UN / FASHION AVE / SDNY,
March 23 -- Even after Larry Ray was
taken out of the courthouse on a gurney for
the second time, and another trial day was
canceled, the arguments continued.
His
Federal Defenders wanted to exclude the
testimony of an FBI agent about Backpage. The
prosecutors wanted to get that in as well as a
list of articles on Ray's laptop like "Cult
Membership: What factors contribute to joining
or leaving?"
Kurt
had published that exhibit without incident.
But publishing the list of Claudia Drury's
clients had triggered the requests he take it
down, and still no response from the Reporters
Committee for Freedom of the Press.
Meanwhile
it emerged there had been a conference call
about the case, even on the day out, but no
notice in PACER to the public and press, no
access.
Amid
others' vague talk about a couple from the
Gap, Kurt had asked the UN Spokesman Stephane
Dujarric in writing about a Liberian
politician, in Antonio Guterres' circle, now
presumptively a John. Nothing. No answer at
all, to banned Inner City Press.
Instead
in a briefing including known sexual harassers
Dujarric read canned statements about Ukraine,
as if it made up for his bosses Guterres and
Melissa Fleming having told 25 UN official to
not even call it an invasion or a war. It was
the UN of Guterres which had prostituted
itself.
Kurt
decided Step Two would bridge The Gap, on
Patreon here.
#JohnListGone
[It, like a song
about Lev Parnas was also
covered, behind a paywall, by
New York Magazine which had this
to say about Inner City Press'
covered in late 2021 of the
Ghislaine Maxwell trial, book
here
via one of the companies with
an executive on the John
list.]
When Inner
City Press for investigative
reporting was roughed up and thrown
out onto First Avenue
from covering the United
Nations of/by UNSG Antonio
Guterres, many did nothing.
But as we've previously noted,
the First Amendment stops at
First Avenue. We'll have more
on this, here and on other
platforms.
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