We will be working today to try and reestablish the site.
HACKERS ATTACK SCHIAVO NEWS
Bringing the truth to the public through investigative journalism is sometimes a hazardous job.
Especially when the subject is the alleged criminal wrongdoing and corruption in the Terri Schindler-Schiavo case in Pinellas County, Florida.
Hackers have attempted to silence one news organization which has been focusing on the alleged corruption and collusion in the Schiavo case.
Terri Schindler-Schiavo has been sentenced to a death by starvation by Sixth Circuit Court Judge George Greer who has ordered her estranged husband and guardian, Michael Schiavo, to remove her assisted feeding on Friday.
With the expose of alleged Medicare fraud, election law violations and alleged judicial misconduct, The Empire Journal, an on-line newspaper based in upstate New York, has helped bring the case to national attention prompting several investigations of various public officials involved in the case and spotlighting alleged wrongdoing and collusion by others involved in the case. www.theempirejournal.com
June Maxam and Ginger Berlin, co-publishers of The Empire Journal, said the newspaper site was first hacked last week when a threatening message was placed on the site, directed at their coverage of the Schiavo case.
On Sunday, virtually as soon as ‘Schiavogate: The Big Cover-Up” was published, a story revealing the alleged guardianship law violations by Greer in the Schiavo case, a hacker removed the article from the site. Security measures were tightened and the article republished.
However, that didn’t stop the attacks.
On Tuesday, with the publication of several new articles relating to the Schiavo case, including an article regarding an appeal of Greer’s refusal to allow the state’s Department of Children and Families (DCF) to intervene in the Schiavo case to investigate 30 allegations of abuse, the hacker removed several Schiavo articles from the website including the Schiavogate article. A number of links to various past articles in the Schiavo archive where also removed.
The publishers are currently working with their server to restore the service and will be filing a formal complaint with law enforcement officials.
There are strong indications that a government agency and officials may be involved in the interference with the operation of the site which not only violates First Amendment rights but is a violation of interstate commerce which constitutes federal violations.
The publishers have indicated that they will request prosecution of the person or persons involved. Anyone with information concerning this matter may contact the newspaper at news@theempirejournal.com
Everett Rice needs closer scrutiny. What a tangled mess this case has uncovered.