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July 12th, 2006
Josh Wolf’s Grand Jury Resource Page
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*Update* At this point in time I have a civil contempt hearing on July 20th! If you are able to come out to show your support it would be much appreciated! Feel free to contact me if you have any questions about my case. Mail (at) Joshwolf.net
Daisuke posted on Digg asking where to begin reading about my case. This blog entry serves as a good overview, but doesn’t contain the most recent information.
Press Releases Related to the Case:
- Independent Journalist Asserts Constitutional Rights to Resist Federal Grand Jury Subpoena (June 17, 2006)
- Josh Wolf to Appear in front of Federal Grand Jury Tomorrow (June 14, 2006)
- Lawyers Group Attempts to Halt Federal Grand Jury (March 30, 2006)
Articles From the Established Media
- SF Chronicle (June 16, 2006): Journalist not forced to give up video
- SF Sentinel (June 16, 2006): San Francisco reporter asserts rights to remain silent before federal grand jury
- SF Weekly (April 19, 2006): Should Journalist Josh Wolf Be Afraid?
Media Related to the Case
Published Video of the July 8th Protest
Audio Transcript of the June 15th Federal Hearing
Video of June 15th Press Conference- Photos from June 15th Press Conference
Video from Press Conference that took place on March 30th- Photo’s from March 30th Press Conference
Court Documents Pertaining to the Case
- Order in RE: Civil Contempt (July 7, 2006) Order Directing Witness Joshua Wolf to show cause why he should not be held in civil contempt
- Transcript from Federal Hearing in Alsup’s Court ( June 15, 2006) These are the transcripts from my hearing in Judge Alsup’s Court.
- Judges Alsup’s Order (July 10, 2006) Order RE Briefing on Order to Show Cause
- Judge’s denial for our motion to reconsider (June 7, 2006)
- US Attorney’s Motion to Disclose Grand Jury Matter (July 5, 2006)
- Reply to Judge James Ruling This document very clearly addresses our issues with the subpoena I’ve received.
- Wolf’s DeclarationThis is my legal declaration about the facts of the case.
- Judge James Ruling on Motion to Quash On April 5, 2006 the judge published an order denying my motion to quash the subpoena.
- Judge James Order (March 31, 2006) The Judge “ordered the US Attorney to produce the subject of the investigation in camera by April 5, essentially asking the government to be more specific in the scope of the investigation.” –FBI Witch Hunt
- Motion to Stay and Quash Subpoena (February 15, 2006)
- US’ Opposition To Motion To Quash Subpoena (March 9, 2006)
- Reply to US Attorney’s Opposition to Quash
- Motion For Open Hearing and To Unseal Court Documents (March 6, 2006)
- Judges Order to Grant An Open Hearing and Unseal Court Documents
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While their methods may be wrong, their just trying to go after criminals.
Fucking hippies.
STFU YOU IGNORANT C*NT
you should be ashamedof the shit you’re trying to pull off here. you’re far from any kind of journalist, and that protest was so far from legit.
i hope you and all your lameass hippie friends get thrown in jail.
This isn’t news, it’s bullshit propoganda. You incite the police and are part of the movement, you are not a journalist. In addition, you should learn about video production.
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blogs are for losers who don’t have a job
Ya, This doesn’t qualify as journalism because he doesn’t agree with you, but Fox News is fair and balanced.
All of the posters above have missed the point entirely, instead choosing to get angry at “hippy bloggers trying to break the law”. Regardless of Wolf’s involvement in the demonstration at the G8 summit, the point is that as currently defined CA law protects his video source under the Shield Law. The Federal government is using a grand jury to get around the CA law even though no federal crimes are being charged. The entire premise of the Feds being involved at all is based upon minor damage to a SF poilce cruiser. The Fed is arguing that because that police dept receives some federal funds then the cruiser is partly federal property and therefore federal law can be applied to the case. The government is abusing its power and overreaching with the grand jury to bypass a state law. This is about states’ rights, not ‘lawless hippies’, if the Feds can simply overcome any state law by finding some tenuous link to federal funds and invoking a grand jury then the entire point of states’ is lost! Wake up people, this is why we have such a huge and overbearing federal government, shortsighted rabblerousers just like to see others get punished and completely miss the constitutional abuses that are being perpetrated to do so!
this is the dumbest crap ive ever seen. the video is completely retarded, as are the dumb protestors, get a clue.
