Slander Suit against now-FORMER Florida State Senator Lauren Book allowed to continue

It is a lot harder for the Books to get rid of a slander suit when her opponent has standing in the comunity. 

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/judge-rules-in-dr-barbara-shariefs-favor-to-proceed-to-trial-with-her-claim-that-senator-lauren-book-maliciously-slandered-her-with-statements-that-book-knew-were-false-302207271.html

JUDGE RULES IN DR. BARBARA SHARIEF'S FAVOR TO PROCEED TO TRIAL WITH HER CLAIM THAT SENATOR LAUREN BOOK MALICIOUSLY SLANDERED HER WITH STATEMENTS THAT BOOK KNEW WERE FALSE

News provided by Sharief For Florida 

Jul 26, 2024, 07:00 ET

DAVIE, Fla., July 26, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Former Broward County Mayor Dr. Barbara Sharief won another landmark victory and is one step closer to ultimate justice at trial for the alleged slander that she received by Lauren Book and her campaign. The Court ruled last night that Dr. Sharief had presented sufficient evidence to proceed to trial where she will be seeking over one million dollars in damages against Book and her campaign team for making false and untrue accusations that Sharief committed Medicaid fraud, among other falsehoods.

Judge Shari Africk Olefson stated as follows:

"That sufficient unrebutted evidence is reflected in the record, including but not limited to for a reasonable jury or trier of fact to conclude that Defendant (LAUREN BOOK) made and published to third parties, false information which was intended to harm Plaintiff in the context of an election campaign, and did harm Plaintiff."

The Court once again rejected Senator Book's relentless efforts to have the defamation lawsuit thrown out of court. This latest ruling was after the Court reviewed the under-oath depositions of Book and her campaign manager. The case will now head to a jury.

Expressing her stance, Dr. Sharief emphasized, "I am extremely proud that I have stood up for myself and every person who cares about truth and honesty in public discourse. No citizen should be victimized by the type of lies and politics of personal destruction and bullying exhibited Lauren Book and her campaign when they disseminated knowingly false information that harmed my family and my reputation." 

Dr. Sharief's attorney Michael Pizzi said about the Judge's decision to move the case forward to trial. "We look forward to heading to trial and obtaining an ultimate victory in Court that will send a powerful message that the truth matters in politics and that hard-working self-made public servants like Dr. Barbara Sharief cannot be the subject of defamatory statements. "

The BOOK of Death: Lauren Book's public policies center around the deaths of human beings

Am I the only one who thinks that FloriDUH State Senator Lauren Book is obsessed with death?

Just this year --

Lauren Book is pushing for an assisted suicide bill.

Lauren Book is pushing to expand the death penalty to cases not involving murder in direct violation of the US Constitution. 

And, Lauren Book is throwing Hail Mary passes in a desperate attempt to reinstate abortions in FloriDUH, including this petty passive-aggressive amendment:

"This act may be cited to as the “Electrical Activity that can be Manipulated to Sound like a Heartbeat through Ultrasound Protection at the Expense of Pregnant People’s Health and Wellbeing Act.”

Now, I understand that Bimbo Book is not a scientist, nor is she good at being truthful. So I'm not shocked she'd say something this stupid. After all, she conjured an gang abuse narrative out of thin air in last year's attempt to stop an abortion ban. 

Ron DeSantis is often called "DeathSantis" so Book needs a similar nickname because her agenda is murdering human beings. I can envision her sitting in a room watching a person die with a smile on her face. Book is a PSYCHOPATH and should be in a mental institution along with the rest of her mentally ill family.

Lauren Book gives an interview in support of her agenda. 

Ron Book and his patsy Jose "Pepe (le Pew)" Diaz flat out LIES to the Miami-Dade subcommittee in support of ordinance to arrest homeless registrants

Ron Book is pimping Miami's latest proposal to "clean up" the homeless camp by making it legal for the police to arrest them for being homeless altogether. Currently, the police must provide the homeless with the opportunity to go to a shelter and can only arrest after the homeless refuse the shelter. Thus, police can't arrest a homeless registrant because there aren't any shelters for the in Miami-Dade. If they succeed in passing this local ordinance, then the police can just arrest them without offering shelter. I suspect this will lead to a roundup of camp residents.

See full story at http://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/miami-dade-commissioners-propose-arrest-of-homeless-sex-offenders-on-sight-9807032

Ron Book's lies can be found at 44 minutes in. The bill passed the subcommittee and will go to a full committee on January 23rd.

