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Kansas police raid shows the vulnerability of the free press
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Leroy N. Soetoro
Aug 18, 2023, 7:29:32 PM8/18/23
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https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/editorials/kansas-police-raid-shows-
the-vulnerability-of-the-free-press/
By The Seattle Times editorial board
Friday’s police raid of a small-town weekly newspaper in the Midwest — an
indefensible and probably illegal assault on the free press — sparked
global condemnation, as it should. The authoritarian operation underscored
why fearless local journalism remains foundational to open government and
a healthy democracy.
Police in Marion, Kansas, seized computers, cellphones and other materials
at the Marion County Record’s office and the owner-publisher’s home. The
raid so disturbed the newspaper’s 98-year-old matriarch, Joan Meyer, that
it likely contributed to her death the next day.
Media companies and press organizations swiftly denounced the raid. Folks
from Poughkeepsie to Seattle showed support for the Record by buying
newspaper subscriptions. The Marion paper, like most outposts of the local
free press these days, needs all the help it can get.
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We live in a time where intelligent people are being silenced so that
stupid people won't be offended.
Durham Report: The FBI has an integrity problem. It has none.
No collusion - Special Counsel Robert Swan Mueller III, March 2019.
Officially made Nancy Pelosi a two-time impeachment loser.
Thank you for cleaning up the disaster of the 2008-2017 Obama / Biden
fiasco, President Trump.
Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the
The World According To Garp. Obama sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood
queer liberal democrat donors.
President Trump boosted the economy, reduced illegal invasions, appointed
dozens of judges and three SCOTUS justices.
the-vulnerability-of-the-free-press/
By The Seattle Times editorial board
Friday’s police raid of a small-town weekly newspaper in the Midwest — an
indefensible and probably illegal assault on the free press — sparked
global condemnation, as it should. The authoritarian operation underscored
why fearless local journalism remains foundational to open government and
a healthy democracy.
Police in Marion, Kansas, seized computers, cellphones and other materials
at the Marion County Record’s office and the owner-publisher’s home. The
raid so disturbed the newspaper’s 98-year-old matriarch, Joan Meyer, that
it likely contributed to her death the next day.
Media companies and press organizations swiftly denounced the raid. Folks
from Poughkeepsie to Seattle showed support for the Record by buying
newspaper subscriptions. The Marion paper, like most outposts of the local
free press these days, needs all the help it can get.
--
We live in a time where intelligent people are being silenced so that
stupid people won't be offended.
Durham Report: The FBI has an integrity problem. It has none.
No collusion - Special Counsel Robert Swan Mueller III, March 2019.
Officially made Nancy Pelosi a two-time impeachment loser.
Thank you for cleaning up the disaster of the 2008-2017 Obama / Biden
fiasco, President Trump.
Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the
The World According To Garp. Obama sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood
queer liberal democrat donors.
President Trump boosted the economy, reduced illegal invasions, appointed
dozens of judges and three SCOTUS justices.
Rick East
Aug 18, 2023, 10:45:57 PM8/18/23
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Defendant Trump's going to wish he was woke when the prison rapes and
beatings start.
Old men don't fair well in that environment.
beatings start.
Old men don't fair well in that environment.
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