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Every “media freedom” outlet in the country should be up in arms about this, helping John Ziegler pay for a lawsuit, shouting from the rooftops against this blatant and disgusting and downright frightening abridgement of the First Amendment. Watch this video for yourself. Now THIS is authoritarism run amuck. In it, Ziegler good-naturedly tries to wait outside a hall, with camera in tow, while Katie Couric is given the Cronkite Award for supposed excellence in journalism. (We’ll set aside the obvious note that this is like naming Frankenstein as the next “Miss America.”) And there, outside a gathering of journalists, this journalist is handcuffed and dragged rather roughly across a sidewalk, for no good discernible reason, because he was laughing and as unthreatening as a dachsund puppy.
Watch it for yourself. Feel your blood boil. This is quite literally the sort of thing that calls for a public rebuke from the highest levels of both journalism AND government. For that matter, I wonder what Ms. Couric thinks of this. If she has even an ounce of integrity, she too will denounce the treatment of Mr. Ziegler. Fat chance.
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Jeffrey Lord| 4.16.09 @ 6:37PM
Quin...
That is simply stunning. Talk about the need for the "viral" when it comes to video....
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BrownShirts Cuff Documentarian. Literally. | But As For Me links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
hmm_contrib| 4.16.09 @ 6:54PM
Yes, it's terrible when one can't ask questions of their government. Or cover a story without getting arrested. We welcome your (belated) outrage.
much ado about nothing| 4.16.09 @ 7:37PM
This has nothing whatsoever to do with government infringing on free speech. Come on, guys... you're waaaaaaayyyyyy over the top here.
Tom Paine| 4.16.09 @ 8:08PM
Mr Hillyer --
It looks to me like a PRIVATE security detail is infringing upon this man.
Once again, the actual problem lies with a private, corporate entity, and NOT the government.
You live, sir, in the freest country on earth. The LIBERALS in government have worked tirelessly to keep in that way.
We're the ones who fire off endless lawsuits defending the rights of every scumbag on the face of the earth to have his say.
If you're a Nazi, and want to hold a parade, chances are some LIBERAL lawyer is filing a lawsuit somewhere so you can do that.
I don't always agree with this, but if it's first amendment protections you want, I think you're looking to the wrong people.
Jan| 4.16.09 @ 9:03PM
It's shocking that Couric would get an award for the Palin interview, but Ziegler comes off as an unlikable, obnoxious individual.
Troll Hunter| 4.16.09 @ 11:04PM
Paine-in-the-Rear raises a good point: If memory serves correctly, it was a private contractor that arrested all those men, women and children at Koresh's Waco compound a few years back. They defied Janet Reno's orders for rule-of-law handling of a routine search for a $200 tax stamp and hauled them all off on buses. [Humiliating!] Reno came down hard on the company for their over-stepping the law. Those for profit firms - so out of control.
I'm sure Paine-in-the-Butt can flesh out the details for us.
Julia| 4.17.09 @ 12:38AM
Troll Hunter, you forgot about that big bad 'private contractor' at Ruby Ridge who shot and killed the mom holding her infant in her arms. Remember? These 'private contractors' seem to be out of control--why is that? Oh, liberal presidents are in office.
Beth| 4.17.09 @ 12:39AM
You live, sir, in the freest country on earth. The men and women who have served in the military have worked tirelessly and shed their blood to keep it that way.
Fixed.
Smitty| 4.17.09 @ 12:43AM
Who alerted USC security in the first place? Katie, the ex-cheerleader has always played hardball: She's liberal fascist royalty. Off with their heads!!
Daphne| 4.17.09 @ 12:49AM
And now the liberals have placed those military men and women who have fought for our freedoms on a terrorist watch list.
Ran| 4.17.09 @ 6:54AM
"If you're a Nazi, and want to hold a parade, chances are some LIBERAL lawyer is filing a lawsuit somewhere so you can do that."
Someone remind "Tom" that If you're a Conservative, and want to address students at a college, chances are some LIBERAL "activist" is filing a challenge somewhere to block your speech;
If you're an Entrepreneur, and want to hold a patent, chances are some LIBERAL lawyer is filing a lawsuit somewhere to tax you out of business;
If you're a Nazi, and want to hold a parade, chances are some LIBERTARIAN [Got that, moron?] lawyer is filing a lawsuit somewhere so you can do that.
Screw your "liberals", Tom. The only freedom they support today is the "freedom" to raid other peoples' productivity and liberty. Bloody brownshirts.
Tom Pain| 4.17.09 @ 10:40AM
Ran --
My landlord -- actually, landlady -- happens to be a liberal lawyer. She's so liberal it'd curl your hair.
What she does is sue people who infringe on others' civil liberties. If she thought for a second that B. Obama infringed on your liberties, or anyone else, she'd stay up night and day working on the case.
Believe me. There is no one LESS politically "reliable" than a pissed of liberal attorney. They have the loyalty of a hammer-head shark. It's all about their client.
