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"Controlled Mass Media" and Disdain for the Recognition of human Rights":
As Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price walked through a hallway Tuesday in the West Virginia State Capitol, veteran reporter Dan Heyman followed alongside him, holding up his phone to Price while attempting to ask him a question.
Heyman, a journalist with Public News Service, repeatedly asked the secretary whether domestic violence would be considered a pre-existing condition under the Republican bill to overhaul the nation’s health care system, he said.
“He didn’t say anything,” Heyman said later in a news conference. “So I persisted.”
Then, an officer in the Capitol pulled him aside, handcuffed him and arrested him. Heyman was jailed on the charge of “Willful Disruption of State Government Processes” and was released later on $5,000 bail.
Last edited by Just Fred (5/10/2017 8:12 am)
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Yep, the New Banana Republic of the United (NOT) States !
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“Willful Disruption of State Government Processes”
That's pretty Orwellian. Also, didn't they just convict someone of a crime for laughing during Jeff Sessions' hearing?
When questioning, or even ridiculing a government official becomes a crime freedom is dead.
Last edited by Goose (5/10/2017 8:48 am)