This is America. We don't jail journalists here.

[Omaha Steve]

Americans need to see this footage & letter to CNN and NBC News (which oversees MSNBC) to demand that their networks cover this important story. I hope you will too: http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/dont_arrest_journalists/?r=1376&id=796-1247191-12FIV.x

A free press is supposed to be a cornerstone of our democracy. But journalists are being arrested at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn.

Award winning journalist and host of "Democracy Now" Amy Goodman was arrested by St. Paul police while covering a protest outside the Republican National Convention. Though clearly identified as press, Goodman was charged with "obstruction of a legal process and interference with a 'peace officer.'" Two of her producers were arrested for "suspicion of felony riot."

You won't believe how upsetting this arrest was until you see it. Click here to watch the video, then take action.

Goodman and her producers were released last night. (An AP photographer was also arrested and released). But the charges are still pending.

Amazingly, this story has been virtually ignored by the mainstream press. The cable channels are providing extensive coverage of events related to the Republican National Convention, but there has been a virtual news blackout on the arrest of Amy Goodman and the "Democracy Now" team.

Americans deserve to know that journalists are being jailed for trying to do their jobs. We must demand that CNN and MSNBC include this story in their coverage of the RNC.

Click here to e-mail CNN President Jonathan Klein and NBC News President Steve Capus to demand coverage of this brutally important story.

Thank you for working to build a better world.

Kate Stayman-London, Campaign Manager
CREDO Action from Working Assets

Watch the video, then demand that CNN and MSNBC cover it.

Take action now!

[Az]

1. Um... yes we do

Haven't you been paying attention? :sarcasm:

[FatDave]

13. You took those words right out of my...um..fingers... (nt)

[Bob Dobbs]

2. No. This is Amerikkka, we jail real journalists here.

The sheeple better wake up to the radical fascist reality of this sick country before we are all led into the abattoir.

[Heather MC]

3. I am holding out hope that KO will cover it. He has had her on his show in the Past

[marmar]

4. Sadly, that America has gone the way of the Model T.......

.... and our diminishing list of freedoms is under assault.

[givemebackmycountry]

5. I forget where I heard this today - maybe Thom Hartman - maybe MSNBC -

A journalist was pushed to the ground while they were "detaining" Amy and her crew.
The guy had a bunch of expensive cameras hanging around his neck.
He was yelling...
"Hey! I'm a journalist! I'm with the press!"

And then the money line.

"I'm with such and such newspaper...IT'S A REPUBLICAN PAPER!!"

You can't make this shit up.

:rofl:

[donheld]

6. America is not America

anymore.

[OwnedByFerrets]

7. No, this is Amerika and we DO jail journalists.....

so much for 1st and 4th rights.

[aikoaiko]

8. We arrest journalists who don't follow lawful commands of the popo and then physical resist their

"escort" just like anyone else.


Having said that, the original arrests of the two Democracy Now producers sounds like BS, but I'll wait to see the tape.

[Greyhound]

11. You do realize that this is what was said to excuse the actions of the

Nazis, Communists, anti-abolitionists, in fact every despotic totalitarian regime in history, don't you?

[aikoaiko]

20. Maybe, but Amy wasn't arrested for being a journalist -- she was arrested for

not stepping away from the police and then resisting the police as they escorted/pushed her toward away.

Anyone would have been arrested for that in that context. I would except to be arrested in that situation.

[Greyhound]

22. Then, you are satisfied to live in a police state and you are not alone.

What you accept and expect are the conditions of a police state, and frankly a large percentage, perhaps a majority, of people do accept the yoke of servitude, look at just about anywhere in Asia, for one example. Singapore is an orderly, clean, and nearly crime-free city, that doesn't make it any less a police state.

[aikoaiko]

24. Hyperbole. There is no police state in MN.

Amy was arrested because she thought she didn't have to listen to police when they were doing crowd control.

[Greyhound]

26. You've made my argument, TY.

Next.

[aikoaiko]

30. You probably are angry from getting a speeding ticket -- don't let the man keep you down bro.

pfft.

[Zhade]

23. Spoken like a true Good German.

Keep on enabling abuses - just don't expect sympathy when YOUR rights are violated.

[aikoaiko]

25. There may have been police abuses that need to be addressed, but Amy's arrest

was not one of them. She was arrested because she didn't think she had to listen to the lawful commands of police.

Good German? Give me a break. Amy was released quickly -- not sent to the gas chambers..

[LanternWaste]

29. I'm beginning to think

I'm beginning to think that calling someone a "Good German" is merely the last resort of the overly dramatic bit players in some absurd scene-- much like right-wingers calling someone a "dirty commie" when the Logic Tank begins running on fumes.

[Greyhound]

9. K & R in memoriam of our former liberty. n/t

:kick: & R

[texastoast]

10. Has everyone contacted the MSM on the link above?

I cannot fucking believe that this is not on MSM at all.

Please rec this up and get it on the front page. And may the Force be with Amy and her crew.



:mad: :mad: :mad:

[stuntcat]

12. k, r..

someone just sent me this poll, maybe it's the same one. It just looks different, I don't know, I don't have time to figure it out, I have to go watch Jim :D
here - https://secure.freepress.net/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=281

[Pastiche423]

14. Action taken!

[quiet.american]

15. Have to wonder where all the MSM "Free Judith Miller"-types are. nt

[ChairmanAgnostic]

16. HAH! Where have you been for 7 years?

[libodem]

17. At least it's not Iraq where they frag the journalists.

[autorank]

18. No jailing but ask Webb and Calosaro what happened to them. k=*r

This is a dress rehearsal, St. Paul.

[tinrobot]

19. Judith Miller might argue with that.

She's not the only one, but the first one that I can think of...

[texastoast]

21. K&R n/t

[leftofthedial]

27. this country HATES journalists

we idolize powdered and wigged sycophantic propagandist talking heads (who grease the corporate media machine), but we HATE journalists and do everything we can to prevent them from doing their work.

[LanternWaste]

28. Nothing new. Going back to 1789....

It's nothing new. I think that the final death knell of the short-lived concept of a media free from corporate and governmental influence was hammered into law in 1789 when the Sedition Act was passed.

A free press? It's a nice concept, but I don't think it's ever really existed-- here or elsewhere.