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Reporter Imprisoned by Biden Staffers to Prevent Interviews of Fundraiser Guests! FR Exclusive!
Mindbender 26

Posted on 03/26/2011 12:06:10 PM PDT by MindBender26

An incident at a Florida Democratic political fundraiser this week should be front page news in every paper in the country, and the lead story on TV newscasts, but it has been virtually buried…. until now

Here are the details.

On Wednesday morning, Vice President Joe Biden attended a fundraiser for Democratic Senator Bill Nelson. The event was at the home of billionaire real estate developer Alan Ginsberg, a long-time Dem supporter. Ginsberg’s enormous lakefront home is in an exclusive section of Winter Park, an uber-upscale Orlando suburb. To give you an idea of the size and opulence of the home, it was originally built for Orlando Magic and NBA superstar Horace Grant.

The Orlando Sentinel assigned longtime reporter Scott Powers to cover the event. But when he arrived, Biden staffers decided they didn’t want him mingling with the 150 guests who had forked over $500 to meet Biden, so they locked him in a closet! A member of the Biden advance team even stood guard outside the door to prevent Powers from escaping.

Powers has all the details, even pictures of the inside of the closet where he was held; but it appears the Sentinel editors have refused to let him report on all the details of what some are calling a kidnapping! There was a very brief, and very “vanilla” mention of the incident in Thursday’s paper. One attendee later emailed the Sentinel to say “I was in attendance at the Fundraiser and enjoyed a nice lunch. If I had known there was a reporter stuffed in the closet, I would have been compelled to stand up and demand answers. I would also like to know if this is actually legal to treat people like caged animals. I’m disgusted by these actions.”

Despite this outrage, Sentinel editors have dropped the story.

Some longtime journalists are furious with Biden’s team over the incident. Some are more angry at Sentinel editors for downplaying the story. Others are asking “where was the Secret Service when a crime was obviously being committed?” Others appear to have no problem with it, since it involves their “Administration that can do no wrong.”

So far, none of the DC papers or TV networks has covered the story, but of course, they are the first to cry in outrage when dictators imprison reporters overseas. What have we become: Cuba, Iran, Libya, or Stalinist Russia, that we would allow such police-state tactics to muzzle the media?

Does the “Free Press” still exist in America? Or are we relegated to the status of a Banana Republic where the media approves anything Team Obama does?

Some people saw this coming when then-Vice Presidential candidate Joe Biden exploded and flatly refused to answer the insightful questions of an Orlando television reporter when she asked about Obama’s connections to ACORN, socialism and his “spread the wealth” comments to Joe the Plumber. Since then, Biden’s mandate seems to have changed from refusing to answer embarrassing questions, to imprisoning reporters who might ask them.


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To: MindBender26

This story needs to get legs.

Biden shows himself to be a totalitarian tyrant here. No free press for him!

And, yes, their actions do fit the legal definition of kidnapping.

Remember when OJ and his thugs did this to the baseball collector guy in a hotel room in Vegas? The charges stuck!


21 posted on 03/26/2011 12:21:12 PM PDT by Palladin (Obama, Ayers, Dohrn, Trumka: birds of a feather.)
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To: MindBender26
I would also like to know if this is actually legal to treat people like caged animals.

My jaw dropped when I read that. It sounds like something Biden would say.

22 posted on 03/26/2011 12:21:14 PM PDT by Never on my watch (WTF happened to my country?)
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To: TenthAmendmentChampion

Please fwd to them if you have links.

Thanx.


23 posted on 03/26/2011 12:21:15 PM PDT by MindBender26 (Fighting the "con" in Conservatism on FR since 1998.)
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To: MindBender26
...have we become: Cuba, Iran, Libya, or Stalinist Russia...

We're on the fast track, IMO.

The MSM is aiding and abetting their demise.

24 posted on 03/26/2011 12:24:43 PM PDT by lonestar (It takes a village of idiots to elect a village idiot.)
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To: Palladin

If not kidnapping, certainly false imprisonment.


25 posted on 03/26/2011 12:24:50 PM PDT by MindBender26 (Fighting the "con" in Conservatism on FR since 1998.)
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To: MindBender26

I guess it depends on the Florida statutes.


