Maybe the Govt can furlough some of these TSA employees, juz chillin' at EWR this morning.

jamesokeefeiii
Maybe the Govt can furlough some of these TSA employees, juz chillin' at EWR this morning.

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andylancaster But jobs!

NJO: Source: Instagram.

James O’Keefe in Defense of Taping Mitch McConnell, and Everyone Else

By James O'Keefe

April 15th 2013, 4:45 am

Anti-taping laws hurt democracy by shielding the powers that be from accountability, writes provocateur James O’Keefe.

“Break in, bribe, seduce and lie; anything to break through that palace guard and get the story,” said investigative reporter Robert Scheer, according to a article by Abbie Hoffman in a decades-old edition of Mother Jones magazine. Sometimes I’ve broken through the palace guards, and other times the palace guards have nearly broken me. What didn’t jail me made me stronger and smarter. I’ve become all too familiar with civil and criminal statutes that are bad for democracy because they insolate those vested in a public trust from democratic accountability.

Those embroiled in fraud rarely make unprovoked admissions of licentious behavior, which is precisely why covert tactics are effective in exposing the truth. Yet the problem lies in the consequences of applying Scheer’s rule. If I were on the left, pushing the legal limits of recordings by secretly taping meetings of the National Rifle Association, I’d be a cause célèbre and win awards for journalistic excellence. Because my passion so far has been exposing government-funded sacred cows and disrupting statist narratives, I am an apostate. Therein the tragedy lies; a free press is supposed to defend the rights of journalists with whom they disagree. It’s not just ignoble for the mainstream to ignore my First Amendment crises when they’ve arisen; journalists who reflexively call for my prosecution put themselves outside their own values, assuming that support for the First Amendment is one of them. They must now confront these values head-on as surreptitious recordings spark a mainstream renaissance, opening the floodgates to a veritable constitutional crisis over privacy, consent, and the ability to protect anonymous whistleblowers.

Mother Jones magazine’s Washington bureau chief, David Corn, recently won a Polk journalism award after publishing a series of clandestine recordings. Writing later about how he came into possession of the tape, Corn noted that the recording raised a “question of possible criminal prosecution” in Florida, a two-party-consent state. His lawyers advised Scott Prouty (the bartender who captured then candidate Romney’s now famous “47 percent” comments), his anonymous source at the time, to “shut up and keep your head low.” This week, Corn stands to win another journalism award from Ithaca College for “outstanding achievement in independent media,” a week after a recording was released that captured a private conversation in Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s Kentucky campaign office. Corn’s latest story could trigger felony eavesdropping charges. The FBI is investigating, and an official in the group Progress Kentucky has subsequently resigned, saying he “does not condone any allegations of illegal activity that might have taken place.” The murky nature of the Kentucky law makes it unclear whether it’s legal to record a barely audible conversation, according to NBC News. Sadly, rather than being viewed from the onset as a freedom-of-press issue, these debates split neatly down party lines, contingent upon who’s being investigated.

I received a unique education in this murkiness. My punishment—and I’m hardly the first journalist to be put through the legal wringer for aggressively pursuing the truth—changed my behavior. I’m hesitant to go into federal buildings, for example. I haven’t been arrested again for a reason.
But it also forced me to take my work to a new level. I may or may not have tapes of a federal employee committing fraud. I’ve spent the last few days with lawyers dissecting 18 U.S.C. § 1001, prohibiting anyone from making “materially false,” fictitious, or fraudulent statements to the federal government. Whether an undercover reporter fibbing about a scenario is making a “materially false” statement is any lawyer’s guess. There is virtually no case law on this point, and no analysis of the two cases where the statue is discussed. Anybody who tells a harmless fib to a federal-government employee potentially risks everything; we are not talking about a slap on the wrist, we are talking about a quarter-million dollar fine, a felony conviction, and the destruction of one’s reputation in the media. Therefore, the federal government is shielded from the type of reporting Mother Jones, NBC’s To Catch a Predator, and ABC’s Primetime have all won awards for.

#iamtaxfree in NJ on 05/04/2013

#iamtaxfree in NJ on 05/04/2013 @watchdogwire http://t.co/x8yLWOeboH - 2013-04-06 16:04:01

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James O'Keefe-Citizen Watchdog Promo

Published on Apr 3, 2013

Project Veritas' James O'Keefe promo of Americans for Prosperity Foundation-New Jersey/Franklin Center for Government & Public Integrity Citizen Watchdog Summit! Saturday, April 6 in Hasbrouck Heights, NJ

REGISTER HERE: http://njcitizenwatchdog.eventbrite.c...

