Tongue Tied Cries “Freedom of the Press”

I have to disagree with Tongue Tied on the issue of the State of Pennsylvania seizing newspaper computers.

This dispute is over a potential felony due to the hacking of a secure website. Did a corner give out a password to a restricted law enforcement website? Or did the paper potentially hack into the computer. Either way, the paper could face serious charges.

On of the MSM is just flabbergasted over the seizure of four computers from the newspaper.

“This is horrifying, an editor’s worst nightmare,” said Lucy Dalglish, executive director of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press in Washington. “For the government to actually physically have those hard drives from a newsroom is amazing. I’m just flabbergasted to hear of this.”

Tongue Tied is insistent that the government has infringed the Constitution.

If it is not abridging the freedom of the press to seize its records and the equipment it uses to do its job, I don’t know what would be. But lots of people these days — including some Supreme Court judges — seem to think that the Constitution can mean anything they want it to mean.

What infringement? Did the newspaper not be able to print? Were the presses seized or smashed? Doesn’t the newspaper keep regular backups? They only seized the computers in question. You want to know what abridging the freedom of the press is… look to Iran for what it really means.

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