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Six journalists could spend up to 10 years in prison after being arrested during protests against President Donald Trump's inauguration.
The Guardian identified the journalists as freelancer Aaron Cantú; Vocativ senior producer Evan Engel; Jack Keller, producer for the online documentary Story of America; independent journalists Matt Hopard and Shay Horse; and RT America reporter Alex Rubinstein.
The group was charged under a District of Columbia statute penalizing "every person who willfully incited or urged others to engage" in a riot causing more than $5,000 in property damage with the potential 10-year prison sentence and a fine of up to $25,000. More than 200 people in total were arrested the day of the 20 January 2017 inauguration; they were reportedly arraigned the following day and will be back in court in February and March.
[...] Another independent journalist and documentarian, Tim Pool, said on Twitter that he and two NBC News journalists were also arrested during the 20 January 2017 demonstrations but released without charges. Pool said that a supervising officer told him "no less than three times" that they were under arrest. NBC News has not responded to our request for comment regarding Pool's account.
(Score: 2) by digitalaudiorock on Friday January 27 2017, @01:24AM
...or tell POTUS to stop doing/saying so much crap that's crazy to the point of being astonishing...that'd work too.
I'm not actually kidding. For anyone with two brain cells to rub together the stuff going on really is the craziest shit ever witnessed.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Friday January 27 2017, @01:40PM
I don't know about that. Similar levels of crazy happened 85 years ago. In my lifetime there's been pretty crazy stuff, too, like the president & vice president telling baldfaced lies to Congress, UN, and everyone to justify invading Iraq, and having even NPR and the NY Times go right along with it. Then there was the insanely high "recovery" package they handed to Wall Street right after they destroyed the world economy. That was pretty insane, too.
That's the thing about the stream of history. When wars and revolutions happen it's because accepted truths have been jettisoned (for whatever complex of reasons), and the man on the street perceives it as "crazy." Nothing seems to make sense anymore. This, right now, the stuff we're seeing and perceiving as crazy, is what it feels like on the eve of a cataclysm.
It's rare that people perceive how epochal those shifts are at the time. At the outbreak of the Civil War everyone thought hostilities would be over in months. When WWI swung into gear everyone thought it would be over by Christmas.
We have the opportunity, if we pay close attention this time, to learn a great deal about how societies and governments fall into revolution, and how wars are begun. We have better access to comprehensive data across every sector, than has ever been available. Of course we have to do a little digging because of disinformation coming from the keepers of the status quo, but it's there.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Friday January 27 2017, @03:51PM
Similar levels of crazy happened 85 years ago.
What happened in 1932? Something related to the Great Depression? Or are we talking about the lead-in to WWII?
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Friday January 27 2017, @05:49PM
The latter, the widely spread slide from democracy to authoritarian regimes.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Friday January 27 2017, @05:57PM
Historically speaking, authoritarian governments are the default state of existence. At the beginning of WWII a fair number of the states in Europe were still actual monarchies.
Or for current examples, look at the government of lots of places in Africa and the Middle East.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 27 2017, @07:38PM
yes, because the natural state of government is predatory.