-15 which the deranged left and most conservative elites want to outlaw when placed in the hands of the 87 million billion new IRS agents become personal defense weapons which are obviously not AR-15s and are obviously good. Deviancy to the far left.
Is there any way of stopping this? If we do stop it, are we stuck with a much more deviant society as the new normal?
On January 10, 2024 at 3:22 pm, Alison Castellina wrote:
Prof Angus Dalgliesh on 'The Conservative Woman' (surely in the firing line for the Ofcom "shut-up") sees in The Post Office Computer Scandal similarities with Covid and climate change. This story has gobsmacked the faithful over here. It is about a faulty computer accounting system designed by IT "experts" which stole £thousands in life savings from 700 truthtelling postmasters and mistresses and put some of them in prison, fully backed up by the entire British Establishment (except Andrew Bridgen MP and another MP). It has opened eyes to things that seem to 'the 70%' (the remaining conformists around us) impossible to believe: a) the level of blind faith in computers, among judges, civil servants, Govts and management "experts" b) innovative, barely tested technological "solutions" steered from overseas by plutocrats also able to invest heavily in the UK c) glitches in basic technological security processes leading to countless ruined lives and deaths d) people being told "you are the only one affected" ("The Very, Very Rare Case" Syndrome) e) stonewalling institutions and Govt ministers who ignored the little but real people whom they represent (and many despise) and f) pointless court cases, costing £millions. Almost worst of all, this "greatest miscarriage of UK justice" was brought to a head not by the British courts or the British 'free' press but by an ITV dramatisation. Mark, have you considered penning a similar ITV drama, with yourself playing the leading role? Doing that seems to be the only way left open now to obtain any justice.
On January 10, 2024 at 3:23 pm, Gordon MacMichael wrote:
Do you think the two "policemen" who accosted David Menzies for trying to pose some questions to Canadian Deputy Prime Minister, Chrystia Freeland, deserve Wanker Cop awards? Their charge that Menzies pushed them seems so at odds with the video evidence. I fear for what brazen lies may be told when there is no camera around.
On January 10, 2024 at 3:23 pm, Brian wrote:
Mark, I wish you the best of luck and prayers toward finally resolving this dispute with such a pathetic character. I'm so sick of these people. Two questions: While I greatly appreciate your candor on the state of our justice system and am in full agreement, are you not concerned about the dirty stinkin' rotten corrupt American "justice" system making an example out of you for always referring to them as "the dirty stinkin' rotten corrupt American "justice" system"? I certainly am. Second, are you familiar with Judith Curry? I believe she worked with this Michael E. Mann at Penn State University and he along with the administration forced her out? Correct me if I am wrong on that. I have such disdain for Penn State for multitude reasons. I found her on Twitter over the summer and feel like the two of you would make great chums. She has some amazing videos and studies out there explaining her climate research.
Do you know of her, and what are your thoughts? Best of luck, Brian in Kentucky
On January 10, 2024 at 3:27 pm, JC of Weston-super-Mare wrote:
Hi Mark,
No doubt you are bracing yourself for your sojourn in the DC swamp.
Thereafter after some much deserved light relief on the Mark Steyn Cruise you face the prospect of a visit to London to do battle with Michael Grade & Melanie Dawes over what is allowed to pass for free speech in the UK.
I was wondering, as one who is unable to join your cruise, whether you might be holding some events during your time in London as a means of defraying some of your expenses. It would be great to be able to see you in the UK other than from the public gallery of the High Court.
Look after yourself & give Michael E Mann hell on behalf of all non AGW believers around the world.
Best regards
John Creasey
Weston super Mare
On January 10, 2024 at 3:28 pm, Fernando Caballero wrote:
Hello Mark,wishing you success through this horrendous judicial ordeal. My question is what are your thoughts on the eventual replacement of the paper dollar with digital dollar? I see less and less o cash and everyone seems to be ok with this.
On January 10, 2024 at 3:28 pm, Laura Rosen Cohen wrote:
Those censorious Farbrente Shvesters really look like they know how to have a good time. Why do they all look like that? I'd wager none are married (to men) or have children.
