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I hope tons of folks make a copy of the video before it is taken down and/or the person that made it is arrested.
DJ13
(23,671 posts)YECH!
RufusTFirefly
(8,812 posts)elleng
(131,107 posts)This outburst occurred Feb. 26. http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/26/us-usa-court-protest-idUSBREA1P1T920140226
I don't know what case was being heard.
RufusTFirefly
(8,812 posts)They shouldn't be interchangeable.
Remember what a fuss there was when Fox News showed footage of the protest at the Wisconsin State Capitol a few years ago and there were palm trees in the background?
Why do people play so fast and loose with the facts? Don't they matter any more?
Is this the legacy of unreal "reality TV" and "spontaneous" flash mobs that obviously have multiple camera setups and have clearly been staged?
I fully support any protest against Citizens United and its descendants, but I support the truth even more so.
elleng
(131,107 posts)Wed Feb 26, 2014 2:14pm EST
'The man interrupted proceedings in the patent case by shouting slogans like "Money is not speech," "Corporations are not people" and "Overturn Citizens United."
The man, identified as Noah Newkirk of Los Angeles, California, was protesting the Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission ruling which cleared the way for increased independent corporate and union spending during federal elections.
Police officers removed Newkirk after a brief scuffle. He has been charged with violating a law that prohibits "loud threatening or abusive language" in the Supreme Court building, a court spokeswoman said.'
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/26/us-usa-court-protest-idUSBREA1P1T920140226
RufusTFirefly
(8,812 posts)The date is wrong, and today's oral arguments had nothing to do with Citizen's United or anything related.
On the other hand, the oral arguments on Oct. 8, 2013 did have something to do with campaign financing.
Someone may have been tossed out of the SCOTUS today, so someone else recycled footage from October.
Whatever works, I guess. The truth is squishy and flexible.
Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)There are three different time stamps on the video and the one for the outburst has the wrong date.
Three different videos put together: one of the past oral argument and two of today's outburst.
Makes perfect sense.
elleng
(131,107 posts)an outburst and a detention. The person wanted to make a point about Citizen's United, and McCutcheon concerns related facts and is now pending before the Court.
No footage from October here. The truth is not flexible, but facts may confuse.
RufusTFirefly
(8,812 posts)Carry on.
Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)-snip-
Such outbursts are rare.
Court officials say the last time it happened was eight years ago, during an oral argument over a federal law restricting a certain type of later-term abortion procedure.
-snip-
http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/26/politics/supreme-court-disturbance/index.html
Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)There are three different time stamps on the video.
I think the part from today (Wednesday), the outburst part, has the wrong time stamp date on it.
elleng
(131,107 posts)Thanks, Tx4.
RufusTFirefly
(8,812 posts)Ok. Whatever.
Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)They've regularly protested on days when the topic was different than what they are protesting.
elleng
(131,107 posts)whenever he could get into the gallery. McCutcheon, which contains facts relevant to Citizens United, is now pending for decision, since oral argument was heard in October.
MADem
(135,425 posts)http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/28/us-usa-court-video-idUSBREA1Q2AD20140228?feedType=RSS&feedName=domesticNews
demwing
(16,916 posts)Wouldn't it be impossible to get 50 random strangers to suddenly start dancing to some classic 80's song, which some other random stranger just happened to blast through a portable sound system, while three random videographers accidentally taped, all simultaneously and spontaneously?
DU Flashmob:
Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)Perhaps the time stamp is wrong?
iamthebandfanman
(8,127 posts)posted on the persons youtube channel
Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)dreamnightwind
(4,775 posts)Very interesting site and strategy! It appears some people are actually refusing to accept the current election system that is controlled by the wealthy, and will be using a distributed network of activists practicing non-violent civil disobedience to bring about the reforms the system refuses to allow. I had not heard of them before, perhaps this will gain traction.
dotymed
(5,610 posts)how "Kafkaesque" this is, how many average citizens (poor like me) would know what I am referring to?
Our education system, especially concerning governmental abuses (which have been written about for decades, especially when it concerned futuristic possibilities and/or other counties) have been gradually erased from our everyday lexicon.
Especially now that America has become one of the worse oppressors of justice and human rights.
"They" have succeeded in ingraining the "slave mentality" on Americans even after the civil rights revolution of the '60's.
Instead of imposing this mentality on minorities, it is now imposed on the majority ... the poor.
The post that referred to "Idiocracy" was on the money except TPTB still retain knowledge and use it against us.