2 of Rupert Murdoch's News Editors were just ARRESTED for phone hacking. Please look at FOX next!

[Snoutport]

Ah... The arrests are starting. That is a VERY good thing. If you haven't been following the news in the UK, Rupert Murdoch has been slowly buying up all the news outlets there and then using them to hack the phones of left leaning government officials and then using the info to push them out of office. THere have been bribes, police payoffs, police coverups, HUGE lies by Murdoch's ilk and million dollar payoff checks (probably) signed by Murdoch's son. (Who just got a "promotion" to the New York offices....just in time to get out of England before, perhaps, the whole situation blows up in his face.

HAS MURDOCH'S PAPERS BEEN HACKING US OFFICIALS? What do you think? ALL of his English newspapers were hiring investigators to hack into phones, THOUSANDS of phones. And anyone they wanted. A girl who got raped had her phone and the phone of all of her close friends and mom hacked, actresses, actors and politicians...anyone Murdoch wanted the dirt on. One investigator had 6000 or so phone numbers and PIN numbers in his office.

So...if it was so easy in Britain...what are the odds they were doing it here?!


From the article in the Guardian UK: "The former head of news and current chief reporter of the News of the World have been arrested on suspicion of phone hacking, sources said.

Ian Edmondson, 42, and Neville Thurlbeck, 50, were held by Scotland Yard detectives when they attended separate police stations in south-west London by appointment this morning."

The link: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/two-held-by-phone-hack-police-2263077.html

[FreakinDJ]

1. Can we say "Extradition" children

What other proof does America need to bring back the "Fairness Doctrine"

[HowHasItComeToThis]

8. AMERICA RAN REASONABLY WELL TIL MURDOCH SHOWED UP

THIS MAN SHOULD BE LOCKED UP

[Snoutport]

12. You are so right!

and the right is so wrong!

[FreakinDJ]

16. Don't forget the Pension Funds he RAIDED

that is how we got his start

[tsuki]

32. I thought he stole from his mother's family trust and stuck her

with the tax bill.

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[Snoutport]

35. he is a bad bad man... pity nobody reigned him in earlier

[freshwest]

39. Too many people falling for Milton Friedman and Ayn Rand for that. Let's learn from the folks.

[bvar22]

19. Murdoch is a symptom,

not the disease.

[Snoutport]

38. are you sure he isn't patient zero?

[Initech]

33. Actually you could go back to when Limpballs first showed up.

[Snoutport]

36. did rupert give him his start?

[Snoutport]

10. ANONYMOUS!!!! please look into FOX!!!

I keep hoping and praying!

[NoBlueDogs]

11. Amen! n/t

.

[upi402]

46. Pray to the cloud beings! n/t

[defendandprotect]

50. +1000%

[Scuba]

26. +1,000

[LiberalEsto]

2. This is making my day

:party: :toast: :headbang: :applause: :woohoo: :rofl:

[lonestarnot]

3. Ackety. Their making over the money printing. Don't see shit about the arrests.

[Tippy]

4. The bigger they are, the harder they fall

means that it is more difficult to beat stronger opponents, but we can beat them, and when they lose they suffer a bigger loss.

[eShirl]

5. hacking into the answering machine messages of the Royals?

kooks like they weren't as clever as they thought

[Snoutport]

6. the two who got caught with the royals went to jail...these are new peeps

and pretty high up in the paper's line of power.

[loudsue]

7. Murdock's evil empire has GOT to stop. He's tearing this whole world apart

with his fascist agenda, and it is pure evil.

[Snoutport]

13. i am in agreement!

[truebrit71]

9. That is AWESOME!!!!

Hope this is the beginning of the end for this scumbag..

[rucky]

14. Newscorp is a criminal enterprise.

[malaise]

15. Great news

Rec

[xchrom]

17. Recommend

[Uncle Joe]

18. That is the trillion dollar question.

HAS MURDOCH'S PAPERS BEEN HACKING US OFFICIALS? What do you think? ALL of his English newspapers were hiring investigators to hack into phones, THOUSANDS of phones. And anyone they wanted. A girl who got raped had her phone and the phone of all of her close friends and mom hacked, actresses, actors and politicians...anyone Murdoch wanted the dirt on. One investigator had 6000 or so phone numbers and PIN numbers in his office.

Criminals usually stick to a tried and true or comfortable modus operandi, if he did such a thing over there, I see no reason as to why he wouldn't have done it here first, as his media conglomeration in the U.S. preceded that of his takeover in the UK.

It's not a sure bet but I would be willing to take a wager on it.

Thanks for the thread, Snoutport.

[Snoutport]

29. If only we had a noncorporate media to investigate....

[Blue Owl]

20. Keep working up the chain

Right up to the rotten dickbag himself, Rupert Turdfuck

[Mark Baker]

21. Why would Fox need to hack anyone?

The News of the World needed to hack into people's voicemail so that they could write true stories. Pointless celebrity bollocks of no importance, yes, gross invasions of privacy, yes, but broadly true in most cases.

Why would you need to hack into anyone's voicemail if you're just going to make shit up?

(I'm not saying the NotW didn't make shit up too, but that's mostly not the stories the voice mail hacking was for).

[Uncle Joe]

22. If a major "journalistic" institution felt so strongly about its' ideology that selling any

semblance of objective journalistic credibility down the river on a daily basis became standard operating procedure to obtain its' political ends, why do you believe such a morally bankrupt institution would stop at just "making shit up?"

