Phone Hacking : Does a Pursuit of the Truth Give Journalists the Right?
Phone Hacking : Does a Pursuit of the Truth Give Journalists the Right?
Clearwater, FL (PRWEB) August 01, 2011
Events are finally unfolding to the fullest extent with the English based newspaper, “News of the World”, a company owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation. After 168 years, the company has ceased publications on July 10th, 2011 due to a scandal involving the practice of hacking into phones to read voice messages and overhear private conversations. Two sources from the law firm of Carlson, Meissner, Hart & Hayslett explain how this incident may amend state laws regarding modern technology.
According to a New York Times article by Robert Mackey on September 7, 2010, Sean Hoare claimed that former News of the World editor, Andy Coulson encouraged the practice of phone hackings. Hoare went on to explain “that he had played tape recordings of hacked messages for Coulson and that his former boss “actively encouraged him” to break into the voice-mail accounts of public figures.”
Sparking further outrage came reports that journalists were even hacking into the phones of surviving family members of victims involved in the September 11 attacks on the world trade center and the July 7th suicide bombings in London. William K. Rashbaum of the New York Times, writes that the FBI has officially launched an “inquiry into allegations that News Corp sought to gain access to the phone records of victims in the Sept 11 attacks.”
On the matter of legal statutes, Attorney Robert Vessel with the law firm of Carlson, Meissner, Hart & Hayslett went on to say, “Civil damages for invasion of privacy by phone hacking would have to be determined under the law of the state where the hacking occurred.” Vessel goes on further to say, “As phone hacking is a modern phenomenon, most states have no laws governing this act and traditional tort laws would have to be used. No doubt if phone hacking is proved in the case of the 9/11 victims, many states would pass laws providing a civil remedy for the victims of phone hacking.”
One the most controversial allegations to come forth, is the story of Milly Dowler. Dowler was a thirteen-year-old girl who was kidnapped and murdered in 2002. As stated in a Guardian article written by Nick Davies and Amelia Hill on July 4th 2011, “phone messages were intercepted and deleted by News of the World journalists in the first few days after Dowler’s disappearance.”
Brandon Cohen at Stetson University College of Law in Tampa Florida stressed the point that the issue of consequences isn’t a constitutional matter, but a matter of civil rights. Cohen goes on to explain, “the only thing an individual can do in regards to a crime committed against them is to sue in the civil court system. For the family members related to the 9/11 victims, they can probably sue for some kind of tortuous violation. But they have to show that there was some kind of damage caused against them. In the case against Milly Dowler however, there I can see an intention of emotional harm with a strong case of receiving a substantial amount of money, due to the fact of deleting messages that could of led to her being saved and may have resulted in her death.”
In a BBC interview held on July 8th, former News of the World editor, Paul McMullan tried to justify his actions stating, “I’ve always tried to write articles in a truthful way, and in what better source of getting the truth, is to listen to someone’s messages.” In the same interview, comedian Steve Coogan attacked McMullan, stating, “You’re not uncovering corruption and bringing down institutions that are inherently corrupt, you’re just trying to find out who’s sleeping with who. It’s about selling papers!”
However, even if phone hacking was used to uncover inherently corrupt institutions, would that still make it all right? Would the ends justify the means, or are even criminals allowed their right to privacy? While it’s questions like these that explain why such a storm won’t dissipate for some time, there is no question about the blatant intrusions committed against the families suffering from tragedies.
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The State of the Police in a Police State | THE PLAIN TRUTH by Judge Napolitano 6/10/11
Is the job of the police to police FOR you or to police YOU? And if the police watch you – who watches the police? Originally aired 6/10/11 on “Freedom Watch” www.foxbusiness.com www.judgenap.com twitter.com www.facebook.com FAIR USE NOTICE: This video may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for educational purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in Title 17 USC section 107 of the US Copyright Law.
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Spring Breakthrough for 9/11 Truth – Alex Jones, Webster Tarpley, and Charlie Sheen Splash on Mainstream TV – Total Print Media Blackout Continues
Spring Breakthrough for 9/11 Truth – Alex Jones, Webster Tarpley, and Charlie Sheen Splash on Mainstream TV – Total Print Media Blackout Continues
Washington, D.C. (PRWEB) March 26, 2006
Around midday on Wednesday, March 22nd – my son’s birthday – Amy Schulman from CNN in New York called me up to ask if I had an author they could put on the air that very evening. They wanted an “objective and balanced” survey of the schools of 9/11 conspiracy thought for a story on Charlie Sheen. “You mean like the ‘hop levels’ in the New York Magazine article?” I asked. Yes, that’s where she had read about my author Webster Tarpley. CNN sent a car to bring him to their Washington DC studio.
