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The Bastiat Collection · FREE PDF · FREE EPUB · PAPER Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850)
- "When law and morality are in contradiction to each other, the citizen finds himself in the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense, or of losing his respect for the law."
-- The Law (p. 54)- "Government is that great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else."
-- Government (p. 99)- "[W]ar is always begun in the interest of the few, and at the expense of the many."
-- Economic Sophisms - Second Series (p. 312)- "There are two principles that can never be reconciled - Liberty and Constraint."
-- Harmonies of Political Economy - Book One (p. 447)· tu ne cede malis sed contra audentior ito ·
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1754956541252263941
https://twitter.com/ginacarano/statu...52279646437655
{Gina Carano @ginacarano | 06 February 2024}
Today is an important day for me--I am filing a lawsuit against @lucasfilm & @Disney
After my 20 years of building a career from scratch, and during the regime of former Disney CEO Bob Chapek, Lucasfilm made this statement on Twitter, terminating me from The Mandalorian: “Gina Carano is not currently employed by Lucasfilm & there are no plans for her to be in the future. Nevertheless, her social media posts denigrating people based on their cultural & religious identities are abhorrent & unacceptable.”
Nothing could be further from the truth. The truth is I was being hunted down from everything I posted to every post I liked because I was not in line with the acceptable narrative of the time. My words were consistently twisted to demonize & dehumanize me as an alt right wing extremist. It was a bullying smear campaign aimed at silencing, destroying & making an example out of me.
The thing is I never even used aggressive language. I shared thought provoking quotes, pictures, memes & occasionally I used my own words, not with aggression but with respect & the occasional comedy to keep the mood light in dark times.
Look with your own eyes at what I posted and ask yourself, for example, where did I compare Republicans to the Jewish people in the holocaust? I didn’t. Ask yourself why they were calling me a racist, was there any merit behind that or history of it whatsoever? No. Look at why I was called a transphobe--for making droid noises from Star Wars? “Beep, bop, boop” was obviously directed to the online bullies and did not in any way denigrate transgender people.
Were my questions about masks, lockdowns & forced vaccines ok to ask & push the subject into the light? Should we have been allowed to publicly discuss those topics at that time without being harassed or censored? Absolutely.
Hollywood says they support female representation & equal rights. Why then were my male co-stars permitted to speak without harassment & re-education courses or termination, but I was not afforded the same right to exercise my freedom of speech.
Artists do not sign away our rights as American citizens when we enter into employment. I have spoken to all my co-stars since I was fired & there is nothing but care and kind words between us. I respect their right to free speech & do not have to think the same on every issue to be their friends & work with them & I know they feel the same towards me.
A couple months ago @ElonMusk tweeted that if you had been fired from using the platform (X) for exercising your right to free speech, he would like to offer these people legal representation. Quite the noble offer, but never in my wildest dreams would I have thought anyone would take on my case against Lucasfilm/Disney. Still, I did respond back “I think I qualify” & thousands of people agreed--but I did not expect anything.
To my surprise, a few months ago I received an email from a lawyer who had been hired by X to look into my story & many others. Turns out after sending them as much information as I could gather these past few months, my now lawyers & X believe whole-heartedly in my case & are moving forward.
I would like to express my deepest gratitude & thank you to @ElonMusk & @X for giving me an opportunity to bring my case to light.
As for me, I would love to pick up where I left off & continue my journey of creating & participating in story-telling, which is my utmost passion & everything I worked so hard for. It has been difficult to move forward with the lies & labels stuck on me, backed & encouraged by the most powerful entertainment company in the world. I am grateful someone has come to my defense in such a powerful way & look forward to clearing my name.
Thank you to all the people who have supported me & made your voices heard. I pray God blesses each & every one of you.
With love,
Gina Carano
For inquiries contact:
CaranoLawsuit@schaerr-jaffe.com
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Disney Wars - Gina Carano And Elon Musk Are Suing Disney
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIti9t6wyo0
{The Critical Drinker | 07 February 2024}
The world is a strange place, and its getting even stranger where Disney Lucasfilm is concerned. After firing Gina Carano from The Mandalorian a couple of years ago, she just announced that she's teamed up with Elon Musk in a major lawsuit against the company. Not only that, but Musk also hinted at a possible takeover bid with Nelson Peltz. Either way, Bob Iger is in a world of trouble right now.
Gina Carano and Elon SUE Disney! Cancel Culture Gets CANCELED
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yLsue_dDUE
{Nerdrotic | 07 February 2024}
Gina Carano and Elon Musk STRIKE BACK at Disney.
