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Filmmaker Arrested for Asking Questions at Couric Event
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Breitbart
April 16, 2009
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“All I’m trying to do is ask questions!”
John Ziegler: John went to USC to witness and ask questions about Katie Couric getting the Walter Cronkite journalism award for her interview of Sarah Palin. He intended to also give away copies of his film but was literally prevented from doing so. He did not go there hoping for or expecting any sort of confrontation, especially with law enforcement. He was simply shocked and horrified by what happened there, as should every freedom loving American. He did absolutely nothing wrong and was handcuffed, detained and literally abused by law enforcement at the event. The video speaks for itself, John will have plenty to say about this very disturbing episode. This video was shot and edited by Orange County Films. John Ziegler was not involved the the production or editing of this video in any way.
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April 16th, 2009 at 7:15 pm
John Ziegler is my hero, all fact and no hype. Unlike somebody else we all know.
mshort Reply:
April 16th, 2009 at 7:35 pm
Ive seen too many TROLL quotes from you enoch7. Even with a cool name, you still come across as a judas goat TROLL
April 16th, 2009 at 7:20 pm
Katie Couric is the most disgusting little whore that has ever appeared on the evening news! She has the nerve to call herself an “Investigative Journalist” – what a freakin’ joke! A couple of months ago I almost puked when she stated “I just don’t understand why some parents are refusing to vaccinate their children when the FDA assures us they are safe!”, then she cocks her ugly little head to the side and tries to act all cute!
As far as I’m concerned, media dis-info whores like Couric, are accomplices to the NWO’s crimes and will eventually be dealt with as such! Your day’s of intentionally misleading the American people are near an end bastards!
clint Reply:
April 16th, 2009 at 7:30 pm
I couldn’t agree more….watch some extra footage videos of her on youtube….she is a crude whore.
mshort Reply:
April 16th, 2009 at 7:40 pm
YES….
Highlanderess Reply:
April 16th, 2009 at 8:49 pm
She’s just another who’s bought off by the NWO thugs. She’s probaly not even aware of this.
chickenlittle(not!) Reply:
April 16th, 2009 at 10:40 pm
yah its no wonder her ole man got cancer and died any way out would be better than being schackeled to that c%*t for the rest of your life.
April 16th, 2009 at 7:20 pm
You might be a terrorist if,
1.) You care about an issue
2.) You read books
3.) You ask questions
4.) You hate tyranny
5.) You think for yourself
EM Reply:
April 16th, 2009 at 9:22 pm
Wow, thanks for clarifying that for me. I thought I was some type of thought criminal or mentally challenged person in how people treat me for asking questions.
I might be a terrorist, but I really do not wish to hurt anyone. Why is everyone looking at me funny when I ask questions and put out obvious issues? Why is it wrong to get clarity in how the governments are operating, and how there seems to be corruption in coroporations?
Why is it wrong to stop bad things from happening?
Can we have maybe the more respectable title of “Questions Terrorist” or “Thought Provoking Terrorist”?
Ltn Deathstrike on the nwo Reply:
April 30th, 2009 at 9:10 pm
what about 6-can speak the Truth and 7-think for yourself
April 16th, 2009 at 7:20 pm
With all the unemployed ex-military, it seems to me a a group could pool their resources to hire a team of lawyers and body guards to protect and defend. Wonder how the police would feel if faced with armed and organized groups prepared to stand up to them and not back down.
Just a fantasy…I’m leaving in a few days.
wes Reply:
April 17th, 2009 at 1:04 am
I could not agree more. There is no reason to have all this threatening ,intimidating shows of force at peaceful protests or meetings, if there is a problem then they could trying calling the police in and talking to people like people and not slaves. We need to resist the nwo with every bit of our fiber or they will just keep taking everything day by day even faster. I hate the nwo and I believe now with all my heart that Obama is another Bush. He might even top the crimes that Bush committed in office.
April 16th, 2009 at 7:21 pm
they probably thought he was alciada because he kept smiling that realy pissed them off.
paladin Reply:
April 16th, 2009 at 8:04 pm
He suffers from “excessive happiness” and that is a legitimate psychological disorder. And as we know being happy is something that is consdiered bad by mainstream establisment.
Fleur de lys Reply:
April 16th, 2009 at 8:47 pm
Joy and peace of mind, is surely not with the establishment.
Non-competitive, joy is
James Reply:
April 17th, 2009 at 2:48 am
Put the media in their place. Write a micro letter to the editor on http://hookk.com
Lets face it, sometimes they get it right and they deserve commendation but we also have to make them accountable when they are not doing their job.
You can write a hookk and have people comment on your point of view. It’s really smooth and easy to use and there is no sign up. It’s a must use for avid readers of the news.
eris Reply:
April 17th, 2009 at 10:43 pm
It was kind of sad. Sad that this guy didn’t know what property rights are. Of course Katie Couric is a hose beast, but that is *not* relevant. Here is what is:
* If you do want your property rights violated, then respect others property rights.
* As much as “University of Southern California” sounds like a state-owned institution, it is not and even a single google search would confirm that.
* It is not material whether USC takes federal funds for research etc. That doesn’t make them any more public then it would you if you received a Pell grant to go to college.
* Let’s not blow our credibility on issues that are cut and dry. As soon as he was asked to leave he should have simply got that on tape and left.
race bait Reply:
April 18th, 2009 at 3:44 am
Outrageous and becoming all too common. This is happening with increasing impunity and audacity.
WHO are these hoodlums in contractor fatigues? Wackenhut? What right do they have to arrest anyone?
Better wake up America, time is getting very, very short.
PUBLIC SIDEWALK
EM Reply:
April 16th, 2009 at 9:18 pm
There is actually an odd bit of truth to your statement.
It is funny but also sort of sad that flat out truth and flat out acting any way you wish is considered as dangerous or rude by many people in society.
The Magician Says Reply:
April 17th, 2009 at 10:23 am
The mistake this guy made was forgetting that he was on private property. You have to know your rights, and this guy needs to brush up on his. If he had walked to a public street and broadcast from there they can’t do anything. Since he was asked to leave by the owners of the property, he has to comply or get arrested.
However, my question is were the two guys that put him in handcuffs security guards or policemen? If they were security guards then they have ABSOLUTELY NO RIGHT to put him in handcuffs. I am guessing they work for the police department on campus which would give them the ability to put him in handcuffs and detain him.
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS PEOPLE. IT IS THE ONLY THING THAT CAN SAVE YOU FROM CROOKED COPS!! Visit Copwatch for more info on knowing your rights and making sure the cops are doing what they are supposed to!!
jeff Reply:
April 16th, 2009 at 9:55 pm
keep em full of fear, keep em under control. As you can see a happy person is much harder to control than a meek one. Handled himself well. My hero. A true inspiration
JW Reply:
April 17th, 2009 at 11:29 am
To the Magician…..Actually a security guard does have the right to handcuff and detain you if you are trespassing and do not comply with the security officers orders to leave. The problem with this situation, if they were security guards is that since they detained him, they are required to hold him until law enforcement arrives to take over. A security guard cannot detain and then release, but they most certainly can detain. This is why most of the time, as a security guard it’s best to just keep your hands off and call law enforcement.
