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Journalist Cleared of Riot Charges in South Dakota (nbcnews.com)
Her video went viral, viewed more than 14 million times, and triggering concerns online when she was threatened with prison. But a North Dakota judge "refused to authorize riot charges against award-winning journalist Amy Goodman for her reporting on an attack against Native American-led anti-pipeline protesters." An anonymous Slashdot reader quotes NBC News:
Goodman described the victory as a "great vindication of the First Amendment," although McLean County State's Attorney Ladd Erickson told The New York Times that additional charges were possible. "I believe they want to keep the investigation open and see if there is any evidence in the unedited and unpublished videos that we could better detail in an affidavit for the judge," Erickson told the newspaper.
The native Americans "were attempting to block the destruction of sacred sites, including ancestral burial grounds," according to a new article co-authored by Goodman about her experiences, which argues that "Attempts to criminalize nonviolent land and water defenders, humiliate them and arrest journalists should not pave the way for this pipeline."
The native Americans "were attempting to block the destruction of sacred sites, including ancestral burial grounds," according to a new article co-authored by Goodman about her experiences, which argues that "Attempts to criminalize nonviolent land and water defenders, humiliate them and arrest journalists should not pave the way for this pipeline."
As a North Dakotan, I've always suspected no one knows the difference.
Of all the presidential candidates, Jill Stein is the only one who stands for justice.
Vice presidential candidate Ajamu Baraka was also arrested.
Their civil act of disobedience has earned my vote.
Clearly they are once again, trying to censor the conservatives who are the only path to freedom.
Their authoritarian tendencies are on display again, and this is how we know they rigged the election so badly even the GOP primaries were flawed.
They probably rigged Mitt Romney too.
Many may say "this is the justice system working as intended" . If you are one of those people: you are wrong. This is the justice system being abused to send a message to all who disagree. "careful, we can hurt you. you mind want to consider before becoming going against us."
And people still wonder how we managed to end up with the presidential candidates we currently have... We do not vote in anticipating for a bright and better future anymore. We vote in fear.
I hope Amy Goodman turns around and goes on the offensive against the pieces of shit that puked out these bullshit charges against her.
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Ginned up by radical leftists using native Americans as pawns.
This might have happened decades ago, when things like Watergate were possible. But now the media are fully beholden to the Ruling Elite, and the Patriot Act is there to punish those who think otherwise. Things will go as the Caste decide.
A communist hack gets off in a US court. Big fucking surprise.
"The average reporter we talk to is 27 years old......They literally know nothing." - Ben Rhodes
This might have happened decades ago, when things like Watergate were possible. But now the media are fully beholden to the Ruling Elite, and the Patriot Act is there to punish those who think otherwise. Things will go as the Caste decide.
Goodman works for the independent and viewer funded Democracy Now! network. She is one of the anchors. I agree that a lot of the media are under control, but not her.
The prosecutors did nothing wrong. The real felons here are the Amy Badman and the judge that choose to illegally not uphold the law.
The tribe don't have to be worried much longer. Soon the pipeline work stumbles upon an ancient artifact, an indestructible stone circle of sorts and they shall unleash an undead wolf-like furry beast to devour the enemies of the tribe.
What law?
She wasn't trespassing and she wasn't rioting, so what law?
SHUSH! She broke a law. Breitbart and Drudge told him, and thus was it so! Details are for those who hate America.
She broke two laws. Trespassing and rioting. And she belongs in prison.
According to progressives, it is highly desirable to take away land from homeowners and farmers via eminent domain for building a useless California High Speed Rail project that will break the budget, transfer massive amounts of tax dollars to private corporations, and never result in meaningful environmental benefits.
But heaven forbid people want to build an oil pipeline, something that actually makes roads safer and actually saves energy: then progressives are up in arms and start protesting and rioting, and they are not above using Native Americans as props in their political theater.
There is a migration movement in New Hampshire called the Free State Project and its attracting a lot of liberty-minded individuals to the state for the purpose of pursing liberty and freedom. The underlying philosophy is that you should not utilize violence, fraud, or coercion to achieve social or political goals. Unfortunately that's exactly what a state does. If there is no victim, violence, theft, fraud, or coercion there should be no crime. Principled libertarians (as opposed to the frauds that make up the national libertarian party, ie republicans took it over essentially) don't think we should have guards on the board deciding who can come and go, that the state should be giving permission to travel/drive (drivers licenses), have a construct called 'intellectual property'/copy'right'/etc, or stealing money for social programs such as government indoctrination programs (ie public schools). No victim, violence, coercion, theft, or fraud there should be no crime.
