The best thing we can do to both parties is never send them one red penny until they start representing us, and quit criminally undermining the election process. That is a demand we should be making on them on both the left and right or refuse to register as either a dem or repub. Can you imagine just how bad that would look, if no one showed up for either the caucuses or the primary voting and no conventions and instead held our own elections locally and sent those delegates to a convention that neither party had any say in????
That is called non cooperation. I love it. We can do it and do it legally according to
the Constitution.
Cops Detain Journalists During DNC, Force One to Delete Images or Face Arrest
http://www.pixiq.com/article/cops-detain-journalists-during-dnc
By Carlos Miller - The Photoworld in Focu
As I was recording the Secret Service agent above during the Republican Convention, Indybay journalists Dave Id and Jacob Crawford spotted a pair of undercover Secret Service agents whom they had spotted two days earlier in a labor march (Photo by Jacob Crawford)
The Democratic National Convention is getting off to a rousing start with at least five times the number of people arrested so far than were arrested during the entire Republican National Convention, including the near arrest of two journalists on Sunday.
The journalists were detained after outing a group of undercover cops in a protest, according to Firedoglake.com. (VN: Yup, that is what happens in a free society. The SS get outted by those who are free to observe, record and expose in such a free society. Too bad Nazi's, its the way it is and always will be. )
Two journalists covering the Democratic National Convention were confronted on Sunday by two undercover agents who assaulted one and threatened to punch the other in the mouth for photographing them.The two journalists, Kevin Gosztola of Firedoglake.com and Steve Horn, a Truthout contributor credentialed to cover the DNC for WORT-FM in Madison, Wisconsin, took notice of four burly middle-aged white males during a public march. The four were taking photos of the undocumented immigrant contingent in the march. They were carrying “No Papers, No Fear” blue flags and had put stickers from Code Pink on their person to make it seem like they were protesters in the demonstration. One man in an orange shirt had a black piece in one of his ears.Horn and Gosztola followed one of the men when they left the demonstration. At the corner of North Church Street and West Fifth Street, the man in the orange shirt claimed he was a protester and did not like having his picture taken. He threatened to punch Gosztola “in the teeth.” He belligerently commanded the two journalists to cross the street. The agent in the orange shirt then grabbed Horn and pulled him to the corner where Molly MacPherson’s Scottish Pubs is located.The orange shirt called for uniformed police officers to stop the two journalists in front of the restaurant. One of the agents chased down Gosztola, who tried to walk away. Then, on Fifth Street, a uniformed police officer ran after Gosztola, who turned when he saw the officer. He was stopped and searched.The report goes on to say that “Gosztola deleted his photos in front of the officer in order to avoid arrest or confiscation of the device. ”Sigh".
For the umpteenth time, police have no legal right to order you to delete your footage or confiscate your camera. That was confirmed this year by the U.S. Department of Justice.
Journalists need to make a stand in these incidents even if they face the risk of arrest.
Although it can be downright scary to do so, it is even scarier to allow them to walk all over your legal rights.
Jacob Crawford of Indybay snapped the above photo of me in front of the Republican National Convention in Tampa before spotting a man and a women he remembered from a labor march a couple of days earlier, but who were now hanging out with Secret Service agents. (VN: My question is "What kind of Americans are those secret service and those cops if they know this is going on, to try and start violence so they can unconstitutionally and illegally collect our guns? THey should be ashamed and never wear a badge again. Dress in the logo of the corporations you work for because you don't work for us, so take off those uniforms and wear a Goldman Sachs Vampire Squid Uniform instead. You have sold your soul for money.)
Photo by Jacob Crawford
Photo by Jacob Crawford
Photo by Jacob Crawford
Please send stories, tips and videos to carlosmiller@magiccitymedia.com.
CARLOS MILLER'S LEGAL DEFENSE FUND
I am immersed in a legal case where I not only want to clear my criminal charges stemming from my arrest in January, but I want to sue the Miami-Dade Police Department for deleting my footage, which I was able to recover.
My goal is to set some type of precedent to ensure this does not happen as often as it does today where cops simply get away with it.
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