Posted on 08/12/2015 4:09:40 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
In recent years the government has gone to extremes to bully everyday Americans and whistleblowers from speaking out against corruption. From the targeting of Tea Party groups and conservative donors to the lawsuits against poverty nuns over birth control the government has harassed and abused its citizenry.
In June investigative journalist James O’Keefe was detained by U.S. customs agents after arriving at the airport in Nassau, Bahamas en route to Miami. The agents told him then he was being detained for crossing back and forth across the US-Mexico border in Texas dressed like Osama bin Laden.
Customs agents targeted O’Keffe because Project Veritas embarrassed them with past videos, exposing government corruption and extreme incompetence.
On July 14, 2015, James O’Keefe was once again harassed and detained by US Customs after returning to the US from Canada. This time agents detained James for over an hour. The US agents told O’Keefe he was targeted because of his journalism. And they even asked him about his support for Donald Trump.
The federal website described James as an “amateur reporter engaged in publicity stunts.” O’Keefe now has confirmation that they are actually looking at a screen that tells them the journalism that Project Veritas has reported and shows that they are retaliating against him.
James has repeatedly embarrassed US Customs. In response, they are now going after him.
This time in Montreal James recorded the encounter to prove the harassment and abuse:
“ US Customs Agent: So you’re a reporter for who?
James O’Keefe: I started my own media company. It’s called Project Veritas and we do sort of investigative documentary films exposing hypocrisy and corruption.
US Customs Officer Ms. Blaire-Bechstead: Within the government, within big corporate companies?
James O’Keefe: Mostly within the government, actually.
US Customs Officer Blaire-Bechstead: So how long have you had your own media company?
James was even asked about how Project Veritas makes money:
“ US Customs: Do you make money off the YouTube hits or…?
James O’Keefe: We’re a non-profit charitable foundation.
US Customs: So you don’t have ads on your YouTube hits at all?
James O’Keefe: Not yet. I’m thinking about putting them on there.
That’s when the conversation turned to presidential politics. James says he as so flabbergasted by the question that he couldn’t even form a coherent response.
“ Customs Officer Mr. Creelman: Would you really support Trump as a nominee?
James O’Keefe: I cant, I can’t even…
Officer Creelman: Who do you want it to be?
James O’Keefe: I don’t really endorse politicians, for, you know, anything.
Finally a supervisor came and let James go – after more than an hour of being detained and questioned.
James reported that the government officials were actually looking at a screen that told them about the news items Project Veritas has released. They are targeting him because of the scandal he has exposed. James O’keefe hopes this video will ignite a new movement of citizen journalists who will boldly stand up and say, “enough is enough!”
Here is James O’Keefe’s latest investigative report:
(VIDEO-AT-LINK)
This is happening all over. My neighbor, a long-time ATT employee with a permanent green card, got lectured for thirty minutes for not being a citizen on his return from Argentina. By a Mexican immigrant. Never happened to him before. The Napolitano- gestapo in action.
I ask you once again:
Do you now or have you ever supported Donald J. Trump for president?
+1
The Feds are openly acting like Mafioso.
You’re making me nervous.
Take it easy.
Worthy of the Gestapo.
Blaire-Bechstead? A little Aryan sounding, I think. Is it possible Blaire-Bechstead is a decendant of Dachau supervisors? I hope James lives through this.
He’s joking around.
What is not a joke are FedMob agents acting like Gestapo.
You will find our Re-Education Camp to your liking.
It has a game room and every evening after you take your pills you will enjoy yourself in the Entertainment Room, which runs CNN News continuously.
Seems like clear grounds for a federal lawsuit against DHS. Discovery is going to be fun!
Thank you. I didn’t realize that, but I am relieved.
More like Stosstruppen, than Mafiosi, but your point is taken...
the infowarrior
Although I don’t like what the U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers are doing in this case, I would not recommend screwing around with or joking with CBP officers. They have very broad powers of arrest within the port of entry. They can detain and strip search anybody. O’Keefe should think about avoiding foreign travel for a while.
I don’t think he should be flagged. That’s the Fed’s doing. With that being said, after watching the video, the border security were pretty civil to him. And asking about Trump sounded more like morbid curiosity than persecution.
What right do federal agents have to ask you or me our political preferences, my man?
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I agree. They don’t have a right. I’m saying they treated him civilly. There’s a lot of folks that get the official shake down who are not so lucky.
Yeah, tell it to anti-Obama filmmaker Dinesh D'souza who was sentenced for some minor campaign finance infraction and plead out to some jail time and community service and was told after the fact that the community service would take five years and he would be forced to undero psychological counseling because he was "angry and intolerant".
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