The safest thing to do — politically, anyway — is plant yourself in a corner and sit still. But people tend to want to move around, live, do their jobs.
Steve Baker, reporter for Blaze Media, recently was forced to “self-surrender” to federal authorities for committing initially unspecified crimes.
Was doing his job the crime?
His fed-embarrassing journalism about the January 6 “insurrection” and the way many people have been incarcerated for years for little more than trespassing — was that the crime?
As video of the not-always- innocuous but often-innocuous goings-on of January 6 has been released, Baker has been among those examining the record and noting apparent contradictions in the official story.
When he turned himself in to the FBI last Friday, he was facing charges that the FBI had flatly refused to divulge. But now the Blaze reports that, three years after January 6 “insurrection,” Baker is being charged for things like “entering [restricted areas] without lawful authority” or “parading . . . in a capitol building.”
Trespassing. Arrested for trespassing three years later?
Or arrested for his reporting on the events of January 6 and its sequels over the course of those three years?
Before Baker turned himself in, the FBI did give him the information that he should arrive in shorts and flip-flops. So that, Glenn Beck writes, “it would be easier for them to put on the orange jumpsuit and ankle irons. Suffice it to say, he wore a suit and tie.”
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6 replies on “Did Steve Baker Commit Journalism?”
Often, the point of these exercises by the state seems to be to demonstrate just how much the state can now openly do with impunity.
Sad, but true.
We aren’t in ‘Kansas’ anymore.
Freedom of the press SHALL NOT be infringed.
Unless it undermines the narrative.
Or embarrasses the foreign powers that spent millions under the table to buy influence.
Creepy Joe’s handlers have created a banana republic, without only the bananas.
How many other reporters were in the Capitol, reporting on what was happening? The Biden administration grows more Stalinesque with each passing day.
5 years minimum for anyone entering the Capitol on January 6th! Seems fair to me.