Reporters are being censored on what they can cover on Healthcare protest in Capitol

[icymist]

Gabby Morrongiello who is Washington Bureau Chief of the New York Post tweeted "Capitol Hill staffer now telling reporters "no photography, no videos" of protestors"

Link to tweet

Andrew Desiderio of the Daily Beast tweeted "Capitol Police made me delete the video I recorded."

Link to tweet

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

1. That kind of order is a direct violation of the First Amendment.

I do hope reporters are ignoring that. And that so many people are recording that the Capitol Police can't make everyone delete their footage.

[SoCalMusicLover]

3. 1st Amendment? LOL

[Achilleaze]

5. "We don't need no steenkin First Amendment." - KGOP, Inc.

republicans to truth: "We will bury you."

[Dustlawyer]

36. They are taking out Freedoms, oh wait, that is

Supposed to be the Democrats are taking them!

The media sensors what they show us as well. We are manipulated to believing and feeling a certain way. It is only through reading from different sources that you find out what is really going on.

We are becoming a police state to be able to control us as things vet progressively worse. OWS woke them up. They are ready to stop our protests when they want.

Until we get the money out of our politics (yea right) we will continue the slide.

Wish we could wake up enough to have a huge march on Washington for Publicly Funded Elections and then keep up the fight after. The root cause of this is our campaign (bribe) finance system!

This would not be happening in a true Representative Democracy!

[WoonTars]

16. Exactly!

..

[saidsimplesimon]

2. If true

The fascists deserve the fate they are trying to foist upon others.

[Blue_Tires]

4. So where Greenwald, Snowden, Timm, Assange

the ACLU and all the other free press activists?

(No need to answer, it's a rhetorical question)

[Warren DeMontague]

26. Do we not like the ACLU anymore?

[Blue_Tires]

27. I just have a personal gripe with them

But more often than not they're doing good work

[Warren DeMontague]

28. What's the personal gripe? I don't always agree with them either

but I wouldn't lump them in with Julian Ass-ange.

[SCantiGOP]

41. I have paid my dues non-stop since 1969

We went to an ACLU lawyer when our High School principal threatened to expel me and 3 friends (or comrades as we called each other) at the end of our Senior year for handing out anti-Vietnam War flyers on school grounds. While we knew it was an empty threat, expulsion would have meant 1- no diploma, therefore 2- no college, and then 3- a draft notice within a few weeks.
The ACLU lawyer told us not to speak to the principal again, but we could glare at him if we wanted. She wrote a letter, and a week later he called us into his office and, while none of us said a word, told us we would not be expelled and offered a grudging apology for "perhaps speaking in anger because, you know, I just love this country."
They will get my dues every year, and a small check from my will.

[Warren DeMontague]

45. Wow. Great story. ....I support them as well.

Unfortunately 1st Amendment threads can be sort of depressing around here.

Some more authoritarian-minded people seem to forget that the same 1st Amendment that protects anti-war protests also protects sex scenes on HBO and "blasphemous" cartoons.

I disagreed recently with their interpretation of the BDS law sponsored by Wyden, etc. b/c I don't think the legislation will do what they're claiming it will, however I still support the org. wholeheartedly.

[SCantiGOP]

47. Agree. The biggest problem

is a lot of time passes and a lot of damage is done while these cases work their way through the court system. It's rare you can get the stay until the case of heard.
But I have little doubt even the right-leaning SCOTUS would let this crap stand.

[Blue_Tires]

44. Oh, Citizens United, Anwar al-Awlaki among other things...

including their willful blindness as Snowden's house of cards began to fall apart with inconsistencies large enough to park a B747...

[Warren DeMontague]

46. Got it.

I don't agree with them 100% of the time, either.

But I do believe the 1st Amendment is a crucial cornerstone of liberty, full stop.

[barbtries]

6. they can't do that!

jeez this is really fucking beginning to scare me.

where's the ACLU?!

[Meowmee]

7. Reporters and everyone there need to keep recording everything.

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They can't stop every video from getting out. This needs to be fought in court asap if it can be.