Illiterate people have not the skills to use language effectively. They must resort to profanity, physical posture and loud voices in an attempt to bully you into submission. I don’t like bullies of any sort including police, military or civilian.
I remember the Vietnam war protests and Kent State University when the National Guard started shooting people. I have personally experienced bully cops. I am a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars (Vietnam-era veteran) and so do not care for the previous derogatory statements of you because it is obvious that none of the writers were ever in the military and so do not have an appreciation of the freedoms and right to a free press; see http://usinfo.state.gov/products/pubs/rightsof/press.htm .
The Beach Boys Mike Love wrote some great lyrics in “Student Demonstration Time.” Lyrics are here: http://www.cabinessence.net/lyrics/surfs_up.html . It’s a great song about some sad chapters in American justice or lack thereof..
Mr. Wolf, I respect and honor your courage. I suspect that the police are more worried about creating defenses for charges of police brutality than they are of some vehicle damage. Or they don’t want future recordings of their brutality to make the evening news. Let them sweat.
If the police can have cameras in their squad cars then when they show up for potential riot control why don’t they have their own cameras? Could it be that they don’t want witnesses or a record that can be viewed in court?
wow i think that i became dumber for watching that
I want you to eat the shit as it squeezes out of my ass.
Dude, it would suck to be you. Gotta hand over the tape, bitch, otherwise you are an attention seeker
It funny how right-wing Fox watchers call themselves patriotd while trampling on freedom of speech, the Bill of Rights, and the Constitution whenever those rights are excercised by someone they disagree with. But frankly, the liberal side have themselves to blame also. There should not be something called a hate crime–a crime is a crime regardless of the motivation and sentences shouldn’t vary because fo the color of the victim or the perp. Nor should the KKK, Nazis, or Anti-gay protestors be persecuted unless they break the law. As further examples of self-inflicted liberal wounds: affirmative action has institutionalized prejudice and further divded this nation by makign race more of an issue instead of less. the liberals have as much to answer for as the conservatives. One last one: amnesty for idenitiy-stealing illegals puts criminals ahead of identity theft victims. every illegal has forged social security papers–and that is hurting a real law-abiding citizen somewhere. It is wrong and amnesty is very wrong. So liberals, you bring it on yourselves even if your oppoents are Neanderthals. You _seem_ smarter but then you support stupid things. So how ca we tell?
It amazes me that young kids and hippies seem to justify violence and destruction as long as it furthers the cause that they are “fighting” for. Everyone else is a fascist. Great job shooting vandalism, civil disobedience and obstruction of justice! Carry on jounalist and don’t forget the KY on your way to jail.
This is ridiculous. The video shows the vandalism. The video shows them propping signs up in front of vehicles.
It’s not journalism. He didn’t take an outside perspective. He’s not there for the press, and shield laws protect newsgatherers, and not any idiot with a camera.
I’m all for people’s civil liberties, but this is ridiculous.
People to often get blinded by the Left/Right nonsense when all that matters is right and wrong. I don’t like “hippies” but people have to have the right to demonstrate and report on it. I am much more concerned about a powerful government that oversteps its bounds to enforce its will, be it wrong or right, rather than by a bunch of “hippies”.
Historically revolutions have helped to right wrongs. If the government is allowed to smother peaceable means of revolutions & dissemination of information you are left to its mercy, regardless of the right & wrong debate.
idiots idiots idiots. go home hippies.
middleman, i agree that polarization is bad. too much right/left hate out there. I also agree that the right to demonstrate should be defended. What i have a problem with is people destroying property and obstructing justice. I don’t see the government overstepping it’s bounds here, i see people getting arrested for idiotic illegal behavior. Revolution is also not a bad thing either, it’s how we got here, but every avenue must be explored first.
Both “groups” in this debacle are full of dopes. Let’s just look at two examples:
1) What peaceful protest meaning is there to dragging news paper stands into the road? You guys were causing a public disturbance. Usually, regardless of what kind of government is in place, that’s a bad thing.
2) A cop/fed (whatever) going around saying “You’re gonna get blasted” is equally as dumb. Way to spoil the milk on that one.
If this protest had any merit whatsoever, you would have taken a different route. Instead, you have a bunch of uninformed opinions shooting out of the mouths of a bunch of cornballs. It’s only going to lead you into trouble. Next time, try taking a better approach.
