[Infowarrior] - BP, DHS blocking press in gulf - felony charges and fines now

[Richard Forno]

I agree w/AC here.  The press is not the enemy here to anyone other than those who fear the presentation of what's happening in the Gulf.  Oh wait -- I guess, the press is the enemy.  :(   -rick

BP, Government Blocking Press from Reporting Their “Ballet at Sea”
http://blogs.alternet.org/movingtrainmedia/2010/07/03/bp-government-blocking-press-from-reporting-their-ballet-at-sea/

... the CNN video of the AC360 segment is at the ZeroHedge link below.

BP plc And The Administration Replace First Amendment With $40,000 Fine And Class D Felony

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 07/03/2010 18:54 -0500

CNN's Anderson Cooper, one of the few people who apparently hasn't or isn't leaving the troubled news network (surely Ted Turner has learned by now from CNBC that his female anchors should wear transparent body suits, show belly button deep cleavage, and install a stripper pole or seventeen for those ever more elusive Nielsen points), reports some troubling developments out of New Orleans. "The coast guard today announced new rules keeping photographers, reporters and anyone else from coming within 65 feet of any response vessel or booms, out on the water or on beaches. In order to get closer you need to get direct permission from the coast guard captain of the Port of New Orleans. Shots of oil on beaches with booms - stay 65 feet away. Pictures of oil soaked booms useless laying in the water because they haven't been collected like they should. You can't get close enough to see that. And believe me, that is out there. But you only know that if you get close to it, and now you can't without permission. Violators could face a fine of $40,000 and class D felony charges. The coast guard tried to make the exclusion zone 300 feet before scaling it down to 65 feet." While Cooper's conclusion is spot on, "we are not the enemy here, those of us down here trying to accurately show what is happening down here, we are not the enemy. If we can't show what is happening, warts and all, no one will see what is happening, and that makes it very easy to hide failure and hide incompetence", it doesn't matter, and little by little, nothing else matters, except for what the administration, the Fed, and the megacorps think it is in America's best interest to be able to see, hear, read, do, and what assets they have, where they can invest... especially if all this is done in conjunction with maxing out yet another credit card to buy the latest and greatest weekly edition of the iPhone.

http://www.zerohedge.com/article/bp-plc-and-administration-replace-first-amendment-40000-fine-and-class-d-felony