Alert! Press Lynching by Libel Law

In retaliation for the investigative story about the finances of the George W.
Bush campaign, Barrick Gold Mining of Canada has sued my paper, the Observer of
London, for libel. The company, which hired the elder Bush after his leaving
the White House, is charging the newspaper with libel for quoting an Amnesty
International report, which alleged that 50 miners might have been buried alive
in Tanzania by a company now owned by Barrick.

The company has also demanded the Observer and its parent, Guardian Newspapers,
force me to remove the article from my US website, a frightening extension of
Britain