Politics Extra: "Noe and Friends" video is censored

Tuesday, October 10, 2006

"Noe and Friends" video is censored

An update on yesterday's blog item about the "Noe and Friends" video publicized by ProgressOhio.org

"We have been informed by Ohio Government Television that using video of Tom Noe at Justice (Judith) Lanziger's swearing in ceremony is in their opinion a violation of copyright. While we disagree with the premise that state government can generate video to promote themselves and their work, but not allow discourse over that footage -- we, as a non-profit, do not have the deep pockets to fight this and intend to comply with the law.

"The fact that Tom Noe, or any other citizen for that matter, was given license by the Chief Justice to stand in the well of the Ohio Supreme Court introducing Secretary of State (Ken) Blackwell, Auditor Betty Montgomery and Governor Bob Taft -- speaks volumes about the pay-to-play atmosphere in Columbus.

"Unfortunately we cannot link to the OGTV website as that official swearing in footage is not available , even though it was broadcast throughout Ohio at the time of the January 2005 event.

"So as of 6 p.m. our video is censored. Memories, however, remain."

Brian Rothenberg
Executive Director
ProgressOhio.org

8 Comments:

at 8:26 PM, October 10, 2006

Anonymous said...

Just promise them some gold coins - then they'll let you do whatever you want!

at 8:58 PM, October 10, 2006

Anonymous said...

They only invest in uncollectable rare coins.

HAD ENOUGH, VOTE DEMOCRAT 2006 !

at 10:44 PM, October 10, 2006

Anonymous said...

Censoring video does not change what happened. The corruption is pervasive. The lack of ethics goes to character. They have lie down with dogs and they have woken up with fleas.

at 11:18 PM, October 10, 2006

Anonymous said...

Here we go again, the wRong wingnuts will do anything to suppress the truth:

HCRP.info

Fair Use !

A. What Is Fair Use?

In its most general sense, a fair use is any copying of copyrighted material done for a limited and "transformative" purpose such as to comment upon, criticize or parody a copyrighted work. Such uses can be done without permission from the copyright owner. Another way of putting this is that fair use is a defense against infringement. If your use qualifies under the definition above, and as defined more specifically later in this chapter, then your use would not be considered an illegal infringement.

So what is a "transformative" use? If this definition seems ambiguous or vague, be aware that millions of dollars in legal fees have been spent attempting to define what qualifies as a fair use. There are no hard-and-fast rules, only general rules and varying court decisions. That's because the judges and lawmakers who created the fair use exception did not want to limit the definition of fair use. They wanted it--like free speech--to have an expansive meaning that could be open to interpretation.

Most fair use analysis falls into two categories: commentary and criticism; or parody.

1. Comment and Criticism

If you are commenting upon or critiquing a copyrighted work--for instance, writing a book review -- fair use principles allow you to reproduce some of the work to achieve your purposes. Some examples of commentary and criticism include:

quoting a few lines from a Bob Dylan song in a music review
summarizing and quoting from a medical article on prostate cancer in a news report
copying a few paragraphs from a news article for use by a teacher or student in a lesson, or
copying a portion of a Sports Illustrated magazine article for use in a related court case.
The underlying rationale of this rule is that the public benefits from your review, which is enhanced by including some of the copyrighted material. Additional examples of commentary or criticism are provided in the examples of fair use cases in Section C.

2. Parody

A parody is a work that ridicules another, usually well-known work, by imitating it in a comic way. Judges understand that by its nature, parody demands some taking from the original work being parodied. Unlike other forms of fair use, a fairly extensive use of the original work is permitted in a parody in order to "conjure up" the original.

http://fairuse.stanford.edu/Copyright_and_Fair_Use_Overview/chapter9/9-a.html#1

at 11:51 PM, October 10, 2006

Anonymous said...

Ney and Noe, joined at the hip...

