Thanks for helping me win the SFDB Post of the Month


This is a bit belated but it’s been a busy week and I was hoping to incorporate this information in a longer post about what I’ve accomplished on this blog so far, but I’ve really haven’t accomplished anything yet except maybe stir the pot a little and hopefully raise a little awareness, so I will save that post for a later time.

In the mean time, I will just thank everybody who voted for me last week, helping me win the Blog Post of the Month for June in the South Florida Daily Blog monthly contest.

It was the second time in five months one of my posts was chosen. In February, I won the very first SFDB Blog Post of the Month contest.

Both times, my posts included video, photos and commentary, allowing me to demonstrate my multimedia skills. And both times, the topic was on protests, a fundamental First Amendment right I will always cherish.

In fact, this whole blog is an ongoing protest against authorities who have no respect for the First Amendment when it comes to photographers. Or bloggers for that matter.

I would also like to thank Rick from the South Florida Daily Blog, who in his own words, “sifts through and reviews most of the blogs based in South Florida and highlights those posts that stand out from the rest of the day’s traffic.”

It is a grueling task, but he manages to do it every morning and evening without fail, even while he is traveling. Somebody should give him an award.

And while I am being sentimental, I will also thank Henry Gomez from Babalu, who proved he was a solid blogger by not only attending my trial, but hanging out for more than two hours during jury deliberations and then posting the verdict on this blog (starting on comment 24) from his laptop immediately after it was announced. Then he posted his perspective on the trial on Babalu.

Anybody who is familiar with the South Florida blogosphere knows that Henry and I stand at extreme opposite ends of the political spectrum, but the First Amendment is something we completely agree on.

Below is a picture I took of Henry in the courthouse with my Canon TX1, which did not get me arrested (by the way, the TX1 has been repaired and returned to me!).

From Henry’s comments, the news was picked up by my friends at Democratic Underground, who continued to spread the news on the Internet.

As a blogger who spent years working for daily newspapers, it was a very telling moment for me.

It showed me that we, the people, are the real media, not the corporations.

And that is something the authorities do not like, which is why they keep trying to restrict our photography and our blogging and our protests.

And that is why we must keep fighting.

Comments

Anonymous
Anonymous

Carlos,

Thank you for having this blog. I’ve been having a lot of trouble finding one single website to keep up with photographer arrests and infringements on photographers rights. I’ve subscribed, and am looking forward to your continued excellence in publishing this valuable information.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Thanks Jake,

It’s a never-ending task because these incidents continually to arise, but I will continue documenting them.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Kudos!!!

Anonymous
Anonymous

John Glenn (DEMOCRAT) said this —– It should make us all think a little:

There were 39 combat related killings in Iraq in January. In the fair city of Detroit there were 35 murders in the month of January. That’s just one American city, about as deadly as the entire war-torn country of Iraq .

When some claim that President Bush shouldn’t have started this war, tell them the following:

FDR (DEMOCRAT) led us into World War II. Germany never attacked us; Japan did. From 1941-1945, 450,000 lives were lost … an average of 112,500 per year.

Truman (DEMOCRAT) finished that war and started one in Korea . North Korea never attacked us. From 1950-1953, 55,000 lives were lost … an average of 18,334 per year.

John F. Kennedy (DEMOCRAT) started the Vietnam conflict in 1962. Vietnam never attacked us.

Johnson (DEMOCRAT) turned Vietnam into a quagmire. From 1965-1975, 58,000 lives were lost … an average of 5,800 per year.

Clinton (DEMOCRAT) went to war in Bosnia without UN or French consent. Bosnia never attacked us. He was offered Osama bin Laden’s head on a platter three times by Sudan and did nothing. Osama has attacked us on multiple occasions.
This one is a fact that makes me mad as hell.

In the years since terrorists attacked us, President Bush has liberated two countries, crushed the Taliban, crippled al-Qaida, put nuclear inspectors in Libya, Iran, and, North Korea without firing a shot, and captured a terrorist who slaughtered 300,000 of his own people. And the Democrats are complaining about how long the war is taking.

But Wait, There’s more.

It took less time to take Iraq than it took Janet Reno (DEMOCRAT) to take the Branch Davidian compound. That was a 51-day operation.

We’ve been looking for evidence for chemical weapons in Iraq for less time than it took Hillary Clinton (DEMOCRAT) to find the Rose law firm billing records.

It took less time for the 3rd Infantry Division and the Marines to destroy the Medina Republican Guard than it took Ted Kennedy to call the police after his Oldsmobile sank at Chappaquiddick.
It took less time to take Iraq than it took to count the votes in Florida !!!
Our Commander-In-Chief is doing a GREAT JOB! The Military morale is high!
The biased media hopes we are too ignorant to realize the facts.
But Wait …….There’s more!
JOHN GLENN (on the Senate floor – January 26, 2004)

Some people still don’t understand why military personnel do what they do for a living. This exchange between Senators John Glenn and Senator Howard Metzenbaum is worth reading. Not only is it a pretty impressive impromptu speech, but it’s also a good example of one man’s explanation of why men and women in the armed services do what they do for a living.

This IS a typical, though sad, example of what some who have never served think of the military.

Senator Metzenbaum (speaking to Senator Glenn):
‘How can you run for Senate when you’ve never held a real job?’

