One big announcement is that I got home safely, and now get to relax after a long day of travel.
That isn’t what you expected? Not enough?
In June of 2016, almost exactly 5 years ago, our legal saga began when we announced an investigation into one of our bloggers, Richard Carrier, who’d just been banned from a conference for slimy sexual behavior. Then he announced that he was quitting before we could investigate, so we said fine, bye. Then more scandal erupted as other orgs followed suit, in particular SSA. Carrier then, in September of 2016, shrieked that he was going to SUE everyone for $2.1 million and a bunch of us got lengthy legal documents in the mail. We hired a good lawyer. Alarums and excursions followed until finally, in November of 2019, Carrier’s stupid lawsuit collapsed, he retreated in ignominious defeat, and we were victorious. There’s a timeline, if you want the details.
We celebrated a grand victory, but then we had to pay the lawyer. We had to pay the lawyer about a quarter million dollars, which is less than $2.1 million, but still a fine big chunk of change. James and Rebecca Hammond came to our rescue and paid off the lawyer (Hooray for the Hammonds!) and then basically gave us an interest free loan and divvied up the debt among the various victims of the wretched Carrier. We’ve been plugging away at out part — witness the various fundraisers we’ve put on — and then, in the last few weeks, we received some substantial donations from various anonymous and wonderful donors, including one for $8K, and … we paid off everything we owed.
THANK YOU EVERYONE!
It feels great to have that burden off our shoulders, but we aren’t quite done yet. There are other defendants in this suit, and we figure we can still help them out, and we’ll have more to say about that later.
For now, though, Freethoughtblogs is 100% debt free!
And I get to take a shower and go to bed early and get back to work tomorrow morning.
Hooray!
Good stuff. Applause.
Very glad for the lot of you!
Good.
(Carrier can’t have gotten away unscathed, though. I hope)
Yea!
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Congratulations!
Now, is there any legal way -not including sending muscular atheists after Carrier- to get him to reimburse you?
Glad to hear FTB is debt free. I slept easier once I was debt free. Enjoy the feeling.
Wow–what a relief!! Thank goodness for such good people.
Yay!
And here I thought you were going to announce that you were now One with the Body. That you had accepted Llandru. . . I see I shall have to summon the Law Givers.
Wonderful news! Hooray! This is great.
Good.
Yaaay! [kermit flail]
Excellent news!
Glad to have done a small bit to help.
Doesn’t a quarter million seem incredibly costly to defend one lawsuit, though? I sure hope I never get sued if this is what it costs to defend against a groundless accusation.
It’s always nice to be debt free. Congrats!
w00t!
Awesome! Taking it off my auto. Let’s me retire that much earlier.
These comments are insufficiently festive. Anybody know how to embed animated gifs?
Yay!!!!!!!
A quarter million? A QUARTER MILLION?! jesus that doesn’t exist fucking christ!
And once more a big hefty FUCK YOU to Richard Carrier, self-admitted sex pest, creep AND disgusting and entitled abuser of the legal system.
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@DonDueed #14 It was multiple lawsuits, over multiple years. The individual lawyer’s invoices and mounting costs are visible on the linked timeline.
Congratulations! Even the spiders in Ozland are celebrating, ‘They look like waves’: spider webs blanket Gippsland after Victorian floods (image at link):
The mildly deranged penguin speculates they are trying to catch scumbag Richard Carrier.
Good news!