Hashemi is being punished as a “runaway slave”....

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PressTV-Hashemi’s arrest reveals bipartisan nature of police state

Hashemi is being punished as a “runaway slave”

Ajamu Baraka

Ajamu Baraka is an American political activist and former Green Party nominee for Vice President of the United States in the 2016 election. The following article first appeared at Counterpunch.

Reuters cited an unnamed US federal source, saying Press TV is being investigated as an Iranian “propaganda outlet.”

But even with it increasingly becoming clear that Press TV is the target, it is also evident, according to Stanley Cohen, that the state is using the material witness statute in a very creative way to deny Marzieh her freedom.

There is no reason for Marzieh to be detained. With family in the United States and travel documents that could theoretically be seized if the state was really concerned she would not appear before a grand jury, the only reason she is being held captive is to once again demonstrate how a runaway slave is treated.

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Comment by Bilal Mahmud المكافح المخلص on January 30, 2019 at 1:12pm: Abu Ruyaa

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PressTV- Press TV's Marzieh Hashemi to shortly arrive in Iran

Press TV anchor Marzieh Hashemi will shortly arrive in the Iranian capital Tehran.

Comment by Bilal Mahmud المكافح المخلص on January 30, 2019 at 3:52pm: Following the historic Lindbergh kidnapping (the abduction and murder of Charles Lindbergh's toddler son), the United States Congress adopted a federal kidnapping statute—known as the Federal Kidnapping Act 18 U.S.C. § 1201(a)(1) (popularly known as the Lindbergh Law, or Little Lindbergh Law)—which was intended to let federal authorities step in and pursue kidnappers once they had crossed state lines with their victim. The Act became law in 1932.

The theory behind the Lindbergh Law was that federal law enforcement intervention was necessary because state and local law enforcement officers could not effectively pursue kidnappers across state lines. Since federal law enforcement, such as FBI agents, have national law enforcement authority, Congress believed they could do a much more effective job of dealing with kidnappings than could state, county, and local authorities.^[2]

A provision of the law provides exception for parents who abduct their own minor children.

Several states implemented their own versions of this law, known as "Little Lindbergh" laws, covering acts of kidnapping that did not cross state lines. In some states, if the victim was physically harmed in any manner, the crime qualified for capital punishment. This was what occurred in the Caryl Chessman case in California. Following the April 8, 1968 decision by the United States Supreme Court in United States v. Jackson, kidnapping alone no longer constitutes a capital offense.