Nick @ LATruth.com Reply:
April 17th, 2009 at 12:47 pm
This guy should not have been arrested, but he was obviously there to spread right winged propaganda. What Couric did wasn’t journalism? She clearly exposed Palin for being a know nothing tool for the establishment. Palin had NO IDEA what the “Bush Doctrine” was, and she was running for VP. What Couric did was TRUE journalism, I usually don’t listen to corporate media, but that interview not only had me mad as hell that someone like Palin would be raised so high on a pedestal being so inept, it also had me laughing me ass off due to her sheer stupidity. The woman knew nothing.
Nick @ LATruth
http://www.latruth.com
NICK's a retard Reply:
April 18th, 2009 at 2:57 am
Couric a true journalist? Go suck a dick at the Huffington Post retard. SO let me get this straight, you were mad that Palin who was a Governer and not a member of the elite was running for VP, but not upset that Obama with no experience whatsoever and a member of the elite was running for president? You fail man, clearly you’re still caught in the left right bullshit. If McCain/Palin had been elected, and McCain passed on do to his old age which is very possible, we would have had a non-Bilderberg in the white house. We actually would have had a chance at that point. A total wild card, but at least a chance. But Obama and Biden are both tools, and next runner up after that is Pelosi. Need I say more?
Furthermore, I agree that Ziegler does play to the right without a doubt, but anytime someone exposes media bias its a good thing. Because if people wake up to that, then there’s a good chance they will start looking deeper and question there own ideologies.
April 16th, 2009 at 7:22 pm
Jeesh. I’m speechless. One thing came to my mind, being raised a Christian, I noticed the younger security guard chewing his lips. I was reminded of the line from the Bible: “They chew their lips and devise wickedness”. I can’t remember where it is from…
Warren Reply:
April 16th, 2009 at 7:53 pm
This is the closest I could find, which is still true today concerning many.
Isaiah 59:3 For your hands are defiled with blood
And your fingers with iniquity;
Your lips have spoken falsehood,
Your tongue mutters wickedness.
April 16th, 2009 at 7:23 pm
Hired Goons….nothing more….little man , big gun…comin to take you away.
RESIST!! Throw a wrench in the gears!!
April 16th, 2009 at 7:23 pm
wow, this was Campus Police. not even real police. thats like a security gaurd arresting you! Total BullShit! Fuck Katy Couric!
April 16th, 2009 at 7:27 pm
They should’ve arrested his cracka ass!
mshort Reply:
April 16th, 2009 at 7:42 pm
3-
Highlanderess Reply:
April 16th, 2009 at 8:52 pm
Hey pole lover….shut the fuck up!
April 16th, 2009 at 7:27 pm
“You’re not an officially member of the media” – Cop
“Why am I being detained” – John
“Because you’re violating the rules; we have a designated area for media” – Cop
“But I thought you said I wasn’t a part of the media” – John
“uhmm…” – cop
Rpyromaniac Reply:
April 17th, 2009 at 6:07 am
Followed of course with the obvious pointing out the cop is stuck in his argument. Followed by the NWO sheepspeak interjection with no retort.
NU UH!
Cop or 3rd grader? your decide.
April 16th, 2009 at 7:32 pm
DO NOT QUESTION THE U.S. GOVERNMENT!
You are a slave and slaves must obey!
April 16th, 2009 at 7:33 pm
Those jack boots KNEW they were in the wrong……that’s why they let him go. HOWEVER…..This Ziegler rubbed me the wrong way. Kinda looked like he was lookin’ for trouble.
Bad Slave Reply:
April 16th, 2009 at 7:39 pm
His rights are not dependent upon whether you like him or not. There is no “HOWEVER.”
Raul Reply:
April 17th, 2009 at 4:09 pm
Damn straight.
Joe Reply:
April 17th, 2009 at 8:19 pm
This was an excellent example of individuals exercising their rights… The campus security guards enforced the “private” campuses right to their private property and they did it without involving the police, thus wasting their resources, and saved this jackass from going to jail.
Most of the bill of rights specify that “government shall make no law” abridging rights… these “rights” do not necessarily apply while on private property, you have to follow the owner’s rules or leave their property.
mdbfl Reply:
April 25th, 2009 at 12:31 am
Afraid i gotta disagree with you on this one. If I were to bend to your type of thinking then I would be placed in the position that I could be enslaved if on a person’s private property that wanted slaves. On another person’s property I would have to wield to their religion. on yet another’s person’s property I wouldn’t have freedom of speech. The list could go on forever. See where this leads, of course we do. All rights must be protected, without harming another person. When security guards and your local police are allowed to restrict those rights with no penalty, then we are in serious trouble. We know that we are well past that these days. I am especially sickened of our our law enforcement officers, as this video shows they don’t enforce laws, at least not the Supreme Law of the Land, the Constitution. In a free Republic these security officers would have cuffed and stuffed, simple as that.
April 16th, 2009 at 7:33 pm
It’s going to get so that everyone will have to carry oozies and AK-47’s around just to walk down the street without getting arrested.
Lexington Minuteman Reply:
April 16th, 2009 at 7:55 pm
UZI’s are fine weapons that you shoot.
“Oozies” is a nasty disease you contract after f**king Katie Couric!
Sorry, but I couldn’t resist – LOL
The Ghost of Tom Joad Reply:
April 17th, 2009 at 10:35 am
Nice.
Snapmare Reply:
April 21st, 2009 at 3:21 am
HAHAHA! EXCELLENT!
Why can’t we just go back to the days when all we worried about were zombie outbreaks?
April 16th, 2009 at 7:34 pm
You can’t put cuffs on someone by force without arresting them. Later they tell him to leave or they will arrest him? WTF? Either he was breaking a law or he was not breaking a law, which also means that those rent-a-cops were either upholding the law or breaking the law. If I see two men physically assault another man and bind his hands–and they are not police officers in the act of making a lawful arrest–I have a moral obligation, if not a civic duty, to render aid to that individual if I can. Those thugs were also armed. So am I. Do you see where I am going with this? How long do the thugs think we will just standby and watch? Keep pushing. Keep pushing . . .
casey Reply:
April 17th, 2009 at 12:03 am
many large universities have their own actual police department (sworn in & recognized by the state). I’m not sure about USC, but that may be the case. I’m not defending what they did, just saying that they aren’t necessarily “rent-a-cops”.
Rpyromaniac Reply:
April 17th, 2009 at 6:10 am
rent a cop or not, he’s right on his point. it seems the only way the cops are gonna stop looking like retards is if they actually start saying “we’re threatening and removing you cause we dont like what you have to say”. At least that would be honest.
Bad Slave Reply:
April 17th, 2009 at 11:28 am
I know. It is said that my university has one of largest, if not the largest, private police force in the country. Of course this is on the south side of Chicago. We were told to stay within the circled wagons and we would be okay. I never felt threatened. They are good cops, too. They look out for the students and treat them well. Many are CPD. I meant “rent-a-cops” as an insult to the thugs in the video. It’s the manner in which they conduct themselves.
April 16th, 2009 at 7:34 pm
couric is a freak on the level of pelosi and the rest of the NWO bilderfreaks evolution at its worst, must be cause god wouldnt make that mistake !!!!
April 16th, 2009 at 7:37 pm
This is a sad day for America. Please sue these assholes personally. That will teach these dumb ass cops a lesson.
April 16th, 2009 at 7:39 pm
cant believe that he laughed , talked , spoke his rights, even tryed to keep out of every ones way. they still cuffed him. WHY because they had orders,and he made them feel dumb.
April 16th, 2009 at 7:39 pm
And once again the ‘patriots’ will stand down and do nothing.
