90 Miles From Tyranny : 2013-11-03

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The Left Loses A Battle To Suppress Freedom In Germany

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Journalist Says Feds Raided Her Home And Illegally Seized Notes

The Department of Homeland Security and Maryland state police allegedly used a gun law as an excuse to search a reporter’s home and illegally seize her notes.
Audrey Hudson, a conservative investigative journalist, claims that officers raided her home before dawn in August and seized some of her files.
The action was illegal because police only had a warrant to search for firearms and not for her notes, Daily Caller writer Alex Pappas contends. The officers were checking to see if Hudson’s husband, Paul Flanagan, had any guns. It is illegal for Flanagan, a convicted felon, to own a gun in Maryland where the couple lives.
A copy of the search warrant obtained by The Atlantic states that police were simply ordered to seize all weapons and ammunition from the residence. The purpose of the raid was to enforce gun laws, not seize notes.
Hudson claims that agents involved in the raid took documents that contained information about her sources. The sources included contacts inside the Department of Homeland Security and the Transportation Security Administration.
The True Christian Heritage and Christian Ideals That Are Woven Into The Very Fabric Of The Constitution…
“They took my notes without my knowledge and without legal authority to do so,” Hudson alleged. “The search warrant they presented said nothing about walking out of here with a single sheet of paper.”
Hudson has written for the Washington Times, Newsmax and the Colorado Observer
Agents targeted whistleblowers
Hudson believes that she and not her husband was the real target of the raid. She thinks the purpose of the action was to learn the names of her sources inside the Federal Air Marshal Service and the US Coast Guard (which oversees the Air Marshals). Hudson has written stories critical of the Air Marshals in the past.
“This guy basically came in here and took my anonymous sources and turned it over to the agency they were blowing the whistle on,” Hudson said. “And those guys still work there.”
The Coast Guard Investigative Service did take part in raid, Carlos Diaz, a spokesman for the agency admitted. The Coast Guard believes it had jurisdiction because Paul Flanagan works for the Coast Guard.
Diaz claims that Coast Guard agents took the documents because they were classified and not supposed to be in the hands of a civilian. He also claimed that the documents were listed on the warrant.
“None of the documents were classified,” Hudson contends. “There were no laws broken in me obtaining these files.”
Hudson claims that the agents took other files, including her notes. She thinks somebody could discern the identity of her sources from the notes.
Part of continuing war on journalism
The action against Hudson is not an isolated case. It is an example of what the Committee to Protect Journalists has labeled a war on leaks, as previously reported by Off The Grid News.
Hudson is only the latest journalist to report harassment and intimidation by federal agents. New York Times reporter James Risen has been ordered to testify against a source or go to jail. In May the Justice Department obtained two months’ worth of phone records for Associated Press reporters in an attempt to learn the identify of whistleblowers.
What’s truly disturbing is that the actions Hudson described take the attack on freedom of the press to a whole new level. Some of her charges against federal agents include:
Officers with body armor entered her home before dawn in a search for weapons.
Agents checked Paul Flanagan’s Facebook account in an attempt to see if he was buying illegal guns from Sweden.
The Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms (BATF) contacted Flanagan and asked him about a gun purchase five years ago.
Local police were used in an effort to intimidate a journalist.
The Maryland State Police have known for years that Hudson and Flanagan keep guns in their homes.
Reporter scared to do her job
Audrey currently works as a freelancer for outlets such as Newsmax. She was twice nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.
Like a number of other journalists, Hudson believes that the federal government is targeting her in an effort to learn the identity of whistleblowers in order to punish them. The Obama administration has an active effort to identify whistleblowers called the Insider Threat Program and it has prosecuted at least eight whistleblowers for espionage under the 1917 Espionage Act, Off The Grid News previously reported.
Hudson admitted that the raid has left her afraid to contact her sources. She said she came forward in order to send a warning to her sources without talking to them directly.
“I’m terrified to contact them,” Hudson told The Daily Caller.  “I’ve got to let these guys know somehow.”



http://www.offthegridnews.com/2013/10/31/journalist-says-feds-raided-her-home-and-illegally-seized-notes/

Thursday, November 7, 2013

Graphic Art: Women With Weapons


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The Mean Mistreater





Mean mistreater, you make me cry,
You lay around, and watch me die.
Mean mistreater, can't you see I'm real?
Are you satisfied, with the way you feel?

The Evil Secret of Google Data Barges REVEALED!

Google's offshore data barges are evil.  Besides providing financial, technical and political support to a tyrannical world leader, Google now intends to contribute to ocean warming by injecting huge amounts of heat into the ocean. It is well known among data techies that the best way to generate heat is to assist the NSA in profiling likely purveyors of evil, like tea party members.  In fact, spying on tea party activists generates 57.896 more BTU's than for instance, spying on occupiers who spend most of their time picking lice from each other's hair.  In other words, spying on tea party activists is simply the most efficient way to generate heat and thus warm the oceans.


So why you ask, does Google want to warm the ocean?  The answer is clear: to blame it on the tea party. Everyone knows the tea party is evil, they support free markets and freedom of choice.  This is intolerable and it must be stopped.  Let the ocean warming begin.



The GOP Abandons Cuccinelli, Giving Obamacare the Win...

The Republican Party has become as corrupt as the Democrats.  Their addiction to the spoils of big government and to the levers of power are so strong that they are willing to abandon the former principles of the GOP and adopt a pseudo leftist tilt.  The GOP see the Tea Party as a threat greater than the Communists in the Democrat party.  This obtuse viewpoint is violently sickening and saddening to me.  The Republican Party has abandoned us for scraps that the democrats will give them.

According to an article on Breitbart:

"A campaign strategist for Republican Virginia gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli said that the national GOP abandoned the campaign in its final days."


It is time to purge every non-Tea Party candidate in the house, the senate and state and local governments.  The GOP is diseased, it is time to quarantine the whole lot and replace them all with people who will fight against socialism and for the american people.


See No Evil, Hear Now Evil, Say No Evil...


When The Press Asks About All The Evil You Have Orchestrated...

Jay Z parties while Cuban rapper is dying in prison for free speech

Jay Z has been in the news of late because of his links to Barneys — the upscale department store chain that’s been accused, perhaps prematurely, of racial profiling after a New York customer who made a lawful purchase was stopped by police. It turns out this isn’t the only area where Jay Z finds himself accused of a double standard.
Back in May we rapped the rapper after he and wife BeyoncĂ© spent their fifth wedding anniversary in Cuba. There they extolled the Communist island while saying nothing about a local rapper, Angel Yunier Remon — better known as “El Critico del Arte” — who was jailed for doing exactly what Jay Z does in his music. Cuban friends tell us El Critico is now near death, in a hospital after 19 days on a hunger strike.
“He asked that it be known that he’s committed to ‘freedom or death,’ which is his take on the Cuban regime’s official mantra — ‘socialism, homeland or death,’ ” says Mauricio Claver-Crone, executive director of the Washington-based Cuba Democracy Advocates.
So how about it, Jay Z? How about doing a fellow rapper a solid and asking Raul Castro to free a man who’s dying in a Cuban prison for doing what you do every day?

http://nypost.com/2013/11/06/jay-z-ignores-cuban-rapper-wasting-away-in-prison/

Perspective Is Everything...


Geez, maybe I should stop wearing my baseball cap...