"Don't try to ruin my life with lies when your life can be ruined with the truth" - Gina Carano
GINA CARANO'S DISNEY LAWSUIT MOVES FORWARD | Film Threat NewsOriginally Posted by Occam's Banana
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bp0ICh2XJTg
{Film Threat | 21 June 2024}
This just in! Chris Gore and Alan Ng report on…
What's next for Gina Carano's Lawsuit against Disney.
‘Mandalorian’ Firing Lawsuit: How Gina Carano’s Team and Disney Are Battling In Court
At a Wednesday hearing, a judge expressed skepticism that the Carano's lawsuit should be tossed before discovery is allowed to take place.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/bu...ng-1235921512/
{Winston Cho | 12 June 2024}
A federal judge has signaled that Gina Carano‘s lawsuit against Disney and Lucasfilm over her termination from The Mandalorian will be allowed to proceed as the court considers whether the First Amendment allows private companies to sever ties with employees who publicly clash with their values.
U.S. District Judge Sherilyn Peace Garnett on Wednesday pushed back on arguments from Disney lawyer Daniel Petrocelli, who argued that the lawsuit should be dismissed because the company has the “right not to associate with a high-profile performer on a high-profile show who’s imbuing” the Star Wars series with “views it disagrees with” that could turn fans away from the show.
Petrocelli urged the court to find in favor of Disney on its First Amendment defense on dismissal rather than at a later stage of litigation after discovery takes place in which it’s determined whether the case should be allowed to proceed to trial.
“I’m not convinced there are no disputed facts,” Judge Garnett responded. She pointed to allegations that Carano was terminated to deflect attention from Disney’s contentious business decisions at the time, including the company’s contract dispute with Scarlett Johansson and criticism of Florida’s Parental Rights in Education law, which led to the dissolution of its special tax district in the state.
The lawsuit revolves around allegations from Carano that she was wrongfully terminated and discriminated against when she was booted from the series for voicing right-wing opinions on social media. The former MMA fighter appeared on the first two seasons of The Mandalorian. She wasn’t under contract to appear on the third season or any other Disney production, according to court filings.
Carano sued after Lucasfilm in 2021 announced that she wouldn’t be returning to the series after sharing a post in which she said, “most people today don’t realize that to get to the point where Nazi soldiers could easily round up thousands of Jews, the government first made their own neighbors hate them simply for being Jews.” The post continued, “How is that any different from hating someone for their political views?” She advanced claims that Disney violated California labor laws prohibiting employers from directing workers’ political activity and reprimanding employees on the basis of political speech.
At Wednesday’s hearing, Gene Schaerr, a lawyer for the actress, stressed that the comments at issue in the case were made from Carano’s personal social media accounts.
“Nothing she said was on the show or on set,” he said as Carano sat at the defense table in the courtroom.
That may not matter, at least according to Disney. The company claimed that there are broad liberties afforded to private speakers and what viewpoints they choose — and don’t choose — to express. In a case dealing with free speech rights, the Supreme Court held that organizers of a parade had a constitutional right not to include in the event a group seeking to express a message that they didn’t want to convey. The organizers’ decision to “exclude a message it did not like” fell within its “right as a private speaker to shape its expression by speaking on one subject by remaining silent,” the court found.
Disney argued there’s a First Amendment right to choose employees who properly convey their values, even when those choices would otherwise violate state anti-discrimination laws. It cited the Supreme Court, in Boy Scouts of America v. Dale, finding that the organization’s decision to fire an openly gay assistant scoutmaster is protected under the constitution. That constitutional right, the court concluded, shields the scouts from violations of New Jersey discrimination laws.
Under those two cases, Disney said that the state can’t force employers engaged in “expressive activity,” — in Disney’s case movies and TV shows — to convey its message through speakers like Carano who allegedly impair its ability to properly express its values, which it said include respect, integrity and inclusion. The First Amendment, it claimed, entitles it to protect its speech in the Star Wars series from association with views that it and many viewers considered offensive and contrary to its message.
“The messenger is part of the message,” Petrocelli said. He posited, “Imagine she made comments that she hates Jews or that there was no Holocaust.”
In response to Disney’s focus on the Supreme Court’s ruling in Dale, Schaerr said that free speech rights can’t be used as a shield against violations of discrimination laws and that the ruling in the case was based on a fully developed factual record, not at the motion to dismiss stage.
He underscored, “Disney’s First Amendment defense cannot allow it to shortcircuit the normal litigation process.” Discovery will reveal whether the company violated state civil rights laws when it terminated Carano, he added.
“I don’t necessarily disagree with you,” Garnett replied.
Carano’s backers include Elon Musk, who’s helping fund the lawsuit through X. He said he would foot the legal bill for users who claim they have been discriminated against due to their activity on the platform.
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