Posted on 12/07/2002 11:59:26 AM PST by FreedomCalls
"...if Dick Cheney can't stay in a hotel without infringing the rights of people for blocks around, then he shouldn't stay in a hotel. He should stay on military bases, or stay home."
I wonder what is his FReeper name? He got the correct description, just mabye the wrong person. LOL
All we have is this fools word, and he couldn't even get the names of the cops involved.
I'm not even sure that 2600 has his name correct. I googled "Mike Maginnis" and came up dry except for this story, but "Mike McGinnis" turns up someone with a Denver address.
I'll have to admit that it is troubling that he has no record whatsoever that this happened.
Apparently it was born on a hacker site (2600), then propagated to tinfoiler sites (rense.com), indymedia, and others of doubtful repute.
If the liberal news people were notified of this, they would be crawling all over this story.
An officer doesn't need to push a guy to the ground to arrest him unless he is running or putting up direct physical resistance.
The police wouldn't keep him isolated for 2 hours before interrogation, this would happen immediately, to keep him from developing a plausible story.
An officer would not disclose their suspicions of him being threat to national security to the arrested individual, and then say that he would be charged as a terrorist. This is BS.
The rest of the story is equally suspcious.
The photographer never mentions showing the cops his press credentials. All major cities issue them. That way when you show up for a news thing, you can prove to the cops on duty you are a news person or a photographer.
Lots of cops know all the news media people so it is no problem. But cops who do not work out of the main office or city hall may not know you at all.
To cover a VP or President you need White House Press credentials. If you want to cover a local VP visit you have to get credentials from the Secret Service before hand. They don't want a "Jack Ruby type" to be able to kill a President or Vice President by pretending to be a news person.
When I was a working broadcaster, my news directors and I all had local city, state and white house press credentials. All my news people has local city, and state credentials.
If this Dude was sent out by a paper to be a press photographer with no press credentials he was a set up to get a poor oppressed news man story.
Since Jack Ruby killed Oswald, it has been SOP everywhere... you have to have credentials. It is like a drivers license. Don't try to cover elected officials without one.
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