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posted by janrinok on Thursday January 26 2017, @08:38PM   Printer-friendly
from the so-this-is-freedom? dept.

Snopes reports

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 CantĂș; 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.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 27 2017, @03:59AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 27 2017, @03:59AM (#459302)

    You're mixing places up. The bad ones got sent to Australia.

    Also, drop the "noble savage" myth. The original inhabitants, in either place, were also plenty bad.

  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by dry on Friday January 27 2017, @07:29AM

    by dry (223) on Friday January 27 2017, @07:29AM (#459364) Journal

    Up until the American revolution, they were sent to America. Georgia was a penal colony. Lots of indentured servants sent over, one reaction was to import black slaves because those horrible indentured servants were only indentured for x years and then they joined society.
    Look at the dates, the Australian penal colonies were a reaction to losing America and needing somewhere else to send the poor who were reduced to stealing bread. Between enclosure and industrialization, there were a lot of unemployed poor

    • (Score: 2) by Thexalon on Friday January 27 2017, @01:26PM

      by Thexalon (636) on Friday January 27 2017, @01:26PM (#459439)

      It's worth mentioning that a staggeringly high percentage of indentured servants in Virginia in particular didn't make it to the end of their indenture. This isn't surprising, because their masters had a financial incentive to ensure that they didn't: They were supposed to pay their indentured servants a sum of cash on their way out the door to help them get started out in their new life, but if the servants didn't survive then they wouldn't have to pay. Those that did make it to the end of their term didn't have enough resources to buy land, and their weren't enough jobs, so a lot of them ended up going west to try to take some land from the Natives. Their descendants basically became what is now known as the Appalachian culture.

      The other obvious point is that even in the colonies other than Georgia, the kinds of people who wanted to pack up their life and move to the Americas weren't living the high life in Britain.

      And as for the "noble savage" thing, my initial post didn't say anything about the quality of the Native American life, only suggesting that they would have had exactly as much reason (if not more) to be xenophobic as we are now.

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