April 16th, 2009 at 7:45 pm
Couric is like that propagandist slut in “V the final battle” She takes lizard dick.
April 16th, 2009 at 7:47 pm
Were those real Cops?
That guy was standing on a public sidewalk. He was not doing anything illegal.Those “Cops” Violated his Constitutional Rights.
Hangman1 Reply:
April 17th, 2009 at 3:55 am
Campus Security. And that is exactly how it is done in The People’s Republic of California.
April 16th, 2009 at 7:52 pm
The important issue is that the University of Southern California is a private institution on Private Property. It is not public property such as would be the case for any part of the California State University System. The security officers had the right to detain someone who was asked to leave the premises..
Hangman1 Reply:
April 17th, 2009 at 3:56 am
That’s right. Corporate Fascism, it works every time.
April 16th, 2009 at 7:56 pm
Definitely fucked up. This is literally why all americans should have some form of a camera on them at all times. It is our only protection from unlawful searches and arrests.
But with JustDoin’TimeOnPlanetEarth, he just looked like he wanted trouble. But he was definitely within his rights.
sandy Reply:
April 17th, 2009 at 8:33 am
I am going to figure out a way to put a camera in my truck, maybe undr a hat or something, so any time I get pulled, I will start recording … the way things are going you just never know….
April 16th, 2009 at 7:58 pm
I thought that a college that is open to the public is a public place. Maybe if he was a student he would have had a chance.
They told him that he didn’t go to the designated area. The police have been using these free speech zones and I think they should be challenged in court.
April 16th, 2009 at 7:59 pm
These pricks need to be stopped yesterday or we are all going to be seeing this and what ever happened to that preacher guy.
April 16th, 2009 at 8:04 pm
dont mess with the elite MEDIA for the shills they are ww.youtube.com/watch?v=Obi3y_ZEP9Y&feature=channel_page mainstream media is a psyop
Rob Jones Reply:
April 17th, 2009 at 9:33 pm
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April 16th, 2009 at 8:04 pm
QUICK! Get security to protect the elite!
danger
danger
April 16th, 2009 at 8:08 pm
for some reason even as a teenager i hated katie couric. this video is proof we DO NOT HAVE FREEDOM OF SPEECH. and these rent a cops, pigs whatever see nothing wrong with this??? this is unfcuking real.this is a mafia mentality, do what we say or we will break your fcukin legs or we will teach you a lesson you won’t forget.i am convinced America is operated by absolute satan worshippers who have gained their power by satan and do not believe in a afterlife and only live for the wealth they can gain on earth here and now.i came up with a saying about billionaires after reading an article from wired.com about how to become a billionaire. and it goes “billionaire banksters don’t come from zero, they are MADE,by the hands of satan”.
April 16th, 2009 at 8:09 pm
What is it about soccer? A little of this goes a long way.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....ader/view/
Watch before it gets pulled like the rest.
WHAMMO! Reply:
April 16th, 2009 at 8:35 pm
That video made my day! Looks like the scumbag on the right that was hitting the guy the most got away though…
Fleur de lys Reply:
April 16th, 2009 at 9:07 pm
Very good exemple and likeyou say…a very long way brother!!
http://911truth-sherbrooke.org.....-vote-for/
sandy Reply:
April 17th, 2009 at 8:37 am
wish I understood the commentator… anyway that was AWESOME… it looked like it was one of the players on the team that took the first tstand… take no prisoners….. we need to learn from these people
Snapmare Reply:
April 21st, 2009 at 3:28 am
That, was cool.
April 16th, 2009 at 8:12 pm
Heckleman committed a crime citizens arrest of this low moron asshole they have no idea what the CONSTITUTION is or what is in it,what a dick.
April 16th, 2009 at 8:15 pm
He was HARASSING lovely Katie. Instead of handcuffing him they should have slam baseball bat around the back of his head.
April 16th, 2009 at 8:38 pm
DON’T WORRY THE COPS AND THE MILITARY WILL BE THE FIRST TO BE WARNED TO
“LET MY PEOPLE GO”
IF THEY CONTINUE TO BE BRUTAL AND VIOLATE OUR HUMAN FREE RIGHTS THEY WILL BE THE FIRST TO BE CURSED ALONE WITH THE BILDEBURG GROUP.
WE ARE COMING FOR YOU GLOBAL BANKERS..
April 16th, 2009 at 8:49 pm
Just another reason to stock up on food, water, and ammo.
Snapmare Reply:
April 21st, 2009 at 3:29 am
I hear that!
April 16th, 2009 at 8:50 pm
R O F L M B O
April 16th, 2009 at 8:55 pm
Katie Couric – Council on Foreign Relations member
http://www.nndb.com/people/487/000025412
April 16th, 2009 at 8:58 pm
THIS IS A GREAT COMEDY but also shows how wicked our Country has become by trashing our Bill of rights
consitter
big bankers big fat goverment Police state and
like such that oppress God given freedoms
and corporate media
April 16th, 2009 at 9:02 pm
He looks like a typical terrorist!!! arrest him quick!
lol
April 16th, 2009 at 9:10 pm
just keep giving us more reasons to have a revolution. I’m so sick and tired of this corrupt bankrupt country and all the corrupt power hungry adrenaline junkie asshole cops. You dumb freedom killing jerks power hungry morons are really in for it. Me alone they should be afraid of. When I decide I’m going to do something, that thing gets done. Now this gov’t has pissed off me and lots of other serious freedom loving people. They can laugh now. We are going to stop this insanity, by god we will stop it. You have f**ked with the wrong motherf**kers!!!!
April 16th, 2009 at 9:10 pm
Was that from Warning brothers Studios?
April 16th, 2009 at 9:14 pm
just show me who to beat. where is he? who can i release my anger on? barney frank perhaps? rockefeller? Ziggy? What is the problem here? Why dont we get a sniper group together and start pegging off CFR members?
uchikoma Reply:
April 17th, 2009 at 2:05 am
Because that is what the shadow government want.
The shadow government also pay people like you to make comments on this site.
Snapmare Reply:
April 21st, 2009 at 3:30 am
Careful now…..
April 16th, 2009 at 9:18 pm
But wait! States rights under the Tenth Amendment are gonna save us all! From illegal detention, from economic ruin by illegitimate bankers, from everything! America, land of the hopelessly enslaved.
April 16th, 2009 at 9:25 pm
private property is private property. They can do what they want. All that yelling about freedom is meaningless. the owners of the property can do what they want with it. You don’t like it. get out.
uchikoma Reply:
April 17th, 2009 at 2:10 am
In the case of an openly accessible campus where genuine news events are occurring your defense of ‘private property’ is weak. Who pays for USC??? Is it totally privately funded? If a single penny of tax money goes to it then they should not have thrown him off.
Plus the cop there declared that he was not official media then a few moments later said that he was a media person. Why that contradiction??? Could he be making it up as he goes along???
sandy Reply:
April 17th, 2009 at 8:41 am
so when the cops, or anyone for that matter, come on my property I will handcuff them as tightly as I want and detain them against their will, AND AT MY DISCRESSION, choose to let them go… why does this not sound like America…
toby Reply:
April 17th, 2009 at 4:40 pm
Bullshit! So if someone’s on my property I can torture them? I can rape them? I can murder them? I can violate their constitutional rights? This sort of idiocy is what got us into this mess. Claiming property rights shouldn’t be a carte blanche for tyranny. This must be fixed.
