Legal retard got a few things wrong or at the very least was over confident about them.
1. Defamation is overstated He treats “using criminal language” as if it automatically creates defamation risk. It doesn’t. You still need a false factual assertion, not just harsh or sloppy wording. A lot of what he flags is closer to opinion/rhetorical framing than actionable defamation.
2. “Actual malice” is misapplied He leans on NYT v Sullivan standards like they apply broadly. They don’t. This isn’t automatically a public-figure actual-malice situation, so he’s simplifying the burden in a way that favors “Ben is likely liable” without proper framing.
3. Stalking claim is speculative He jumps from “filming + repeated presence + confrontation” to stalking. That skips key elements like credible threat and intent to cause fear. A lot of what he describes still sits in protected/gray-area journalism behavior unless it crosses specific statutory lines.
4. Process server / presence argument is wrong-direction reasoning Even if Ben couldn’t legally serve process, that doesn’t automatically turn his presence into criminal conduct or invalidate everything else. He conflates procedural defect with illegality.
5. “You can’t call police” contract point is overstated He states categorical unenforceability in absolute terms. In reality, enforceability depends on context (scope, remedy structure, public policy limits), not a blanket rule.
6. Fraud/lottery claim is asserted, not proven He assumes intent (“he knew it was fraud from the start”) without walking through actual fraud elements like reliance, misrepresentation, and provable intent at the time.
7. Overall pattern He stacks worst-case interpretations of multiple issues and then presents the combined risk as “likely liability.” That’s not how legal analysis normally works—it's risk aggregation without clear burden separation.
Joshua Johnson and Brandon Best have just resigned from the Salem, Oregon location.
But I thought they didn't do anything wrong and Ben was just breaking the law to try and besmirch their good name????