[Peace-discuss] Fwd: [CitizensTruth] Where is NEWS of this incident?

Mon Jun 11 10:48:19 CDT 2007

Thanks for the news Chuck.

Clearly, this is a nation-wide clamping down on the press.
Tight media control practiced by the US military in Panama, Afghanistan, and
Iraq
is now being implemented at home.

BD

On 6/11/07, Chuck Minne <mincam2 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> I am forwarding this to the list only because of the problem with the
> press and the Champaign Police Department. I know if none of the following
> is true or not, mainly because I have not had time to check out the links it
> cites. It claims a reporter was jailed for simply asking a question, which
> is even more serious than your problem. I presume this story has some meat
> to it. Some of you might wish to check it out; I just wish I had time to,
> but at the moment I am in California and pressed for time. I hope it is not
> a hoax. Chuck
>
> *Connie's Mail <dimension04 at sbcglobal.net>* wrote:
>
> From: "Connie's Mail" <dimension04 at sbcglobal.net>
> To: "September 11 List 2" <citizenstruth at six.pairlist.net>
> Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 20:08:05 -0500
> Subject: [CitizensTruth] Where is NEWS of this incident?
>
> *Middle of last week, reports and video clips went around about a reporter
> getting nazi goon-squad treatment and arrest for daring to ask Rudy
> Giuliani's press secretary about Giuliani's knowledge that the towers were
> going to collapse on 9/11, yet he did nothing -- no call for evacuation --
> nothing.  (Some hero!)* **
> *Giuliani himself was confronted on this recently by a truth activist who
> asked him how could he sleep at night -- knowing the towers would collapse
> and yet not evacuating the people there.  He responded he never knew the
> buildings would collapse.   But the recording from that day is all over the
> place (and here below, too) that indeed he did tell Peter Jennings the
> towers would collapse.  And soon after, they did.*
> **
> *So now a reporter has been roughed up and hauled off to jail just for
> asking these questions of Giuliani's press secretary!  Who told Giuliani?
> Who knew a collapse would happen?  *
> **
> *The reporter had CNN credentials, and CNN staff urged the arrest to stop,
> but it didn't. (However, I sure haven't seen or read of this incident on
> CNN.)*
> **
> *The two reports below detail the entire event.  I myself find the chaotic
> and noisy video clips to be less informative than the written reports.  *
> **
> *The second report is a follow-up that features the reporter fighting back
> the next day, seeking indictments against the police and Giuliani
> staffers, for assault and false arrest.  We ought to be seeing news about
> this!*
> **
> *Other information below offers testimony that the mayor's Office of
> Emergency Management (OEM) announced the towers were going to collapse, and
> therefore would likely be Giuliani's source.  How did they know?  None of
> the firefighters even thought of a collapse, because the fires were so small
> and isolated.  The structural integrity of the buildings had not been
> breached at all.  *
> **
> *So somebody knew that something other than fires were going to happen --
> and warned Giuliani to get the heck away from the area, which he did.  *
> **
> *Another source below indicates that firemen's radios couldn't receive
> reports from police helicopters about impending collapse.  If that's true,
> how did they know?*
> **
> *Also below is a webpage with a very comprehensive presentation of the
> facts of who said what about the towers collapsing -- which, again, was
> something completely unexpected by the disaster professionals who died at
> the scene.  The knew the fires couldn't do that.  *
> **
> *So who did know the buildings were rigged to pulverize into dust,
> regardless of all the people still there.  Giuliani MUST answer the question
> of who told him this would occur.*
> **
> *As always, if the links below are not "live," copy and paste into your
> browser.*
> *Connie Cook Smith*
> *Canton, Illinois*
> *- - -*
> **
> *Reporter Arrested on Orders of Giuliani Press Secretary *
> *
> **Charged with Criminal Trespass Despite Protest of CNN Staff and Official
> Event Press Credentials at GOP Debate in New Hampshire
> *
> Jones Report
>
> http://www.jonesreport.com/articles/050607_reporter_arrested_giuliani_orders.html
> Manchester, NH
>
>
> *"...[The reporter], who was streaming a live report, asked a staff member
> about Giuliani's statement to Peter Jennings that he was told beforehand
> that the WTC buildings would collapse. Giuliani's press secretary then
> called over New Hampshire state police and had him arrested. Though CNN
> staff members tried to persuade police not to arrest the accredited reporter
