GOP Response To Town Hall Backlash: Ban Recording Devices And Censor Citizen Journalists

[marmar]

from thinkprogress:




GOP Response To Town Hall Backlash: Ban Recording Devices And Censor Citizen Journalists


The premier political story of the past few months has been the Republican plan to dismantle Medicare and the resulting voter backlash. In town halls across the country, voters are expressing their anger at the GOP priorities of ending Medicare, extending tax breaks for the wealthy, and protecting subsidies for oil companies.

ThinkProgress has reported extensively from town halls in Florida, Wisconsin, Arizona, and elsewhere. In addition, citizen journalists have attended town halls and reported about them online, allowing others who couldn’t attend in person to see the event.

However, some congressmen are concerned about what could happen if citizen journalists repost their town halls on the Internet. At least two members of Congress have taken extraordinary measures to shut down the spread of information. ...........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://thinkprogress.org/2011/05/20/town-hall-ban-recording-devices-censorship/

[SkyDaddy7]

1. That does not surprise me at all!

The Republicans are all MOUTH when it comes to freedoms & the constitution.

[DainBramaged]

2. Jesus, if they can't contol the meeting, ban media LOLOL

Fucking dolts

[ejpoeta]

8. that is SO american. actually that sounds more communist to me... like something

north korea would do or china or one of the other evil countries, doesn't it?

[DainBramaged]

9. If ONLY the media (other than the great DU) covered this shit.

[Fumesucker]

3. I'm sure that no one will try to sneak a hidden recording device into these meetings..

That would be unethical..

[TheKentuckian]

4. SOP for the TeaPubliKlans. Hopefully our guys will not go to the "dry powder" well

and put the cretins on blast on the talk show circuit for being anti-American and have a deaf ear to the people and of course as we should say every single time are deathly ashamed of their ideological agenda to rob Americans of their Social Security, Medicare, and labor rights that they EARNED over the lifetimes of their grandparents, parents, and themselves.

Call em out as thieves in the night, willfully trying to steal the money we have paid for decades to shave percentage points off the tax obligations of the wealthy and to enrich their cronies.

[Tesha]

5. Guns at townhalls: OK. Recording devices: not OK.

Ahh, Republican values!

Tesha

[drm604]

6. Banning recording devices is kind of hard nowadays.

Will they ban cellphones? Will they ban lapel pins? It's not difficult for someone to surreptitiously record the proceedings and anonymously upload the recording.

I'm pretty sure that someone could stream live without being detected.

[opihimoimoi]

7. Fascists like to use suppression and oppression