A. Meyer - Dont-Tase-Me-Bro-Print

Copyright © 2018 by Andrew Meyer
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CONT ENT S
1. Enlightening Intentions 1
2. The Taser Heard Round The World 21
3. Jailhouse Shock 37
4. The Media Myth Machine 45
5. Waking Up In The Spin Room 66
6. Operation Mockingbird 76
7. We Are Change 91
Afterword 117
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ENLIGHTENING INTENTIONS
Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those

who count the votes decide everything.”
— JOSEPH STALIN
He apparently asked several questions - he went

on for quite a while - then he was asked to stop.
He had used his allotted time. His microphone
was cut off, then he became upset.
— UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA
SPOKESMAN STEVE ORLANDO
It’s time to set the record straight. I became upset long before
I entered the University Auditorium.
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The day was September 17, 2007 – Constitution Day.

On this immortal Monday morning my mind was on fire. I
was still wrestling with the idea of going to John Kerry’s
“town-hall forum.”
For days I had anxiously anticipated questioning Senator
Kerry with the issues boiling in the back of my brain since the
2004 election. Now that the day had come and my chance
was finally here, I was torn. The pessimist inside me was
saying Andrew, what are you doing? You have class today.
Forget John Kerry! What are you going to accomplish anyway?
Let’s say you do get to ask John Kerry your questions – what
will come of it? He’s probably just going to give you a political
non-answer and send you on your merry way. Don’t waste
your time. Forget about it.
But the optimist in me wasn’t going down without a fight.
Are you serious? You have the once-in-a-lifetime chance to
question John Kerry, the man who promised to change Amer‐
ica, the man who should have been President! And you’re
scared of missing class? What a joke! If you don’t follow
through with what your heart is telling you is right, than you
are a coward. Go to the town hall and give Senator Kerry what
he hasn’t heard in years – tough, important questions about the
2004 election.
Nearly forgotten now, John Kerry had promised to
change politics in the United States in 2004, four years
before Barack Obama made the same promises. The Amer‐
ican military was fighting wars-for-profit in Iraq and
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D O N’ T T A SE M E B RO!
Afghanistan, and in 2004, Senator John Kerry was the man

millions of Americans voted for to restore peace.
On Election Day in 2004, the exit polls were in and I was
ecstatic. John Kerry was going to be the next President. The
government was going to start working for the people. Our
soldiers were coming home.
When the news networks began announcing George W.
Bush had been re-elected, I couldn’t believe it. The exit polls
had never been this wrong. How could Kerry have lost? I was
certain that John Kerry was going to fight the results. After
the electronic voting machines in Volusia County, Florida
came up with a tally of negative 16,022 in 2000, there was
no way Senator Kerry wouldn’t challenge the election results.
For all the public knew, the vote counts in Florida and Ohio
had been made up by the Republican Secretaries of State!
No, John Kerry was going to fight. I was certain the election
wasn’t over yet. Not by a long shot.
So when John Kerry conceded the election on Election
Day, I was shocked. I was absolutely floored. How could he
concede the election on the day? When there was evidence
the electronic voting machines were rigged or at least suscep‐
tible to malfunction? When there were multiple accounts of
people not being allowed to vote in the swing states with the
closest margins of victory?
With these questions in mind, a book in my hand and a
video camera in my pocket, I walked over to the University
Auditorium to question Senator Kerry. The book was Armed
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Madhouse. The facts inside its yellow cover raised serious

questions about the state of elections in America. In the
national media circus that followed my arrest, my character
and my intentions were called into question by the “main‐
stream” media, but the actual questions I asked John Kerry
were largely ignored. Here now are the questions I asked
Senator Kerry, complete with the relevant facts the media
chose to ignore.
“I first and foremost want to thank you for your

time; you’ve spent a lot of time talking to us here
today. I want to thank you for coming and being
open and honest. You recommended a book to us
earlier; I wanted to recommend a book to you.
It’s called Armed Madhouse, by Greg Palast.”
John Kerry – “Yeah, I have it, actually.”
“Yeah, he’s the top investigative journalist in
America.”
John Kerry - “I’ve already read it.”
For me, this admission was stunning. In Armed
Madhouse, or the “mysterious yellow book,” as the Wash‐
ington Post called it after my arrest, journalist Greg Palast
made the case that the 2004 election was tainted by election
fraud and voter disenfranchisement. Palast reported that five
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million Americans were denied the right to vote because of

“caging lists,” wrongful purging from voter registration rolls,
uncounted “provisional” ballots, “spoiled” ballots, rejected
registrations, and rejected absentee ballots. Armed Madhouse
showed the disenfranchised voters were largely Democratic
voters being targeted, and that the tactics used to bar voters in
2004 were expanded by the government for 2008 and
beyond. On November 10, 2004, Congressman Dennis
Kucinich said of his home state of Ohio – whose electoral
votes would have won Kerry the election - “Dirty tricks
occurred across the state, including phony letters from Boards
of Elections telling people that their registration through
some Democratic activist groups were invalid and that Kerry
voters were to report on Wednesday because of massive voter
turnout. Phone calls to voters giving them erroneous polling
information were also common.”
The way Palast tells it, John Kerry would have won the
2004 election if not for this sabotaging of American democ‐
racy. That’s why I was flabbergasted to hear John Kerry say
that he had read Armed Madhouse. Senator Kerry knew that
he should have won the election, that his voters were being
targeted, and that six millions voters were projected to be
suppressed in 2008?
“And he says YOU WON the 2004 election!”
John Kerry - “Right.”
“Isn’t that amazing? You won in 2004! In fact,
there were multiple reports on the day of the
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election of disenfranchisement of black voters in