Senator Glenn (D-Ohio): ‘I served 23 years in the United States Marine Corps. I served through two wars. I flew 149 missions. My plane was hit by anti-aircraft fire on 12 different occasions. I was in the space program. It wasn’t my checkbook, Howard; it was my life on the line. It was not a nine-to-five job, where I took time off to take the daily cash receipts to the bank. I ask you to go with me, as I went the other day… to a veteran’s hospital and look those men … with their mangled bodies … in the eye, and tell THEM they didn’t hold a job!
�

You go with me to the Space Program at NASA and go, as I have gone, to the widows and orphans of Ed White, Gus Grissom and Roger Chaffee … and you look those kids in the eye and tell them that their DAD’S didn’t hold a job.

You go with me on Memorial Day and you stand in Arlington National Cemetery, where I have more friends buried than I’d like to remember, and you watch those waving flags. You stand there, and you think about this nation, and you have the gall to tell ME that those people didn’t have a job?
What about Metzenbaum? For those who don’t remember During W.W.II, Howard Metzenbaum was an attorney representing the Communist Party in the USA .

Now he’s a Senator!

If you can read this, thank a teacher. If you are reading it in English thank a Veteran.

It might not be a bad idea to keep this circulating. I AM!!!

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From: Victor Roos
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Subject: IT MIGHT BE A GOOD IDEA TO KEEP THIS CIRCULATING!
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 06:32:48 -0700

John Glenn (DEMOCRAT) said this —– It should make us all think a little:

There were 39 combat related killings in Iraq in January. In the fair city of Detroit there were 35 murders in the month of January. That’s just one American city, about as deadly as the entire war-torn country of Iraq .

When some claim that President Bush shouldn’t have started this war, tell them the following:

FDR (DEMOCRAT) led us into World War II. Germany never attacked us; Japan did. From 1941-1945, 450,000 lives were lost … an average of 112,500 per year.

Truman (DEMOCRAT) finished that war and started one in Korea . North Korea never attacked us. From 1950-1953, 55,000 lives were lost … an average of 18,334 per year.

John F. Kennedy (DEMOCRAT) started the Vietnam conflict in 1962. Vietnam never attacked us.

Johnson (DEMOCRAT) turned Vietnam into a quagmire. From 1965-1975, 58,000 lives were lost … an average of 5,800 per year.

Clinton (DEMOCRAT) went to war in Bosnia without UN or French consent. Bosnia never attacked us. He was offered Osama bin Laden’s head on a platter three times by Sudan and did nothing. Osama has attacked us on multiple occasions.
This one is a fact that makes me mad as hell.

In the years since terrorists attacked us, President Bush has liberated two countries, crushed the Taliban, crippled al-Qaida, put nuclear inspectors in Libya, Iran, and, North Korea without firing a shot, and captured a terrorist who slaughtered 300,000 of his own people. And the Democrats are complaining about how long the war is taking.

But Wait, There’s more.

It took less time to take Iraq than it took Janet Reno (DEMOCRAT) to take the Branch Davidian compound. That was a 51-day operation.

We’ve been looking for evidence for chemical weapons in Iraq for less time than it took Hillary Clinton (DEMOCRAT) to find the Rose law firm billing records.

It took less time for the 3rd Infantry Division and the Marines to destroy the Medina Republican Guard than it took Ted Kennedy to call the police after his Oldsmobile sank at Chappaquiddick.
It took less time to take Iraq than it took to count the votes in Florida !!!
Our Commander-In-Chief is doing a GREAT JOB! The Military morale is high!
The biased media hopes we are too ignorant to realize the facts.
But Wait …….There’s more!
JOHN GLENN (on the Senate floor – January 26, 2004)

Some people still don’t understand why military personnel do what they do for a living. This exchange between Senators John Glenn and Senator Howard Metzenbaum is worth reading. Not only is it a pretty impressive impromptu speech, but it’s also a good example of one man’s explanation of why men and women in the armed services do what they do for a living.

This IS a typical, though sad, example of what some who have never served think of the military.

Senator Metzenbaum (speaking to Senator Glenn):
‘How can you run for Senate when you’ve never held a real job?’

Senator Glenn (D-Ohio): ‘I served 23 years in the United States Marine Corps. I served through two wars. I flew 149 missions. My plane was hit by anti-aircraft fire on 12 different occasions. I was in the space program. It wasn’t my checkbook, Howard; it was my life on the line. It was not a nine-to-five job, where I took time off to take the daily cash receipts to the bank. I ask you to go with me, as I went the other day… to a veteran’s hospital and look those men … with their mangled bodies … in the eye, and tell THEM they didn’t hold a job!
�

You go with me to the Space Program at NASA and go, as I have gone, to the widows and orphans of Ed White, Gus Grissom and Roger Chaffee … and you look those kids in the eye and tell them that their DAD’S didn’t hold a job.

You go with me on Memorial Day and you stand in Arlington National Cemetery, where I have more friends buried than I’d like to remember, and you watch those waving flags. You stand there, and you think about this nation, and you have the gall to tell ME that those people didn’t have a job?
What about Metzenbaum? For those who don’t remember During W.W.II, Howard Metzenbaum was an attorney representing the Communist Party in the USA .

Now he’s a Senator!

If you can read this, thank a teacher. If you are reading it in English thank a Veteran.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Thanks, Carlos.

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Anonymous
Anonymous

“Anybody who is familiar with the South Florida blogosphere knows that Henry and I stand at extreme opposite ends of the political spectrum . . .”

Very refreshing to hear of your mutual respect. If only we could agree to disagree more often and just move on.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Anyone who is familiar with the South Florida blogoshere is suppossed to know you? Get of your high horse, no one knows you from a hole in the wall.

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