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Interview With Jailed Video Blogger Josh Wolf
Video blogger and independent journalist Josh Wolf has been in a federal jail for 170 days for refusing to turn over to a federal grand jury a video of a San Francisco demonstration. On Feb. 6 Wolf's length of incarceration set a new record for US journalism. "Democracy Now!" has an interview with Josh Wolf from his jail cell. If federal authorities can jail bloggers with impunity, it does not bode well for the future of citizen journalism.
seriously, turning up to court isn't a suggestion, it's a requirment when they tell you to. this guy has video of illegal activities and things because he's got a blog he's some kind of pro hax journo and the law doesn't apply to him? i hope the cunt gets raped with a deep heat condom while in jail so he play the victim all the more.
If you mod me down, I will become more powerful than you can imagine....
we've already achieved the chameleon-like mobility of the race system. caste system is so passe.
in other news: your shit stinketh too.
I thank God daily that I am not American. Please understand, I don't intend to bash Americans, but I am scared to death of the police state that is forming. Gitmo makes the Japanese internment camps of WWII look like quilting bees. It frightens me so much that I'd even move out of Canada just to get further away from that, except for people like Josh Wolf.
It figures that you are Canadian. America bashing is your new national sport, isn't it? Even more popular than hockey now. Did you happen to notice that Norway, not the USA, was referenced in another article on Slashdot about considering putting in a national firewall to block objectionable material? Did you happen to notice that in the USA, you are still free to speak your mind and if I want to do something stupid like question the Holocaust (this is only an example and for the record I do believe it happened), I will not go to jail?
As far as Guantanamo goes, I don't feel sorry for these people at all. If you do, that's fine. In fact, I'd go so far as to Guantanamo is one of the few good things Bush has done. I think there should be a place where bad people who want to harm my country go and they stay there until they die. Unfortunately, my government did a poor job of screening those who it sent there and an ever poorer job of figuring out in a timely manner who was and who wasn't a terrorist of those they sent there. But there are very very bad people there and if you look for a variety of sources about, for example, David Hicks, I think you will come to the conclusion that this is not a good man wrongly imprisoned as his lawyer would have you believe, but a hardcore jihadist who wants nothing more than to kill as many non-Muslim Westerners as he can. I've heard that Australia's PM has said off the record that he has no objections to Hicks being detained forever because he can't be charged under Australian law and they know that if he ever gets released, he'll leave Australia and try to go somewhere (Chechniya?) where he can kill non-Muslims and cause problems. I have little doubt that if Hicks were released he would represent a very serious and real threat to my country.