Florida and Ohio.
John Kerry - “Right.”
As Senator Kerry was well aware, there were multiple
reports of disenfranchisement of black voters on Election Day
2004. If only the Senator had known before the election that
his opponents were up to no good, preventing his supporters
from casting their votes. Had the Senator known that millions
of Democrats were being disenfranchised, jeopardizing the
election, he would have done something about it, right?
Kerry promises every vote will count

July 25, 2004
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — John Kerry said Sunday that a

team of lawyers is looking at "each and every district" where
there have been voting problems to try to prevent a repeat of
the 2000 election disputes.
Kerry said he put the legal team in place as soon as he
secured the Democratic presidential nomination in March.
He said he also has thousands of lawyers around the country
prepared to monitor the polls on election day.
"We're looking at each and every district where there have
been problems," he told a voter who asked Kerry how he
would make sure every vote is counted this November. "We
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may or may not be bringing challenges publicly in the course

of the next weeks."
In fact, Senator Kerry knew before the election that voter

disenfranchisement could cost him the election. And yet,
even after “losing” several disputed states by small margins,
Kerry chose not to use his thousands of lawyers to contest the
election results, the way Al Gore did in 2000. In 2004, the
Green Party and Libertarian Party were filing a lawsuit on
Kerry’s behalf, while the Senator and his “thousands of
lawyers” did nothing. After I questioned Senator Kerry three
years later, he said there “wasn’t enough evidence of wrong‐
doing” to take action.
“There were also voting machines – electronic
voting machines – in Volusia County, Florida,
that counted backwards.”
In the 2000 election, “faulty memory cards” in the
electronic voting machines caused a vote tally of nega‐
tive 16,022 from Volusia’s precinct 216 (Bush only won
the state by 537 votes). The same faulty and/or poten‐
tially rigged voting machines from the 2000 election were
used again in the 2004 election. Besides the “caging
lists,” wrongful purging from voter registration rolls,
uncounted “provisional” ballots, “spoiled” ballots,
rejected registrations, rejected absentee ballots, and disin‐
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formation spread by political operatives, this means

Senator Kerry had yet another reason to challenge the
election results.
How could anyone rig the voting machines, you ask?
Aren’t they safe and secure? Clint Curtis, a computer
programmer from Florida turned whistleblower, testified in
2004 before members of the U.S. House Judiciary
Committee in Ohio about election fraud. Here is his
testimony:
Judge: Mr. Curtis, are there programs that can be used to

secretly fix elections?
Curtis: Yes.
Judge: How do you know that to be the case?
Curtis: Because in October of 2000 I wrote a prototype
for present Congressman Tom Feeney at the company I
worked for in Oviedo, Florida that would do just that.
Judge: And when you say “did just that,” it would rig an
election?
Curtis: It would flip the vote 51/49 for whoever you want
it to go to and whichever race you wanted to win.
Judge: And would that program that you designed be
something that Elections Officials that might be on County
Boards of Elections could detect?
Curtis: They’d never see it.
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So how easy is it to implant an undetectable program that

could rig the electronic voting machines, and illegally alter
the course of American democracy?
On a CNN-Lou Dobbs report in 2006, Princeton
professor Edward Felton demonstrated that it takes less than
a minute to insert a virus on an unsupervised voting machine.
Felton and two graduate students were able to write a virus
similar to Curtis’s - a virus that would flip the vote count
51/49 - in less than a month after receiving a Diebold voting
machine to work with. This disturbing and rarely discussed
report showed just how easy it is to subvert the will of the
people. Felton put his virus on a memory card. The key to
accessing the memory card on a voting machine was the same
exact key for every machine. So with one key, you can access
any of the machines. To install the virus, Felton simply
switched out the machine’s memory card with his virus-laden
memory card. Once the virus is implanted in one machine,
the removable memory card from that machine, when taken
back to the central tabulator at Election Headquarters,
spreads the virus and rigs the vote count. As Professor Felton
dramatically demonstrated, “It’s not a very safe machine.”
In fact, the Diebold machines – still in use around the
country - are so unsafe that a video on blackboxvoting.org
showed footage of a trained chimpanzee named Baxter
monkeying with a vote count. This was the state of American
democracy when I questioned John Kerry. Rigging an elec‐
tion takes less than a minute, and even a monkey can do it.
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“So amidst all these reports of phony, bogus

stuff going on, how could you concede the elec‐
tion on the day? How could you concede the 2004
election on the day, when in this book it says
there were five million votes that were
suppressed and you won the election? Didn’t you
want to be President?”
Here’s the tricky part. John Kerry went to all the trouble
of running a campaign, raising millions of dollars, and getting
himself elected as the Democratic nominee for President of
the United States. You would think that the obvious answer
to the question “Didn’t you want to be President?” is a simple
yes. I’m not so certain. If John Kerry actually wanted to be
President, why didn’t he contest the tainted, illegitimate elec‐
tion results?
Senator Kerry and the Democratic Party knew before
the 2004 election that millions of Democrats weren’t being
allowed to vote. They also knew beforehand that the voting
machines were potentially rigged. So if John Kerry and the
Democrats truly opposed George W. Bush and the Wars on
Iraq and Afghanistan, if they really wanted to change
things, wouldn’t they have fought the election results as
fiercely as possible? Wouldn’t they exhaust every possible
legal remedy? Yet instead of mounting a legal challenge,
they did nothing. While the Green Party and Libertarian
Party were filing lawsuits on his behalf, John Kerry and his
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“thousands of lawyers” failed to contest George W. Bush’s

