I wanted to take a moment to point to the Josh Wolf blog: http://www.joshwolf.net/blog/. Josh Wolf is a citizen journalist and blogger who was arrested recently for refusing to hand over some video from a G8 protest. He claims that he's a journalist and his materials, like video, are protected by the same laws newspapers and other such organizations use to protect their journalists.
The Federal government countered that because a police car was torched during the process, the DHS spent money on that police car, it constitutes destruction of Federal property and they've thrown him into jail for it. Very squirrely logic. Time Magazine has a much better right up about the whole affair here.
It's a bullshit detention and one that shouldn't be happening, and people (such as myself), are starting to speak out against the whole thing. BoingBoing has a breakdown of the whole thing here.
Read and be amazed about the government abuses.
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