Oh, Lord, it's hard to be humble
Paul Moore: It must be nice to always believe you know better,
to always think you're the smartest person in the room.
Jane Craig: No. It's awful.
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Posted on 05/12/2019 6:47:55 AM PDT by Galatians328
Bryan Carmody, a freelance reporter in San Francisco, awoke Friday to the sounds of someone trying to break into his house.
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
They did ask him for the source of the report. He refused. They came back with the search warrant.
yep
If a friend of mine steals something and gives it to a "journalist," this "journalist" faces no such consequences.
That is a ludicrous double standard that has no place in a free nation. A journalist has no special protection under the U.S. Constitution, a remarkable fact that hardly anyone seems to realize.
But these tactics over a Public Defender who died like John Entwistle do not strike me something to which the Founders would give a cheery two-thumbs up.
I agree. But first and foremost, I suspect the whole idea of a "police department," "police officers," "FBI agents," and "public defender" would also be something that those Founders would find completely alien in a free nation.
Thank you for the elaboration.
There’s no law against excerpting the meat of an article, and including more than a few lines. Washington Post has a limited number of articles that can be read for free and throws up a paywall after that.
Posts made with cryptic excerpts fail.
I believe they never asked for the report at first. Asking for the source is a First Amendment issue. Asking for the report is a property issue. Why didn’t they simply ask for the report before the sledgehammer incident? It sounds like someone in the SFPD didn’t do their homework on which questions to ask.
Imagine how differently this story would be presented if the "freelance reporter" had been posting stories that were an expose on Planned Parenthood clinics and the sale of human body parts from infants who had been born alive in abortion clinics and then slaughtered after their organs had been harvested.
Oh, wait a minute ... there's no need to speculate about that. If the San Francisco police had broken down the door of a reporter's home to get information about a scandal like this that had been stolen from Planned Parenthood, you can be damn sure that Eli Rosenberg of the Washington Post wouldn't be writing an article in defense of the reporter. In fact, you wouldn't have any media coverage of the police raid at all.
I am not aware of the legality around police reports and property rights. The story simply says they never asked for the report, just the source. My understanding is that individuals are not required to give up sources under simple questioning. Indeed, most attorneys advise to not answer ANY police question without an attorney present. But yes, Jefferson would weep at our current state of law enforcement.
Does the San Fransisco police have jurisdiction in Richmond (Contra Costa County)?
"or of the press"... four whole words... 12 letters... ooh! So much waste of ink!!
The Left has perverted the entire meaning of "the Press", and this particular section of the First Amendment seems to be the only one that has not faced significant limitations over the years. Free Speech has many limitations pertaining to safety (and lately, the Left wants to include hurt feelings)... No Establishment of Religion has been stretched to include mere posting of the Ten Commandments in hallways... Free Exercise of Religion has recently seen Christians forced to rewrite one of their Sacraments (marriage)... Free Assembly now means "only with a permit, and only in certain sections of federal properties"...
Pray tell, where are the limitations on Free Press? It is LONG past time to define those lines.
As a radio pundit once said, better make 'em head shots - they'll be wearing Kevlar vests.
Oh, and you'll end up dead.
Regardless of the justification for this man's arrest, these Gestapo like tactics are clearly used to frighten and intimidate the [non violent] populace. The message is to the rest of us, keep your head down, don't talk back to the state or you will be next.
It does happen in America. And the more “blue” the community, the more likely.
Adachi was out with a woman not his wife and had consumed edible cannabis, cocaine and an antidepressant, didn’t feel well and went to rest up with his “date” to an apartment of another woman friend who he had arranged to be available. He refused to let his date take him to the hospital, most likely because his wife would find out that he wasn’t working at the office that evening. This raid is basically punishment for revealing Adachi’s affair and drug use and by extension implying that San Francisco’s govt. lives in an ambiance of immorality and corruption, something they are extremely sensitive to for all the obvious reasons.
Where in the First Amendment does it say reporters are above the law?
A lot of those houses, very close together, have iron gates as a first barrier over their front doors. I believe this is what he was talking about.
This happened in a San Francisco neighborhood called THE Richmond. In this case, the outer Richmond.
“Thomas R. Burke, a First Amendment lawyer in the Bay Area who represents Carmody, said that he believes the police overreached significantly.”
They do this all the time with impunity! It is really no different than what “federal law enforcement” has done to President Trump, and it needs to stop.
yes but 66 year old Roger Stone was obviously a hardened violent criminal where 25 guys with guns and the marine police with two boats with armed guys were needed.
Along with the CNN ass hats.
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