re-election.
The question is - Why? Why would John Kerry and the
Democrats concede control of the White House, if they
opposed what George W. Bush and Dick Cheney were doing
with it? Did the Democrats care about ending the wars?
About removing corrupt corporate contracts from the trillion
dollar federal budget? About anything they talked about on
the campaign trail?
“I’m not even done yet. I have two more ques‐
tions. If you were so against [invading] Iran, how
come you are not saying let’s impeach Bush now
– impeach Bush now before he can invade Iran?
Why don’t we impeach him? Impeach Bush. Clin‐
ton* was impeached for what, a blowjob? Why
don’t we impeach Bush, alright?”
President Clinton, in case anybody forgot, was
impeached for “perjury” and “obstruction of justice.” His
impeachment-worthy crime was lying about having “gotten
sucked off” by former White House intern Monica Lewinsky,
arguably a less relevant ground for impeachment than
misleading America into two pointless, murderous wars
designed to profit “special interests” at every other Ameri‐
can’s expense.
In 2006, despite mounting evidence such as the Downing
Street Memo proving the Bush Administration had manufac‐
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tured the intelligence claiming Saddam Hussein and Iraq’s

military had nuclear weapons - deceiving America into a $4
trillion (and counting) war that left hundreds of thousands of
Iraqis and thousands of U.S. troops dead - despite then-Vice
President Cheney’s threats of making war on Iran, newly-
elected Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said “impeach‐
ment is off the table.”
If the Democrats were truly opposed to the Bush Admin‐
istration, why would Pelosi take impeachment off the table?
Why did John Kerry immediately concede the 2004 election?
Perhaps the reason why the Democrats consistently refused
to offer tangible opposition to the Republicans is because in
reality, they were not opposed. In fact, many “mainstream”
politicians - both Democrats and Republicans presented
favorably on TV - have often been financed largely by the
exact same business interests. The “mainstream” Republicans
and Democrats have had the same puppet masters for
decades, which is why they danced the same jig. Well boys,
the jig is up.
In his farewell address, President Dwight D. Eisenhower
said, “In the councils of government, we must guard against
the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or
unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential
for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will
persist.”
As it happens, the “military-industrial complex,” or the
“corporatocracy,” the “elites,” the “oligarchs,” the “top 1%,”
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the “banksters,” whatever you want to call them, have

controlled world politics for decades. Millions of people
worldwide are waking up to this fact. Call it “conspiracy” if
you want, but the truth is that a handful of people own the
banks, the oil companies, the military manufacturers, and the
media, and these people collaborate to decide who the “main‐
stream” political candidates are.
For example, let’s start with a look at the top 2008
campaign contributors for Barack Obama and John McCain.
From the following corporations’ individual members,
employees, owners, their immediate families and the corpora‐
tion’s political action committee, Barack Obama received
$994,795 from Goldman Sachs,
$699,790 from Citigroup,
$695,132 from JPMorgan Chase & Co.,
and $514,881 from Morgan Stanley.
John McCain received

$230,345 from Goldman Sachs,
$322,051 from Citigroup,
$226,057 from JPMorgan Chase and Co.,
$268,452 from Morgan Stanley,
and $378,995 from Merill Lynch.
John Kerry and George W. Bush were also heavily financed

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by people from these banks during their 2004 campaigns. In

April 2009, Senator Dick Durbin said that the banks “Are
still the most powerful lobby on Capitol Hill. And they
frankly own the place.” For decades, the real struggle in
American politics has not been between Republicans and
Democrats, but between politicians working for their
constituents and politicians working covertly for the banks
and corrupt corporations that paid them. This likely explains
why John Kerry did not contest the 2004 election. With Bush
in office, the globalists Kerry represents won the election
anyway.
In public, John Kerry and Barack Obama and other paid-
for Democrats claimed to be against the wars, against George
Bush and Dick Cheney and the paid-for Republicans. In real‐
ity, Kerry voted to fund the war, Obama continued Bush’s
wars and started new wars, and both Kerry and Obama voted
for the bank bailouts. Despite the public masquerade that
they are opposed, the “mainstream” politicians on both sides
of the aisle have the exact same core agenda. Many Democ‐
rats and Republicans are political Coke and Pepsi, the same
harmful product with different packaging.
Candidate Obama promised to end the War in
Afghanistan, stop wiretapping Americans without warrants,
and prevent illegal immigration. In reality President Obama
did none of those things while expanding the policies of
George W. Bush. Obama protected the bankers that caused
the financial collapse, prosecuted journalists and whistle‐
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blowers at a record rate, and broke what many considered his

biggest promises. While candidate Obama promised to cut
health insurance rates, the health care bill delivered by
Obama his Democrat Congress was designed by insurance
companies and massively raised prices! Overseas, not only
were President Obama’s foreign policies the same as Bush’s,
he even kept the same Secretary of Defense.
The end result of voting for paid-off politicians is profit
for corrupt corporate owners financing political campaigns,
and suffering for everyone else. The money that could be
spent building American schools and infrastructure instead
“disappears” in Iraq by the billions. The criminally rich
enslave and defraud the masses, and in private when the
charade is over, the “mainstream” candidates get paid
millions for “book deals” and “speeches” a.k.a. kickbacks and
go on lavish vacations together at your expense.
“Also, are you a member of-were you a
member of Skull and Bones in college, with
Bush, were you in the same secret society as
Bush? Were you in Skull and Bones?”
John Kerry, along with George W. Bush, and his father,
George H. W. Bush, were in fact members of Skull and
Bones, a college club once known as the Brotherhood of
Death. Here is Bush Senior’s group photo - he is to the left of
the clock.
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On NBC’s Meet the Press, Tim Russert asked both John

