RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Oil giant BP and the Obama administration were among the winners of the Jefferson Muzzle awards, given Wednesday by a free-speech group to those it considered the worst First Amendment violators in 2010.
BP and the government appeared on the list, compiled by the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression, for their roles in restricting news media access to the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
Other recipients included the Transportation Security Administration, which arrested a passenger who stripped to his shorts to protest security measures; a Mississippi judge who jailed a lawyer or refusing to recite the Pledge of Allegiance and the Virginia prisons agency for banning a "Jailhouse Lawyers Handbook."
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Who can forget the TV images of the BP officials, arm in arm with the police threatening to arrest reporters who DARED to take photograghs of a PUBLIC BEACH!! Armed agents of the government unabashedly deciding that freedom of the press and the right of ANY American to walk on PUBLIC LAND was not anything they had to be concerned about. And Obama, an ultra liberal, goes right along with it?? Damn right he does.
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