Rep. Bob Ney (R-Ohio), who has admitted to corruptly accepting thousands of gifts from lobbyists in exchange for legislative favors, is scheduled to appear before a federal judge on Friday the 13th to formally admit wrongdoing. And to the dismay of Republicans, he will likely do so as a sitting member of Congress.

Ney has given up his gavels on the House Administration Committee and the Financial Services Housing and Community Opportunity subcommittee, but has kept his seat.

. . .

A spokeswoman for the House Administration Committee confirmed Ney is still on the congressional payroll. Ney makes $165,200 annually, or $452.60 per day. Ney has ignored calls from colleagues and outside ethics groups to step down from his post, including one from Ohio state Sen. Joy Padgett, who is running to replace him.

. . .

Earlier last month, House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) had promised a “quick solution” to Ney’s admissions, as the ethics committee launched an investigation. Asked whether Ney should resign, Hastert said, “I think you will see a solution to that very, very quickly.”

at 9:09 AM, October 11, 2006

Anonymous said...

CENSORED-LIKE THE TRUTH ABOUT 911 AND THE NUMBER OF DEAD IN IRAQ.

I'M SHOCKED!

WTC: 2,752 IRAQ: 2,753

AP WIRE: 655,000 Iraqis died due to war

It's on the front page of http://news.yahoo.com

NEW YORK - A controversial new study contends nearly 655,000 Iraqis have died because of the war, suggesting a far higher death toll than other estimates. The timing of the survey's release, just a few weeks before the U.S. congressional elections, led one expert to call it "politics."

In the new study, researchers attempt to calculate how many more Iraqis have died since March 2003 than one would expect without the war. Their conclusion, based on interviews of households and not a body count, is that about 600,000 died from violence, mostly gunfire. They also found a small increase in deaths from other causes like heart disease and cancer.

"Deaths are occurring in Iraq now at a rate more than three times that from before the invasion of March 2003," Dr. Gilbert Burnham, lead author of the study, said in a statement.

The study by Burnham, of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and others is to be published Thursday on the Web site of The Lancet, a medical journal.

-snip
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061011/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraqi_death_toll

NEOCONS ARE WAR PROFITEERING ROBBER BARONS WHO NEED TO BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR THEIR ACTIONS! DEATH AND DESTRUCTION AND 9 BILLION $ MISSING IN IRAQ. VOTE THE CROOKS OUT!

at 9:24 AM, October 11, 2006

Anonymous said...

Noe, Blackwell and the entire GOP during the '04 election:

At his last campaign rally in the state, a mere four days before the election, Bush bestowed special praise on a husband and wife team who, in hindsight, were more helpful to Bush than any other politicians in Ohio, as far as rigging the election.

“I want to thank my friends Bernadette Noe and Tom Noe," Bush told the audience at the Toledo rally, "for their leadership in Lucas County.”

After the speech, Bush and his wife met with Tom Noe and his wife backstage, to thank them for their "work on the campaign," according to the October 30, 2004 Toledo Blade.

As it turns out, Bush had a lot to be thankful for. During the campaign, Noe earned the title of “Pioneer,” which means he raised at least $100,000 for the Bush-Cheney campaign.

However, Tom Noe was rewarded by Bush with an appointment as chairman of a committee of the US Mint that advises the US Treasury secretary on designs and themes for coins and congressional medals.

According to a Treasury Department press release, Noe was recommended for the appointment by Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) and nominated by Treasury Secretary John Snow.

Noe was the guy to know in Toledo-area politics for many years. He chaired not only the Lucas County Republican Party, but also the Lucas County Board of Elections and, in 2004, the regional Bush-Cheney campaign.

As a regional chairman of the campaign, according to the April 8, 2005, Toledo Blade, Noe had frequent contact with Karl Rove, met with the President, and received White House invitations.

According to emails obtained by the Blade, from Ohio Governor Bob Taft's office, Noe used his influence to obtain an invitation to a White House ceremony honoring the Ohio State football team and once in the White House, Noe was invited to attend an "Ohio political strategy session."