26 posted on 03/26/2011 12:26:02 PM PDT by Palladin (Obama, Ayers, Dohrn, Trumka: birds of a feather.)
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To: MindBender26
I'm not a loyah, and I did not stay in a Holiday Inn last night, but this sure sounds like kidnapping to me.

Section 787.01 of Florida's Revised Statutes sets forth a basic definition of kidnapping. Specifically, it entails "forcibly, secretly or by threat confining, abducting or imprisoning another person against her or his will and without lawful authority."

And last time I checked our FL laws, kidnapping was a CLASS B (2nd degree) FELONY. It is one thing to have a couple of Bobo's thugs escort him to the gate, another entirely, to lock him in a closet. Suppose, just suppose, this person was prone to extreme anxiety attacks brought on by claustophobia?

What then, Bobo? Are you goin to foot the bill to pay for the ambulance and treatment at the hospital if the guy could not calm down on his own?
27 posted on 03/26/2011 12:26:15 PM PDT by NWFLConservative
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To: MindBender26

This sort of stuff happened to Kolchak in every episode.


28 posted on 03/26/2011 12:26:36 PM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: MindBender26

Texas Tech’s Adam James thinks this reporter’s a wuss.


29 posted on 03/26/2011 12:28:11 PM PDT by Gurn (Remember Mountain Meadows.)
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To: MindBender26

Great work MB!

You say it’s now released to all other media; including Drudge and Breibart? Hope it grows legs.

I hope that reporter stands firm and keeps screaming about this.


30 posted on 03/26/2011 12:28:57 PM PDT by Outlaw Woman
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To: jrcats
"So what was Bill Nelson & the others talking about that they didn’t want a reporter to hear."

or, WHO was attending the fundraiser that they didn't want him to see?

31 posted on 03/26/2011 12:29:24 PM PDT by NoExpectations
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To: Palladin

It is kidnapping by our FL statues, see post below yours.


32 posted on 03/26/2011 12:29:30 PM PDT by NWFLConservative
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To: WaterBoard

It’s not a crime if they say it isn’t bookmark.

Amazing.


33 posted on 03/26/2011 12:30:52 PM PDT by IrishCatholic (No local Communist or Socialist Party Chapter? Join the Democrats, it's the same thing!)
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To: MindBender26

This is what they want to do to all of us. Would that closet qualify as a Concentration Camp?


34 posted on 03/26/2011 12:30:52 PM PDT by Chaos
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To: MindBender26

Great work. Wasn’t Alan Ginsberg the one who also was the primary funder of the “fake tea party” in the last election cycle? Does appear they are taking direct orders from the White House. There is no level these people would not stoop to in their quest and hold on power.


35 posted on 03/26/2011 12:31:45 PM PDT by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the occupation media. There are Wars and Rumors of War.)
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To: MindBender26

I can’t imagine anyone would be surprised by this. Leftists consider themselves dictators and above the law and “reporters” nothing but fellow leftist America haters who happened to choose journalism as a means of Marxist indoctrination rather than politics, teaching or environmentalism. Apparently this guy was an actual reporter of some kind.


36 posted on 03/26/2011 12:31:48 PM PDT by Oldpuppymax
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To: Admin Moderator
I put this in Front Page News because, if distributed widely enough, this may become "front page news" in many papers/newscasts.

However, someone removed it from FPN.

At FR, do we only repost what others have written, or do we realize that FR has been the source of some great original stories, such as Rathergate, Palin’s nomination, etc?

If FR can't handle real breaking news, and is only a “followers’ site”, please let us current and former professional newspeople know so we can post elsewhere.

37 posted on 03/26/2011 12:31:59 PM PDT by MindBender26 (Fighting the "con" in Conservatism on FR since 1998.)
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To: MindBender26
I sure the reporter presses charges (and the Sentinel stands by him) against these scumbags. He is well within his rights to do so, what these guys did was clearly illegal.
38 posted on 03/26/2011 12:33:02 PM PDT by NWFLConservative
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To: NWFLConservative

Works for me!


39 posted on 03/26/2011 12:33:26 PM PDT by MindBender26 (Fighting the "con" in Conservatism on FR since 1998.)
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To: MindBender26

Here’s a bird’s eye view of his house. It doesn’t want to link but click on the photo here:

http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/alan-ginsburgs-house/


40 posted on 03/26/2011 12:34:18 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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