> -- in violation of the First Amendment, Lepacek was taken to jail. The
> police station told JonesReport.com that Lepacek is being charged with
> felony criminal trespass...and now charges of espionage are being
> discussed..."
> *
>
> Freelance reporter Matt Lepacek, reporting for Infowars.com, was arrested
> for asking a question to one of Giuliani's staff members in a press
> conference. The press secretary identified the New York based reporter as
> having previously asked Giuliani about his prior knowledge of WTC building
> collapses and ordered New Hampshire state police to arrest him.
>
> Jason Bermas, reporting for Infowars and America: Freedom to Fascism,
> confirmed Lepacek had official CNN press credentials for the Republican
> debate. However, his camera was seized by staff members who shut off the
> camera, according to Luke Rudkowski, also a freelance Infowars reporter on
> the scene. He said police physically assaulted both reporters after
> Rudkowski objected that they were official members of the press and that
> nothing illegal had taken place. Police reportedly damaged the
> Infowars-owned camera in the process.
>
> Watch the whole unbelievable episode here:
> http://img.youtube.com/vi/VOerYpJse30/2.jpg
>
> Reporters were questioning Giuliani staff members on a variety of issues,
> including his apparent ignorance of the 9/11 Commission Report, according to
> Bermas. The staff members accused the reporters of Ron Paul partisanship,
> which press denied. It was at this point that Lepacek, who was streaming a
> live report, asked a staff member about Giuliani's statement to Peter
> Jennings that he was told beforehand that the WTC buildings would collapse.
>
> Giuliani's press secretary then called over New Hampshire state police,
> fingering Lepacek.
>
> Though CNN staff members tried to persuade police not to arrest the
> accredited reporter -- in violation of the First Amendment, Lepacek was
> taken to jail. The police station told JonesReport.com that Lepacek is
> being charged with felony criminal trespass.
>
> Lepacek did receive one phone call in jail which he used to contact
> reporter Luke Rudkowski. According to Rudkowski, Lepacek was scared because
> he had been told he may be transferred to a secret detention facility
> because state police were also considering charges of espionage against him
> -- due to a webcam Lepacek was using to broadcast live at the event. State
> police considered it to be a hidden camera, which led to discussion of
> "espionage."
>
> Wearing a webcam at a press event is not an act of espionage. Alex Jones,
> who was watching the live feed, witnessed Lepacek announce that he was
> wearing a camera connected to a laptop that was transmitting the press
> conference live at approximately 9:20 EST. When Lepacek announced that he
> was broadcasting live, Giuliani staff members responded by getting upset at
> his questions and ordering his arrest.
>
> Freedom to Fascism reporter Samuel Ettaro was also dragged out after
> asking a question on Giuliani's ties with Cintra and Macquerie, two foreign
> contractors involved with the contentious Trans-Texas Corridor under
> development in Texas.
>
> The entire incident took place in a large press auditorium, apart from the
> debate stages where authorized media were able to question candidates and
> their handlers.
>
> Since when do campaign operatives have the power to order state police to
> arrest someone on false charges or arbitrate who has the right to conduct
> journalism, a right guarded by the Constitution?
>
> A warning to the press-- if candidates or police don't like your
> questions, you could be arrested for trespassing and even espionage in the
> new Orwellian America.
>
> The state police in Goffstown, New Hampshire, where the arrest was made,
> confirmed that Lepacek is in custody on charges of criminal trespass. Police
> said information on who filed the trespass complaint was not yet available
> and would be filed in the police report.
>
> It is clear from talking to multiple eyewitness, as well as the live
> webcam, that there could not have been a complainant who originated police
> action, because it happened spontaneously. The police need to be very
> careful about violating the Bill of Rights and falsely charging someone with
> a felony crime. This constitutes extreme official oppression and is a total
> violation of the reporter's civil rights. It would have been bad enough if
> the reporter would have just been thrown out, but to arrest him when he had
> a valid press pass and CNN protested his arrest is an outrage.
>
> The arrest-- which clearly violated the First Amendment-- was recorded
> from two separate camera angles, including a live feed recorded remotely--