NJO: Video and blurb from YouTube channel AFPFoundationNJ.

Act Against Arms: Piers Morgan, Oprah, TriBeCa Films asked to ban guns from movies #ForTheChildren

Published on Apr 2, 2013

http://projectveritas.com. @Project_Veritas investigators urge Piers Morgan, Oprah Winfrey's production company (Harpo), and Robert DeNiro's production company (Tribeca) to help ban all guns from past and future movies. With some disturbed murderers citing violent movies as the impetus for their crimes, would Hollywood elites agree to remove guns from their flicks #ForTheChildren? Or would money and fame supersede their malleable ideology?

NJO: Title, video and blurb from James O'Keefe's YouTube channel VeritasVisuals.

Minions / fellow culture warriors involved:

John M. Howting

John Howting

Donor took me to Lunch at the Four Seasons restaurant in midtown.

jamesokeefeiii

Donor took me to Lunch at the Four Seasons restaurant in midtown. Just wow.

kaiserjohnson Yum. I love the Four Seasons... You get to try the truffle fries?

NJO: Source: Instagram.

Sheriff David A. Clarke Jr. Full Interview @Project_Veritas

Published on Mar 11, 2013

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NJO: Title, video and caption from James O'Keefe's YouTube channel VeritasVisuals.

Police Nationwide say "You're On Your Own" - Raw Undercover Footage. @Project_Veritas

Published on Mar 6, 2013

Full undercover footage from Project Veritas investigation into police nationwide advising citizens that they are on their own in case of an armed home break in.

Visit https://www.theprojectveritas.com/ for more information.

NJO: Title, video and blurb from James O'Keefe's YouTube channel VeritasVisuals.

Minions / fellow culture warriors involved:

Richard Brady Wells

Richard Brady Wells

Police Nationwide Say "You're On Your Own" @Project_Veritas

Published on Mar 6, 2013

Join us at https://www.theprojectveritas.com/

Project Veritas visited police stations nationwide and asked law enforcement officials how they could protect themselves in the event of an armed break-in. "Go get some bleach. Go get ammonia," one officer instructed. Yet another officer instructed the undercover journalist to, "lock yourself in a bedroom" and "start yelling and screaming."

Vice President Joe Biden recently advised Americans to, "get a shotgun" for home protection. But when asked whether or not they should follow the Vice President's advice, law enforcement officials told the undercover journalists they would be arrested for doing so.

Featured is our interview with Milwaukee County Sheriff David J. Clarke Jr. You can view our full interview with Sheriff Clarke at the link below

http://youtu.be/43MJyD6vPFg

Unlike Pew winning Mother Jones, we always release full raw undercover footage from the minute we walk in, to the minute we walk out. View our full undercover footage at the link below.

http://youtu.be/wx1couvVrHw

NJO: Title, video and blurb from James O'Keefe's YouTube channel VeritasVisuals.

Minions / fellow culture warriors involved:

Richard Brady Wells

Richard Brady Wells

Rutgers students hold up copies of the original Centurion from '05. They're restarting it.

jamesokeefeiii  
Rutgers students hold up copies of the original Centurion from '05. They're restarting it.

prezpeene The Cap N Skull exposé was one of the greatest pieces of journalism I've seen in my lifetime

NJO: Source: Instagram.

Speaking to students at my Alma mater #Rutgers

Speaking to students at my Alma mater #Rutgers - anyone can be a citizen journalist! http://t.co/sKN6fX8tDC - 2013-02-21 01:58:53

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@ProjectVeritas_ Journalists, Politicians Refuse to Post Lawn Sign saying "HOME IS PROUDLY GUN FREE"

Published on Jan 15, 2013

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Posing as "Citizens Against Senseless Violence," we visit the homes of journalists working for Westchester Journal News, MSNBC, and the Star-Ledger. We also visited the home of Eric Holder. None will take our signs that say "THIS HOME IS PROUDLY GUN FREE."

Since these reporters and editors did not consider it a violation of the privacy and safety of others to reveal which homes have guns and which homes don't, we went to see which of them would be willing to put a sign up publicly declaring their homes to be gun-free zones. While we didn't find any members of the media with the strength of their convictions, we did find quite a few guns, and some good explanations for why they might be necessary..... Guns for Me, but not for Thee.