April 16th, 2009 at 9:26 pm
I hate to say it but if the campus is designated private property, and he is not a student and has no official business then they can ask him to leave legally. They were dicks, but private property rights are very important. If you own a piece of property and someone is on it who you don’t want to be there, you have the right to boot them out. That of course assumes that the campus is indeed fully private, I don’t know if that’s the case or not.
Hangman1 Reply:
April 17th, 2009 at 3:59 am
That’s ok, I know several USC alumni and they are going to be appalled. They are sick of the Fascist crap too, and I am going to insist that they stop supporting USC.
If Katie Couric could be accepting a Journalism Award at USC, the Journalism community should be able to cover the event.
April 16th, 2009 at 9:44 pm
i Think its time to drop a Bomb on city halls all over to make a statement..any more.. Bunch of Bullshit…Hell with you katey Currick. Your as phoney as the rest of them are.
April 16th, 2009 at 9:50 pm
I’d like to see them same cops come to my house and through my window im filming and they try to arrest me. They wind u like those police officers did in PA. why? Because i am going to stand up for my Rights! To hell with those who are to protect us from Law Breakers. Only criminals anymore are the Police and Politicians
April 16th, 2009 at 10:28 pm
welcome to the u.s.s.a.
April 16th, 2009 at 10:38 pm
PIGS!!!
April 16th, 2009 at 10:40 pm
Why didn’t they ever pursue removal of the cameramen?? They seemed to be only concerned with him.. what a weird video.. why is he laughing and smiling the whole time? Why isn’t he getting pissed? I’ll be damned if I ever let some fake cop put cuffs on me.
April 16th, 2009 at 10:52 pm
Fortunately, LAPD wasn’t called, they may well have taken you into the parking garage, shot you and the camera man in the head..and then of course planted two throwaways to make the shooting “justifiable”. What was the time stamp on your parking receipt? I predict the anger over the cuff torture will simmer..and at some time boil over.. Your next video will be YOU behind the lens of a nice Swarovski scope attached to a well crafted Weatherby in .300 magnum. California is definitely a target rich environment. Best wishes.
ahauajaiakaoalp Reply:
April 16th, 2009 at 11:36 pm
Funny you say that Mich. just recently in MN. the police murdered an unarmed man by shooting him in the back then they say he had a gun. As it turns out and was reported in the news, the cops planted a gun on him. A gun they took from another crime they were at.
Lexington Minuteman Reply:
April 17th, 2009 at 12:14 pm
I prefer a good Leupold VX-3 myself, but Swarovski would suffice!
April 16th, 2009 at 10:54 pm
Until today I had believed that EMBEDDED journalists came into being when Afghanistan was invaded. As of this day I am cinvinced taht the embedded “journalists” were on the scene long beofe now and were duping us with their wild untrue but camouflaged stories for many many years before now to serve waht we refer to as mainstream media.
How much damage these “journalists” and their masters have inflicted on all of us nsuspecting public I am just beginning to understand.
AND I AM HORRIFIED!
April 16th, 2009 at 11:11 pm
Am I the only one on here who thinks this guy is friggin psycho?
He went about it the wrong way and was just trying to push their buttons to escalate the situation.
I think this guy just made himself look like a nut, definately not a professional reporter.
Jive Mothafacko Reply:
April 16th, 2009 at 11:52 pm
Amger amd vitriol is expected…but a smile and laughter, how off-putting that must have been for the Spam working security there! Those guys are probably STILL scratching their heads!
WAGON! WAGON!
DEAD BODIES DRAGGIN’!
MCL
April 16th, 2009 at 11:22 pm
The Nazi World Order (NWO) has taken over.
April 16th, 2009 at 11:31 pm
See I could never do something like this because I would go off in a fuckin rage and bust some fuckin teeth out.
April 16th, 2009 at 11:34 pm
HEY, who cares how this guy went about this!!!!!!??????? ITS NOT THE ISSUE. they have no right to arrest someone for this, period, AND IF THIS EVER HAPPENS TO ME, I WILL RESIST AND SUE THE BASTARDS !! get real, NAZIS do not control me, God does, peace… dino.
April 17th, 2009 at 12:26 am
Shhhhhh…….not so loud — we will all be put on the Fed’s new terrorist watch list for taking offense at John boy’s arrest…….Shhhhhhhh!!!
April 17th, 2009 at 1:25 am
THE NWO IS A NAZI WORLD ORDER!!!!!!
TRASH THESE CRIMINAL SCUMBAGS!! STOP THE EVIL!!
FUCK YOU BANKERS AND QUEEN OF ENGLAND AND THE OTHER COCKROUCH BILDERBERG!!
April 17th, 2009 at 1:32 am
look at this , this is what we have lost in america. our freedoms of speech have been taken.. this happend to me in denver last summer. amazing…i am embarassed of my government and law enforcement. i trust neither anymore.
April 17th, 2009 at 1:49 am
he looks like an infiltraitor. posing like hes someone like we are change but making us all look REALLY KOOKY.
April 17th, 2009 at 2:29 am
UUUUUMMMMMM left elbow the renta cop for assaulting you..TELL THEM to not assault you again or you will DEFEND YOURSELF WITH ALL MEANS NECESSARY…call 911 and ask for and a immediate supervisor or captain because youve just been assaulted and you getting ready to defend your persons..immediately call all your press buddies..ask the renta cops if they are sworn deputies ..which they are not!!(which means they cannot forcefully detain you)when the true “cops” arrive tell them youve just been assaulted demand you want to press charges..Hopefully by now the captain or seargent arrives along with your media backup.If they give you the option of letting you go or taking you to jail…stand you f&#king ground..because if they take you to jail they have to have a reason or CHARGES, and from what i can see there is none.
COP B.S.101 if they offer to uncuff you and let you go,or if not go to jail,that means they have nothing on you and they want you to think their giving you a break..just so they can still have their way.do they do that with dui’s or child molesters..Hell no!! Ferrys like this is why this still goes on..at least know the worst case senario and plan for it..GROW A PAIR AND STAND YOUR GROUND!!!! SEMPER FI…AND WIPE THAT SILLY GRIN OFF YOUR FACE>>>>>
April 17th, 2009 at 3:33 am
Rent a cops with real guns and real handcuffs and with real attitude. Wonder if this Journalist will sue the pants off these guys including the property owner.
April 17th, 2009 at 3:39 am
USC is NOT a private property
April 17th, 2009 at 3:42 am
Read the Supreme Court Decision on the first amendment on both public and private property
http://supreme.justia.com/us/407/551/
April 17th, 2009 at 4:25 am
Fucking communist motherukers! I’ve would have wasted those assholes. The act of arrest is considered to be an act of assault. I would have retaliated.
April 17th, 2009 at 4:30 am
So why cant this video evidence be used to convict all the officers evolved? After all the law is still in place.
April 17th, 2009 at 4:51 am
Ok people outside of America, notice…this is NAZI Germany.
That’s right, watch the NAZIs arrest this lawful person. We live in NAZI Germany, and Soviet Russia combined.
These cops are evil, and will be brought to justice. I hope these pigs burn in HELL.
You scumbag pigs burn in Hell, just get out of our country. I hope you pigs DIE.
April 17th, 2009 at 4:55 am
Pretty kafkaesque…
April 17th, 2009 at 5:29 am
goodnewsaboutgod.com
April 17th, 2009 at 5:57 am
Those in the media will have to face trials. And we have video! Jurors love video.
