The U.S. Coast Guard's new felony charges for journalists who come within 65 feet of booming operations is tyrannical. In a free country with an allegedy free press this type of muzzling is it absolutely unacceptable. What this nation needs is more transparency, not less, so that we can understand the scope of this disaster and hold those responsible accountable. This is a thinly veiled effort by the #GOBP to avoid paying for the true cost of the spill.
The pictures at the link below, while not illegal to view (yet), would now result in felony charges for the photographers and journalists trying to report them. This is a sad time for America, and for democracy.
[Washington's Blog]
A great day for free speech today with an appeals court striking down the FCC's indecency policy http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/13/appeals-court-strikes-down-indecency-rule/?hp and yet this censorship continues
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