Also, Capitalism sucks.
You and your goofy hipster friends give the anarchist movement a bad name. You have a tape that DOCUMENTS A CRIME. The police have every right to ask for it.
Now if you weren’t some sort of wanna be assclown and actually, you know, had a legit protest and not a bunch of little kids who only like anarchy because they heard of it on a shitty Anti-Flag bootleg… well maybe you would have a case.
Also, not only are you giving anarchists and anti-government movements everywhere a bad name by just breathing every morning, you are also giving journalists a bad name for even pretending to be one. You, sir, are as much as a journalist as I am the Queen of England.
I hate our government and the way it represents itself, but the only thing I hate more is assholes like you and your girl-pants wearing buddies using a legitimate stance to get more MySpace friends.
Have fun in federal ass-raping prison, I wonder if you will cry to your ‘pig’ guards when a large man takes your ass virginity. Good luck mate!
the only reason this guy is an ‘independent reporter’ is because he doesn’t have the talent to get a real job in the journalism community.
I was thinking about becoming an anarchist, but I don’t own any bandanas. Do you guys have one I can borrow?
I skimmed over some Chomsky articles on Wikipedia, so I’m definitely good to go if someone “calls us out.”
Let me know about the bandanas. I’m eager to get the ball rolling! Thanks! FUCK THA POLICE!
I think the cops deserve to be shot!!!
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Wow – so much ignorance here. Freedom of the press is a non-partisan issue, or should be. The freedom to tape a public event and not get harassed is crucial to our freedom and responsibility to keep the government accountable for its actions.
Yeah, the people in the video maybe are jerks and out of hand, but the government is a bunch of jerkoffs, saying that they should have the original tape (note – not a copy they could get by downloading it) because of some BS about them owning a piece of city-owned property. It’s straight BS. The fact that they have to make up nonsense like this is a testament to them not having a legal leg to stand on.
Josh is fighting the good fight here. He is standing up for what’s right. It would be much easier to do what the government says but they don’t have the right to what they demand.
And what makes a journalist? A paycheck? Then does that make Geraldo Rivera or some douchebag at Fox who simply reads the lies his boss gives him more of a journalist than me or Josh Wolf? That’s a sad statement. Some of us report what’s going on and yet we are not part of the MSM and thus not taken seriously even though we are doing a better job.
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It really hard to listen to people who have no sense of their rights as an American, as a free people, complain about someone who is putting himself in jeoprady rather than let the government erode those rights.
Those rights include the right to be an informed public, and it was because Josh Wolf shot that video, which was picked up by news organizations, that makes him a journalist, because he acted to inform the public of this protest. If he had not been acting in the role of a journalist, the government would be unaware of the existence of this video, so for them to claim he is not a journalist is complete double-talk.
The journalist did not create the events shown on the tape. The jouralist recorded them, and news agencies broadcast them. How can anyone claim he is not a journalist?
The government, however, has no real interest in the tape itself, or in Josh Wolf’s testimony; it’s purpose here is to assert the Federal Governments supremacy over State law (the California Shield Law), a policy that the Feds have been pursuing on many fronts over the past 6 years – environmental law being the clearist example, as they have tried to trump California’s right to protect the health of the people by insisting that only the Federal Gov. has the right to set standards.
So the question you must all ask yourselves is, ‘do I want the Federal Government overruling my State laws?’
If you let them prevail here, how will you stop them later? Stand up for your rights, or you lose them.
Be glad you’re not in Canada. They just put a guy in prison for 9 months because they didn’t like the opinions he posted on a US forum.
See: http://news.google.ca/news?hl=en&q=%22tomasz%20winnicki
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I not sure if the protesters lost there brains before they went out on the road or there just too lazy to pay attention in history class. If they did they would have noticed that there was anarchy in before there where governments. Based on certain theories of the natural state of man by philosophers like Hobbes and Locke, Man forms social contracts because of fear of death and losing one’s possessions. Regardless this does seem like a state issue but federal property was damaged. I imagined the AUSA isn’t too thrilled to have a case like this considering there used to prosecution drug dealers and fraudsters
fuck all yall
Thanks you, America.
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If ya hate capitalism so much, join the military. It’s a beautiful example of Socialism. Everyone working for a common good. You’ll love it.