April 17th, 2009 at 7:40 am
Nothing to see here folks, move along.
April 17th, 2009 at 7:47 am
“You are not doing as you were told” therefore you will follow our orders or you will be arrested!!!
Welcome to Germany..
April 17th, 2009 at 8:10 am
HOW DID YOU GET BY ME???
brilliant
“I’m not here on a legitimate purpose.” that’s so fucked up.
Patrick Bellemare Reply:
April 18th, 2009 at 8:32 am
“We The People” Questioning the Corperate owned media military industrial complex propaganda , “Is Thought crime, only blind allegence to Fox news is American”
Questioning Authority is now a Terroristic act !!!
crictical thinking, indivuality , non conformity, inteligent , free spirited populace is the last thing a Fasist, police state wants to contend with, WAKE UP !!! One if by land Two if by sea ,
All enemies , Forien and domestic !!
Here is an example of how people around did nothing to protest this mans rights, injustice to one , is injustice to ALL !!
April 17th, 2009 at 8:12 am
THIS IS INSANE … I’m still watching this and I can’t believe it. We’re doomed. All doomed. Unless we stop this insanity.
April 17th, 2009 at 8:14 am
STOP MAKING HUMOUR BEFORE SOMEBODY NOTICES IT!
I feel like I´m in Mao´s China!… here is a clip made by
russian “comedy club”:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....mp;index=3
“Stop making humour before somebody notices!”
April 17th, 2009 at 8:25 am
Watch there body language as they interact with the slave,just good old boys showing this up start how its going to come down. We all seen it,cow towel or get the heat.
April 17th, 2009 at 8:30 am
I feel Ziegler’s pain but if he was on “private property” and they did not want him to be there (for whatever political reason), then he should have repected their right to private assembly for whatever award. If that was public property, then he should go file suit against the Security Guards and the facility for hiring them and request monetary award for damages.
It is obvious someone there did not want him on the premises asking questions about Katie’s legitamacy to the journalist award. Look at the sign in front of the building. It is a Walter Kronkite award. He is a Bohemian Grove member. Duhhhh.
April 17th, 2009 at 8:34 am
I know what most certainly happened.
The policemen had been warned!
They saw him coming! And they received
orders! They have a list and portraits of
persona non grate aka truth tellers.
Kevin Reply:
April 18th, 2009 at 11:30 pm
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April 17th, 2009 at 8:38 am
He should SUE those COPS directly. Then that will send a message to the rest of the PIGS.
April 17th, 2009 at 8:43 am
it is funnny how the police makes laws according to the situation. They are clueless about the written laws by the legislative. Isn’t restriction of your liberty .. kidnaping
they let him go because of lack of real evidence for his arrest and knew he could come back and sue them.
April 17th, 2009 at 8:46 am
SOOOO why dont we all becaome reporters…. keep a camera on you at all times… have your mysapce , facebook twitter or whatever printed up on a card (credentials) we are all bloogers hence we are the internet media… now how is that not considered journalism…. cover evrything you see and or hear….
sandy Reply:
April 17th, 2009 at 8:46 am
*become*
April 17th, 2009 at 8:58 am
They were just doing their job… come on, he’s a complete JACKASS. Defending Palin’s ignorance is not journalism… They should have treated him the way they did everyday Americans at the RNC.
April 17th, 2009 at 9:24 am
oh that’s it if my rights override your rules i’m wrong. i get a free ride to the camps. oh i forgot i already paid for my ride… basters. death to the new world order
April 17th, 2009 at 9:41 am
C’mon, infowars. You gotta screen your content better than that. This dude is acting like a rambunctious teen, not a serious journalist. So it’s no wonder when they don’t treat him like a journalist. I’m not saying he was wrong, just saying there are much more intelligent ways to go about something like this.
April 17th, 2009 at 10:01 am
my impression that he is slightly drunk…….
April 17th, 2009 at 10:17 am
this guy is real.. the preacher is an ad for CRANKED
April 17th, 2009 at 10:17 am
Many years ago, a demonstration took place in sacramento, an opposing point of veiw to the
clinton staged town hall.
The demonstration was consealed behind a block long line of busses.
this is nothing new. there is no scene stealing allowed in the hollywood production called
american politics.
April 17th, 2009 at 10:20 am
Once handcuffs have been applied, an arrest has been made. They can not handcuff him then tell him that he will be arrested. The deed has already been done. I know this because I have been a security guard and police officer for a very long time. Also, campus police are not police, they are licensed security guards. Once they handciff anyone, they are legally required to notify the real police that they have made an arrest so an officer can respond. What they did to John was kidnapping, false imprisonment, and aggravated assault. I sincerely hope he gets a lawyer and sues their asses.
April 17th, 2009 at 10:22 am
The mistake this guy made was forgetting that he was on private property. You have to know your rights, and this guy needs to brush up on his. If he had walked to a public street and broadcast from there they can’t do anything. Since he was asked to leave by the owners of the property, he has to comply or get arrested.
However, my question is were the two guys that put him in handcuffs security guards or policemen? If they were security guards then they have ABSOLUTELY NO RIGHT to put him in handcuffs. I am guessing they work for the police department on campus which would give them the ability to put him in handcuffs and detain him.
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS PEOPLE. IT IS THE ONLY THING THAT CAN SAVE YOU FROM CROOKED COPS!! Visit Copwatch for more info on knowing your rights and making sure the cops are doing what they are supposed to!!
April 17th, 2009 at 10:27 am
Yet another REALLY sloppy piece.
Private event on school property.
He didn’t have an invitation, and was asked to leave.
If someone shows up uninvited at your house & you don’t let them in, do you not have the right to have them removed if they continue to loiter in your front yard?
And, yes, it is a public school, but we all know that they have rules & regulations for visitors.
Couric is a horrid little shrew, but this guy acted like a dumbass.
PIGS NEED TO BE TRIED FOR TREASON Reply:
April 17th, 2009 at 11:10 am
hey i’m so bored… keep licking the boots! the guy was within his rights to be there!
freedom of speech was denied here!
PIGS NEED TO BE TRIED FOR TREASON Reply:
April 17th, 2009 at 11:14 am
another thing about freedom of speech! there is no rule that you have to act a certain way!
acting like a dumbass as you say… doesn’t give the cops the right to arrest anyone! i’m so bored. you are at the wrong website! i doubt there is any hope for you! go read the constitution and bill of rights!
I'm So Bored With The U-S-A Reply:
April 17th, 2009 at 11:41 am
So, in other words, I have the right to show up uninvited at either one of your homes, act like as big of a jackass as I want, and you have no right to ask me to leave or to have me removed.
So much for private property & owners’ rights…
April 17th, 2009 at 10:28 am
What total absolute BULLSHIT! These gestapo pigs should all be arrested for illegal arrest, unlawful attainment without warrant or cause. There was absolutely no crime committed. I wanted to jump through the screen and put these ignorant thugs in their place. I would sue every last one of these criminals including the city and their corporate business and press criminal charges to the MAX.
I sure hope this guy follows up on this and nails these pigs to the wall including all their puppet masters.
April 17th, 2009 at 10:37 am
What? This guy is clearly al-c.i.a.duh
April 17th, 2009 at 10:51 am
that reporter was an idiot…..and just because it is a university doesnt mean they dont have the right to hold a private event….they can barr anyone they want…..that guy was making a scene on purpose…those cops or security or whatever they were gave him the low down and he just wanted to make a scene……those cops/security were fine, acting to uphold the rights of the property owner/renter………
the guy giving the criminal trespass warning in the 8 minute mark gave a pretty standard criminal trespass warning…..leave or get arrested…..they gave him more chances than he deserved……
this is a non event……
you guys are damaging your credibility with this kind of reporting…..
