Fascist abuse of a Kansas newspaper staff’s First Amendment freedom and right to privacy led to the death of one of its co-owners and global condemnation of the Gestapo tactics:
The newspaper is vowing to take legal action against the sheriff. “I can assure you that the Record will take every step to obtain relief for the damages your heavy-handed actions have already caused my client,” said the newspaper’s attorney, Bernie Rhodes.
Hate-filled comments from Trump and the rabid MAGA crowd fuel violence, threats and other mistreatment directed toward the news media at large:
The police chief must be fired immediately, along with any other official involved in the illegal mistreatment of the newspaper.
With extreme difficulty, the newspaper managed to produce a new edition. This is what every newspaper staff should do when officials seize equipment or censor the publication. And not just commercial newspapers, but school or college papers, too. Don’t let the fascists win.
When news media were shuttered in dictator Putin’s Russia after the start of the war in Ukraine, one news outlet relocated to Latvia and kept publishing. Its amazing perseverance is inspiring.
Another way to defeat the fascists is with encryption of cellphones, tablets, computers and back up drives:
https://freedom.press/training/blog/marion-record-police-raid/
And journalists and editors should use Proton VPN, which was developed to protect journalists and is based in privacy-focused Switzerland:
https://newsmustread.wordpress.com/2023/07/30/proton-releases-tool-to-gauge-attacks-on-democracy/
Also, journalists and editors should use Signal for texting with end-to-end encryption:
https://newsmustread.wordpress.com/2023/08/05/signal-protects-privacy-for-texting/
The newspaper:
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