Comments on: Alaska Teabagger uses US Military Guards to Detain, Threaten Journalists https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/10/25/alaska-teabagger-uses-us-milit/ Tue, 26 Oct 2010 03:56:36 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: Scott Rowed https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/10/25/alaska-teabagger-uses-us-milit/#comment-525322 Tue, 26 Oct 2010 03:56:36 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/10/25/alaska-teabagger-uses-us-milit/#comment-525322 Yes, we certainly have our share of problems in Canada as well. But one piece of news I enjoyed recently was the valedictorian from the U of Winnipeg openly criticizing Vic Toews, who had just been awarded an honorary degree. Maybe we’re finally coming out of our slumber.
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]]> By: Jason Thibeault https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/10/25/alaska-teabagger-uses-us-milit/#comment-525321 Tue, 26 Oct 2010 02:53:49 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/10/25/alaska-teabagger-uses-us-milit/#comment-525321 Stephanie nailed it. Free speech zones fly in the face of the concept of freedom of speech. Not that I can talk, being from Canada and having my own host of problems in that area, but you brought it on yourselves in the fevered paranoia brought on by terr’ism.

]]> By: Stephanie Z https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/10/25/alaska-teabagger-uses-us-milit/#comment-525320 Tue, 26 Oct 2010 02:47:27 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/10/25/alaska-teabagger-uses-us-milit/#comment-525320 Scott, this has nothing to do with how our civil liberties “could” disappear. They have disappeared. We did nothing about the Patriot Act except cheer it on. We did nothing about warrantless everything except reelect Bush. We did nothing about TSA security theater except look suspiciously at our seatmates. We did nothing about “Free Speech Zones” except frown at the people at conventions clambering for their voices to be heard. We did nothing about police abuses of power except suggest that anyone who was abused had something to hide or asked for it.

This is the world we’ve bought ourselves. The fact that most of us have yet to pay for it personally is beside the point.

]]> By: Athena https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/10/25/alaska-teabagger-uses-us-milit/#comment-525319 Tue, 26 Oct 2010 02:40:40 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/10/25/alaska-teabagger-uses-us-milit/#comment-525319 BTW, I saw a great poster: “If you don’t want to be called teabaggers, then how about Kochsuckers”. There were photos of the Koch brothers just above the word “Kochsuckers”. Soooo appropriate…

]]> By: Athena https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/10/25/alaska-teabagger-uses-us-milit/#comment-525318 Tue, 26 Oct 2010 02:36:56 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/10/25/alaska-teabagger-uses-us-milit/#comment-525318 This may be a foreshadowing of life under teabagger rule. It’ll be authoritarian and fascist. It won’t be America. GOTV!

]]> By: MadScientist https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/10/25/alaska-teabagger-uses-us-milit/#comment-525317 Mon, 25 Oct 2010 23:27:24 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/10/25/alaska-teabagger-uses-us-milit/#comment-525317 Let’s see – unlawful detention and the cops not only overlook it but consider harassing the victim? Oooh, they’re such big boys up there in Alaska. Well, actually I think they’re deluded self-important pussies.

]]> By: Scott Rowed https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/10/25/alaska-teabagger-uses-us-milit/#comment-525316 Mon, 25 Oct 2010 22:14:34 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/10/25/alaska-teabagger-uses-us-milit/#comment-525316 This absolutely sent chills down my spine. Private goons with blank looks on their faces, refusing to identify themselves, detaining a reporter who broke no laws – and getting away with it. How quickly our civil liberties could disappear!

]]> By: T. G. Manders https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/10/25/alaska-teabagger-uses-us-milit/#comment-525315 Mon, 25 Oct 2010 21:18:29 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/10/25/alaska-teabagger-uses-us-milit/#comment-525315 I also found how the Miller campaign sought to demonize the journalist they roughed up, charging him with various ostensibly-improper actions, none of which addressed the issue of trespass.

Equally, in the video we see Miller’s security devoting his actions to blocking the news coverage of the arrest by repeatedly stepping in front of a reporter’s camera and holding his hand up to block it.

]]> By: MikeMa https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/10/25/alaska-teabagger-uses-us-milit/#comment-525314 Mon, 25 Oct 2010 20:53:46 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/10/25/alaska-teabagger-uses-us-milit/#comment-525314 Absolutely astounding that other journalists aren’t screaming about this.

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