In 2002, Bernadette Noe, took over the post of chairman of the Lucas County Board of Elections, and is largely credited with playing a key role in rigging the 2004 election in Ohio.

While Tom Noe was still BOE Chairman, he made the acquisition of electronic voting machines, bragging about how fast they were installed. But in 2004, even before election day, Lucas County was up to its neck in problems with the now infamous Diebold Opti-Scan voting machines.

The dirty tricks in Lucas Country started long before election day. For instance, the Democratic headquarters was broken into and key voter data was stolen.

In the months before the election, when voting rights activists mounted a court challenge to Republican Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell's partisan handling of provisional ballots, Tom Noe intervened on Blackwell's behalf. Blackwell also served as co-chair for the Ohio Bush-Cheney campaign,

While Tom handled the court business, Bernadette worked to reverse the Ohio tradition of allowing provisional ballots to be cast in precincts other than the one in which voters were registered and helped disenfranchise many inner-city Toledo Democratic voters.

On November 2, 2004, during the election, inner city voting machines broke down and polls opened late. The Toledo Blade reported that the sole machine at the Birmingham polling site in east Toledo broke down at about 7 am, and that per order of Secretary Blackwell, there were no paper ballots available for backup.

At one school the voting machines were locked in the principal‘s office, and the principal just happened to call in sick election day. Another school in west Toledo temporarily ran out of ballots.

In precinct after precinct, African-American voters were disenfranchised as the waiting lines grew to three, four and five hours, forcing thousands to leave without voting.

The Blade discovered that in the summer of 2004, 28,000 voters were "erased" from the Lucas County registration rolls and found the purge included voters like Barbara and Ralph George "who first registered to vote for John F. Kennedy in 1960 and had lived in the same East Toledo house for 44 years."

After a job well done in Lucas County, in January 2005, the happy Noe couple co-sponsored Ohio’s inaugural ball in Washington, and according to the Blade, "Mr. Bush and Mr. Noe embraced. The president then hugged Mrs. Noe."

-snip

http://www.onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_892.shtml

TRY TO VOTE THE CROOKS OUT!

at 9:32 AM, October 11, 2006

Anonymous said...

MORE CENSORSHIP:

RIP HABEUS CORPUS 1215-2006

KEITH OBERMANN'S EXCELLENT TRANSCRIPT (VIDEO AT LINK):

Because the Mark Foley story began to break the night of September 28th, exploding the following day, many people may not have noticed a bill passed by the Senate that night.

Our third story on the Countdown tonight, the Military Commissions Act of 2006 and what it does to something called "habeas corpus."

And before we reduce the very term "habeas corpus" to something vaguely recalled as sounding kinda like the cornerstone of freedom, or maybe kinda like a character from "Harry Potter," we thought a Countdown Special Investigation was in order.

Congress passed The Military Commissions Act to give Mr. Bush the power to deal effectively with America's enemies — those who seek to harm this country.

And he has been very clear about who that is:

"…for people to leak that program, and for a newspaper to publish it does great harm to the United States of America."

So the president said it was urgent that Congress send him this bill as quickly as possible, not for the politics of next month's elections, but for America.

"The fact that we're discussing this program is helping the enemy."

Because time was of the essence–and to ensure that the 9/11 families would wait no longer–as soon as he got the bill, President Bush whipped out his pen and immediately signed a statement saying he looks forward to signing the actual law…eventually.

He hasn't signed it yet, almost two weeks later, because he has been swamped by a series of campaign swings at which he has made up quotes from unnamed Democratic leaders, and because when he is actually at work, he's been signing so many other important bills, such as:

The Credit Rating Agency Reform Act;

the Third Higher Education Extension Act;

ratification requests for extradition treaties with Malta, Estonia and Latvia;

his proclamation of German-American Day;

the Partners for Fish and Wildlife Act;

and his proclamation of Leif Erikson Day.

