The following exerpt is from an article entiteld 'First Amendment suspended in the Gulf of Mexico as spill cover-up goes Orwellian'
Saturday, July 03, 2010
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
Editor of NaturalNews.com
"(NaturalNews) As CNN is now reporting, the U.S. government has issued a new rule that would make it a felony crime for any journalist, reporter, blogger or photographer to approach any oil cleanup operation, equipment or vessel in the Gulf of Mexico. Anyone caught is subject to arrest, a $40,000 fine and prosecution for a federal felony crime.
CNN reporter Anderson Cooper says, "A new law passed today, and back by the force of law and the threat of fines and felony charges, ... will prevent reporters and photographers from getting anywhere close to booms and oil-soaked wildlife just about any place we need to be. By now you're probably familiar with cleanup crews stiff-arming the media, private security blocking cameras, ordinary workers clamming up, some not even saying who they're working for because they're afraid of losing their jobs."
Watch the video clip yourself at NaturalNews.TV: http://naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=203
The rule, of course, is designed to restrict the media's access to cleanup operations in order to keep images of oil-covered seabirds off the nation's televisions. With this, the Gulf Coast cleanup operation has now entered a weird Orwellian reality where the news is shaped, censored and controlled by the government in order to prevent the public from learning the truth about what's really happening in the Gulf."
The complete article can be read at:
http://www.naturalnews.com/029130_Gulf_of_Mexico_censorship.html
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That "freedom of speech" thing was really more of a guideline than a restriction on the Federal government anyway.
ReplyDeleteI could not figure out how to send you an e-mail, so I'll say it in a comment-Stephen T. McCarthy, a fellow blogger, steered me towards your site, and so far I'm liking what I read.
Too bad most of the American people are busy with important things like the Bacheleorette than the systematic rape of their rights by a federal government that ignores the Constitution and is out of control.
Larry