It is hard to tell what is worse here- Ron Book's lying mouth or Jose "Pepe Le Pew" Diaz planting his lips firmly on Ron Book's lying ass.

http://miamidade.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=4704

Jean Zeeb: Lauren Book's column misleads about sex offenders

This article isn't perfect (I'm not keen on the "unscrupulous men" comment and the appeal to polygraphs (junk science). Still, this column debunks Lauren Book and her victim industry propaganda.

http://www.gainesville.com/opinion/20170104/jean-zeeb-column-misleads-about-sex-offenders

Jean Zeeb: Column misleads about sex offenders

Wednesday
Posted Jan 4, 2017 at 2:00 AM
By Jean Zeeb Special to The Sun

In Lauren Book's Dec. 11 column, she wrote about the dangers that sexual predators pose to children and admonishes parents to be suspicious of staff at youth-serving organizations. We all want to protect children, so how could such a column be objectionable? Because it is alarmist, misleading and mostly false.

I have been a sex offender therapist for over 20 years, treating well over 1,000 juvenile and adult sex offenders. For longer than that, I have worked with adults who were sexually victimized as children.

Book states that we must be vigilant for sexual predators who work in youth-serving capacities. She wrote that "the average sexual predator will offend against 117 children in his or her lifetime." This is an old trope, discredited decades ago.

Among sex offenders, there are those with child victims and those with adult victims. Those with child victims are further divided into two categories: child molesters and pedophiles.

Child molesters generally have one or two victims (verified by polygraphs), and these are children with whom they have close contact (e.g., as stepparents, babysitters, etc.). Child molesters are generally heterosexual, and are primarily interested in adult partners, but at one time or another victimized a child.

Pedophiles, on the other hand, are primarily (and often exclusively) attracted to children. While there are pedophiles who fit Book's description of "117 victims," such pedophiles are rare. Most are introverts and isolated from society. Though some act on their sexual desires, others do not.

"Sexual predator" is not a clinical term, but a legal one based primarily on statute. In Florida, the difference between being labeled a "sex offender" or "sexual predator" has little to do with the actual crime, and more to do with when the crime was committed and the presiding judge's whims. Any adult convicted of a sex crime against a child after Oct. 1, 1993, if the judge so deems, can be labeled a sexual predator.

In Florida, the definition of "adult" and "child" is a moving target. In terms of victims, anyone under the age of 18 is considered to be a child. Unlike 40 other states where the age of consent is lower, Florida's age of consent is 18.

When it comes to offenders, children as young as 14 who may have "experimented" with neighborhood kids, can, and regularly are, convicted of sexual offenses as adults. Since their victims are almost always younger, they are considered especially dangerous, as they have "targeted" such young victims and are thus labeled "sexual predators."

Here are a few other examples from my caseload: An 18-year-old high school student has sex with a 16 year old from school. He is convicted of a sex crime against a child, must drop out as he cannot now be around "children," and his hopes of joining the military after graduation are dashed. Instead he is labeled a sexual predator for his entire life. Had he done this in Georgia, where the age of consent is 16, no crime would have been committed.

A 22-year-old man meets someone in a chat room who claims to be 20 and posts a stock photo of a woman roughly that age. The conversation turns sexual and they exchange photos of their genitals. Her parents discover the photos and call the police. He is arrested and convicted of sending material harmful to a child and labeled a child sexual predator. She was 14 years old, though he had no way of knowing this.

A 23-year-old man goes to a dance club and picks up a woman at the bar. She goes home with him and they have sex. Three weeks later, he is arrested on a child sexual battery charge. The "woman" was 17 and used a fake ID to get into the bar. When she bragged about her sexual encounter with her school friends she was overheard by a teacher, who was mandated by the state to report the crime. The man is now convicted and labeled a sexual predator.

I do not mean to imply that there are not true child victims, children sexually exploited by unscrupulous men. Nor do I want to minimize the harm done to children by a trusted adult, such as a stepfather. Children are profoundly harmed by such activity. The countless heartbreaking stories that Book is likely privy to, and that I myself have heard in my offices, point to the devastation wreaked upon their lives.

But it is important to look with a more critical eye than Book is using. By using alarmist terms and discredited statistics, the complexity of the problem is obscured. When the term "sexual predator" applies alike to young men with "consenting" partners as it does for pedophiles, the term is, in effect, meaningless.

Book casts suspicion on the vast majority of well-intended adults who work with children. Most adults working with youth are altruistic men and women deserving of our appreciation.

- Jean Zeeb is a licensed mental health counselor and a clinical member of the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers. She works with sex offenders and victims of sexual abuse in North Central Florida.