Would such an institution be open to using political blackmail from information obtained via hacking politicians' voice mails?

I believe it would.

[glinda]

23. Why would you need to hack into anyone's voicemail if you're just going to make shit up? THAT is the

question! Obviously they were using hacked information in a way that has NOTHING to do with their "faux news". I will bet blackmail or control of some kind. Political and other.
I just hope the investigation comes here to the USA.

[Downtown Hound]

24. Blackmail

You'd be surprised how often it's used in powerful circles. And it's damn effective too.

[drm604]

27. I've been suspicious of exactly that for a while now.

It just seems like the Democrats give up too much in their "compromises".

[Downtown Hound]

30. I've been told by someone that has friends in high places

That this is how they got Colin Powell to go before the U.N. and give that speech to the U.N. about Iraq having WMD. Bullshit? Maybe. But it is interesting to ponder how much political behavior has been the result of somebody having information about somebody else.

[Snoutport]

49. there are a lot of political anomalies that make no sense

[mopinko]

61. +1

[Snoutport]

34. I would bet money you are right... how else do you explain the left showing their belly so much?

[Snoutport]

31. LOL...mark! good points! unless they need stuff for blackmail?

[sabrina 1]

53. Looks like they were using the info for political reasons.

Against anyone left-leaning. I haven't read that much about it, although I saw the first stories a couple of months ago. I thought they'd get away with it, though. So it's great to see them being caught.

[jbeing]

55. Think Paranoia

Think Nixon.
Why would someone who had a large lead in the polls needs to endanger what he had?
Paranoia?
The feeling that you can control things (even those you can't)?
The need to crush your opponents?
What else?
Absolute power (or the thought you have it) corrupts absolutely.

[Kingofalldems]

25. Special Prosecutor needed--investigate and subpoena all Fox records

[Taverner]

28. "HAS MURDOCH'S PAPERS BEEN HACKING US OFFICIALS?" I would bet $$ on it

btw...not to nit pick but its 'have' murdoch's papers...

Sorry

[Snoutport]

41. ouch! OUCH!!! (i hate that!!)

[DeSwiss]

37. K&R n/t

[annabanana]

40. It certainly warrants looking into...k&r. . . . .n/t

[jwirr]

42. Speaking of Fox - would it help if we start pushing the FCC to investigate

for similar things in the US.

[Snoutport]

43. You know, we could start a letter writing campaign....

[jwirr]

44. Asking the FCC politely to look into this issue. It can't hurt.

[liberal life]

45. How do we do that?

:applause:



http://fucorporatemedia.com/

[jwirr]

47. I am not sure - DUers got any answers?

[defendandprotect]

52. Unfortunately, most of Obama's appointees seem

more involved in pushing corporate agenda and keeping cover ups going --

but certainly we could all contact anyone in Congress --

and look up addresses for FCC, etal -- google

[meow2u3]

56. Could it be that the Obama administration is being blackmailed?

By Newscrap and Murdick's gang?

[BonnieJW]

59. That's what I've been thinking.

What else could explain his actions on healthcare and tax breaks for the rich? He might not have anything in his background (surely we've seen/heard it all!), but there could be veiled threats to his children. Not harm, but what about cyberbullying or starting a terrible rumor?

[Snoutport]

65. murdoch's papers were phone AND email hacking... that's a lot of info

and don't forget papa bush ran the cia....

[defendandprotect]

66. Needless to say, that's always possible ... and...

if it were you ...

would you see it as your responsibility to save the nation or your own neck?*

would you try to tell the people?





*that might also mean sacrificing your family's life -- that was long the rumor

re Teddy Kennedy --

[Rex]

48. Could it be possible? The tide is about to turn?

[defendandprotect]

51. Thanks for keeping us posted on this --

haven't read all at the link --

but wondering how does owning newspapers make this "hacking" easier for them?

And what took the government so long to figure this out -- ?

And why wouldn't Holder be jumping on this -- Oh, yeah -- Oops!

Holder only attacks the people who need medical marijuana!!

Another of Obama's appointees who certainly isn't doing anything that needs to be done!!

[The Wizard]

54. Rupert the Nazi

should be dragged out of his office and tacked to a cross, it's the season.

[BonnieJW]

57. So why isn't Murdoch arrested?

He can't possibly come out of this without being implicated.

[snooper2]

60. What does buying up news outlets have to do with hacking phones?

"Rupert Murdoch has been slowly buying up all the news outlets there and then using them to hack the phones of left leaning government officials"


Um, that doesn't make any sense. Now if he had been buying up Vodafone Group, Deutsche Tele or BT it might make a little sense. If he wanted to "hack phones" he's got the cash to have that outsourced without needing to hire "reporters" to do it.

[Uncle Joe]

62. Perhaps he thought buying up telecommunications companies while trying to monopolize

the corporate media business would've been too much for UK regulators and legislators to tolerate?

[snooper2]

63. still doesn't answer why in the OP buying news outlets & hacking are linked

[Uncle Joe]

64. Well let's suppose you wanted to build a corporate media monopoly but anti-trust concerns or

enlightened, conscientious, progressive political opposition stood in your way.

Furthermore let's suppose you had little or no scruples when it came to projecting your political point of view and any opposition was indeed the enemy, would you be willing to coerce them in to submission or at least into looking the other way.

I imagine in the case of Murdoch, he would be and tapping their phones to obtain dirt for blackmail purposes could very well fill that need.