Posted on 01/27/2010 4:27:58 PM PST by GVnana
Wait until the facts are in.
Mainstream Media, ACORN, Media Matters (all the supposed defenders of due process and journalistic ethics) are jumping to conclusions over the arrest today of James O’Keefe, with the clear intention to smear and, if possible, convict O’Keefe and his alleged co-conspirators in the court of public opinion in order to taint the “jury of their peers.”
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I’m sure they would like to believe O’Keefe is stupid enough to try to “wiretap” a sitting U.S. senator in broad daylight during office hours, while recording the entire sequence of events on his cell phone camera. And they’d like you to believe it, too.
But there is absolutely no allegation in the criminal complaint that “wiretapping” or “bugging” is any part of this case, just the charge that O’Keefe and the others entered Sen. Landrieu’s office in New Orleans “for the purpose of interfering with the office’s telephone system.”
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Maybe more like Huggy Bear from Starsky & Hutch
Yeah, BUT, weren’t two of them wearing phone company jackets? That will complicate things.
O’Keefe has placed some bait and the feds took it. The trap has sprung! He has something big and wants to bring it to light in federal court. This is a well planned thought out set of dominoes and it will be fun to watch in the coming months. A federal attorney’s son in the mix! This is a sting in the making... The MSM will go down with the corrupt ACORN tied politicians too!
Keep your powder dry, O’Keefe is playing out some planned sting. He must have some evidence he wants to present in federal court.
Very important distinction legally if they were wearing actual uniforms from a phone company or just something that ‘looked like’ a phone company employee. I’m betting that the totally bogus looking outfits is what tipped off the Senators staffers who called building security.
But even so, the charges being talked about are only remotely valid IF these two halloween outfitted guys were ACTUALLY planning and had the ability and tools to actually tap the phone lines of the Senator. If they simply had tool bags with pliers, screwdrivers and ratchet sets, then this is obviously a prank. And proving intent requires proving an ability to at least plausibly achieve the FELONY ACT. It’s the reason we don’t arrest terrorist planners until they actually get their plan together and buy the weapons. You can’t make charges stick just because somebody ‘wants to’ or ‘talked about’ committing a crime.
Watch the US Attorney try for a ‘conspiracy’ charge instead since that would be way, way, way easier to make stand up - conspiracy to commit a misdemeanor offense.
If these amateurs dressed up as cops or Federal employees of any type, this would be an automatic felony charge. But they didn’t.
Just like Fraud - you have to prove that there were actually a fraudulent act performed in order to prosecute it. You can’t simply claim that somebody was a liar and ‘could’ have committed a fraud if they had wanted to.
Saul Alinsky: “Always accuse the other side of doing the thing YOU are about to do..”
I really think he shouldn’t class himself as a journalists. They’re forbidden by laws that exist in many states, to engage in undercover sting operations.
Saul Alinsky: “Always accuse the other side of doing the thing YOU are about to do..”
Sounds like the practically Biblical saying “Thy sins speak loudly in accusation” (ie. you accuse others of committing the sins you commit - mostly because you know how damning they are and how damning they would be if exposed. It’s now called ‘projection’ in psychobabble)
I think so, too. He's flushed the players out in the open.
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