Posted on 08/04/2014 7:57:46 AM PDT by TigerClaws
Mark Mulholland, a reporter from NewsChannel 13 and camera man Matt Soriano were threatened with arrest by a corrections lieutenant on Thursday, July 24, simply for having an empty prison inadvertently in the background of a report.
Mulholland was on the grounds working on a story about Grants Cottage- the site where President Ulysses S. Grant died- for the 129th anniversary of Grants death. The cottage happens to be on the grounds of the now closed prison, which had already been empty for three months.
Read more at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/correctional-guards-empty-prison-interfere-reporter-steal-footage/#0jewSOYz9TWg4tf5.99
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“These Jail Thugs never Quit...an empty Jail?..”
Not quite empty. Seventy-six employees work there.
http://www.grantstomb.org/tdr2.html
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Grant's tomb today...
It the soviet union, tourists were forbidden to take pictures of certain things, or be arrested. The USA is rapidly becoming like the soviet union.
I just happened to pass by Grant's Tomb on the upper west side of Manhattan yesterday and was recalling how it used to look in the 70s. That is why I posted the before & after pics.
If it were up to Comrade Obama and KGB Putin the entire world would be one bg soviet union.
At the same time, this is damn unusual. Is it just a case of an over-zealous redundant and disgruntled corrections officer enforcing dated security? And who were the others filming there? The Crew from "The Walking Dead?"
There's a simple answer, but with Mad Cuomo "runnin' things" and with his fur up, this is the kind of controlling, or "monitoring" behavior that rubs the wrong way really, really badly.
The reporter/newsreader is clearly a nicer guy than me. Let's just say the corrections officer would have needed to back things up in a real hurry, citing statutes, and not just "Albany."
Are there suddenly no longer any critical needs for prison space in New York? Somehow, I doubt it.
Does anyone have any idea what the real story is, other than sarcastic speculation?
The most obvious answer, with "private security" suddenly in place, is detention of illegals.
I may need to do a bit of research as to the size of the “empty” prison..but given the current situation re the Illegal Invasion of our once Great Nation Id bet that the Grand Re-Opening of the facility as a giant Holding Cell will not be announced to the public.
This is everywhere now. Is it a actually a criminal statute that one may not take a photo of a federal building?
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They irony is lost on the press. They don’t see themselves as responsible. No one raindrop blames itself for the flood.
“Or a pretrial detention center for terrorists?”
Or, American Veteran’s, Patriot’s, and 2nd Amendment supporters — Got to teach us a lesson.
It leaves people asking .. WHO LET THE DOGS OUT ..?????
Not bad for a man who was a clerk in his Father’s store when the Civil War began.
My only “speculation” is .. they might be planning to house the GITMO people there .. since the left has always wanted these killers to be on US soil. And .. Obama has always wanted GITMO closed.
And .. we have the illustrious Senator Schumer who would most likely be the person who Obama would use to get that done.
And .. I’m a native New Yorker .. and I’m really disgusted with the tactics and antics of Schumer.
bfl
I was in Saint Petersburg, Russia in October 1996 (after the fall of communism). I was intecepted by police when I attempted to take photos in the subway. I can only guess it was because it had been used as an air raid shelter in WWII.
Lol! You're probably right.
New York state has a deal with corrections worker unions and other statie unions that they permanently close facilities gradually, to give employees time to transfer or find new work. Most closed state facilities have employees working there at full pay and receiving full retirement benefits for up to and sometimes beyond a full year. NY has closed several upstate corrections and special needs facilities (OD Heck in Schenectady comes to mind) in the last several years to save $$ but they don’t tell the other half of the story. That the closed facility continues to cost taxpayers millions in upkeep and payroll costs long after the doors are locked.
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