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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 "I believe they want to keep the investigation open and see if there is any evidence in the unedited and unpublished videos that we could better detail in an affidavit for the judge," Erickson told the newspaper.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.
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.
Well rassle up your rooty-tooty-point-and-shooty and go take care of them radical leftists, Dippity Internet Warrior.
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.
Until you start using the most primitive of available technologies to make oil pipelines safe, like double-walled pipes with interstitial leak monitors, you can stick those oil pipelines up your ass.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
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.
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.
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What you call "the natives" were thousands of different tribes, groups, and nations. And there was plenty of unoccupied land after European diseases had (unintentionally) killed off more than 95% of the population of the Americas. You're demonstrating your ignorance and racism by reducing the pre-Columbian people and their diverse political and social systems to "the natives" (and, of course, they are actually no more "native" than Europeans).
The pre-Columbian people that land was taken from are dead; you can't return anything to them. What you are suggesting is to distribute government property based on race, which is the kind of policy espoused by racists and fascists; you know, people like you.