Winter is currently facing a jail sentence for refusing to reveal the sources who provided her with alleged Aurora shooter James Holmes\u2019 notebook, which he had sent to a psychiatrist and which was “full of details about how he was going to kill people.” Holmes\u2019 defense attorneys subpoenaed Winter to testify about who told her about the notebook and a Colorado judge has said that he will rule on April 10th whether Winter must reveal her source or face jail time for refusing to testify.<\/p>\n
Winter\u2019s dilemma should not just trouble just her colleagues at Fox News \u2013 it should trouble every single American who values the First Amendment, freedom of the press and the free exchange of dialogue between the media and those who supply journalists with information.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
If I was a judge, I’d be more interested in whether or why the police ignored the psychiatrist’s warnings. But then that would highlight why we have shooters like Holmes among us – law enforcement either can’t or won’t enforce the laws that have already been written. that we don’t need more laws, we need committed prosecutors who are supposed to be advocating for the people not advocating for taking more of our rights away. of course, the First Amendment, which is supposed to protect Winters in this case, is just like the Second Amendment to these people – it’s for their convenience and can be waived when it become inconvenient to them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Apparently, there’s a notebook out there that was written by James Holmes, the Aurora, Colorado, theater … Those eroding rights thingies<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gun-grabbing-fascists","category-legal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}