I may have to Tweet to Ofcom about their lack of diversity.
On January 10, 2024 at 3:29 pm, ARayJr wrote:
6 out of 7... hmmm. The only one missing from that herd of dwarves is Grumpy. She's probably at Disney concocting a new version of "Snow White and the 7 Dwarves, er little people" where the evil stepmother is the victim and is rescued FROM Snow White. "Hi ho , hi ho it's off to censor we go.."
Their dwarf names...Karen, Slothy, Haughty, Basher, Doth, Smarty ann Grumpy(not pictured).
On January 10, 2024 at 3:31 pm, John Barrett wrote:
Hello Mark,
A change of pace question.... What are your thoughts on Jordan Peterson's Alliance for Responsible Citizenship? Will they be able to slow the slide off the cliff in any meaningful way?
Remember to bring your boots to the swamp next week. We'll be cheering for you.
John
On January 10, 2024 at 3:31 pm, Jeff Estes wrote:
Hi Mark, what are your thoughts on Geert Wilders chances of forming a coalition now that he's abandoned his 2018 proposition to outlaw new Dutch mosque construction and the koran? Thanks and a happy, healthy 2024. Jeff
On January 10, 2024 at 3:36 pm, Eric Dale wrote:
Mark, and fellow Club members, I wish for Ms Dowding to be correct in her tweet, but I fear that the "people" will never wake up in sufficient fervor to overturn what our elites are doing with us. "Democracy" is rapidly becoming a euphemism completely divorced from its original meaning, as our elites have mastered managing the voters with controlled media, gerrymandered districts, and corporate overlords with their ever evolving algorithms over social media. There is a rapidly growing sentiment that we're not voting our way out of this, and it's a bit absurd to expect as much as our betters are importing preferred voters all over the country. Could there be a revolution in our future or will apathy and inertia doom us to a permanent oligarchy?
On January 10, 2024 at 3:38 pm, Toby Pilling wrote:
So for the COVID vaccine victims to get recognition, we need to wait twenty years and have ITV make a four part series on the injustice they faced? I'm talking, of course, about another establishment stitch-up - that of the 'Horizon' Post Office victims of the UK, and their quest for vilification.
On January 10, 2024 at 3:39 pm, Russell wrote:
Hi Mark, I'm the crazy club member who predicted Nikki Haley as the next POUS.
As you've indicated yourself the establishment will not let Trump win, they made that mistake in 2016 and won't let it happen again.
They have suffered no consequences for their outrageous actions in 2020 and most voters just accepted the fraud. So why wouldn't they cheat again?
Haley's path to the presidency:
1/ Stay under Trump's radar for the next few months
2/ Get the VP Nomination from Trump (who's already hinted this might happen)
3/ Dems will imprison or worse Trump after he gets GOP Nomination
4/ Haley will state she is pardoning Trump on her first day in office (she's already said she would pardon him)
5/ Trump will urge his supporters to get out and vote for Haley
I'm not saying I want this to happen - it's simply a prediction.
Best wishes for 2024
On January 10, 2024 at 3:45 pm, eaglepatriotminuteman1776 wrote:
Dear Mr. Steyn,
Thank you for answering my question the other day. It is too bad you can't read Flashy because I would love to hear your impression of the ironically named John Charity Spring. Mr. Fraser did an excellent job naming his characters. I will comment on Flashy at a later date.
If INC style civil disobedience is bound to fail, we must resist in other ways. You seem to believe this is impossible because our society lacks proverbial turbulence. I do not agree. I believe there is turbulence as indicated by mass shooters, suicides, and overdoses. These are people frustrated with society's direction but have no productive way to vent their frustration, so they vent the only way they think they can: at the innocent or themselves.
State and local politicians need to take advantage of this turbulence and redirect it into something productive, such as a secession or nullification movement or apply public pressure to Congress and the White House to make substantial changes, as was the case when the Whigs applied public pressure to Parliament to achieve Reform.
