Head shots

Head shots with Smith & Wesson 1911 at @frontlinedef. Damn it feels good to be off probation. https://t.co/t1ayXTfYZL - 2013-06-23 19:52:22

http://twicsy.com/i/i3DFQd

Book launch in DC last night huge success.

jamesokeefeiii
Book launch in DC last night huge success. Thanks Maureen Wagner and Jennifer Ridgley for helping set up.

"This is sick."

ABC News goes undercover.. Into the Boy Scouts?! Journalism is beyond dead. This is sick. https://t.co/Lv578QG7Kt
— James O'Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) June 21, 2013

On the radio with the amazing Monica Crowley now.

jamesokeefeiii
On the radio with the amazing Monica Crowley now.

NJO: Source: Instagram.

'Obama Phone' Investigation - Raw Footage

Published on Jun 18, 2013

BREAKTHROUGH, the new book by James O'Keefe hits shelves TODAY. Order your copy: http://goo.gl/b0Hn9.

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

Minions / fellow culture warriors involved:

Marquis M. "Motionn" Campbell
Kristin B. Tate
"Jai Bravo"
Richard Brady Wells

Marquis Campbell

Kristin Tate

"Jai Bravo"

Richard Brady Wells

Uncovered: 'Obama Phones' Sold to Buy Drugs and Louis Vuittons

Published on Jun 17, 2013

BREAKTHROUGH, the new book by James O'Keefe hits shelves TODAY. Order your copy: http://goo.gl/b0Hn9. Project Veritas investigates a $2.2 billion dollar LifeLine Program aka 'Obama Phones' and finds disturbing evidence of employees telling us we can sell the phones to buy Heroin and expensive handbags.

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

Minions / fellow culture warriors involved:

Marquis M. "Motionn" Campbell
Kristin B. Tate
"Jai Bravo"
Richard Brady Wells

Marquis Campbell

Kristin Tate

"Jai Bravo"

Richard Brady Wells

James O'Keefe Confronts Attorney General "Richard Head" Over Indicting Journalists

Published on Jun 17, 2013

BREAKTHROUGH hits shelves June 18. Order your copy today: http://goo.gl/b0Hn9. In May of 2012, a few months after sending state officials to search the home of a Project Veritas videographer, New Hampshire state authorities arrived at the home of Mike Rogers with a criminal grand jury subpoena for James O'Keefe. How state officials knew the address of where O'Keefe was staying before he even got there is a mystery. We filed a public records request to determine if these authorities were working with the Feds, but they never responded.

Associate Attorney General Richard Head was the man responsible for most of this activity, as well as efforts to indict our reporters after our video showing ballots offered out in the names of the dead at poll locations. Reality prompted the state legislature to pass a voter ID law, overturning Governor Lynch's veto. Project Veritas also obtained a letter showing how Richard Head was asking for years of my emails from political opponents working with hacker types.

We also asked head to sign the Chapter in the new book Breakthrough documenting all these injustices, entitled, "Richard Head Rises"

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

BREAKTHROUGH: Behind the scenes

Published on Jun 12, 2013

BREAKTHROUGH hits shelves June 18. Order your copy today: http://breakthroughthemedia.com/ This behind the scenes reel dives into the archives of James O'Keefe's investigative footage; the details of which are divulged in detail in his new book, Breakthrough: Our Guerilla War to Expose Fraud and Save Democracy.

In this hard-hitting look at the way media and government conspire to protect the status quo, controversial ambush journalist James O'Keefe shows the reader what happens when a young citizen journalist challenges some of America's most powerful and protected organizations.

James O'Keefe has been on the front lines of journalism since his student days at Rutgers. In Breakthrough, he takes the reader through his efforts to expose the duplicity of Planned Parenthood, ACORN, Medicaid, NPR, the New Jersey Educational Association, labor unions and politicians. He shows how major media slandered him at almost every turn, how state officials harassed him, and how federal officials arrested him and his colleagues on contrived charges in New Orleans.

NJO: Video and blurb from James O'Keefe's YouTube channel VeritasVisuals.