Kerry and George W. Bush about the ramifications of
belonging to the same secret society.
February 8, 2004:
MR. RUSSERT: You were both in Skull and Bones,
the secret society.
PRESIDENT BUSH: It's so secret we can't talk
about it.
August 31, 2003:

MR. RUSSERT: You both were members of Skull and
Bones, a secret society at Yale. What does that tell us?
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SEN. KERRY: Not much, because it’s a secret.
Bush and Kerry both laughed off the question, but American
citizens should not be laughing. In reality, Skull and Bones is
essentially college training before the members join the other
secretive organizations that have controlled America, such as
big banks, the CIA and the CFR (Council on Foreign
Relations).
Here is a list of some notable past and present CFR
members -
Bill Clinton
Dick Cheney
John Kerry
Hillary Clinton
George H. W. Bush
John McCain
Richard Nixon
Gerald Ford
John Edwards
Besides most of the “mainstream” Presidential candidates

of the last few decades, the CFR roster includes wealthy
bankers, military brass, college professors, and corporate exec‐
utives – including the heads of media conglomerates. And
who declares presidential candidates to be “mainstream” in
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the first place? The media, of course. Coincidentally (or not),

CFR corporate members have included -
Time Warner (owned CNN)

General Electric (owned NBC)
News Corp (owns FOX)
Disney (owns ABC)
Basically, the CFR is a business club that has hugely

influenced or decided American foreign policy for decades.
Hillary Clinton admitted as much when the CFR, based in
New York City, opened a new branch in Washington D.C.
In Hillary’s own words, “We get a lot of advice from the
Council, so this will mean I won’t have as far to go to be
told what we should be doing and how we should think
about the future.” Perhaps the reason we haven’t heard
more about the CFR - despite the fact that for decades
nearly every President has been a member - is the same
reason CFR candidates won so many elections: the “main‐
stream media” executives are CFR members! The CFR
business club would select an entire field of Democratic and
Republican Presidential candidates to promote, including
the “frontrunners,” and the media executives in the club
ensured that only those candidates were reported as “main‐
stream.” The CFR candidates pretend to be completely
opposed, when in reality they all support the biggest and
most harmful rackets in the world - War, Drugs, and
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international banking. Here is another list of CFR corporate

members -
Merck Pharmaceuticals
JP Morgan Chase & Co.
Pfizer Inc.
Wells Fargo
Northrop Grumman
Lockheed Martin
With the help of their puppet politicians and news

media, these destructive corporations have been able to
advance their agenda in Congress and the courts, no matter
how harmful the result is to the vast majority of the American
people. CFR members have received billions in tax credits
and subsidies, as General Electric did when it received a $3.2
billion tax credit while paying no taxes in 2001. CFR
member Exxon Mobil received $3 billion in subsidies while
paying no taxes in 2009. The special clubs for insiders only
are part of why Wall Street was given billions in bailouts for
problems they caused, and why the “mainstream” media is
mostly silent on these issues.
CFR “mainstream” media supports war and suppresses
the revolution of consciousness and ideas which would bring
peace on earth. When the “Don’t Tase Me Bro” video went
viral online, CFR media went into overdrive to ignore the
issues, framing me as a “prankster” while downplaying my
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questions to Senator Kerry and placing people’s attention on

the taser. Tasers and police accountability are certainly
important issues, but the focus on police and tasers was a
distraction from the larger issues I raised.
The real issue at hand in the “Don’t Tase Me Bro” affair
was the question of corruption of the American government
asked to Senator John Kerry. Kerry’s failure to challenge his
ally George W. Bush exposed his lack of concern over the
continuance of Bush’s policies. The media’s decision to ignore
the questions I asked John Kerry while covering my ques‐
tioning John Kerry speaks volumes about their agenda. If you
want real news about the world and honest politicians with
ideas that will bring real change, start by turning off your tele‐
vision. With the connective power of internet, the real revolu‐
tion is online - and it manifests the more we talk to each other
and learn from independent, enlightened people. By
changing our consciousness, we can build the best world.
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THE TASER HEARD ROUND

THE WORLD
After asking the question, the man would not let

Senator Kerry finish his statement and kept
badgering the senator about his beliefs, talking
about ‘blow jobs’, and yelling as loud as he could
as to sensationalize his presence…Upon contact
with Meyer, he began acting in a violent manner
pushing the officers involved, including lifting me
off the ground and screaming obscenities…The
man continued to scream and yell as well as push,
kick, and elbow the officers attempting to take him
into custody…The officers could not get a hold of
his other arm as he was kicking, punching, and
elbowing into officers… I obeyed the command
from Sgt. King to utilize the taser for the
continuation of non-compliance by the man.
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— EXCERPTS FROM THE POLICE

