Can 'psychics' be sued or sent to jail?

[kryonlight]

Psychics on hot seat after false claim that Cleveland kidnapping victim was dead

Police departments across the country routinely get tips from self-professed mediums, particularly in high-profile cases. The claims don’t always pan out, as was the case with psychic Sylvia Browne. Another psychic says, ‘I don’t claim to solve the crimes. Police do. I give information.'

In 2004, self-proclaimed psychic Sylvia Browne had a heartbreaking message for the mother of Amanda Berry, one of the three Cleveland kidnapping victims.

“She’s not alive, honey,” Browne told mom Louwanna Miller on “The Montel Williams Show.”

Miller, who died two years later, would never know that Berry was in fact alive — she and two other women were discovered Monday after police say they were held captive in a home for about a decade.

Browne was blasted on social media for her dead-wrong declaration, with some calling her a “filthy, exploitative, greedy liar.” She didn’t return a call for comment Wednesday.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/cri...leveland-case-article-1.1338326#ixzz2Su7Ga5b2

 

[Sinkie]

These psychics are exploitative people who prey on your desperation to know the truth.

The logic is that if they're really psychic, they would predict the lotto's winning numbers and win themselves loads of cash without the need to earn a living by telling fortunes.

 

[scbccb]

Why not? They're most sue worthy.

 

[oldjunkee]

Still want to mess around with mediums?

Sekali they defile you then you know.

 

[Leepotism]

Posted on <TIME class=entry-date datetime="2006-01-13T12:38:01+00:00">13 January, 2006</TIME> by Les
<!-- .entry-meta --></HEADER><!-- .entry-header --> Sylvia “I Talk To Dead People” Browne has accidentally revealed the secret to her “psychic” abilities and showed she’s a hypocrite in the process.
Seems she was on George Noory’s Coast to Coast radio show back on January 3rd when all the drama with the West Virginia miners was taking place. Sylvia was tripped up by the initial false report that the miners had been found alive and had to do some serious backpedaling after the truth came out. There’s a partial transcript in an article at, of all place, Fox News. Emphasis mine:

Browne, who had just announced that John McCain would run against John Kerry in the next presidential campaign, was relieved to hear from Noory that all but one of the miners was alive.
Noory: “Had you been on the program today, would [you] have felt if — because they heard no sound — that this was a very gloomy moment — and that they might have all died?”
Browne: “No. I knew they were going to be found. I hate people that say something after the fact. It’s just like I knew when the pope was dead. Thank God I was on Montel’s show. I said, according to the time, it was 9-something and whatever Rome time was. And I said he was gone, and he was.”
But the situation was fluid, something Browne — ahem! — obviously didn’t sense despite her claims of being able to speak to the dead, among other things. She couldn’t have imagined that within a short time, the entire story of the miners would change completely — and make her look very foolish indeed.
Noory soon announced that there were new reports that all but one of the miners was dead.
Browne — who was still in the studio taking questions from listeners — had to say something. Now she was just riffing: “I don’t think there’s anybody alive, maybe one. How crazy for them to report that they were alive when they weren’t!” Then she added: “I just don’t think they are alive.” She cleared her throat, and there was a deafening pause.
Noory went to a commercial.
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Oops.
So will this mean the end of Sylvia’s career as a $700 a session psychic? Ha ha! Don’t be stupid like so many of her fans are. It’s not like being wrong has ever stopped her before. She’ll just do what she did during the radio show and just pretend she never bragged about knowing they’d be found alive and her fans will just pretend right along with her. Just like the folks who are defending James Frey’s book A Million Little Pieces that I talked about the other day. She might lose a few fans, but there’s plenty of folks out there that need to believe she’s the real thing and who feel she’s changed their entire lives. Her message, after all, is a positive (if expensive) one. She’ll just keep right on making shit up as she goes along and her fans will keep spending way too much money swallowing it whole.

 

[escher]

So will this mean the end of Sylvia’s career as a $700 a session psychic? Ha ha! Don’t be stupid like so many of her fans are. It’s not like being wrong has ever stopped her before. .

Sama sama for smear of shit on sole of shoe LKY

Sinkies knew that LKY is a fucking liar and screw and fuck them all like crazy

Aided by LKY fellow shits maggots in white and kangaroos

Yet sinkies voted and voted for them again and again

You think sinkies clever is it?

Iban tribesman in Borneo more clever than stupid sinkies in sinkieland

 

[numero uno]

These psychics are exploitative people who prey on your desperation to know the truth.

The logic is that if they're really psychic, they would predict the lotto's winning numbers and win themselves loads of cash without the need to earn a living by telling fortunes.

all these bullshitters are the same. CHC, NCC, pastors, fengshui conmen, psedo -prince pastor, kong lan jw pastors ALL speak cr@p for money. money talk the loudest. their mouth full of sh!t that's all. amaze me alot of stupig suckkers out there.

 

[Leepotism]

Sama sama for smear of shit on sole of shoe LKY

Sinkies knew that LKY is a fucking liar and screw and fuck them all like crazy

Aided by LKY fellow shits maggots in white and kangaroos

Yet sinkies voted and voted for them again and again

You think sinkies clever is it?

Iban tribesman in Borneo more clever than stupid sinkies in sinkieland

Sinkies, at least the 60% are so proud of their stupidity that they voted the skunks in white in every general election for more than 50 years. The unbearable stupidity of sinkies is known all over the world.

 

[wendychan]

to answer your question, unfortunately not, and i wish they could, but nothing to stop them from being subpoenaed as witnesses in a trial

 

[wendychan]

they also earn quite a bit of money - conveintly called donations