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 Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 11:50 pm Post subject: S.D. Minutemen leader sued for defamation |
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| Quote: | S.D. Minutemen leader sued for defamation
By Leslie Berestein
STAFF WRITER
March 23, 2007
DOWNTOWN SAN DIEGO
A local Minuteman leader whose home was searched by San Diego police Wednesday has now been sued for defamation, along with an associate.
Joanne Yoon, a former San Diego State University student, filed the lawsuit yesterday in San Diego Superior Court against Oceanside resident Jeff Schwilk, founder of the San Diego Minutemen, and fellow anti-illegal immigration activist Ray Carney.
According to the complaint, Yoon, 24, was working as an independent contractor for the American Civil Liberties Union in San Diego last year. She monitored the activities of the Minutemen at day labor sites as a coordinator for the San Diego Legal Observer Coalition.
The suit, which includes a Web posting and e-mails allegedly written by the defendants, says that Schwilk and Carney repeatedly referred to Yoon in e-mails and on the Web in vulgar terms.
Neither Schwilk nor Carney could be reached for comment yesterday.
In the lawsuit, one Web posting attributed to them shows a photo of Yoon surrounded by day laborers, with the text insinuating that she is a prostitute: “She really is popular or very inexpensive. (Hey Joe . . . Five Dolla-Five Dolla),” the text reads.
Yoon is Korean-American.
The posting concludes with an offer of $50 to anyone who can find her home address.
Daniel Gilleon, a San Diego attorney representing Yoon, said his client, who now lives in Los Angeles, was attacked in terms of her race and gender.
“She was scared,” Gilleon said. “Not that all Minutemen are this way, but Minuteman groups have provided racists a method of voicing their hate.”
He said Yoon did not wish to comment on the lawsuit, which seeks $1 million in compensatory damages. The idea, he said, “is to deter this kind of conduct.”
Police served a search warrant at Schwilk's home this week, seeking evidence as part of an investigation into a vandalism attack on migrant worker camps that occurred in January. A search warrant was also served at the home of Julie Adams, a Rancho Peñasquitos woman. Police searched the home of Schwilk's ex-girlfriend Christie Czajkowski last month, confiscating computer and video equipment. |
What a load of crap. The ACLU is taking lessons from Unions on how to pull one over on your "so called" enemy. I have experienced it first hand.
A mysterious memo was posted in the employee change room area that claimed it was from the company. It directed the janitorial employees to dilute the cleaning product by half because the company neded to save money. A manager took it down right away and called me.
I told him to pretend it never happened. If anyone asks, tell them you don't know what they are talking about because if you acknowledge it, they will use the fact that such a conversation took place and tell a completely different story to the NSLB. It will be three of them against you which will lead the NSLB to believe them.
Not even 3 days later, a new website was launched exposing the dirty conditions at local malls and copies of memos ordering the poor workers to use less cleaning agents or risk being fired. We were not mentioned on this website BTW.
They are just sleaze!!
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