REPORT OF OFFICER NICOLE LYNN
MALLO
Truth is treason in the empire of lies.
— RON PAUL
The event was advertised on campus as a “Town Hall” forum

where the audience would question Senator John Kerry.
When I got to the University Auditorium, there was a line of
people being patted down by security to get inside. In my
pocket was a small video camera I brought to record the ques‐
tions I planned to ask. The media would later claim that I
brought the camera because I planned to get arrested. The
media claimed that I was pulling a practical joke, that I was
not serious.
In case it’s not clear by now, I came with the camera
because I wanted to publish video of myself asking Senator
Kerry questions that still demand an answer – not because I
“planned to get arrested.” Frankly, I didn’t think most people
would care about what John Kerry had to say in 2007, three
years after he conceded the election. However, I did know
that asking him these questions might cause a scene, as I was
essentially calling Senator Kerry a fraud. There was also a
part of me that was afraid.
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In the weeks before the town-hall forum, I had been

reading articles that claimed the Patriot Act and the recent
Military Commissions Act allowed the President to name
anyone an “enemy combatant” and banish them to Guan‐
tanamo Bay. Journalist Seymour Hersh was reporting on
atrocities committed in Abu Ghraib, including the rape and
torture of Iraqi citizens. I had also recently read 1984 –
George Orwell’s story of a dissident taken to a secret prison
and tortured for objecting to his country’s wars and lies. Justi‐
fied or not, I was afraid that exercising my freedom of speech
could have dire consequences.
Weeks earlier, when it was announced that John Kerry
was coming to campus and planned to take questions, I
couldn’t believe it. My mind was burning with questions, and
there was literally no other person I would have rather asked
them to. This was not just a Senator that claimed to represent
the American people - this was the first man I ever voted for
President. I thought John Kerry was going to help America
become the place I grew up thinking it was.
I truly love the United States and I believe that We the
People can and should live up to every virtuous ideal that
America stands for. The Declaration of Independence states
that “All men are created equal, endowed by their Creator
with certain unalienable Rights.” When I read books that
described how the CIA was assassinating foreign leaders to
control their country’s natural resources, it was a difficult,
maddening experience for me.
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So when I went to see John Kerry, I was upset. But I

knew I had to act calmly. Blurting something out during
Kerry’s speech (as I was sorely tempted to do six or seven
times) would be highly unproductive and most likely result in
me getting thrown out before I could ask him anything. So I
sat, and I listened, and I waited. One of the first things
Senator Kerry said was -
“What I want to try to do is make sure that it
really is a dialogue, so, I’m going to try to
shorten my comments up front…if we can’t
lengthen the time you all get to ask questions.
Don’t you think that would be more fun, rather
than talking at you the whole time? I can that way
make sure I address what is on your minds, and
not just share with you what I think is on
my mind.”
John Kerry then spoke for over an hour and took seven
questions from a moderator before the moderator said -
“We’ll probably only have time for about
three questions.”
At that point, I hurried to the microphone stand…only to
wait in line behind six or seven people. There was also a
second microphone on the other side of the room with an
identical line of people. Not only was the Senator answering
each question as if he had a high school debate contest to
win, but the first couple questions from the audience seemed
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to be scripted softballs planned in advance by the event

organizers.
Let’s pretend for a second that I am advertising an event
in your hometown - “Pizza with the Papa.” Papa John is
coming to town and bringing free pizza for everyone! Sounds
delicious, right? But what if the Papa promoted his brand for
an hour and a half before announcing he only brought three
small cheese pizzas for the first lucky three in line? You
thought there was pizza for everyone! His event’s advertising
led you to believe that, right? Well, I surely didn’t go to the
University Auditorium to listen to Papa John. I came for the
free pizza.
To me, this was frustrating. The event was advertised as a
“Town Hall forum” for audience members to ask questions of
the Senator, not a speech. Senator Kerry even said at the
outset that he wanted to maximize the time for audience
comments. In reality, the Senator took exactly seven ques‐
tions from the audience before he made this comment:
“I think a lot of politicians, people look at
them, I look at some of them, I look at some and
I must say, as a non-candidate right now, at least
for president, occasionally, I watch C-Span and
say, oh, my God, I hope I don’t sound like that.”
When Kerry said that, I couldn’t even help myself. I was 21-
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years-old, had just had my image of America shattered, and

the man standing in front of me smiling and joking was Bene‐
dict Arnold in my eyes – a man who purported to care about
Americans while selling us out to evil warmongering bankers.
I was 20 feet from Senator Kerry when I reflexively spat out,
“You do.”
I don’t know if the Senator heard me, but the moderator
then called for the “last question” from the other side of the
room. At this point, a woman from the ACCENT Speaker’s
Bureau (the student group running the event) approached the
line on my side of the room and said time was up, no more
questions. I didn’t move, and neither did a few other people
in line.
Moments later, a man from ACCENT appeared and told
the people in line to sit down. More of the people waiting in
line began going back to their seats, but I remained in line.
The man then told me specifically I had to sit down, and I
told him I had been waiting to speak and I wasn’t going
anywhere.
The ACCENT member then signaled University Police
Department officers at the back of the auditorium to come
over. Senator Kerry was in the middle of answering the “last
question” when I made my move. The senator had spoken for
over 90 minutes without truly addressing a single issue
affecting the country. With police officers heading down the
aisle to haul me away, I moved five feet to the open micro‐
phone stand and interrupted Senator Kerry,
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“You know, I’ve been waiting here for two