April 17th, 2009 at 10:52 am
wow, sounds like someone was trying to “protect” Couric from being EXPOSED as the mighty FRAUD she is! haha, great job Ziegler! As for the minions who handcuffed him, did anyone catch the name of the security guard…HECKELMAN! hehe There’s just too much irony in this segment, it’s awesome!
April 17th, 2009 at 11:07 am
we need to go after these pigs legally! enough is enough! and yes i’ll admit they were pretty patient with this guy! i’ve seen lots of people get tasered for a lot less than this!
but that does not matter! it doesn’t matter if these pigs out there are just following orders!!
we need massive protests demanding that pigs all over the country that break the law and think they can just ignore the constitution, be held accountable!! until this happens the police state will continue!! these pigs are too stupid and too big of cowards to stand up against the system unless it’s their ass that is on the line!! when they start to be held accountable for following illegal orders they will start to refuse to act like this!! all of these pigs swear an oath to defend the constitution!!
when they break that oath they need to be held accountable!! period!!
April 17th, 2009 at 11:17 am
And ROBERT — Your own ignorance is showing. The man was denied access to the event. Fine. He made no attempt to push his way in or anything else.
What he did was simply stand outside in the open (as many reporters do on that campus – I’ve seen them) and ask questions of people passing by. Whoever wants to stop and be interviewed can do so. This is called “reporting” and it is protected by our laws.
The bonehead who gave the order to harass the reporter is no different than the security man who tried to pretend 9-11 researchers were carrying bombs outside Silverstein’s building.
April 17th, 2009 at 11:22 am
My patience is running out….this is the most ridiculous SHIT I have ever seen….sad thing is…..if there was a place to go that didn’t have this amount of oppression, I may go there….but there is no place free from this crap…..I am very close to losing my cool…..when will America, or should I say….Awakened America finally come out of the woodwork? We MUST do something or it will be too late…..
April 17th, 2009 at 11:27 am
robert says knows the ways of a police state and states his case well; as long as you like living in China or N. Korea!! John Ziegler was a peaceful protestor not being allowed to voice dissent. John doesn’t understand the ways of a police state and the technicalities that prevent him from voicing his opinion on private property; even though USC is state and federally funded making it more like a public place!! He’s lucky he didn’t get tasered and thrown in jail. LET ME SEE YOUR PAPERS PLEASE !!!!!!!
April 17th, 2009 at 11:51 am
Please correct me if I’m wrong, but……..If USC receives ANY kind of Federal Grants it is no longer considered “private property”…..therefore, being the “people” who are represented BY the Federal government…..we OWN IT!
It’s OVER my friends!
MOUNTINGFLAME Reply:
April 17th, 2009 at 12:46 pm
maybe someone can find out if they get grants….throw there argument right the window…our truth media will have to find these little information bombs to drop, when we get harrased…we need some truther lawyers…..yeah some guys who really know the law….we gotta get tough in our approach….smarter in our endeavors of fact exposing…we can win…..it’s easy…make our tyrannical government show their tyrannical hand….thus exposing this Amerikan regime!
Kris Reply:
April 17th, 2009 at 4:21 pm
You are wrong. USC is a private campus. It’s a private school.
And yet, I attended a public university in the state of FL, and it had similar rules.
You’re confusing the right to be on private property and the right to invading a private event with the right to free speech.
He was in a place he had no right to be, with NO proper media credentials. Campus security detained him until LAPD could arrive and deal with the issue.
The arguments made here to “sue” and “retaliate” are ridiculous.
April 17th, 2009 at 12:25 pm
You SERFS should no better than to thing you can question ME i am so above you ,to me you all look like ridicoulous fools I am A JOURNALIST and am owed this commendation because I got sexy obama elected
now SHUT UP and go watch American Idol
April 17th, 2009 at 12:28 pm
“The people have the freedom to say what they want. We have the freedom to do what we want.”
- Frederick the Great of Prussia
April 17th, 2009 at 12:37 pm
Journalistic ethics? Couric has ZILTCH and fuck these bitches, this guy should sue!!
April 17th, 2009 at 12:38 pm
YOu guys realy think that this was real? Have you ever seen cops actually grabbing someone like that? That is not how it happens. This guy was ploy for media to subvert the real movement. Im sure Alex will be calling it out eventually saying that it was a set up for the media to get people going.
April 17th, 2009 at 12:42 pm
SHOULD OUR (TRUTHER MEDIA) GET SOME FREEMEN MEDIA GUARDS……we shouldn’t let our sources of truth to be harassed like this, I for one am sick of seeing this shit….putting hands all over ya and stuff…..guess what….don’t fucking touch me……or else……the rules are always in the lairs corner….we are to be stonewalled when it comes to asking real questions………..infowarriors…..can you see the lines in the sand yet?…….this shit has to stop….it’s going to boil over…the pressure is gonna blow the top……the injustice is gonna light a spark….for a peaceful revolution………ohh……do ya think we would be allowed a peaceful revolution……..no?….what will we be left with?
April 17th, 2009 at 1:34 pm
Maybe if you wear a suit they wont taser you…lol.
April 17th, 2009 at 1:43 pm
I was wondering if ALex would devote a show to just having the military men and women call- in to voice their opinions on the NWO?
whatthe Reply:
April 17th, 2009 at 7:16 pm
I would like that.
April 17th, 2009 at 2:10 pm
Rock on Ziegler. You go ahead and laugh. It is ironic and funny! And yes, the video does say it all.
April 17th, 2009 at 2:14 pm
American’s Wake the HELL UP!!! You are ALL aquiescing to the end of your soverignty. I can’t believe people believe the “Change” this new puppet administration, that is run by the Council on Foreign Relations, is going to be in our favor. WAKE UP!!
April 17th, 2009 at 2:56 pm
No one went to his defense? Why are we like that? What if everyone started surrounding the intended victim & shielded him from the cops? How could they arrest everyone?
Hang together or hang separately.
Progressive Thinker Reply:
April 17th, 2009 at 6:37 pm
The filmmaker being able to excerise his First Amendment right is NOT the issue. The issue is his behavior! He was borderline obnoxious, uncooperative, and on private property. To be decent does not correlate with freedom of speech. If he was a bit more receptive and a bit more cordial on, say for instance, a public sidewalk or building, THEN it would be a another story.
FYI: I’ve been ‘awake’ for nearly a year now.
April 17th, 2009 at 2:58 pm
This is nationwide; try Mt. Vernon, IL. Fascist little city!!! Now the latest is to pull you out of your car for having a lei, or any type of decoration in your car. They take you out of your car and frisk you, all the while insulting you. This happened to my neice after she had just lost a child a week ago. She was on the way back from the hospital when the police pulled her over for having a lei in the back window of her car. They pulled her out, frisked her, and frightened her, all for nothing. Then, they pulled her boyfriend out of the car and frisked him too, insulted him for looking “Mexican”, insulted him too, and then eluded that he must be involved in crime because he looked Mexican. He is not a Mexican and he has committed no crime. This really frightened them because they had done absolutely nothing wrong. I guess the police are on steroids now, and we all know what that does, or the steroids of mind control. Now, they have pulled over one of her friends for having a string of flowers in her car. This is our “protect and serve” police? Wow, what a crime to have a string of flowers in the car. What is next? Maybe they will just taser you and ask questions later. The latest is that if you do not have the money to pay for the ticket on the spot, they impound your car. Wow–This is definitely not America!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
April 17th, 2009 at 3:02 pm
This should be unbeleivable that this happened to Zeigler, but now that we live in a Fascist country, this is what happens to a free thinking journal journalist who’s not owned and controlled by the corporate mass media.