[icymist]

8. Update tweet from Gabby Morrongiello:

"About 10 protesters were handcuffed & removed from hallway outside Senate chamber. We were told it's a "crime scene" & not to take photos"

Link to tweet

[littlemissmartypants]

11. It's a crime scene for sure, that much I agree with ...

But we know who the real criminals are and they are not the one's getting arrested.

[unblock]

12. all photons in this room are evidence! do not remove evidence!

[WoonTars]

15. "Crime scene" So fucking what?

Tell those jumped up shits to go fuck themselves...

[Stonepounder]

9. It is the end of the world as we have known it.

GOP wants to take away insurance from 28 million people, screw up 25% of the economy, and just trashed the 1st Amendment. And all we he is silence.

It doesn't matter what the people want. It doesn't matter what the President does. It doesn't matter that Trump is absolutely shredding the Constitution. They have theirs and that's all that matters to them.

[geretogo]

10. This is normal for a Fascist police state like we are living in . A Mussolini want to be is ruling

us .

[dhill926]

13. fascism takes another couple steps forward.....

[WoonTars]

14. Police can't make you delete anything. Should have stood their ground on that one.

...

[Stonepounder]

19. Remember, it is to the point where you can be arrested and prosecuted for 'laughing'

when someone in the Senate lies their ass off.

[WoonTars]

20. That's true...

....how far we've fallen...

[malaise]

17. WTF??? n/t

[jpak]

18. CNN muted it's audio during the protest

n/t

[TeamPooka]

33. That was the feed from the capital being muted CNN had no control

The Senate office Mitch McConnell controls the feed as does Paul Ryan in the House

[BigmanPigman]

21. Right after the election I went to a protest with a hand made sign of

the Grinch with swastikas in his eyes and a person told me, "He's not a fascist". I said, "You are blind, just wait."

[Duppers]

22. Fucking hell!! This is a First Amendment Right!

How do we fight back?

[flibbitygiblets]

23. FIRST AMENDMENT VIOLATION!

[Stonepounder]

24. Sorry, you really think that the Constitution still has any meaning?

[Jimbo101]

25. it's 2017 (not 1817)

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[Freethinker65]

29. In a public space? With the press? Unconstitutional!?

[True Dough]

30. How far removed are we

from an American Tiananmen Square? Curb the media, scrub the history books! Donny can't have the truth get out.

[safeinOhio]

31. Need an app to

send all photos to the cloud as they are taken. Then smile as they delet them.

[defacto7]

32. Trump has already said

he thinks the constitution gets in his way. It's an annoyance he wants to rid himself of.

[SpankMe]

34. Facism. n/t

[Ilsa]

35. Why do they have to follow orders of a Capitol Hill staffer?

And should they get him/her on video, to tbe usedto show the public that certain congresshitters are afraid of the bright lights of truth and transparency?

[Solly Mack]

37. No video. No photographs. No proof. Then it didn't happen.

Oh, did someone say it happened? That they saw it happen. That they were there?

Prove it.

Yeah? Fake News!

Erasing dissent. That's what it is....erasing dissent.

[Mickju]

38. How can they do that?

How is that legal? I guess legality doesn't matter anymore under Trump. This is horrible.

[INdemo]

39. Totalitarianism

Totalitarianism is a political system in which the state recognizes no limits to its authority and strives to regulate every aspect of public and private life wherever feasible.[1] A distinctive feature of totalitarian governments is an "elaborate ideology, a set of ideas that gives meaning and direction to the whole society".[2]

The concept was first developed in the 1920s by the Weimar German jurist, and later Nazi academic, Carl Schmitt, and Italian fascists. Schmitt used the term, Totalstaat, in his influential work on the legal basis of an all-powerful state, The Concept of the Political (1927).[3] The concept became prominent in Western political discourse as a concept that highlights similarities between Fascist states and the Soviet Union.[4][5][6][7][8

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[Lyricalinklines]

40. They can only do that when journalists allow it.

Journalists who don't understand the constitution, the rules of the entity and the perameters of the law they are working with will end up accomplices to injustice.

[SergeStorms]

42. Making America Great Again.

Today's GOP: returning robber barons to America's lexicon.

[Haiti2Quebec]

43. They stole your country right under your nose

Democracy is no longer part of America's vocabulary