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CNN Crew covering the riots arrested for no reason

Airyaman said:
They didn't arrest the white CNN reporter. God bless them still or...?
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My understanding is that all four of them were arrested.
 
apdst said:
Freedom of the press doesn't mean unlimited access.
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Conservatism, everyone! When "the enemy" has its freedom taken away, they don't even question it. Just "eh, freedom isn't unlimited!" Not even an attempt to justify the arrest. You didn't even try to come up with a flimsy excuse for why their presence deserved this. They were peaceful, and they were cooperative.

My country is in danger. People like you are gleefully marching down the road to fascism and you think you're the ones protecting freedom.
 
apdst said:
I did, but again, we don't know the whole story.
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The police have already admitted the arrest was unjustified. Your puppetmasters thank you for your blind loyalty, though.
 
AmNat said:
My understanding is that all four of them were arrested.
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https://twitter.com/abbydphillip/status/1266325037914697728

Abby D. Phillip@abbydphillip

My other colleague @joshscampbell is also on the scene in Minneapolis. He just reported that police approached him, asked him who he was with, he said CNN. And they say “ok, you’re good.” This is minutes after Omar, who is black and Latino, was arrested nearby.
 
Without knowing more..just going by transcript...looks like cnn guy was blathering away mindlessly, repetitively so as to just stay there...without moving out of the cops' way...just pretending to have that motive





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2distracted said:
Without knowing more..just going by transcript...looks like cnn guy was blathering away mindlessly, repetitively so as to just stay there...without moving out of the cops' way...just pretending to have that motive
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You didn't watch the video, did you?
 
Deuce said:
Conservatism, everyone! When "the enemy" has its freedom taken away, they don't even question it. Just "eh, freedom isn't unlimited!" Not even an attempt to justify the arrest. You didn't even try to come up with a flimsy excuse for why their presence deserved this. They were peaceful, and they were cooperative.

My country is in danger. People like you are gleefully marching down the road to fascism and you think you're the ones protecting freedom.
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It's funny...the founding fathers specifically enumerated a right to free press...but didn't to not wearing a mask.
Those damn liberals.
 
JustHanging said:
The sad part is Americans have so little freedom, they can't even recognize when it's being taken away.

Freedom House | Expanding freedom and democracy

Countries ranked by freedom:

Finland 1
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Canada 7
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Chile 42
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Belize 51
USA 51


Dang, America has dropped to the level of Central American countries in terms of freedom. No wonder Americans don't give a **** about freedom of the press, they're becoming just another Banana Republic.
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Freedom House? iLOL
People buying into their bs is even more funny.
 
Deuce said:
Conservatism, everyone! When "the enemy" has its freedom taken away, they don't even question it. Just "eh, freedom isn't unlimited!" Not even an attempt to justify the arrest. You didn't even try to come up with a flimsy excuse for why their presence deserved this. They were peaceful, and they were cooperative.

My country is in danger. People like you are gleefully marching down the road to fascism and you think you're the ones protecting freedom.
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In case you didn't notice, some of the conservatives who replied to this thread agreed with you about the arrests. If it were reversed, say the police in some liberal city disbanded a conservative event after a federal judge ordered them not to, for example, there'd be virtually no liberals bleating about the first amendment.

It's true though that the conservatives who've supported the police here haven't attempted a justification. Conservatives are more honest than liberals, so we're less likely to resort to technical rationalizations for things we support anyway.
 
AmNat said:
In case you didn't notice, some of the conservatives who replied to this thread agreed with you about the arrests. If it were reversed, say the police in some liberal city disbanded a conservative event after a federal judge ordered them not to, for example, there'd be virtually no liberals bleating about the first amendment.
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Er...that would be a completely different situation. These reporters cleared with the police where they could set up and film from, and when the police rushed them, said that they would move to wherever they told them to go. These reporters were complying with orders from the police (even ones not yet made). And they STILL got arrested.

For your example to be analogous, the protesters would have had to agreed to the Federal Judicial order not protest at a particular place, set up at a different place, told the police that came out that if they wanted them to move to a different location that they would even though not ordered by the Judge, but they were arrested anyway.

AmNat said:
It's true though that the conservatives who've supported the police here haven't attempted a justification. Conservatives are more honest than liberals, so we're less likely to resort to technical rationalizations for things we support anyway.
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It's clear that you don't give two craps about the Constitution or people's rights. What you care about is blindly defending your own political worldview...
 
Drowning Man said:
For your example to be analogous, the protesters would have had to agreed to the Federal Judicial order not protest at a particular place, set up at a different place, told the police that came out that if they wanted them to move to a different location that they would even though not ordered by the Judge, but they were arrested anyway.
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This is exactly what I was talking about in the second paragraph of post 63.
 
AmNat said:
This is exactly what I was talking about in the second paragraph of post 63.
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I think you need to go back and really think about analogies and what makes an analogous situation. Actually, that's probably not all that you need to apply some better critical thinking skills to...
 
Drowning Man said:
You didn't watch the video, did you?
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That would mean acknowledging reality, and THAT is not allowed. "When the cameras come on, the cuffs come out."
 
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