It is hard to believe I only did that post 4 days ago, and another journo is dead!

https://steemit.com/informationwar/@shepz1/investigative-journalism-is-a-dangerous-job





The latest casualty was in Turkey, and it seems the Turkish authorities have audio and video of it taking place in a consulate building! (Saudi Arabian)

Turkish intelligence reportedly have audio and video recordings from inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul where Jamal Khashoggi’s Saudi captors can be heard interrogating, torturing, and ultimately murdering him.

US officials have been told by their Turkish counterparts that the recordings prove beyond doubt that the Saudi journalist was killed and dismembered by a team of Saudi operatives, according to the Washington Post.

Did you read that correctly? they kidnapped him, took him to a consulate, tortured him, interrogated him, killed him and even chopped his body up into small pieces!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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It is now past midnight in this whole episode of murdering journalists to stop. This killing spree of anyone that digs too deep into the dirt, has risen 10 fold since the USA declared journalists collateral damage, whilst being diverted by a false flag, the news that they had become collateral damage and basically no longer against the law to be killed seems to have been unnoticed by most it seems.

For the life of me I can not find the article that points to when the law was changed in Washington, I can though offer you this.

According to the recently released edition of the Department of Defense’s Law of War Manual (which governs the conduct of all five branches of our military), journalists may be detained without constitutional or Geneva Convention protections if military officers determine them to be helping the enemy. They can be held as “unprivileged belligerents” (a term the manual considers largely synonymous with “unlawful combatant” p.103) for indeterminate amounts of time without being given access to legal counsel or even charged with a crime.

DODmanual-body.

This rule change takes a giant step towards treating journalists — both American and foreign — as spies who have few, if any, protections under the law. It casts a shadow over the 1st Amendment in all areas of national security reporting and opens journalists up to immense risk on the battlefield. Instead of just having to worry about enemy IEDs, embedded journalists must now worry about being declared a terrorist and detained if they offend military leadership or write an unflattering story.

On page 173, the manual says the following:

“In general, journalists are civilians. However, journalists may be members of the armed forces, persons authorized to accompany the armed forces, or unprivileged belligerents.”

…and on page 103 the manual defines the term “unprivileged belligerent” as follows:

“Unprivileged belligerents may generally be classified into two categories that may be distinguished from one another by the presence or absence of State authorization:

persons who have initially qualified as combatants (i.e., by falling into one of the three categories mentioned above), but who have acted so as to forfeit the privileges of combatant status by engaging in spying or sabotage; and persons who never meet the qualifications to be entitled to the privileges of combatant status, but who have, by engaging in hostilities, incurred the corresponding liabilities of combatant status (i.e., forfeited one or more of the protections of civilian status).

These two categories of unprivileged belligerents generally receive the same treatment.”

In totality, these two provisions establish that military leaders in active war zones and military bases have the discretionary power to declare journalists to be “unprivileged belligerents” and detain them without constitutional due process (as though they were a terrorist).

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We are 1 step away from all being collateral damage if we speak up against the state.





And that is a place and world not a single one of us can afford to be in. China is heading that way at light speed with the system already in place in some areas, where you criticize the state and get your credit cut off, and your job too, do you think I am exaggerating here? allow me to give you the proof I read also that they blacklist your phone so that if anyone calls it informs them you are enemy of the state.

Communist China will use a 'social credit score' to rank its citizens and give those with the most favoured behaviour perks

The project rates citizens based on their behaviour - both positive and negative

Benefits include priority public housing, travel visas and job promotions

Those with a negative score can be blacklisted and not allowed to get a flight

The system is made possible by the growing network of surveillance that uses artificial intelligence to identify people and vehicles.

All of China's 1.4 billion citizens are about to be put under greater scrutiny as the country prepares to launch its 'social credit score' scheme.





I found a list online of journalists killed in the last 12 months here, and the list is getting long.





So as not to drag this out to a few thousand words!





I would simply like to add, that at this moment in time we only have what we have, and with what we have it is time to contact our local officials and tell them enough is enough, no matter what country you are in, give them a call and say take journalists off the kill list, or we are next in line, then who is going to speak up for us?.................................





Verdict = Time to take some action.





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