hours and I just want to ask you a question.”
According to his police report, Officer William Wise
“proceeded to Meyer’s location and advised him to stop
yelling and causing a disturbance or he would be escorted off
the property.” In reality, Wise came up behind me and
without saying a word immediately twisted my elbow behind
my back. My arm felt like it would be broken if he should
apply pressure. With my arm in Wise’s “transporter position,”
as his report called it, I was being led up the aisle while loudly
asking,
“Are they arresting me? They’re going to
arrest me because I want to ask you a question?
Is he going to arrest me?”
Amazingly, as Officer Wise was moving me towards the
exit John Kerry intervened.
“Security, sir, I’m happy to answer his
question.”
This point here is crucial. I stepped out of line and inter‐
rupted Senator Kerry, but the Senator called off Officer Wise
and instructed him to let me get back in line.
I went back to the microphone stand and handed my
camera to a woman I had never met who also didn’t leave
when the man from ACCENT told her to. I showed her how
to use my camera and waited for Kerry to finish answering
the previous question.
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Most of the viral YouTube videos start here, when I begin

to ask my questions. I was extremely nervous, in part because
I was now flanked very closely by two police officers,
including one that had dragged me away about 30 seconds
earlier. In the middle of my questions to Senator Kerry, the
second officer grabbed me and said
“Ask him the question.”
I couldn’t believe it. Why was a police officer interrupting
me, when the Senator already said I could speak?
Towards the end of my questions to Senator Kerry, the
man from ACCENT signaled to someone in the back of the
room to cut my microphone by waving his hand across his
neck. ACCENT later claimed that my microphone was cut
because I said the word “blowjob.”
Immediately after my microphone was cut off, Officer
Wise and Officer Mallo grabbed my arms and began pulling
me away. They did not say a word as they grabbed me. I had
spoken for 90 seconds.
“Are you going to arrest me? Excuse me! What
are you arresting me for? Whoa whoa whoa
whoa. Is anybody watching this?”
Now here’s a great question. Why were the officers grab‐
bing me? The first time Officer Wise attempted to escort me
out of the auditorium, I had broken the forum rules. But John
Kerry overruled that. The Senator asked for me to stay and
ask my question, and Officer Wise complied. In fact, when
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the officers are grabbing me after I asked my questions, you

can hear Senator Kerry say:
“No, that’s all right, let me answer his
question,”
The official reason for the police arresting me is stated in
Officer Wise’s police report:
“I leaned over to Ofc. Mallo and we made the decision
that Meyer would be escorted out of the auditorium after his
statements/questions due to his overall demeanor and actions.”
Because the Officers didn’t like my questions and
demeanor, they decided to forcibly remove me. A few
people, the University of Florida’s lawyer included, said they
didn’t see a First Amendment issue in my case. Perhaps those
people never read the police reports or watched the video of
what actually happened.
Part of what makes America the greatest country in the
world is our freedom of speech. Unless Congress recently
passed a “Help Americans Ask Socially Accepted and Docile
Questions Act” abolishing the First Amendment, police offi‐
cers do not have the right to touch you at a public forum on
the grounds of “we don’t like your questions or demeanor.”
In the media, many defending the arrest cited statements
made later by police officers that I was “kicking” or “punch‐
ing” them, when a viral video seen by millions proved those
statements were lies. Some defending the police officer’s
unlawful arrest were upset at the politics of my questions,
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while others just worship the authority of the state over the
individual. In either case, that mindset of valuing the power
of authority over individual liberty has led to atrocities
throughout history. It has been said that the price of liberty is
eternal vigilance, which is why Americans that value our
unprecedented freedoms stay on guard for violations of that
liberty. Senator Kerry is not one of those Americans.
If Senator Kerry had really wanted me to stay and stop
the police from violating my rights, he almost certainly would
have raised his voice and said something like, “Let him stay.”
Of course, instead of fighting for my rights, Senator Kerry
weakly protested. How fitting, Senator Kerry refusing to
stand up for the people that voted for him.
By allowing the police drag me away, Senator Kerry
removed the chance of having his answers challenged and
being further exposed as a fraud.
“I’m not going anywhere. I want to listen to
[the answer to] my questions. Get off me! Get off
me! What the f--- are you doing?”
What were they doing? They were forcefully grabbing
me by both arms, while I’m asking to listen to Senator Kerry’s
response. A third police officer appears and points a taser at
me, telling me to put my hands behind my back. Officer Wise
is twisting my wrist and arm in a pain-inducing hold again to
force me to comply. No one has told me what I am being
arrested for. I am raising my arms in the air, backing away
from the officers, confused and scared witless.
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“What is going on here? I want to stand and

