IndictBreitbart.org Launches Campaign Against Right Wing Activists, Breitbart, O'Keefe, and Giles

[WillyT]

IndictBreitbart.org Launches Campaign Against Right Wing Activists, Breitbart, O'Keefe, and Giles
John Atlas - Public-interest lawyer, activist, writer, and radio talk-show host
Posted: December 13, 2010 12:18 PM

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With progressives demoralized by November's election and Obama's retreat on the Bush tax cuts, a group of activists are fighting back against the Glenn Becks, Andrew Breitbarts and the rest of the Fox News propaganda machine. Last week a new watchdog group, IndictBreitbart.org, launched a campaign to encourage Baltimore's new State's Attorney to prosecute right wing activists Andrew Breitbart, James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles for violating a Maryland law, which prohibits surreptitious recordings and disclosure of those recordings.

If the group is successful, it will be a step toward stopping the conservative media's modus operandi of using lies, half truths, and video deception to attack everyone from George Soros to ACORN to unions, to civic organizations and their innocent members. It might also help discourage the mainstream media from repeating their false accusations, as they did in the case of ACORN.

IndictBreitbart.org claims that when O'Keefe and Giles secretly recorded Maryland ACORN's employees after entering their office, during the summer of 2009, and then published their highly edited videotapes online at Breitbart's BigGovernment.com in order to harm ACORN, they broke Maryland's Wiretapping and Electronic Surveillance Act. The tapes helped to destroy ACORN, which at the time was the largest and arguably the most successful anti-poverty group in the country.

ACORN, which had registered millions of poor, minority and young voters, had been under siege by the Republican Party and Fox News, which falsely accused the group of widespread voter registration fraud. After several misleading and doctored videos recorded by O'Keefe were released on Breitbart's website, and played round the clock by Fox News, and then reported in the New York Times, CNN and other media outlets, the tapes caused such a sensation that a decades-old campaign by conservatives to destroy ACORN finally succeeded. The campaign led by conservative Republican and their business allies, who opposed ACORN's fight to increase worker's wages, forced the group into bankruptcy. ACORN closed its doors on November 2, 2010.

According to IndictBreitbart group spokesperson and attorney Kevin Zeese, the campaign is a grassroots effort to let law enforcement officials in Maryland know that ordinary citizens want Breitbart, O'Keefe and Giles held accountable for violating Maryland's law. If convicted Breitbart, O'Keefe and Giles could face a prison sentence of up to five years and a $10,000 fine. IndictBreitbart organizers include Democrats.com, Progressive Democrats of America and Mark Crispin Miller, a Professor of Culture and Communication at NYU.

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More: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-atlas/watchdog-group-launches-c_b_795457.html

Link: http://www.indictbreitbart.org/

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[Hawkeye-X]

1. I'd sue them instead of indictment

After all, the monetary damages are forever, and damages their reputations permanently (as if it isn't).

O'Keefe got away with a slap in the wrist down in Louisiana. He needs to spend some time meeting Bubba.

Hawkeye-X