UNITED
NATIONS, March
26, new
short video
-- When the UN
refuses to
answer a
question that
it
both could and
should answer,
what is one to
do?
The UN has
admitted that
it erred
in entering
Inner City
Press' office,
or at least
part of the
office, on
March 18
without even
notifying
Inner City
Press.
The UN in
this case is
not only
lawless, but
also
logic-less.
Since
photographs
taken in the
part of the
office have
since been given
to
BuzzFeed by an
anonymous
“Concerned UN
Reporter”
e-mail address,
whose
cowardly
creator
then spoke in
defense of the
UN
Correspondents
Association
which has tried to get
Inner City
Press thrown
out of the
UN, Inner
City Press has
asked the UN
who it let
into its
office,
without its
knowledge or
consent.
And
despite its purported
apology, the
UN has refused
to provide
this
basic
information.
Inner City
Press
requested it
on March 22,
and was
given an
evasive answer
by the UN's
Stephane
Dujarric that
“regarding
the photos on
BuzzFeed, they
were not
shared by the
UN with the
author and I
can't very
well ask her
where she got
them.”
But
that was
obvious,
unless it was
a UN
officials, and
not as is more
obvious an
UNCA “leader,”
who opened the
nameless
“Concerned UN
Reporter”
e-mail account
to send them
to BuzzFeed.
On March 26,
the UNCA "leaders"
created what
is at minimum
a fifth
anonymous
social media
account to try
to undermine
Inner City
Press with
countries'
missions to
the UN. It's
the UN
Cowardice
Association.
Dujarric
also
demanded to
know who in
the UN had
asked Inner
City Press to
remove from
YouTube
the post-raid
video(s) it
openly filmed
in its
own office.
Inner City
Press provided
the name, but
has heard
nothing
back from
Dujarric on
this.
Does
the demand to
remove the
video
stand?
So
Inner City
Press on March
25 asked the
head of the
Department of
Public
Information,
it is for “DPI
to determine
which UN
personnel
it had in
Inner City
Press' office
on March 18,
which of them
took
photographs,
and with whom
they shared
these
photographs.”
The response,
such as it
was, came not
from the head
of DPI but from
Stephane
Dujarric
again, who
this time
wrote, “I
personally
looked
at our
pictures and
those posted
on BuzzFeed
and it's clear
that they
are not the
same
photographs.”
But
clearly the
photographs
were taken
inside Inner
City Press'
office.
So, by whom?
Inner
City Pesss,
beyond the short video uploaded today,
has more
post-raid
video, and
even some of
the names.
There is also
the DPI
staffer who
actually "led"
the raid,
whose name
Inner Cit
Press
purposely, in
solidarity,
hasn't published.
But
isn't it
for the UN,
especially
after it
admits that it
was wrong, to
identify
who it let it,
who took the
photos, and
with whom they
shared them?
At Tuesday's
noon briefing,
Inner City
Press asked:
Inner
City Press: I
asked you
yesterday,
you’d asked me
to ask
Stéphane
[Dujarric]
about this
entry without
consent or
notice into
the Inner
City Press
office on
Monday. His
answer now
acknowledges
that they
should not
have entered
the Inner City
Press portion
of the office
without
providing
notice. But
they did;
fine. He’s
said that the
photographs
taken, he
said, these
are not our
photographs
that were
given to
Buzzfeed. I
don’t know if
that means DPI
(Department of
Public
Information)
or all of the
UN individuals
who went in.
Pam
Falk of UNCA
(United
Nations
Correspondents
Association)
has said
they were not
her
photographs;
she did take
photographs,
but has made
a legal threat
not to write
about that
they may be
her
photographs.
So I really, I
just want very
simple
answers. Since
the UN
acknowledges
that the entry
was now
improper, what
individuals
were
allowed to
enter that
portion of the
office, which
of them took
photographs
and to where
did they give
those
photographs
since DPI is
the one that
allowed them
to enter and
acknowledges
that it was
wrong? I want
to close this
one off.
Spokesperson
Martin
Nesirky: I
know that you
wrote to the
Under-Secretary-General
for Public
Information
and
Communications
yesterday, and
that you
received a
reply from
Stéphane
Dujarric, I
don’t have
anything to
add to that.
Inner
City Press:
One follow-up
on that, my
question is:
he is saying
it is
not the UN’s
photographs,
so inevitably
that makes me
believe the
only person I
am aware that
took
photographs
was Pamela
Falk of UNCA,
but she has
made a legal
threat that if
I write that,
I guess CBC
News will sue.
So I am asking
you, it’s
simple to
clean it up; I
didn’t take
the
photograph,
the
photographs
were taken
that day,
clearly in an
area that DPI
invited
individuals
into. So I was
limited to one
question — who
did they
invite in?
Spokesperson
Nesirky:
I don’t have
anything to
add beyond
what I have
already
said.
Not
only is the UN
lawless -- it
is also, on
this,
logic-less.
Nesirky
said, “ I know
that you wrote
to the
Under-Secretary-General
for
Public
Information
and
Communications
yesterday, and
that you
received a
reply from
Stéphane
Dujarric.”
That's
one of the
problems. But
regarding the
USG for DPI to
whom Inner
City
Press actually
directed the
question, and
in light of
Dujarric's
refusal to
address either
a false letter
he sent Inner
City Press on
February 27 in
defense of
UNCA and Falk
or the
outrageous
demand by a
UN “doctor” to
remove from
YouTube a
video filmed
in Inner City
Press' own
office, here
is a short
video, click
here to view.
It intends to
reflect the
intentions of
the USG of
DPI, and the
disconnect
with what his
DPI and the UN
are
actually
doing:
threatening,
raiding,
handing photos
to their
favorites,
stonewalling:
click
here to view.
We
will have more
on this.
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