A rundown of all the bits that get a caption:

00:06. "ACORN Investigation"
00:09. "New ACORN"
00:11. "Paul Robeson at Rutgers"
00:11. "HUD Investigation"
00:12. "NH Voter Fraud Investigation"
00:13. "California ACORN Investigation"
00:13. "Unreleased"
00:14. "Bailout Prize Patrol Investigation"
00:16. "California Assemblyman Investigation"
00:18. "Planned Parenthood Investigation"
00:19. "Love thy Prisoner Campaign"
00:20. "NH Voter Fraud Investigation"
00:21. "Bailout Prize Patrol Investigation"
00:26. "Lucky Charms Investigation"
00:27. "NH Voter Fraud Investigation"
00:28. "UCLA gives 'Orgy Man' Condoms"
00:30. "Earth Supply and Renewal"
00:34. "OFA Investigation"
00:36. "NPR investigation Broll" (sic)
00:37. "Landrieu Dance"
00:40. "NPR Investigation"
00:42. "Classified" - Something to do with the New Jersey Network, which was a public television and radio network (affiliated with PBS and NPR) that shut down on June 30, 2011.
00:44. "Maxine Waters Investigation"
00:45. "Social Security Investigation"
00:46. "Posing as Romney Donor at OFA"
00:48. "Muslim Education Action Center"
00:49. "CNN"
00:52. "Unreleased" - Something to do with the Right To Work movement. Evan Coyne Maloney seems to be involved.
00:53. "HUD investigation"
00:59. "Sotomayor Investigation"
01:02. "Medicaid Investigation"
01:05. "Posing as Banker at Occupy Wall Street"
01:06. "Rutgers Dean of Education"
01:08. "New Jersey Teachers Gone Wild"
01:10. "Rutgers Professor brings Cop Killer to Campus"
01:11. "Landrieu Dance"
01:13. "American Flag at Rutgers"
01:15. "Vermont Voter Fraud Investigation"
01:17. "Planned Parenthood Investigation"
01:18. "NPR Investigation"
01:18. "Planned Parenthood Investigation"
01:21. "James and Ben get married"

James' Myspace: What was that like?

NJO: So on the 13th of June 2013, without any warning, the proprietors of the world's most popular social media platform 2005-2008 went and put its entire existing content to the torch. Great job, wankers.*

I managed to recover a fair bit of James' Myspace by copypasting the remaining cached text in the Google search results. Here's what I got:


James on Myspace
www.myspace.com/29306000‎

James's profile on Myspace, the leading social entertainment destination powered by the passion of our fans.

Details. Status: Single; Hometown: Westwood; Orientation: Straight; Religion: Catholic; Zodiac Sign: Cancer; Children: Someday; Education: In college ...

Rutgers University-New Brunswick. New Brunswick,New Jersey; Graduated: N/A;
Clubs: Founder and Editor-in-Chief of The Centurion. President, Glee Club. President, Philoclean Society. Rutgers Ski Team, Rutgers Debate, New Jersey Mathematics League.
California State University-Fullerton. Fullerton, CA; Graduated: N/A; Degree: Professional; Major: J.D., Law. 2007 to 2010 ...

...

Sailing, Nautica, Lobster, the Alps, Romance, cabernet Sauvignon, knots, Port Wine, 80s music, Method Acting, Theatre, Maps, Tobacco Pipes, Cuban Cigars, Calculus, Sprinting, espionage, Argyle clothing, Slam poetry, Irish heritage, cocktail parties, Old Books that smell like leather, Wikipedia.com, Dictionary.com, US Constitution, video Activism, Jack FM, politics, camping, breakdancing, public speaking, machine guns, Boys Scouts of America, cobblestone, daydreaming, skipping rocks, New York City, esp Central Park, Alto Saxaphone, skyscrapers, Men's choir, Paintings with Music, National Review, football, climbing trees, sleeping in, stick-shift Sports Cars, Jack Russell Terriers, Airplanes at night, Fans, Brooks Brothers, Bear Mountain, hanging with my best friend and roomate Zach Matusheski, Power Yoga, the Wall Street Journal, Waterfalls, Spanish and Italian languages, Sushu, Strawberry Milkshakes, Artichoke hearts with butter, fake plants, Penny Loafers, being in love.

...

Harvard Classics Series, Dante on Truth, Cicero on Truth, Dosteovsky on Truth, Shakespeare on Love, Sun Tzu on War, Aurelius on courage, Buckley on Sailing, Russell on Mathematics, Aristotle on ethics, Machiavelli on ethics, Nietzche on Morality, Burke on Tradition, McIntyre on Virtue, Chambers on Communism, Weber on Beaurocracy, Shaw on Activism, Hoffer on Mass Movements, Zimmerman on Metaphysics, Ogilvy on Advertising, Bronough on Writing, Harvard on Management, Santorum on Family, Alinsky on tactics, Hyde on Leadership, Ayer on traveling, Plato on Soul, Bloom on Education, Schall on Education, D'Souza on Reagan, Bastiat on Law, Horowitz on Academia, Clancy on Espionage, Chesterton on Othodoxy, Friedman on Contract, Buchanan on immigration, Krakauer on Wilderness, Eliot on Life and Death, Aquinas on God, ... "Flowers for Algernon" and "Grapes of Wrath" are fiction favorites.

...