Two days before, on March 20th, two unexpected things had happened, and one expected one didn’t.
Charlie Sheen came out of the cold on the Alex Jones show and ripped the veil of the governmental 9/11 cover-up.
New York Magazine did a full feature on Tarpley’s NY911Truth conference, complete with his model of the network of false-flag terror moles inside the government.
The Euro-denominated Iranian Oil Bourse, a threat to the dollar which Tarpley promotes as the real reason for an attack on Iran, didn’t open as scheduled after all.
Coincidence, or a coordinated counteroffensive against the neo-con crazies? Tarpley’s guess is the financier oligarchy is not happy with its Bush-Cheney puppets, and wants them back on their leash before their mania for a war on Iran sinks the already deficit-drowning Anglo-American empire. (See his appearance on the Alex Jones show on Friday – partial transcript at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WarOnFreedom/message/2867 , or listen to his World Crisis News show archive from Saturday March 25.)
That is, a more intelligent faction within the elite is threatening to use 9/11 like Watergate tapes to take out the “president” – without touching its “invisible government” asset. Do not count on a free flow of information that 9/11 was fabricated by US military intelligence. This may only be a warning shot across the White House lawn.
That seems to be why CNN aired only 30 seconds of the 15 minutes they taped of Webster Tarpley. The Wednesday show had clips of Charlie Sheen and comments by 911truth.org spokesman Michael Berger, who remembered to mention the arch-smoking-gun collapse of WTC Building 7. The outgunned defender of orthodoxy was Nicole Rittermeyer of National Geographic. Tarpley says she worked for a production company owned by a Skull & Bones Bush Brother…
On Friday, CNN invited the author of the New York Magazine article, Mark Jacobson, for which Tarpley and his publisher Progressive Press are infinitely thankful. On CNN, however, he just waffled. Apparently he already took all the liberties he can get in the article.
All three shows and the CNN poll emphasized “cover-up” and “unanswered questions.” Vague terms. One of the most insidious cover-ups of 9/11 is a book with the title “Cover-Up” on the cover – by a CIA operative!
Thursday’s star in this series was writer Erica Jong, who made strong statements about dictators like Hitler and Bush fabricating foreign enemies to terrorize their own people. Like Charlie Sheen, she emphasized that patriotism and love of country requires us to ask tough questions. A very constructive and intelligent approach to this issue. Get out the truth on 9/11 to save America, not to destroy it – Bush & Co. need no help with that.
Erica Jong: “My nephews have been saying for the past three, four years that we are not learning everything about 9/11… Charlie Sheen is really patriotic and brave to ask these questions…I read the article in “New York” magazine. And I think just asking questions is brave and patriotic… I don’t know what the answer is. I don’t know if we’ll ever know. “
Well, if you don’t have any idea after three, four years of investigating, the odds are you won’t. Certainly not in time to stop World War IV from reaching Iran. Maybe after we’re all dead.
Host and guest went on to promote Erica’s new book. Meanwhile the man with the answers, a book full of them, in fact, got 30 seconds – Webster Tarpley, author of “9/11 Synthetic Terror: Made in USA.”
CNN showed Tarpley telling about the Zogby poll where every second New Yorker thought top officials had foreknowledge of 9/11. That is, they “let it happen on purpose,” or “LIHOP.” But Webster’s book is the bible of the MIHOP school: US military intelligence Made it Happen from A to Z – no Arabs or Zarqawis. His model of state-sponsored false-flag terrorism, the rogue network of moles, patsies and paramilitary technicians, is the opener to the New York Magazine article.
The precedent is Operation Northwoods, a 1962 plan by the Joint Chiefs of Staff to fabricate an atrocity and blame it on Cuba. The plot was nixed by Kennedy. Northwoods documents were released under the Freedom of Information Act before Bush took power and set it aside after 9/11.
Showbiz Tonight did have full-MIHOP advocate Alex Jones on Thursday and Friday, and intrepid host AJ Hammer let him deliver a rapid-fire catalogue of more damning soundbytes. The hook is that the original Charlie Sheen interview was on the Alex Jones show. Jones had roundly assailed the media for not covering that interview. He may even have put the squeeze to Google, not known for squeezability, by posting screen shots showing Google had censored all links to it. Indeed, lately it sometimes seems necessary to use other search engines on such matters.
The American mainstream will always try to coopt the radical fringe when it gets too strong. CNN apparently is responding to the challenge of the alternative news media, while claiming fame as the first to break this story of “unanswered patriotic covered-up questions.”
9/11 was the tour de force of audacity of what the secret services can get away with. Can they now pull off an even greater feat of illusionism: letting only half the cat out of the bag?