listen to the answer to my question.”
Now Sergeant King, a massive man who looks like he
could play defensive tackle for the Florida Gators, grabs hold
of me and begins basically carrying me up the aisle.
“Help! Help! Are you kidding? They’re
arresting me!”
I couldn’t believe what was happening. I was being
dragged outside after asking questions at a political forum.
Because no one told me why I was being arrested, I felt that
my questions were the reason. I was afraid I could be headed
for a torturous dungeon, like Winston Smith in 1984, or the
“enemy combatants” in CIA black sites around the world.
“What have I done? What have I done? Get
away from me man, get away from me!”
At the top of the aisle, I tried to run outside and escaped
Sgt. King’s grasp for half a second before getting tackled by
both King and Wise. They could easily have taken me
outside. Instead, Sgt. King and Officer Wise held me down
while two other officers grabbed my legs. At this point there
were five, soon to be six police officers present. According to a
police report, my legs were “kicking freely,” which necessi‐
tated Officers Sexton and Lamb pinning them down. In real‐
ity, I was completely pinned by four officers, not “kicking,
punching, and elbowing.” You don’t see me throwing a single
punch or kick on any of the three or four videos that recorded
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the entire event. The police’s fictional arrest report may have
resulted in millions of Americans wondering how many other
police reports have been works of fiction.
“You will be tased if you do not comply!”
Hundreds if not thousands of Americans emailed me
about the police’s behavior, and several made the point that
police have to remove drunk, violent men much bigger and
rowdier than me from football games all the time. Rarely are
there seven police officers at one such incident, yet police
hardly ever need to resort to using a taser in that situation. A
taser is a pain-inducing device, legalized torture, that serves as
a less-lethal replacement for a gun. Hundreds of people have
died from being tasered, and a taser should only be used in a
dangerous or life-threatening situation. There was no legiti‐
mate reason for the officers to use a taser on me. I posed no
threat, and the officers had me pinned on the floor.
“Just let me go, and I’ll walk out of here.”
I even offered to walk out of the building if they would
get off me, a meaningless offer to the police at this point.
“Roll on your stomach! Put your hands behind
your back!”
“You will be tased!”
“Do it now!”
“I think if everyone calms down, this situa‐
tion will calm down.”
That last line is John Kerry, pretending he wanted the
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police to get off of me. Again, if Kerry wanted the cops to let
me go, he could have, you know, raised his voice. Instead, he
decides to make a joke.
“Unfortunately he’s not available to come up
here and swear me in as President.”
“Do it now!”
“You don’t have an option!”
“Let me just stand up! Why are they arresting
me? Can someone do something here? I’m being
arrested. What did I do? Get off of me!”
“Gimme the other hand!”
“Get the fuck off me, man! I didn’t do
anything!”
The police had me pinned to the ground. I was laying on
my stomach, scared for my life, and I wouldn’t let them put
on the second handcuff. I didn’t punch or kick the officers, as
they claimed, but with the terrible feeling of how unjustified
this arrest was, I couldn’t just comply with the police who
were unjustly attacking me, and accept the second handcuff
like a docile sheep.
“Don’t tase me, bro! Don’t tase me! I didn’t
do anything!”
On my stomach with one hand cuffed, Officer Wise is
grabbing my other hand, with Sgt. King holding down my
back and Officers Sexton and Lamb on each leg. From
where I’m sitting (sprawled on the ground that is), the offi‐
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cers have control of the situation. Let’s see how they

proceed.
“Roll over!”
With four officers on top of me and another three
standing around, Sgt. King instructs Officer Mallo to deploy
her taser, a “non-lethal weapon” that has killed more than
200 people in the U.S. since 2001.
“OWW! OWW! OWW! OWWW! OWWWW!
OWWWW! Let me go! Let me go!”
People have asked me: Did it hurt? The worst pain of my life
was when I was in a descending airplane in 2006, and the
cabin pressure hit me so bad it felt like one of my molars was
going to explode. Getting tasered was a close second. So, yes,
it hurt. A lot.
“Get back!” – Officer Wise
In the video shot from my camera you can clearly see
Officer Wise with a disturbingly wide grin on his face right
after they tased me. It’s as if he won the Super Bowl and the
lottery. The man could not have been happier.
“Why are you doing that?!”
A woman in the background asked the question, and to
me, the answer has become obvious. Certainly, the officers
were caught up in the heat of the moment, and they were
trying to do their jobs, which to them might be as simple as
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“control the situation.” But I also believe that some of the offi‐
cers just wanted to use force on me, and not because they
needed to gain control of the situation. With seven officers
either on top of me or close by, control was already well
within their grasp.
My incident is not unique in this respect. After this inci‐
dent, reports and videos of officers abusing the taser popped
up on news channels across the country. Officers typically
have to be tasered before they can receive the taser, and I
think some officers can’t wait to try it out. According to
Florida police documents, a subject only has to be “passively
resisting” in order for an officer to be justified in using the
taser. In retrospect, I was lucky. Unlike other cases of gross
misuse of the taser, I was tased only once and survived. Many
others have not been so fortunate.
A day after the police arrested me, the mainstream media
parroted the police report that I was kicking and punching
officers. The entire incident was on video, recorded from
multiple angles, and clearly showed that I neither kicked nor
punched. Despite millions of viewers watching the arrest and
many commenting on the false police reports, the mainstream
media uncritically published the police reports that I was
kicking and punching.
“What did I do? What did I do? What did
I do?”
As you can imagine, taking 50,000 volts to the back did
not calm me down. When I finally got to my feet, I was terri‐
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fied. In my young mind, if the police were willing to taser me

in public for asking questions, they were almost certainly
taking me to a secret location or somewhere like Guantanamo
Bay where I could be classified an “enemy combatant,” never
to be heard from again. This was in the early days of the inter‐
net, before you would expect an incident like this to be shared
all over social media. This is why you can hear me saying
things like,
“You can’t just kill me you know,”
And, “Oh my God, They’re giving me to the
government.”
While my Guantanamo nightmare never manifested, I
wasn’t exactly wrong on that second count. In fact, the offi‐
cers brought me to one of the government’s most brutal mani‐
festations – the county jail.
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3
JAILHOUSE SHOCK
FROM THE DESK OF JOEL MEYER
“I have a collect call from Andrew Meyer, an inmate at the

