UNCA
Files Bogus
Report With
Government,
"Judge" Barada
With DSS, New
Lows at UN
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
July 5,
updated --
Tuesday
afternoon the
New York Civil
Liberties
Union put out
a press
release
questioning US
government
agency Voice
of America's
complaint to
the UN to
review the
accreditation
of Inner City
Press.
Three
hours
later someone
in the UN
Correspondents
Association
filed a copy
of the bogus
report
commissioned
by UNCA
President
Giampaolo
Piolo and
his Big Media
puppet masters
/ Hamptons
house guests
with
government
authorities to
try to get
them to act
against Inner
City Press.
The
report
is marked
"confidential,"
and as
announced by
Pioli's
Secretary
Barbara Plett
of BBC on
Tuesday
afternoon, is
only for "UNCA
members in
good
standing." So
one of them is
responsible
for the
(anonymous)
retransmission
to government
authorities.
Was
this
the goal of
the report all
along?
In
fact,
Inner City
Press at 4 pm
on Thursday
went to UNCA's
office and
asked how
seeing the
report worked.
The office
worker,
seemingly paid
by Pioli
himself (as
reported, he
is renting out
a Hamptons
mansion for
$90,000 a
month) fumbled
around and was
unable to find
the copy of
the report she
was in charge
of. How to
listen to the
UNCA audio
recording of
the Executive
Committee's
Kafka-esque
July 3 meeting
was also
unclear.
Inner
City
Press' request
to see the
"information
available on
request" cited
in the report,
ignored by the
Board of
Examination
chair William
M. Reilly and
the two
remaining
Examiners, was
conveyed to
Pioli through
his Secretary,
so far without
response.
Simultaneously,
one of Pioli's
three "Board
of
Examination"
members, Ali
Barada of
An-Nahar,
filed a
complaint
against Inner
City Press
with the
"Special
Investigations
Unit" of the
UN Department
of Safety and
Security.
The only
basis? What
Inner City
Press said
when Barada
bragged that
he immediately
deleted
without
opening Inner
City Press'
email
requesting to
see the
"information
available on
request"
listed in the
report Barada
signed off on
- and which
was then sent
anonymously to
the government
against Inner
City Press.
In fact, while
all Inner City
Press
responded with
was a run of
the mill host
country
insult, Barada
cited his
involvement
with a
"terrorist"
group, as a
reason Inner
City Press
shouldn't
express its
opinion.
Update:
And on Friday,
July 6, Inner
City Press had
to spend two
and a half
hours with UN
Security
responding to
Barada's
frivolous and
pretextual
complaint.
Then at noon
Ban Ki-moon's
Deputy
Spokesman had
no response to
the NYCLU's
request.
This
gang
gets more and
more
anonymous,
just as the
supposedly
"for UNCA
members only"
June 14 letter
got posted as
an anonymous
"Mundo111"
comment on a
story about
UNCA
anti-Press
campaign on
the
Guardian.co.uk.
Barada's
complaint is
similar to one by Louis
Charbonneau of
Reuters, copied to
Pioli, his
Treasurer
Margaret
Besheer of the
aforementioned
VOA and AFP's
Tim Witcher,
claiming that
Inner City
Press saying "you disgust me"
when
Charbonneau
tried to
organize a
session to
oust Inner
City Press
without
informing it
the WORST
thing
Charbonneau
has seen in 20
years of
reporting.
Really?
Charbonneau's
complaint was
to the
Department of
Public
Information,
but now the NYCLU
has written
there. So
Barada's
complaint,
also only
about speech,
is directed to
the Department
of Safety and
Security. Once
out on First
Avenue and
west, the NYPD
would laugh at
a complaint
about such
speech.
But
ironically,
while the First
Amendment
stops on First
Avenue,
pathetic
attempts to
file
complaints
about mere
speech and get
the Press
ejected are
even
entertained
here east of
First Avenue,
in the Alice
in Wonderland
that Ban
Ki-moon's UN
has become.
Watch this
site.
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