The ACLU just filed suit against Obama on a FOIA case for a little old lady in New York. I'm telling you, liberals are your best friend -- when you need them.
And when someone else needs them? Their communists, terrorists, traitors, etc. I think we all know why that is.
Tom Paine| 4.17.09 @ 10:46AM
IF any of you knew anything about political science, you'd understand that "liberal fascist" is a ridiculous oxymoron.
It makes no sense whatsoever.
Liberalism is political ideal that seeks to increase political and economic liberties. (Liberal -- liberties....see the connection?).
The forces that work against liberalism are called "reactionaries."
That's what you are. Reactionaries.
Reaction can come from the state or from the people (reactionary populism, a key ingredient of fascism).
There are generally three political tendencies in modern politics: socialism, liberalism, and fascism.
Socialism seeks to increase material equality over liberties.
Fascism seeks to enhance the power of the state by means of coopting markets and militarism.
Liberalism is an antidote to these two tendencies. It smooths the sharper edges of the market and creates political mediating institutions that prevent the state from acquiring too much power over the individual. Liberalism valorizes personal autonomy over collective order, but understands that social order and the rule of law are necessary pre-requisites for the pursuit of liberty.
There's anarchy in Somalia. To listen to today's conservatives, it's a perfect country.
Ran| 4.17.09 @ 11:26AM
"Liberalism [ ... ] smooths the sharper edges of the market and creates political mediating institutions that prevent the state from acquiring too much power over the individual. Liberalism valorizes personal autonomy [SIC!!] over collective order, but understands that social order and the rule of law are necessary pre-requisites for the pursuit of liberty."
ROFL!!!
So "liberals" oppose the slaughter of the unborn, huh? The free expression of religious faith in our schools, huh? The rights to self-defense and the Second Amendment, huh? The rights of conservative expression and non-liberal thought in the academy, huh? The responsibilities of the individual for their own fiscal success, huh? Rights of the individual States? Respect for individual property?
Present experience shows otherwise: Modern "liberalism" brooks no tolerance for personal autonomy or responsibility, except when it comes to porn and pot. That's groovey, man.
And when someone wishes to speak out, they are cuffed, abused, shouted-down, have broadcast licenses threatened, pushed off stage, or officially placed on a terrorist watch list by your beloved DHS. So fucking tolerant of "personal autonomy", Pain. So fucking "understanding."
Heather| 4.17.09 @ 1:27PM
The free expression of religious faith in our schools, huh?
Depends on the faith. If you want to express Islam or Earth-worship, they're right there, making sure everyone else is forced to express it as well.
Julia| 4.17.09 @ 2:24PM
That's true: Liberal fascists always defend scumbags, because all of the scumbags are liberal fascists.
MT| 4.17.09 @ 2:27PM
TEA PARTY, WASHINGTON D.C. JULY 4, 2009!!
MT| 4.17.09 @ 2:28PM
TEA PARTY, WASHINGTON D.C. JULY 4, 2009!!
Kat| 4.17.09 @ 2:29PM
TEA PARTY, WASHINGTON D.C. JULY 4, 2009!!
NavyBrat| 4.17.09 @ 3:06PM
"Fascism seeks to enhance the power of the state by means of coopting markets and militarism. "
Really, Tom Paine? Last I checked my history, the Nazis did EXACTLY this. Kinda like Obama taking over the auto industry & firing execs? Kinda like the government FORCING some bakns to take bailout money or not letting them pay it back so that the GOVERNMENT can remain in controll of them? Like the Brownshirt-esque Civilan Security Force that would be, as President Nero put it, as well funded, a big as, & as powerful as the military? Yes indeed, you got it right. Thanks for the clarification on facism. Now we know what we're dealing with. Oh, & how could I forget the Hitler-like cult of personality that President Nero has cultivated. That also reminds one of the same cult of personality that pencil mustached prick rode all the way to become the "saviour" of Weimar Germany.
And your moronic asssertion that "according to today's conservatives" Somalia wuld be a perfect country, that's just vomitous drivel. That's anarchy. Conservatism as it applies to OUR country means an adherence to our founding principles. You know, those principles laid out in the wrtings of your namesake? Or those principles laid out in the Constitution, Bill of Rights, & even the Federalist Papers. LIMITED government, not NO government. You paint conservatives wit ha wide brush indeed if you think that your example of Somalia is what we would consider to be a "perfect" country. I guess that's all too easy for a liberal to do. You folks think you know everything about everybody based on their political identities. That's the problem with liberals. There are as many reasons for being conservative as there are conservatives. We DO beleive in the rule of law, just not in ONEROUS laws & government interference. For a dose of REAL conservatism, I suggest your read Cicero. His writtings, as well as those of Paine can describe MOST conservatives perfectly well.
"The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, pubic debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands be curtailed lelst Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance."...Marcus Tullius Cicero
Doesn't sound all that different from TODAY'S conservatives, does it?
Angel| 4.17.09 @ 10:39PM
Liberals don't exist anymore--democrats are progressives now. Progressivism is coercive like fascism and communism.
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