NJO: Title, video and blurb from James O'Keefe's YouTube channel VeritasVisuals.

Minions / fellow culture warriors involved:

Joseph J. "Joe" Barton
Richard Brady Wells
Erin J. Haust
"Jai Bravo"

Joe Barton

Richard Brady Wells

"Jai Bravo"

Cynthia Jeub: 5 Myths About Abortion

NJO: Source: Cynthia Jeub's blog.

Note: this post is written with the utmost respect for people with differing opinions. The comments section is open to discussion, and I hope you appreciate my desire to build common ground. Please read this post to see where these comments come from.

Yesterday, I posted about my experience with the organization Justice for All, which travels to college campuses around the country to inform people about the abortion issue. Here are some selections from the comments asking about my stance, and my responses.

...
Myth five: Criminalizing abortion would force it onto the black market, where people are at a greater risk of death from attempted abortions.

“K” went on to say:

Personally I am pro choice, even though I personally would not have an abortion, because of how before abortion was made legal, many pregnant women would die from trying to abort by themselves in unsafe situations.

As mentioned in my last point, abortions aren’t proven as a safe procedure right now. The fact that abortions move to the black market when they are made illegal doesn’t convince me to make it legal. As I explained to a good friend who is pro-choice recently, I think of abortion as the murder of a child. This is my own opinion, but you’re welcome to challenge me and we’ll discuss it openly.

Because I see it as murder, I think it’s better as a criminalized activity that happens in alleyways than as a legal, respected but controversial decision. Right now, murder happens in back alleyways often, but at least we’re treating it as a crime, instead of legalizing it.

As a last note, I’m surprised by how all the people I’ve talked to about this say they are pro-choice, but that they would never have an abortion themselves. I challenged a classmate about this stance at the beginning of the semester, by suggesting that she would never commit murder, but thought it would be fine if someone else did. She replied that she didn’t think abortion was murder. Perhaps, in the end, that is the real question: is abortion murder? And if it isn’t, why do pro-choice people insist they would never do it? Why is it considered an necessary evil if there’s nothing wrong with abortion?

NJO: Whole post at Cynthia Jeub's blog.

@ProjectVeritas_ October Voter Fraud Investigations Cause Media Uproar

Published on Nov 5, 2012

Campaign director in Texas gets fired, Congressman's field director resigned, Houston OFA office gets shut down. Coverage from FOX News, CNN, local affiliates of CBS, NBC, FOX, and more. Slate.com, Maddow Blog and even Salon.com weigh in on a positive note with these investigations.

NJO: Title, video and blurb from James O'Keefe's YouTube channel VeritasVisuals.

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Go now to www.EndVoterFraudNow.com and help us End Voter Fraud Now!

@ProjectVeritas_ : Jim Moran's (D-Va.) Field Director Conspires to Commit Voter Fraud, Forge Docs

Published on Oct 24, 2012

JOIN US AT http://WWW.ENDVOTERFRAUDNOW.COM

UPDATE: PATRICK MORAN NOW BEING INVESTIGATED BY ARLINGTON COUNTY POLICE DEPARTMENT.

"Effective immediately, I have resigned from the Moran for Congress campaign," Patrick Moran said in a statement to TPM sent from his campaign email address. http://bitly.com/QYwF22

Watch our Project Veritas reporter being educated on how to properly commit massive voter fraud by the son of a sitting US Congressman. Patrick Moran, son of Congressman James Moran, discusses forging utility bills and impersonating pollsters, all for the goal of circumventing voter ID laws in Virginia and casting ballots for unsuspecting inactive voters within the state for Barack Obama. Patrick Moran holds the salaried title of Field Director for his father's congressional campaign, and assures our reporter that "committee" lawyers will defend his fraud if the forged documents "look good".

NJO: Title, video and blurb from James O'Keefe's YouTube channel VeritasVisuals.

Minions / fellow culture warriors involved:

John M. Howting (the "reporter")

John Howting

James O'Keefe Talks to Watchdog Wire

NJO: Video and blurb from YouTube channel TheWatchdogWireTV.

Published on Oct 10, 2012

James O'Keefe, the accomplished activist who exposed ACORN and founded Project Veritas, tells us what being a Citizen Watchdog means to him.