Posted on 09/13/2013 5:03:44 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey
An amendment is moving through the Senate Judiciary Committee that would essentially allow the government to determine who is a journalist for purposes of legal protection of sources. For purposes of protecting a source, a “journalist” under law would be anyone who: Works or worked for “an entity or service that disseminates news or information by means of newspaper; nonfiction book; wire service; news agency; news website, mobile application or other news or information service…news program; magazine or other periodical…or through television or radio broadcast…” These people would have to have the “primary intent to investigate events and procure material in order to disseminate to the public news or information.” Opinion journalists might not be covered.
Bloggers and citizen journalists – citizens who commit acts of journalists without working for such an outlet – would not be covered, unless it was determined that “at the inception of the process of gathering the news or information sought, had the primary intent to investigate issues or events and procure material in order to disseminate to the public news or information.” In other words, the government – the Department of Justice – would now determine whether primary intent was news distribution or political concerns.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
So will all journalists have to register with the Government? Will there be a test.....back ground check...maybe attended safe writing classes.
If this isn’t scary then what the hell is?
This is, indeed, the post-constitutional era.
so it would seem.
there remains much work to be done to turn back the tide of communist “ativism”
safe writing classes.....;-}
recurring classes...tests.. and of course the attendant fees.
the NSA will also be on the lookout for WUI cases
anyone found burning their Official Writing Card will be immediately placed in a re education camp.
The Attorney General to decide who is a journalist? Lest we forget the likes of Watergate’s George Mitchell, Water Boarding, Alberto Gonzales, and last but not least, Gun Running Eric Holder who said it is his right to “sometimes” lie to the American People. Go to Webster’s Dictionary and under the definition of a journalist, I am one.
Dear Fellow Undocumented Freelance Journalist!...
Im currently working on the design of a identfying symbol to promote protest in this matter.
developing.....
Nope; we're already there: in Schenck v. United States the Supreme Court justified congress's illegitimate laws (see Wickard) as a political expedient. In that case a socialist, Schenck, was distributing pamphlets which denounced the draft as immoral and encouraged the legitimate repeal of that law.
Instead of the correct decision: that the First Amendment was enacted to explicitly protect dissenting political speech, they reached the conclusion that the Congress gains special powers in wartime —
It is a question of proximity and degree. When a nation is at war, many things that might be said in time of peace are such a hindrance to its effort that their utterance will not be endured so long as men fight, and that no Court could regard them as protected by any constitutional right.Thereby they make the Constitution of no effect.
Please add me to the list.
Thanks,
- Nicolae
Yep. All that is required to meet that court's criteria is that the military be in some kind of action somewhere - - which is every day, 24/7/365. And from there it is a short leap to " a matter of national security".
Yes, the Constitution is dead as a doornail.
No Surprise. Obama and his minions are fascists.
Read Here:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html
Now THIS.... is Quite Prophetic!
“”They fear that the development and building of People’s (community) Organizations is the building of a vast power group which may fall prey to a fascistic demagogue who will ••• seize leadership and control and turn an organization into a Frankenstein’s monster against democracy.” •••
- Saul Alinsky responding to his critics, Reveille for Radicals; p. 199
Eric Holder determining who is a legit journalist? That’s quite possible the most disgusting thing I’ve ever heard.
Sounds like the JOURN-O-LISTS have been busy working with DI-FI.
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