Gulf Coast now a BP police state as law enforcement conspires with BP to intimidate journalists
Dear NaturalNews readers,
"Remember our recent article about the First Amendment being suspended in the Gulf Coast? Well now it's even worse: BP is now paying the salaries of local police officers who, together with BP private security goons, are threatening and intimidating journalists who try to take pictures from public roadways. Today's alarming developments involve freelance photographer Lance Rosenfield. Read what just happened to him: Normally I would open this article by explaining this is the story the mainstream media won't dare report. Except in this case, they are reporting it. It's right on CNN, on the Anderson Cooper "360" report...........Why this matters This is scary stuff, folks. Now we have a police state in America. No one can deny it. You can't argue the point anymore. It is documented fact, and it's happening right now in the Gulf Coast. If you pick up a professional camera and start snapping photos of a BP refinery, or a BP cleanup vessel, or a beach with an oil boom on it, you risk being followed, detained, questioned and intimidated. And if you don't surrender your own rights and consent to an illegal search of your photos or film footage, you will be hauled into a federal holding facility and held by the Department of Homeland Security until they feel like letting you go. Your rights as a free citizen have now been obliterated. America is now a fascist corporatocracy that answers to the financial interests of the corporations -- at the expense of the freedoms of the People......................"
http://www.naturalnews.com/029153_British_Petroleum_Police_State.html