> so the episode is on record in the event that police destroy or lose tapes
> seized from Lepacek in attempt to obfuscate the facts of the incident.
>
> If you doubt that police would assault reporters, seize video equipment
> and act on political orders, then consider the experience Alex Jones had
> when Texas state troopers arrested him for asking George W. Bush a question
> during a press conference while he was governor. See video here:
> http://img.youtube.com/vi/aoyn_doplUM/2.jpg
>
> (This link doesn't work, but I would suppose it's available at Alex Jones'
> website.)
>
> - - -
>
> *Criminal Indictments Sought Against Police, Giuliani Staffers Who Had
> Reporter Arrested For Asking Question
> *
> *Eyewitnesses describe how Secret Service were directing arrest,
> intimidation of group
> *
> Paul Joseph Watson
>
> http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/june2007/060607criminalindictments.htm
> Wednesday, June 6, 2007
>
>
> Matt Lepacek, the reporter who was kicked out of the CNN press room and
> arrested after asking Rudy Giuliani's staff a question, has now been
> released on bail. Criminal indictments are now being pursued against the
> police involved as well as Giuliani's staffers for their flagrant abuse of
> the First Amendment, assault and wrongful arrest.
>
> Lepacek appeared as a guest on the Alex Jones Show to relate his
> experience after the Republican presidential debate last night.
>
> In addition to the details that were already outlined in our previous
> article, fellow We Are Change member Luke Rudkowski also related how he was
> just silently filming the fracas when Giuliani staffers, and in particular
> one unidentified female, started hitting and attempting to steal his camera,
> before Lepacek and Rudkowski were pointed out by the staffers and five to
> seven police arrived to grab them and throw them out of the building.
>
> The female staffer was witnessed to be instrumental in alerting the police
> to the "crime" of Lepacek asking a question that the Giuliani camp weren't
> comfortable with.
>
> Rudkowski was assaulted and questioned on who he was working for despite
> the fact that he hadn't even asked a question and was standing separately
> from Lepacek.
>
> Lepacek was told that other eyewitnesses saw police stamp on one of the
> cameras as it lay on the floor.
>
> Another eyewitness said that the entire arrest was clearly being directed
> by Secret Service, who were ordering the police to threaten anyone who asked
> questions about the incident with arrest.
>
> Lepacek was later released on $400 bail but faces charges of criminal
> trespassing even though he had obtained a CNN press pass well in advance and
> the debate was a public event. State police have refused to hand back
> electronic equipment that they seized from the group.
>
> CNN staff attempted to dissuade police from arresting Lepacek as he was
> led out into the parking lot but were ignored.
>
> Presidential candidate Ron Paul was informed about what had occurred and
> stated words to the effect that while we are supposed to be spreading
> freedom and democracy abroad, we couldn't even handle it in New Hampshire.
>
> We are now being inundated by media requests and expect this controversy
> to receive attention on the major news networks and newspapers over the
> coming days.
>
> The fact that the Giuliani camp views it as legitimate to have members of
> the media intimidated, assaulted and arrested for asking a question should
> be a wake up call for the kind of America Giuliani would oversee as a future
> President and this incident should contribute to derailing his entire
> campaign.
>
> The actions of the New Hampshire State Police were completely
> unconstitutional and we are now pursuing criminal indictments against the
> police involved as well as the Giuliani staffers that assaulted the group
> and their property, and demanding that any charges against Matt Lepacek be
> dropped immediately.
>
> This represents a flagrant abuse of the First Amendment, clear wrongful
> arrest and an act of official oppression.
> - - -
> The source below reports "the inability of firemen to hear warnings from
> police helicopters about the impending collapse of the South Tower."
> *http://alternet.org/story/53356/*
>
> - - -
> *On this page, there are transcripts of on-site conversations about the
> towers' impending collapse:*
> *http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/oem_wtc.html*
> **
> - --
>
> *Link below is the most comprehensive presentation of info regarding
> foreknowledge of collapse, what Giuliani said, etc.*
> *http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/wtc_giuliani.html*
>
> Thanks to Nila for initial distribution of arrest information!
>
>
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