Anthony Dini. dude, check out my new song! 5 years ago. Ryan Sorba. Anthony Dini. Great song, but how about Juliet? 5 years ago. lila. oh James, you are so cool with your sunglasses, your abstract interests and your brilliant books. why myspace? and when are you coming again? 6 years ago


* Seriously, the destruction of an enormous historical resource like this makes me want to punch something, and when I say "something" I mean that Tom guy or whichever bright-eyed, coke-rictus-sporting billionaire bawbag did the despicable deed.

As of November 2013, the Google search results for "site:myspace.com" were still displaying text from the wiped pages, so I thought I'd experiment with this a bit. (See below)

I would say this gave me a small sense of the amount of stuff that future generations won't be getting to know about now.

(Updated 2nd January 2014. The way the textual data have faded away on Google makes me think of the data ghosts from the Doctor Who story "Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead".)

site:www.myspace.com "occupation soldier"
About 2,400 results
About 1,070 results (2nd January 2014)

site:www.myspace.com "occupation airman"
About 45 results
4 results (2nd January 2014)

site:www.myspace.com "occupation sailor"
About 269 results
About 116 results (2nd January 2014)

site:www.myspace.com "occupation musician"
About 15,000 results
About 6,050 results (2nd January 2014)

site:www.myspace.com "occupation prostitute"
About 563 results
About 311 results (2nd January 2014)

site:www.myspace.com "occupation banker"
About 1,510 results
About 836 results (2nd January 2014)

site:www.myspace.com "occupation office worker"
About 1,080 results
About 278 results (2nd January 2014)

site:www.myspace.com "occupation acorn"
About 1,990 results
No results found for site:www.myspace.com "occupation acorn". (2nd January 2014)

site:www.myspace.com "hometown kuala"
About 1,440 results
About 874 results (2nd January 2014)

site:www.myspace.com "dob * 1920"
About 9,910 results
About 2,200 results (2nd January 2014)

site:www.myspace.com "occupation ngo"
2 results (2nd January 2014)

site:www.myspace.com "occupation teacher"
About 9,670 results (2nd January 2014)

(UPDATE: Okay, haha, so it later transpired that it wasn't quite the total historica-bonfire I imagined. If an original-iteration Myspace user wishes to recover their old content, they apparently can do that now. Still far from ideal for future historians *cough* and nosey people like me *cough*. Also still a total dick move to just leave your users hanging like that for, what was it, a year? until letting them know their pictures, journals etc. could be recovered. When the site went down I remember reading a post by one guy, devastated, claiming he'd used Myspace for keeping a detailed journal of his medical school career and travelogues which were understandably very dear to him. You've got to imagine there are a lot of people like that who had something important to them stored on Myspace, but who for whatever reason (disenfranchisement; the shortness of life) will never happen to see the memo about the recoverability of said stuff. So, yeah. Definitely could've been handled better.)

The look on Philly dude's face in former Acorn office

The look on Philly dude's face in former Acorn office http://t.co/yReTNZ6Dqa - 2013-06-07 22:31:21

http://twicsy.com/i/75aiMd

Visiting the former ACORN office in Philly

Visiting the former ACORN office in Philly. Saying hi to the staffers there. https://t.co/9O2Zcn1Pf1 - 2013-06-07 22:24:02

http://twicsy.com/i/SvWhMd

DHS Accosts @Project_Veritas after exposing CA Assemblyman 'Homeless Bill of Rights' Hypocrisy

Published on May 29, 2013

http://amzn.to/10SdbHd Pre-Order BREAKTHROUGH today
@Project_Veritas Our investigators visited the homes and offices of legislative sponsors of the California Homeless Bill of Rights to find they're not interested in practicing what they preach. Their investigative reward? Homeland Security threatening their fourth amendment rights.

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

Minions / fellow culture warriors involved:

Eric Kaiser Johnson
Christian Hartsock
+ some other young white guy

Eric Kaiser Johnson

Christian Hartsock

Sneak Preview.

jamesokeefeiii
Sneak Preview. Out June 18th. Pre-order here. http://amzn.to/1585GJz

jasonwhoyt

I'm excited about the book and support all you do. But we're a Republic, not a democracy. Our founders, for good reason, deplored democracies. I cringe every time I hear a politician say democracy. We were never intended to be one. :(

jamesokeefeiii

This country is a democratic republic; it was intended to have a republican (small "r") system of government of a democratic (small "d") character. Democracy can also refer to the principle of rule of the people. What I'm aiming to do is to preserve the ability of people to govern themselves, the "kratos" (power) of the "demos" (people). The fact that some misapply the word "democracy" doesn't make it something you should deplore.

NJO: Source: Instagram.

2013.05.09: "Homeless Bill of Rights" video recorded

NJO: Video from James O'Keefe's YouTube channel VeritasVisuals.

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.