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FOLLOW – UP
Friday, March 24 on the Alex Jones show Charlie Sheen and Webster G. Tarpley discussed the turning point in the struggle for 9/11 truth on CNN. All three agreed on the need for a truly independent, international Truth Commission. Partial transcript: More info: http://www.prisonplanet.com/listen.html
Alex Jones reported how covert operatives using credit cards keep trying to buy up his entire stock of Webster’s book, 9/11 “Synthetic Terror: Made in USA” by sending the books to false addresses. Similar scams were directed at Webster’s publisher ProgressivePress.com.
The exposure helped “9/11 Synthetic Terror” move up to #854 in Amazon sales rankings on Friday. Since the second edition was released in January, it is beating all other 9/11 books on Amazon. Yet censorship is blocking chain bookstores from stocking it, even though their megastores carry 100,000 titles on their shelves.
Saturday March 25th on World Crisis Radio, RBNLive.com, Webster Tarpley interviewed the avant garde of the 9/11 Truth Movement Dr. Jeff King (nom-de-net Plaguepuppy) and Nico Haupt. They agreed with Alex Jones and Webster Tarpley that the recent murder of 9/11 Truth Scholar and biotechnologist Michael Zubehr bore the marks of a political assassination. Play or download archive at http://mp3.rbnlive.com/Tarpley06.html.
On March 26th, Heinrich Buecker of http://www.hbuecker.net in Germany reported an international print blackout on the Sheen – CNN story. Google News returned only 2 hits on [Sheen Showbiz "Alex Jones"], both from the Internet, not print sources; Yahoo News returned none. Neither Google or Yahoo had any hits on Zubehr murder 9/11. Buecker said the CNN action might continue on Monday.
The CNN poll, “Do you agree with Charlie Sheen that the U.S. government covered up the real events of the 9/11 attacks?” moved up a notch to 84% YES answers (38794 votes). Frantic calls by neo-con radio talk show hosts like Sean Hannity for their listeners to overturn the results did not have the desired effect. Please vote and send a comment asking to have Webster Tarpley back on Showbiz Tonight. Link: http://www.cnn.com/feedback/forms/form5c.html?23 .
LINKS
Updates and more will be posted to http://www.911blogger.com and at http://www.progressivepress.com
March 20. New York Magazine feature, The Ground Zero Grassy Knoll, http://newyorkmetro.com/news/features/16464/index.html
March 20. Original Charlie Sheen interview on Alex Jones, downloadable, 50 Mb. http://www.infowars.com/video/clips/news/september_11/032006_charlie_sheen_911_wm.htm. 16 Mb
March 22. First CNN Showbiz Tonight segment. http://www.911blogger.com/files/video/911truthCNN.mov
Showbiz Tonight transcripts: http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/sbt.html
March23, Alex Jones on Showbiz Tonight, 911blogger.com, http://www.911podcasts.com/files/video/ShowbizTonight20060323/ShowbizTonight20060323.wmv. Right click to download.
March 22-24, Progressive Press Press Release “Dam Breaking for 9/11 Truth – Alex Jones, Webster Tarpley, Charlie Sheen hit the Mainstream.” Hottest item of the month on the popular free press release site http://www.free-press-release.com/news/200603/1143065487.html.
March 24, Charlie Sheen on Alex Jones, “Challenge me on the Facts,” and Alex on Showbiz Tonight: http://prisonplanet.tv
March 24, Webster Tarpley on Alex Jones, partial transcript http://www.waronfreedom.org/press/AJones-Tarpley-Sheen-Transcript-032406.html
March 11th, 18th, and 25th: Webster Tarpley on RBNLive.com : http://mp3.rbnlive.com/Tarpley06.html
This page URL: http://www.waronfreedom.org/press/SpringBreakThru911.rtf or http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/03/prweb363611.htm
If you learn of more great links please send to info at progressivepress.com
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The Truth About Vitamin D
This is Aaron Lujan’s second alternative news broadcast. In this segment, we expose truths about the vitamin d deficiency epidemic. As well the preventative nature of vitamin d against life threatening diseases.
Video Rating: 5 / 5
San Francisco Tea Party for 9/11 Truth
San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) December 14, 2006
In the spirit of the American patriots who on December 16, 1773 rebuked Britain’s tyranny by tossing tea into Boston’s harbor, and in solidarity with Boston 9/11 Truth who will re-enact the tea party this Saturday with crates of the 9/11 Report, the Northern California 9/11 Truth Alliance will echo Boston’s call for “all American Sons and Daughters of Liberty to cast-off the tyranny, deceit and lies imposed on the American public since 9/11” and demand a genuine, investigation of 9/11. December 16th 2006 from Boston to Philadelphia, Washington D.C., Saint Louis, Milwaukee, to San Francisco, 9/11 Truth groups will burn, shred, and toss the rejected 9/11 Report into oceans, rivers, and Lake Michigan.
