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Blogger’s Incarceration Raises First Amendment Questions
By CAMPBELL ROBERTSON
January 11, 2014



Posts on Roger Shuler’s blog, Legal Schnauzer, have prompted many defamation suits. His refusal to cooperate in one recent case has led to his being jailed since October and has drawn international attention.
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — For over six years, Roger Shuler has hounded figures of the state legal and political establishment on his blog, Legal Schnauzer, a hothouse of furious but often fuzzily sourced allegations of deep corruption and wide-ranging conspiracy. Some of these allegations he has tested in court, having sued his neighbor, his neighbor’s lawyer, his former employer, the Police Department, the Sheriff’s Department, the Alabama State Bar and two county circuit judges, among others. Mostly, he has lost.

But even those who longed for his muzzling, and there are many, did not see it coming like this: with Mr. Shuler sitting in jail indefinitely, and now on the list of imprisoned journalists worldwide kept by the Committee to Protect Journalists. There, in the company of jailed reporters in China, Iran and Egypt, is Mr. Shuler, the only person on the list in the Western Hemisphere.

A former sports reporter and a former employee in a university’s publications department, Mr. Shuler, 57, was arrested in late October on a contempt charge in connection with a defamation lawsuit filed by the son of a former governor. The circumstances surrounding that arrest, including a judge’s order that many legal experts described as unconstitutional and behavior by Mr. Shuler that some of the same experts described as self-defeating posturing, have made for an exceptionally messy test of constitutional law.

“You’ve got a situation where sometimes there’s no good guys,” said Ken White, a former federal prosecutor in Los Angeles who writes about and practices First Amendment law.....................>>>>................>>>>.............http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014.....tions.html?referrer=
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This is a tough one, it isn't clear whether the guy is an amateur journalist or just some nut harassing people. His neighbor's lawyer ended up owning half of the blogger's house or some bizarre thing like that.
That Saratoga blogger's website is still closed, the one that tangled with the weird NEXIUM group. He isn't in a jail, at least.
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it's only OK when the mainstream media offers wrongful statements and passes them off as good journalism as a truth,
because we're too stupid to actually learn/talk/research on our own.
kind of like only an MD knows your body better than you do.

journalists are not gods
doctors are not gods
politicians are not gods

YES....you were born a sovereign human being with the ability to live and survive.....

DISCLAIMER after birth: must fit in with social cast system and just be nice and not cause problems with the status quo


...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......

The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.


STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS

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DISCLAIMER after birth: must fit in with social cast system and just be nice and not cause problems with the status quo


Yup they want us to be a cog in the machine, although what is the purpose of the machine, that is the real question


"In the beginning of a change, the Patriot is a scarce man, brave, hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, however, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a Patriot."

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Well, in New York, they have our kids now, with those "higher standards" of the Common Core. Notice how elected officials aren't exactly leading a stampede to get the wonderful Common Core for their own kids. In fact, they are spending a lot of money just to avoid it.
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it's only OK when the mainstream media offers wrongful statements and passes them off as good journalism as a truth,
because we're too stupid to actually learn/talk/research on our own.
kind of like only an MD knows your body better than you do.

journalists are not gods
doctors are not gods
politicians are not gods

YES....you were born a sovereign human being with the ability to live and survive.....

DISCLAIMER after birth: must fit in with social cast system and just be nice and not cause problems with the status quo


Finally something we agree on. If Fox News can spout off and rant and be buffoons- why can't everyone???  

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Finally something we agree on. If Fox News can spout off and rant and be buffoons- why can't everyone???  



we agree but you left 'all' out of your statement......


...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......

The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.


STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS

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