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How long til Trump has a journalist jailed? (Original Post) redstateblues Feb 2017 OP
Did they already arrest some and charge will felonies? I can't remember where I read it. onecaliberal Feb 2017 #1
Nope..won't happen..He does not want to make a "hero" of the journalist. Stuart G Feb 2017 #2
Already happened ProudLib72 Feb 2017 #3
That is true, and now in AZ if you protest and anything goes wrong you lose Eliot Rosewater Feb 2017 #7
Did the lege in AZ pass that 3rd-world-country fascist law? nt Ilsa Feb 2017 #10
I thought it did... Eliot Rosewater Feb 2017 #11
Just checked... passed AZ senate. Goes to House next. NT Ilsa Feb 2017 #13
Yeah, they got swept up (kettled) with protestors who may have Ilsa Feb 2017 #8
Didn't I also read ProudLib72 Feb 2017 #12
Yes, the journalists are facing years in prison and thousands in fines. nt Ilsa Feb 2017 #15
Or poisoned, like his business partners in Russia do routinely Eliot Rosewater Feb 2017 #4
We need to start a pool Kilgore Feb 2017 #5
Journalists will have him jailed before that n/t malaise Feb 2017 #6
I love that response, I dont believe it will happen but I wanna dream Eliot Rosewater Feb 2017 #9
omg remember years ago when that journalist was jailed for not revealing the source of a story?? samnsara Feb 2017 #14
Or Even Worse pdxflyboy Feb 2017 #16
Journalists are jailed pretty regularly. mn9driver Feb 2017 #17
You mean having one cuffed and stuffed on live TVEE? Rex Feb 2017 #18
That will be when it is "on". jack69 Feb 2017 #19

Eliot Rosewater

(31,131 posts)
7. That is true, and now in AZ if you protest and anything goes wrong you lose
Fri Feb 24, 2017, 08:07 PM
Feb 2017

your house , everything

Nah, America ended last Nov

Our job now is to get the nukes out of the hands of the fascists.

Ilsa

(61,709 posts)
8. Yeah, they got swept up (kettled) with protestors who may have
Fri Feb 24, 2017, 08:08 PM
Feb 2017

Committed vandalism, even though they had press credentials.

ProudLib72

(17,984 posts)
12. Didn't I also read
Fri Feb 24, 2017, 08:11 PM
Feb 2017

that those press credentials didn't count when they were booked? They still got charged along with hundreds of others. I recall some of the owners/editors calling foul on it and saying they were going to hire the best lawyers.

samnsara

(17,654 posts)
14. omg remember years ago when that journalist was jailed for not revealing the source of a story??
Fri Feb 24, 2017, 08:13 PM
Feb 2017

...was that Nixon or Regan who did that?

mn9driver

(4,428 posts)
17. Journalists are jailed pretty regularly.
Fri Feb 24, 2017, 08:17 PM
Feb 2017

Usually for refusing to reveal or testify against sources.


Judith Miller, who I absolutely loathe, is an example.

 

Rex

(65,616 posts)
18. You mean having one cuffed and stuffed on live TVEE?
Fri Feb 24, 2017, 08:19 PM
Feb 2017

Yeah, he would do something like that. Hard to believe, but I give it less than a year.

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