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"Phoenix Police Raid Home of Blogger Critical of 'Bad Cops' in Their Department"

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COMMENT #1 [Permalink]

... 72dawg said on 4/4/2009 @ 11:56 pm PT...





Bloggers are the modern journalists. This is a freedom of the press issue. Bloggers are like Ben Franklin and his printing press in 1770. Please stay on this.

COMMENT #2 [Permalink]

... John Washburn said on 4/5/2009 @ 12:11 am PT...





More like Thomas Paine. When Franklin was a printer he was pretty main stream, It was not until he violated the terms of his Crown job and was denounced in the well of Parliment, that Franklin went radical.

COMMENT #3 [Permalink]

... John Washburn said on 4/5/2009 @ 12:24 am PT...





Bloggers are part of the new, emerging PRESS. Here is a link to a great article on the difference between real reports and "professional jounalists". We Are Change founder Luke Rudkowski was arrested for trying to ask New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg about his refusal to pay for the health care of 9/11 first responders. The charges? "Impersonating a member of the press" and trespassing. Those from whom our rulers have no fear of tough, dogged, nasty questioning (ala Tim Russert) are the only ones guilty of Impersonating members of the press American needs a free press. Governments though need main stream (status quo) medias. Go Brad! Go Jeff! Go Luke!

COMMENT #4 [Permalink]

... John Washburn said on 4/5/2009 @ 12:31 am PT...





I realized my reference to Franklin may have been too obscure. Franklin worked to quiet talk of rebellion until 1775. His efforts are described in the Declaration of Independence with the paragraph beginning with "Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time ..." But it was the affair of the Hutchinson Papers that push Franklin firmly out of the Loyalist camp and into the Patriot camp. Thomas Paine, Sam Adams, and Crispus Attucks were Sons of Liberty from the get go. They needed no convincing that the Blessings of Liberty were worth pursuing right now.

COMMENT #5 [Permalink]

... Agent 99 said on 4/5/2009 @ 12:42 am PT...





I have a crush the size of Jupiter on Thomas Paine. I'm sure you can appreciate my predicament....

COMMENT #6 [Permalink]

... Bamboo Harvester said on 4/5/2009 @ 12:46 am PT...





J.W. Thank for the history lesson.

COMMENT #7 [Permalink]

... another joe said on 4/5/2009 @ 2:23 am PT...





bad cops - NO DONUTS!

COMMENT #8 [Permalink]

... Floridiot said on 4/5/2009 @ 7:29 am PT...





When Franklin was younger he was full of piss, but when the farmers rebellion against the elite class happened in Mass. in 1787 he was ready to hang them all. Paine was long gone by then, the only people that saved the farmers (regulators) asses from the gallows were Jefferson and Hancock.

COMMENT #9 [Permalink]

... Ancient said on 4/5/2009 @ 8:57 am PT...





You know, I was thinking to myself this morning while watching the Sunday morning shows, I wonder if these talking heads would be pushing the same agendas if their stock portfolios were published?

COMMENT #10 [Permalink]

... bardazima said on 4/5/2009 @ 11:44 am PT...





This is pretty unbelievable - but not surprising. The blogging community has brought back accountability to the public discourse after the mainstream pressed relinquished their duties many moons ago. Those in authority who for so long got away with murder are now being outed - and they're not used to it. So, as we see regularly, they react in the most obvious and embarrassing ways, bringing that much more attention to their own mendacity and cover-ups. Blogging has re-energized our society and we should be thankful to the many talented bloggers who are taking authority to task.

COMMENT #11 [Permalink]

... Floridiot said on 4/5/2009 @ 11:57 am PT...





Oh yeah and Sam Adams was another elite prick that wanted to hang the Regulators

COMMENT #12 [Permalink]

... Floridiot said on 4/5/2009 @ 12:16 pm PT...





A guy could brush up on that history here if he wanted to

COMMENT #13 [Permalink]

... molly said on 4/6/2009 @ 4:25 am PT...





Wayne Madsen was arrested for public drunkeness in Va. He is haveing to do community service before he even goes to trial. waynemadsenreport

COMMENT #14 [Permalink]

... Brad Friedman said on 4/6/2009 @ 3:52 pm PT...





"He is haveing to do community service before he even goes to trial." Isn't it a community service for him not to be able to write anything at all? Just asking.

COMMENT #15 [Permalink]

... blubonnet said on 4/6/2009 @ 8:27 pm PT...





Why is Wayne Madsen such a bad guy? This is how I know of him. I'm sure there are those that would love to see him publicly humiliated. These are things he exposes: Wayne Madsen – Former U.S. Navy Intelligence Officer, specialist in electronic surveillance and security. Formerly assigned to the National Security Agency and the State Department. Currently, investigative journalist, nationally distributed columnist, and author. Senior Fellow, Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), a non-partisan privacy public advocacy group in Washington, DC. Frequent media commentator on terrorism and security matters. Author of Overthrow a Fascist Regime on $15 a Day (2008), Jaded Tasks: Big Oil, Black Ops & Brass Plates (2006), Genocide and Covert Operations in Africa 1993-1999 (1999), The Handbook of Personal Data Protection (1992). Co-author of America's Nightmare: The Presidency of George Bush II (2006).

Speech 11/11/06 : "After five years of talking to many individuals in the intelligence community, in the military, foreign intelligence agencies, and a whole host of other people, people from the air traffic control community, the FAA, I came to the conclusion that after five years what we saw happen on that morning of September 11, 2001, was the result of a highly-compartmentalized covert operation to bring about a fascist coup in this country. ... These people need to be brought to justice, if not by our own Congress, then by an international tribunal in the Hague, in the Netherlands. Bush, Blair, Rumsfeld, Cheney should be sitting in the same dockets where Milosevic and the Croatia-Serbia war criminals sat." http://video.google.com Endorsement of The New Pearl Harbor: "David Griffin's The New Pearl Harbor belongs on the book shelves of all those who, in any way, doubt the veracity of the accounts presented to the public by the Bush administration concerning the worst terrorist attack in America's history. The facts presented in this book are disturbing — and they should be. Griffin's book goes a long way in answering the age-old question inherent in American political scandals: What did the President know, and when did he know it?" http://www.interlinkbooks.com Bio: http://www.waynemadsenreport.com

COMMENT #16 [Permalink]

... Glen Scotti said on 4/8/2009 @ 12:48 pm PT...

