Reporter arrested after repeatedly questioning Health secretary

[Historic NY]

Dan Heyman, a reporter for Public News Service, said he was arrested at the West Virginia State Capitol after trying to ask Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price a question about the House-passed healthcare bill to repeal and replace ObamaCare.



http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/332675-reporter-arrested-for-asking-hhs-secretary-price-healthcare-questions

[Lucinda]

1. KNR

[ecstatic]

2. Wow. So it begins...

And now I have to take my exit strategy seriously... Shit! 😤

When your government turns psycho, you don’t want to wait until it’s too late to get out. When you ask Jewish Americans what year their family fled Europe to come to the United States, it’s striking how most left before, say, 1936. The Holocaust didn’t technically begin until 1941, but earlier departures were easier — and impossible after World War II began in 1939. On the other hand, moving is expensive. And I’m American. I don’t want to leave. I like it here. Why jump the gun?

Like porn, we’ll know The Moment Everything Changed when we see it.

The arrest of a politician would be such a moment. As would a “temporary” suspension of civil rights, even/especially if it followed the inevitable next terrorist attack.

I don’t have much use for the reliably impotent corporate news media — indeed, Trump’s win is largely their fault — but as a look-out-this-is-getting-really-real moment, Trump’s relentless beating up on the press makes me incredibly nervous. What will this guy do when the new Left gears up with big-ass protests later this year? Isolated from the rallies from whence he drew his strength, Boy Trump in the Beltway Bubble spells trouble; look for The Donald to wallow in paranoia so deep and dark that even Richard Nixon wouldn’t be able to relate. There he’ll be, surrounded by Steve Bannon and his other pet fascists — no one talking stay calm and carry on, everyone around him egging him on as he lashes out.

If you’re not scared, you’re not paying attention. Then again, maybe it’s not as necessary for you to watch the signs as it is for me.

http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/02/10/how-i-know-its-time-to-flee-trumps-america/

[dhill926]

5. a very drastic, last step....

but yep. Doing a dry run in December....hopefully not sooner. But things are developing faster than I thought possible....

[Amimnoch]

10. My own strategy is Argentina.

My husband and I have copies of the flight schedule from Monterrey, Mexico to Buenos Aires in our wallets.

I'd worked there and Macae Brazil as an expat for 5 years. Have a friend down there ready to give me work, sponsor our asylum and citizenship request, and I have an active working visa there. I've also got a bank account there where I've move a sum of my savings, and already have a partially funded retirement account there, and personal cash stashes to ensure we have enough to get there.

If we have to take off with little or no notice we have our meet up in Mexico plan in place.

This may be overkill, but I'd rather have a plan and never have to use it, than chance finding myself needing a plan and not having it. Just too many signs to ignore.

[suffragette]

3. So, a reporter asking questions is accused with "willful disruption of governmental processes"

This is just so wrong.

[Solly Mack]

4. No laughing. No asking questions.

This isn't democracy.

[Cha]

6. Chickenshit cowards

[G_j]

7. Kick

[Ilsa]

8. Will any judge buy that?

I'm hoping judges have more respect for the fourtb estate.

[Amimnoch]

9. #6. Controlled Mass Media

6. Controlled Mass Media - Sometimes to media is directly controlled by the government, but in other cases, the media is indirectly controlled by government regulation, or sympathetic media spokespeople and executives. Censorship, especially in war time, is very common.

Fourteen Defining Characteristics Of Fascism

Trump displays 14 of 14 characteristics. This is just another and the latest example of #6 controlling the mass media.

He is moving faster and faster towards our transition to a dictatorship.

This also bleeds into #12:

12. Obsession with Crime and Punishment - Under fascist regimes, the police are given almost limitless power to enforce laws. The people are often willing to overlook police abuses and even forego civil liberties in the name of patriotism. There is often a national police force with virtually unlimited power in fascist nations.

[NCTraveler]

11. Kick. nt.

[demmiblue]

12. .