Witness the Kepuli-mob in action.

He should win the case quite easily. He criticised a public figure which gives a person a lot more room to move.

Well, not interfering political or juridical aspects of this case, I wish to bring here my opinion of common sense and decency (not that I have much of them, just the opinion).
As I have undrstood, unjustifiable things has happened in that school. I’m very much against any kind of mistreating of children, and such teachers or other authoroties who are doing this should be treated with no silk gloves.
But also I think that public alive-skinning -stuff or calling someone human filth -kind of writing isn’t doing any good.
It isn’t rare that someone’s personal fight against authoroties will start a life of it’s own and amongst some circle it lives long after the real subject has been buried.
Sometimes the original case is just a reason to make a fuss about something else (freedom of speech is kinda fashion nowadays) or just to make fuzz.
It’s eating credibility and giving foothold for the other side.
As in one D.A.D song: Every time you throw dirt you loose a little ground.
So, don’t lower your voice, but the fist, or atleast rise also some maturity.

But also I think that public alive-skinning -stuff or calling someone human filth -kind of writing isn’t doing any good.

It may not be any good, but is it criminal!?

Phil,

As I started: “Well, not interfering political or juridical aspects of this case…”

I don’t care if it’s criminal or not, this is exactly my point.
Debating about legality of Jani’s slandering that principal steals the spotlight from the original crime.
Making the methods and professional skills of that headmaster questionable could have been done more mature and effective way.
If you get sued for calling someone unprofessional, it easier to defend and bring out injusticies than having sued for calling names and personal insults.

As I started: “Well, not interfering political or juridical aspects of this case?”

Right. Sorry I missed that.

Debating about legality of Jani’s slandering that principal steals the spotlight from the original crime.

That’s how I feel about that whole Jaatteenmaki-Lipponen-Bush-leak thing.

Making the methods and professional skills of that headmaster questionable could have been done more mature and effective way.

I don’t think Finland has those kinds of mechanisms in place, as the Finnish government has no system of checks-and-balances. It is very hard to fight a bad seed within a state apparatus, as that apparatus can always be counted on rallying to defend its own members.

If the government were constructed in a way that fosters waryness of other branches of government, there could possibly be hope for change. Right now rivalries get re-expressed through political party labels in parliament: exactly where the elites of the government want them to be expressed, as they take the focus off of them.