In San Francisco, at 1 pm, costumed activists will rally at Pier 39, bearing replicas of the flawed 9/11 Report, ringing bells, making proclamations, parading westward past Fisherman’s Wharf, to rally again at 2 pm at the foot of Hyde Street Pier, and rally at the bleachers at Aquatic Park at 2:30 pm for a final rally/press conference, before the 2:45 march to the end of Municipal Pier, where at 3 pm, the replica will be thrown into the Bay.
The 9/11 Truth Movement is highly critical of the omissions and distortions of the official 9/11 Commission Report (released in 2004) which failed to answer the majority of the 9/11 victim’s families questions. Citizen led inquiries and Grand Jury trials have examined government lies, destruction of evidence, and indications of criminal negligence, malfeasance, and treason. A renewed effort is underway for the release of information and for a transparent, all-encompassing reinvestigation of the events of September 11, 2001.
The Northern California 9/11 Truth Alliance was founded in December, 2002, and organized the San Francisco International Inquiry into 9/11 (March 2004), premiered and produced 9/11 Truth documentaries, and distributed them to community access television stations nationwide. They have published and disseminated millions of Deception Dollars and continue to organize rallies, marches, events, and actions.
MORE INFORMATION:
San Francisco- http://www.communitycurrency.org/sfteaparty.html
Boston- http://boston911truth.org/teaparty/
CONTACT:
San Francisco- Carol Brouillet, 650.857.0927
Boston- Rich McCampbell 617.980.9207(c), 978.247.1456(w)
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UFO News : Distractions from the Truth
Some popular footage is analyzed. Massive Alien Base / Martian Farms / Brazil Balloon
Video Rating: 4 / 5
A Message from the New World Order to Alex Jones
This video mysteriously appeared in my e-mail box. It appears to be a video message directly from the New World Order intended for the 9/11 Truth Movement and, specifically, Alex Jones.
The origin of the message cannot be traced. Ever.
***Alex Jones responded to the message on his radio show:
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Wake Up Call – New World Order Documentary – Remastered – 07 of 16
For high quality, dual layer DVD’s, please visit my MySpace page (http://www.myspace.com/johnnada80 ) or email me at john.nada@hotmail.co.uk
Some of the topics covered in the film:
The New World Order, Federal Reserve, Bilderberg Group, Trilateral Commission, Council on Foreign Relations, North American Union, the Rockefeller/Rothschild families, Freemasonry, Bohemian Grove, the Illuminati, Illuminati symbolism, Problem-Reaction-Solution, 9-11, war profiteering, the phony ‘War on Terrorism’, the impending ‘Big Brother Surveillance Society’, the war on civil liberties, microchipping, mind control, media control and ‘education system’ indoctrination.
Featuring:
Alex Jones, David Icke, Aaron Russo, Jordan Maxwell, G. Edward Griffin, Jim Marrs, Bill Hicks, Daniel Estulin, Jim Tucker, Ted Gunderson, Anthony Hilder, Professor Steven Jones, Webster Tarpley, George Carlin, John Taylor Gatto, Charlotte Iserbyt, Dave vonKleist, Stan Monteith and others…
Please spread the word as much as you can!
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The Henry Rollins Show – The Corruption of Election 2008
Gore Vidal exposes the true intentions of the Bushites based on wisdom and known political patterns and their results.
Link to my site http://warholiansuperstar.com/
Duration : 0:8:51
The New World Order Fears Truthers On Youtube
When we read between the lines, it is the Truth Movement the Illuminati-run New World Order is afraid of. Their goal is to demonized people searching for and sharing information, so they can label them as terrorist.
Youtubers have exposed how 911 was an inside job, and many other false flag events of recent history. They’ve documented the deliberate spraying of Chemtrails all over the world, and revealed the falsehood of man-made global warming, which interferes with the Globalist’s agenda for a Carbon Tax that they can prosper from. They’ve questioned the true purpose of FEMA and the relocation centers that have been constructed. In addition, the dangers of vaccines and fluoride have been exposed.
Also, Information revealing the seriousness of the Gulf Oil Disaster have been reported, and much more.
Some of us have even begun to unite spiritually, as people of various faiths are willing to have open discussions that examine the false teachings of our fathers.
The Evildoers cannot stand to see all their lies exposed, and their house of cards crumbling, that they’ve used for so long to control and divide us.
Peace to all of you,
WhereIsTruth
http://www.youtube.com/user/WhereIsTruth
Video mirrored from youtuber truth2theyouth
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