Still, getting the Military Commissions Act to the President so he could immediately mull it over for two weeks was so important, some members of Congress didn't even read the bill before voting on it. Thus, has some of its minutiae, escaped scrutiny.

One bit of trivia that caught our eye was the elimination of habeas corpus. which apparently used to be the right of anyone who's tossed in prison, to appear in court and say, "Hey, why am I in prison?"

Why does habeas corpus hate America…and how is it so bad for us?

Mr. Bush says it gets in the way of him doing his job.

[video clip]Bush: "…we cannot be able to tell the American people we're doing our full job unless we have the tools necessary to do so. And this legislation passed in the House yesterday is a part of making sure that we do have the capacity to protect you. Our most solemn job is the security of this country."

It may be solemn…

[video clip] Bush: "I do solemnly swear…"

But is that really his job? In this rarely seen footage, Mr. Bush is clearly heard describing a different job.

[video clip]…to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States..

Countdown has obtained a copy of this "Constitution of the United States."

And sources tell us it was originally snuck through the Constitutional Convention and state ratification in order to establish America's fundamental legal principles.

But this so-called Constitution is frustratingly vague about the right to trial. In fact, there's only one reference to habeas corpus at all. Quote: "The privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it."

But even Democrats who voted against the Military Commissions Act concede that it doesn't actually suspend habeas corpus.

[video clip] Leahy: The bill before the Senate would not merely suspend the great writ, the great writ of habeas corpus, it would eliminate it permanently.

And there is considerable debate whether the conditions for suspending habeas corpus, rebellion or invasion, have been met.

[video clip] Leahy: conditions for suspending habeas corpus have not been met.

[video clip] Kerry: We're not in a rebellion, nor are we being invaded.

[video clip] Specter: We do not have a rebellion or an invasion.

[video clip] Biden: The United States is neither in a state of rebellion nor invasion.

[video clip] Byrd: We are not in the midst of a rebellion, and there is no invasion.

Countdown has learned that habeas corpus actually predates the "Constitution," meaning it's not just pre-September 11th thinking, it's also pre-July 4th thinking.

In those days, no one imagined that enemy combatants might one day attack Americans on native soil.

In fact, Countdown has obtained a partially redacted copy of a colonial "declaration" indicating that back then, "depriving us of Trial by Jury" was actually considered sufficient cause to start a War of Independence, based on the then-fashionable idea that "liberty" was an unalienable right.

Today, thanks to modern, post-9/11 thinking, those rights are now fully alienable.

The reality is, without habeas corpus, a lot of other rights lose their meaning.

But if you look at the actual Bill of Rights — the first ten amendments to that pesky Constitution — you'll see just how many remain.

Well, ok, Number One's gone.

If you're detained without trial, you lose your freedom of religion, speech, the press and assembly. And you can't petition the government for anything.

Number Two? While you're in prison, your right to keep and bear arms just may be infringed upon.

Even if you're in the NRA.

Three?

No forced sleepovers by soldiers at your house. OK. Three is unchanged.

Four?

You're definitely not secure against searches and seizures, with or without probable cause - and this isn't even limited to the guards.

Five… Grand juries and due process are obviously out.

Six. So are trials, let alone the right to counsel. Speedy trials? You want it when?

Seven. Hmmmm. I thought we covered "trials" and "juries" earlier.

Eight — So bail's kind of a moot point…

Nine: "Other" rights retained by the people. Well, if you can name them during your water-boarding, we'll consider them.

And Ten — powers not delegated to the United States federal government seem to have ended up there, anyway.

So as you can see, even without habeas corpus, at least one tenth of the Bill of Rights, I guess that's the Bill of "Right" now… remains virtually intact.

And we can rest easy knowing we will never, ever have to quarter soldiers in our homes… as long as the Third Amendment still stands strong.

The President can take care of that with a Signing Statement.

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/10/10/olbermann-why-does-habeas-corpus-hate-america

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