April 17th, 2009 at 3:27 pm
This man’s rights were clearly violated. Those “officers” in the video should be stripped of their badge and sent to gitmo.
April 17th, 2009 at 3:34 pm
Arresting journalists. God bless america, eh?
Sheesh. Is there a rocket launch scheduled soon? I don’t want to remain on planet earth anymore. Too loony for my taste. I hope he sues for wrongful arrest.
April 17th, 2009 at 4:04 pm
Obviously a dangerous terrorist.
April 17th, 2009 at 4:30 pm
This is exactly what should happen to him. There are laws that have been upheld as constitutional from our Supreme Court over numerous years that allows for Mr. Ziegler’s removal. go read the cases and ACTUALLY understand the constitution.
If any of you have attended a university – you would understand that the campus police/security have the right to remove people from campus. Imagine the alternative – whoever the F, whenever, they want, and wherever they want can just show up. Imagine all the people that could just show up…geez. Go read some American Jurisprudence that has been constitutional upheld as our founding fathers intended by the court of final jurisdiction – the Supreme Court.
Cheers and no offense to anyone.
pikeaero Reply:
April 18th, 2009 at 12:14 am
Rich, you are an idiot….no…wait…you are an imbecile……no wait, that’s too modern…no,..too..how shall we say…..you are a cave man…that’s it…a cave man, from a very dark cave.
April 17th, 2009 at 4:30 pm
Cancel your cable or satellite service, don’t buy newspapers. Screw these shills for the fascists. Private property rights emphatically do not trump basic human rights. This is pure evil and ignorance at work.
April 17th, 2009 at 5:19 pm
I am a diehard “TRUTHER” and I make sure everyone I meet knows that.
That said, this guy is a clown. Doing this type of stuff discredits our cause. He seemed more crazy than professional.
I cant beleive so many agree with the ass, he could have went about it in a professional matter and if he was still harassed, I would agree with him and be on his side.
I agree with 99% of the stories on this site, but articles like this just discredit us.
DZ Reply:
April 18th, 2009 at 3:39 am
T’s right. I’m a little disppointed in the inclusion of this story on infowars. USC is a private university; they have every right to ask him to leave and then remove him if he fails to comply. Those cops/security guards did a good job; they didn’t tase him or use excessive force, they just did what they were being paid to legally do.
I’m not saying that I agree with the university’s decision to remove him, just that they had the right to do so.
Also, katie couric’s journalistic integrity has NOTHING to do with this story. I have exactly ZERO opinion on her, her interview of Palin (which I’ve admittedly never seen) or whether she deserved the award.
The point is that nothing illegal or unconstitutional happened here. So why report on it?
April 17th, 2009 at 6:28 pm
Why has my comment been censored?
I am not deleted or uninstalled.
To me this proves this very site means no more than than that paper it’s printed on
whatthe Reply:
April 17th, 2009 at 7:15 pm
Yea what ever. That one’s been tried before .
April 17th, 2009 at 7:02 pm
Abuse by law enforcement is becoming more and more common. Should be interesting the calibre of thug and monster that will be recruited for law enforcement to take part in the coming slaughter of Americans. Remember, they had no shortage of torturers in Nazi Germany and Communist Russia.
April 17th, 2009 at 7:36 pm
Unfortunately USC is private property.
Anyway, the principle is that Katie Couric is a robot that will mouth whatever is required, obviously.
April 17th, 2009 at 7:38 pm
This was a fake arrest. It was staged and it is extremely obvious. You will see, Alex will see it for waht it is. Im sure he will be covering it soon enough. Just hasnt had someone bring it up to him.
April 17th, 2009 at 7:55 pm
Zeigler refers to the USC Annenberg School for Communication when he asks, “Are you proud of the journalism you teach at the ANNENBERG SCHOOL?” So perhaps this incident is an accurate depiction of Annenberg’s “communication” skills…
Could this be the SAME Annenberg affiliated with FACTCHECK.ORG, the people who “verified” Obama’s Certification of Live Birth? According to Wikipedia, FACTCHECK.ORG is a project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the ANNENBERG SCHOOL FOR COMMUNICATION at the University of Pennsylvania and is funded by the Annenberg Foundation. However the incident in the video happened at the USC Annenberg School for Communication. So are they related? Is the Annenberg School some kind of fascist franchise spread across American campuses?
Hold the pickles, hold the lettuce, take OUR orders, don’t upset us! All we ask is that you let us GET IN YOUR FACE!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FactCheck
HA HA H AH HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HAH HA
April 17th, 2009 at 8:02 pm
Welcome to the new America.
The other day I was almost stopped by a cop for riding my bike down the road. I was just out enjoying a spring day, riding down a country road and a cop drives by me. I said to myself “I guarantee this cop is going to turn around come back and harass me” – Less than 5 minutes later here he comes, drives by me real slow just looking for some reason to harass me. Then he sped up and kept on going. What kind of country to we live in anymore when you can’t ride your bike down a country road on a nice spring day without having to worry about being harassed by cops?
The time for revolution is now!
April 17th, 2009 at 8:07 pm
SInce when is a publicly funded university “private property”????
pikeaero Reply:
April 18th, 2009 at 12:19 am
Exxxxcactally! Do I have to come to Washington myself to arrest people?!?! When do we see arrests? Indictments?!?! Criminals in orange jump suits?!!? Enough screwing around already I think we have enough for a case already, lets all….arrest….arrest….arrest…..!!
April 18th, 2009 at 12:59 am
I demand the firing of the two officers and their superiors…….they want to take away our guns, cameras and microphones!!!! What next, our teddy bears?
April 18th, 2009 at 7:21 am
OMG can’t he find a suit that isn’t 4 sizes too big?
April 18th, 2009 at 8:29 am
I am glad he stayed in good spirits. Stay calm, keep cool and let them look like the idiots.
April 18th, 2009 at 2:35 pm
Oh my god. This starts hitting the fan. So let me get this straight, this hippie was violationg property rights. He went to a private area where he was told repeatedly to leave, and he pulls out his camera and starts yelling freedom and then when the security personell does their JOB, they suddenly become the evil nazis?
Are you guys for real? Does anyone in this site know what property rights mean?
Of course you dont. Because your pot smoking hippies who doesnt go to work and cries for their right all the time. Because work is for slaves etc.
You can’t like,own property, man!
Mike Buechele Reply:
April 23rd, 2009 at 8:55 pm
I thought the same thing. He couldn’t get a real media pass and got all pissy about it. good job by security.
April 19th, 2009 at 12:22 am
This guy is just an ass. Michael Moore is an ass, but he does leave when he is told to leave.
However, Katie Couric receiving a journalism award for interviewing a moron? Puhhhhhhhhleeeeeeeezzzzzzzzzzzzzzzeeeeeeeeeeeee. Although between the two, Katie or Sarah, I would choose Sarah to share my bed.
April 19th, 2009 at 3:13 am
USC is private. Would you all want someone filming a movie on your private property without permission?