A mistake would be to have armed mobs rioting. That may work for BLM and the French, but not for Americans or British. Our revolutions are started by legitimate authority, such as the Whigs in 1832, the Continental Congress, or the Southern state legislatures in 1860-61. Our state and local governments need to take a page from the wretched Whigs and South Carolina. Personally, I think they need to bring back the Rotten Boroughs, Corn Laws, and public hangings.
Anyway, I doubt anything can be achieved through Congress or Parliament, but the recent spark of moral fibre shown by the Republicans in Congress regarding Ukraine funding and the border gives me some hope. But if that fails, and it likely will, and INC inspired actions are impossible, we need to push our state legislatures and local governments into nullifying federal law and supreme court decisions or seceding as a last resort. Border states can start by deporting illegals at gunpoint and ignoring any and all court injunctions or rulings.
I believe such action will give hope to millions of disaffected Americans who will get behind such actions 100 percent, and societal turbulence will finally be directed where it should be directed.
Respectfully,
William Fleishman
On January 10, 2024 at 3:45 pm, Robert wrote:
.... apparently Claudine Gay's publications, including the plagiarised stuff, total about ten journal articles.
Now this bit IS interesting. Access to Harvard's Widener Library is quite restricted (apparently not just access to the Necronomicon). On a chance visit to the area I myself was only granted access after the following process:
(After some discussion)
Widener gatekeeper: Have you published a book which might be expected to be in our holdings?
Self: Yes (cites title)
Widener gatekeeper: (looks up reference) OK.
Now. At the time I had a few dozen articles and reviews, none of which would have have appeared in the system, although the journals and collections including said articles and reviews would have appeared there. But going by the initial attitude I encountered I suspect that I might have been wasting my time asking the gatekeeper to check the holdings for said journals and collections.
So ... imagine CG:
Widener gatekeeper: Have you published a book which might be expected to be in our holdings?
CG: No.
Widener gatekeeper: Sorry ma'am.
Think about that one.
And for those concerned about who might replace CG there's a simple solution. Invite Carol Swain to be President of Harvard. After all, a major reason for CG's appointment was material actually written by CS falsely attributed to CG.
I will leave other troubling aspects to your imagination.....
On January 10, 2024 at 3:52 pm, Bart Nielsen, not his real name perhaps wrote:
Mark, thanks for the hymn. I find myself in church often singing from memory the original text of hymns I learned as a child. When I feel compliant I do so sotto voce, but when I have more energy and resolve I do so loud enough that those around me hear the difference. No one has ever complained, and our Pastor even specifies now that we sing the proper words to Eternal Father, Strong to Save.
On January 10, 2024 at 3:52 pm, Nicola Timmerman wrote:
I think the real scandal of the arrest of the Rebel News reporter is the reason why David Menzies can only try to ask questions of our leaders outside Parliament. He is not allowed to be a member of the Parliamentary Press Gallery because the paid for Canadian mainstream journalists won't let him be a member!
On January 10, 2024 at 4:18 pm, Adrian Gaty wrote:
Mark,
God bless and keep you! Can you call Dr. Willie Soon as an expert witness, or at least invite him on the next cruise? His Mann-bashing interview with Tucker this week was a lot of fun.
Best,
Adrian
On January 10, 2024 at 4:18 pm, Andrew Curl, Lexington, KY wrote:
Hey Mark! I was looking at my Liberty Stick (hanging prominently in my home office now - away from the chimney) and i was thinking #155 is great, but I sure would like to have #1. What do you think of the idea to auction off Liberty Stick #1 to help pay some of your court costs? I think a lot of your Club members would love to have a chance to own that. Good luck in the coming weeks in your court case. Hopefully Hunter Biden doesn't decide to wander into your courtroom!
On January 10, 2024 at 4:21 pm, Pete Procopio wrote:
Mark!
I apologize in advance for directing this question to you, but I've been unsuccessful in my efforts so far and figured it couldn't hurt. I'm wondering why there is no way (that I know of) to access Rush's program. The app shut down. I can't help but think millions of fans would love to tune in to the old programming often, and wouldn't mind paying for the privilege. It's just hard to understand why everything Rush built disappeared when he passed. I really thought he would've planned for a way for his voice to be accessible. Man I miss him.
- if I'm missing something please pass along any pertinent information and thank you