So as one can imagine government agents have repeatedly violently attacked the most active and public individuals and politicians in this movement. Failing that they have libelled and slandered people. A prominent example of that is police and various government agents have attacked a radio host Ian Freeman, here in Keene, New Hampshire, numerous times.
Once they raided his place, of which he rents some rooms, has a studio, and an activist center in search of building code violations. They got him on a dead battery in a smoke alarm (they came with warrant in hand and police where normally a letter would be sent and no warrant would be issued to conduct the search, but the idea in and of itself is just unbelievable, that the government can come in and search at any time for building code violations, yet this really happens).
More recently those who hate him have been spreading misinformation about his stance on age of consent in an effort to paint him as a child molester. They twisted a story about his sexual experiences as a young person with an older person into him supporting child molestation. The FBI even got in on the act shortly after he attacked the FBI on the air for *DISTRIBUTING CHILD PORN* (if children are harmed by the act of viewing CP they were being hypocritical for distributing it). Two weeks later the FBI raided his home, stole his studio equipment (10s of thousands of dollars worth), his tenants computers, his computers, and so on. 30+ computing devices were stolen in the raid and these people will never get them back. He has not been arrested and this was nothing more than a smear campaign to ruin his image. It's hard to ruin a person's image who advocates non-violence and peace- but make it out as though the person is a child molester and the people will do it for you.
She's funded by soros.
Should read:
Her video (subscription required) went viral...
She deserves prison as much as you deserve to be an American.
You notice you have been down voted into irrelevance by the ohh soo tollerant liberal intellectuals on /. This should show you that good ideas and non violence just don't work. You can not get by by having a great liberating idea. You need to force the idea of personal freedom on a on a corrupt society with violence. Might makes right. Your quaint ideas of personal freedom and individual responsibility are laughable. The masses are controlled by the strong and will go along with any idea they espouse (e.g. Hillary Clinton). If you want to change the world and not have you ideas down voted you need to get rid of your crazy ideas of non-violence. The enemy's best tool is violence, intimidation and the threat of violence. You can not hope to conquer the enemy unless you are more than willing to use violence. Imagine if you could create a credible threat to kill and media personality and their offspring if they did not write stories favourable to the free-state project. Your Free State project would go from being irrelevant to being a credible influence on USAian politics.
Violence is always the answer. The most violent always write the histories, and hence are always vindicated and morally justified. The Dodo bird was non-violent and hence in need of extermination to make way for more favourable tax paying species. The is no such thing a noble idea. There is only ideas that become noble because their backer use violence to quash competing ideas.
That's a nice euphemism for 'a bunch of freeloaders who want all the advantages of a modern state but refuse to pay for it'. Don't believe me? Then why is the first reason the Free State Project puts up on its list taxes?
Nothing to do with freedom, unless it is the freedom to be a moocher on what others built.
"I know I will be modded down for this": where's the option '-1, Asking for it'?
By all means, celebrate Amy Goodman's charges being dropped. But did you know there are many other journalists also facing charges for covering the pipeline resistance?
Two documentarians facing decades in prison.
Four Unicorn riot journalists facing charges in North Dakota and Iowa, and another was arrested on Saturday as part of the largest set of arrests in one incident to date.
Follow /r/NoDAPL for more.
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In the 24 October issue, there's an article about former detective Peter Forcelli, who now works to get wrongfully convicted folks exonerated. It's a sad tale about failings (and biases) of juries, judges, cops, and DAs. Just like the quote in this case, where the local DA wants to keep the case open just in case they can find something else indictable. He got caught doing bullshit and now wants to cover his ass regardless of the truth.
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She was trespassing. That's a crime. Nothing about being a journalist makes that any less of a crime. However, being a leftist agitator means she gets a pass.
Other journalists are also facing charges. This is not over by a long shot.
It should be noted that the charges are being brought at county level. State/Federal prosecutors can AND SHOULD step in to curb this kind of legal system abuse.
Oh look! An idiot, loose on the internet!
You notice you have been down voted into irrelevance by the ohh soo tollerant liberal intellectuals on /.
You fucking whiny bitch, as of my reading of this thread, that comment had ZERO down-votes, and +2 Interesting up-votes.
Go have a good cry on Breitbart about how you're such a victim of those nasty "tollerant [sic] liberal intellectuals", what with their counting all the way to 2 and other elitist stuff.