Meanwhile, in other news…
April 19th, 2009 at 3:15 am
How would those people who are blaming the reporter act in a situation like that? I thought it was funny when he called them on their inconsistency, “You arent a journalist, you arent the media”,, Then, “We ask the media to be in a certain place & you werent there so you are in trouble”..
I thought the guy handled himself very well. I would have had a difficult time not trying to knock those assholes out. All he was doing was asking a few questions. & on a campus that teaches journalism, no less.
yes, we live in a free society. Uh huhh, & pigs fly.
I'm SO Bored With The U-S-A Reply:
April 19th, 2009 at 11:14 am
One of the things they supposedly teach at that journalism school is that citizens don’t have the right to encroach on others’ property without permission, regardless of their press affiliation.
Anyone that practices “ambush” journalism needs to be smart enough to make sure to catch their prey in public areas like sidewalks, and even Alex Jones leaves when he’s asked to because he understands that the 1st Amendment doesn’t give him the right to trespass & cause a disturbance.
April 19th, 2009 at 9:19 am
Ziegler has always been extremely mocking and hostile to Alex Jones, here is one clip where he grills Ron Paul regarding 9/11, Alex Jones, and the ‘crazy’ 911 truthers:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhWaqInVqbg
Ziegler likes to fancy himself as a ‘libertarian’, yet is a staunch neocon and bush supporter. he was fired from KFI radio, allegedly after insulting a more popular host john kobylt for not supporting the war in Iraq. Ziegler started a website the real kfi after that firing.
He is definitely libertarian enough to sue these pigs though, which i can guarantee he will do. stay tuned. libertyfight.com
I'm So Bored With The U-S-A Reply:
April 19th, 2009 at 11:15 am
I think you mean “dumb” enough to sue them, as he obviously has no legal basis with which to make a claim.
ruthlesspno1 Reply:
April 20th, 2009 at 3:14 am
You should know better then to say statements like this, in California people win civil suits for less then this. Also there is video evidence as well. He will sue and he will win.
I'm So Bored With The U-S-A Reply:
April 20th, 2009 at 8:49 am
All the video evidence does is prove that he was trespassing and refused to leave when asked.
April 19th, 2009 at 11:30 am
“The reason men are silenced is not because they speak falsely, but because they speak the truth. This is because if men speak falsehoods, their own words can be used against them; while if they speak truly, there is nothing which can be used against them – except force.”
~ John “the Birdman” Bryant 1943 – 2009
April 19th, 2009 at 11:08 pm
Who owns USC? “USC was founded by a Methodist horticulturist, an Irish Catholic pharmacist and a German Jewish Banker. The university is no longer affiliated with the Methodist Church, having severed formal ties in 1952.”
Could that be the same “German Jewish Banker” whose offspring now own the Federal Reserve and America?
April 19th, 2009 at 11:15 pm
Hey Mr. Ziegler, instead of behaving like an idiot on camera with campus security, you might want to get off the private property (of the fraudster bankers who hijacked America) and do an expose of who really owns all the brainwashing centers called universities.
You’re turning the issue into a pissing contest with campus rent-a-cops when the real problem is the “dog owner” – you know what I mean?
April 19th, 2009 at 11:16 pm
ziegler is an odd duck….he used to have a talk show in KFI640 am radio….
April 20th, 2009 at 3:11 am
In California all campus police for the CSU, UC system schools and USC are state level law enforcement. Their jurisdiction is actually larger then local sheriff’s and PD’s . Only problem is they didn’t follow protocol in detaining John Ziegler so expect a nice little lawsuit incoming. They should have known better.
April 20th, 2009 at 11:07 am
what kind of pussy allows 2 rent a cops to hand cuff him
I would of kicked that old geezer in the nuts
and then pistol whipped the jig-a-boo with his gun
April 20th, 2009 at 1:13 pm
Now this guy is a conservative journalist, and while I might not agree with his politics, I cannot see that he’s doing anything wrong here. Protecting free speech isn’t just about protecting the people I agree with.
He was not invited to the event (an award ceremony for Katie Couric – awarding that hairdo for what, I have NO IDEA…), held most ironically at the Annenberg School of Journalism.
Like most conservatives, Ziegler believes Katie is a Liberal partisan advocate (which is HILARIOUS considering her fawning coverage of the Bush Administration) rather than a journalist, and wanted to ask audience members some questions about that.
Fine – he has a stupid and erroneous premise, all she really is, is just a corporate whore, but who gives a crap? We’re supposed to have Freedom of the Press, and if he wants to ask those questions of her or her audience, I have no problem with him doing so. It’s his right under the Constitution, which SHOULD apply to all of us.
He’s outside the venue after apparently being denied access to it, and was doing stand up commentary with his camera guy in front of the building at the time officers approached him. He’s not violent, not blocking traffic. He’s not even being misbehaved or rude the way Faux News “journalists” do when they stalk random people and jump them on the street with their fake outrage questions.
I didn’t like it when they pulled this Gestapo crap with Amy Goodman, a Liberal journalist, during the Republican Convention on a public street, and I don’t like it any more when they do it to a conservative reporter either.
And universities in particular – even if they are private – are generally regarded by most people as a commonly understood sort of “mixed space” anyways, where public protests, adversarial discussions, and the free range of ideas are ENCOURAGED, not stifled. In a civilized society, it is NOTHING SHORT OF VITAL that freedom of speech is RIGOROUSLY maintained on the campuses of our “palaces of learning”.
Note as well that the rent-a-cops themselves consider him to be media when they want to “contain him in a particular area” but state he’s not “official media” when they wish to detain him. Which is it?
One problem I have with this is that “who is a journalist and who isn’t” is apparently decided not by the journalists themselves, but by the powerful who decide “Oh you’re a journalist just as long as you work for a sufficiently larger corporation that WE decide to recognize.”
Another of the principle problems is that many “enforcers” of the law are also largely ignorant of it’s most critical Constitutional provisions.
So this entire incident is rife with stupidity on many levels.
April 22nd, 2009 at 11:33 pm
The campus police and officials probably should have taken the more tolerant route and just ignored him provided he stayed outside the building and didn’t harass anyone. HOWEVER… it is private property and they did have the right to ask him to leave if they chose. If Ziegler didn’t have the common sense to leave private property when university officials asked, then he deserves to be arrested… if someone trespassed on my property and wouldn’t leave I’d call the cops too. And his stupid antics while handcuffed (writhing around, dropping to the ground, etc) showed he was just being a drama whore. And showing the handcuff marks on his wrist… I honestly laughed at the absurdity. Ziegler is obviously a whiny little punk and knows nothing of abusive treatment by law enforcement. Claiming this as ‘abusive’ takes away from the actual abuses and injustices happening in the world. Perhaps what he really needs is a ‘Holiday in Cambodia’
April 29th, 2009 at 5:01 pm
Sorry! But this filmaker are realy stupid he had chanse to move few meters but he shouting about he´s rights stupid!!
April 30th, 2009 at 9:40 pm
Look as far as I am concern I think cops are just puppets to the Nwo law enforcement agencies cause on April 23th I was attacked by some fucking teens with pepper spray cause they litter and were having a crowd in front of my appartment building and all I did was to tell them to get the fuck away cause they were on private proprity so if you non believers still believe that justice is applicable let’s just say that I would trully like to see the kid go to jail for make me lose an eye which is what the cops shoulda have done but haven’t cause I’m a adult and I had no rights to intervene