SavannahMann
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As you read some stories, you have to wonder how the hell the people became adults, and never learned a thing in Civics class. This is yet another of those stories.
www.kake.com
Ok, let’s cover the story first. The entire small town police department. Plus two Deputies from the Sheriff’s office served Search Warrants on the News Paper Office, and the home of the owner of the Paper.
The reason? I mean for this unprecedented action, there must have been a cadre of people to overthrow the Government right? Or the little newspaper in Marion County Kansas was really a front for drug dealers. Or they were a major hub for Child Pornography right? No. That’s not it at all.
The Reporters were kicked out of a “public” meeting at a local restaurant by the owner of the establishment who was hosting a town hall meeting with the Congressional Representative who covers that area. In other words, a political meeting, exactly the sort of thing you would expect to see Reporters at.
The Paper a few days later got documents from someone, that showed that the owner of the Restaurant had gotten a DUI and was violating the law by driving. The Reporters checked the documents out and found they were true. They confirmed the accuracy by checking with the State Court to confirm the validity of the claimed DUI conviction. They examined the reports of the owner driving while on a suspended or revoked license.
The Newspaper decided that it was all a little fishy, and suspected that the person sending them the documents was setting them up. The Reporters handed the documents over to the cops suggesting that someone might be acting illegally.
The owner of the Restaurant went on a rant online and called the reporters awful because they had learned that she was breaking the law and what was she supposed to do, she’s trying to run a business here.
Ok, so the only people we know are breaking the law is the Restaurant Owner. The person who sent the documents may be violating some court case or another by releasing the documents, but the Reporters aren’t.
So who do the cops go after? The Newspaper. In violation of Federal Law. In violation of the First Amendment. In violation of lots of precedent.
The Cops didn’t raid the business or homes of the Washington Post or NY Times when the Pentagon Papers were being published. They didn’t raid the newspaper offices when the Snowden Documents were being published. But they raided a small town newspaper because the Newspaper learned a supporter of a Congressman was driving on a Suspended/Revoked License?
Police stage âchillingâ raid on Marion County newspaper, seizing computers, records and cellphones
In an unprecedented raid Friday, local law enforcement seized computers, cellphones and reporting materials from the Marion County Record office, the newspaper’s reporters, and the publisher’s home.
www.kake.com
Ok, let’s cover the story first. The entire small town police department. Plus two Deputies from the Sheriff’s office served Search Warrants on the News Paper Office, and the home of the owner of the Paper.
The reason? I mean for this unprecedented action, there must have been a cadre of people to overthrow the Government right? Or the little newspaper in Marion County Kansas was really a front for drug dealers. Or they were a major hub for Child Pornography right? No. That’s not it at all.
The Reporters were kicked out of a “public” meeting at a local restaurant by the owner of the establishment who was hosting a town hall meeting with the Congressional Representative who covers that area. In other words, a political meeting, exactly the sort of thing you would expect to see Reporters at.
The Paper a few days later got documents from someone, that showed that the owner of the Restaurant had gotten a DUI and was violating the law by driving. The Reporters checked the documents out and found they were true. They confirmed the accuracy by checking with the State Court to confirm the validity of the claimed DUI conviction. They examined the reports of the owner driving while on a suspended or revoked license.
The Newspaper decided that it was all a little fishy, and suspected that the person sending them the documents was setting them up. The Reporters handed the documents over to the cops suggesting that someone might be acting illegally.
The owner of the Restaurant went on a rant online and called the reporters awful because they had learned that she was breaking the law and what was she supposed to do, she’s trying to run a business here.
Ok, so the only people we know are breaking the law is the Restaurant Owner. The person who sent the documents may be violating some court case or another by releasing the documents, but the Reporters aren’t.
So who do the cops go after? The Newspaper. In violation of Federal Law. In violation of the First Amendment. In violation of lots of precedent.
The Cops didn’t raid the business or homes of the Washington Post or NY Times when the Pentagon Papers were being published. They didn’t raid the newspaper offices when the Snowden Documents were being published. But they raided a small town newspaper because the Newspaper learned a supporter of a Congressman was driving on a Suspended/Revoked License?
