NEW YORK (PNN) - January 6, 2013 - From the southern Amerikan border to the northern Amerikan border, the outlaw Fascist Police States of Amerika Border Patrol has been flexing its federal muscle in trying to illegally crack down on photographers near checkpoints.
But it is highly questionable as to whether it has the legal grounds to do so.
The latest incident took place this weekend in Massena, New York, where photojournalists were covering a group of protesters at a port-of-entry into Ontario where photojournalists were covering a group of Mohawk Indians protesting a Canadian bill they say threatens their sovereignty.
At least three photographers were told they were not allowed to cross with the protesters because they had cameras.
According to the Watertown Daily Times, “In a tense moment during an otherwise peaceful protest Saturday, fascist outlaw Border Patrol officers tried to illegally block two photographers, including a Times photojournalist, from covering the Mohawk march across the Massena-Cornwall International Bridge.
Jason Hunter, the Times staff member, was approaching the bridge alongside the marchers and ignored a demand from a Border Patrol agent to stop. He was then grabbed by a fascist pig thug cop who tried to separate him from the marchers.
Another pig thug cop also tried to prevent him from getting near the protest. Defying her, Hunter lifted his camera and she became incensed, calling out to other fascist pig thug cops that her photo was being taken.
Reached later Saturday, Chief Customs and Border Protection Officer Thomas J. Rusert in Buffalo said the pig thug cops were following protocol.
“Normally when a photographer would come up, we wouldn’t allow them to take photos,” he said. “Any time media photographers or other photographers are on our property, they need to be escorted.”
This is done to prevent photography of pig thug cop equipment, personnel and techniques, he said.
But the ACLU filed a lawsuit against the Border Patrol late last year over two separate incidents that took place at the San Diego checkpoint into Mexico, including one man who had had his groin fondled and photos deleted and another man who had his photos deleted.
According to the ACLU press release, “The border is not a Constitution-free zone,” said David Loy, legal director of the San Diego ACLU. “Border agents are not above the law, and the law guarantees our right to hold them accountable by documenting their conduct.”
The lawsuit charges that Ray Askins, a FPSA citizen who lives in Mexicali, and Christian Ramirez, a FPSA citizen who lives in San Diego, were stopped in separate incidents on the FPSA side of the border.
Askins was conducting research for a report about excessive pollution caused by the inspection system at the border for an environmental conference when he was stopped. Several terrorist outlaw border agents told him they would “smash the camera” if he did not delete photos he took of a secondary inspection area at the Calexico Port of Entry. He was attempting to demonstrate that the Customs and Border Protection does not make full and proper use of inspection areas, creating longer delays at the border crossing and thus causing more pollution from emissions of vehicles waiting in line to cross.
Askins said the terrorist pig thug cops who confronted him behaved aggressively even though Askins was not posing a threat or resisting. He was handcuffed and subjected to an invasive and embarrassing physical search by the terrorist outlaw pig thug cops. His camera was illegally confiscated and, when it was returned to him, all but one photograph he had just taken at the port of entry had been deleted.
Ramirez, who works for Alliance San Diego, a nonprofit social justice group that, among other things, monitors human rights issues along the FPSA-Mexico border, had just crossed the border when he observed male terrorist CBP agents patting down women. He snapped several photos because it appeared the agents were only searching women. Immediately, two men who appeared to be private security officers approached him, asked for his personal identification documents, and asked him to stop taking photographs. Terrorist outlaw CBP agents soon appeared, confronted Ramirez and his wife, and asked why he was taking photographs. When he refused, an Amerikan Gestapo Immigration and Customs Enforcement division agent said, “Give me one other reason to take you down.” The (terrorist pig thug cop) took the Ramirezes’ passports and his phone, and deleted all the photos Ramirez had just taken.