Alachua County Jail.”
It is after 5:00 pm on Monday, September 17, 2007 and I had

been fasting all day in preparation for my colonoscopy, the
next morning. I was in my office when my wife Judy, who
works with me in our business, came in to tell me that
Stephanie from Channel 6 News was on the phone and
wanted to speak with Joel Meyer, the father of Andrew
Meyer.
• • •
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We both looked at each other with quizzical expressions on

our faces (like what’s this all about?) I answered the phone
and she asked me,
“Is this Andrew Meyer’s father?”
“Yes, this is Joel Meyer, what is this in reference to?”
“This is Stephanie from Channel 6 News, have you seen
Andrew’s video?”
“What video? Did Andrew send you a video?”
“No, the video with Senator John Kerry”
“The video with John Kerry?”
“Do you know what happened?”
“No, what are you talking about?”
“Your son Andrew was at a John Kerry speech at the
University of Florida, he was tasered and arrested”.
“What?!! You’re kidding me!”
“This is the first time you’re hearing about this?”
“Yes”
“Just go to gainesvillesun.com and take a look at
the video.”
I went to the web site and immediately saw a picture of
Andrew being dragged away by the police. Holy Shit!!
I tried to view the video, but my computer could not
download it. Instead, I skimmed the news story about it. By
this time, Stephanie asked me if I would like to comment on
what happened and I told her,
“Thank you for calling, but I have to talk to my attorney
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first. I can’t make any statement until I see the video and have
all the facts”.
I hung up the phone and was in shock. Judy & I read the
entire article regarding “the incident” (which is how we
always refer to it) and were dumbfounded. After trying to
comprehend what happened, I got the phone number for the
Alachua County Sheriff’s Office and called them. After
getting connected to the right department, I was told that
Andrew was still being “processed”. The woman informed
me that he was arrested for:
Disturbing the Peace

Inciting a Riot
Resisting Arrest with Violence
She told me that Andrew’s arraignment was the next morning

at 9:00 am and that he would be assigned a public defender.
She also stated that he might be released on his own
recognizance or need to post bond, depending on how the
judge rules.
Now what do we do??
[To be continued… ]
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I’d like to start off by saying that prison is truly a

living hell. It is a place where love and
compassion are looked upon as weaknesses and
violence and brutality are worn like a medal of
honor. Prison is a tedious task of survival that can
shatter your dreams and ambitions. The
California Department of Corrections isn’t
designed to help to rehabilitate yourself, or even
to help you to become a productive law-abiding
citizen.
— QUOTED IN “ BLACK DIAMONDS

AND PEARLS ” BY BLACKALICIOUS
The officers were tightening my handcuffs and twisting my

wrists. As they led me out of the auditorium, my wrists were
choking and I asked if they could take the cuffs off me. The
officer twisting my right hand in a vice grip behind my back
instructed Sgt. King - gripping my left hand behind my back -
to follow suit and twist. Both my hands were now in severe
pain, though only my right hand felt like it was going to break.
The cuffs were so tight on my wrists they were slowly
cutting off the circulation to my arm. Several times I asked the
officers to loosen the cuffs for this reason, and was ignored.
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My right arm was numb for over an hour because of this

treatment.
An officer finally told what I was being arrested for, and
the charge was “inciting a riot.” You might think that inciting
a riot requires a second or even third person to do something
resembling a riot, but you would be wrong. Apparently I
incited a riot of one. My mouth felt dry and disgusting the
entire car ride over to jail. While it was widely reported that I
was “laughing and lighthearted” on the way to jail, I can
assure you that I was not. The entire video of this car ride was
actually released by the police and posted on the internet, so
you can watch it and decide for yourself. The media would
use it to try and discredit me, claiming that I wasn’t serious
because I tried to calm myself and talk in a civil way with the
officers.
In reality, I was stunned. I couldn’t believe what was
going on. Though I had heard and read about police brutality
and seen incidents on TV, I never imagined that this could
happen inside the University of Florida auditorium. In the
video of my ride to jail, you can hear me asking the police offi‐
cers, “Is this America? Is this America? Is this America, or is
this Nazi Germany?” That sums up how I felt completely. I
couldn’t accept that that response to my actions really just
happened. My mind – not to mention my body – was thor‐
oughly shocked.
I asked the officers driving me to jail if they had read
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1984. Officer Mallo, sitting in the passenger seat, knew about

it. Officer Vinson, driving me to jail, had never heard of it,
though he did offer to have several officers waiting for me at
the police station in case I wanted to “resist” some more. I
declined.
When we got to the station, two things happened. My
worst case scenarios were put to bed. They were not bringing
me to some federal government facility and stashing me as an
enemy combatant. The enormous relief I felt at not being
PATRIOT Acted was then immediately displaced by the
discomfort of jail.
I asked a couple of the officers at the jail if I could have
some water – my mouth was still as dry as the desert and
tasted foul. The officers looked at me like I was crazy. You’re
in jail now. You don’t get to ask for anything. Another officer
led me to a small room where all of my possessions were
taken, including my socks. Strip to your boxers and give me
your clothes, prisoners wear orange jumpsuits.
After taking your clothes, the next thing “corrections offi‐
cers” want from you is your picture. Now, I am naturally a
happy person. I typically smile for the camera. I felt that my
arrest was ridiculous, so I was going to be myself and smile
happy for the camera, mug shot be damned. The booking
officer threw me in a cell by myself for maybe two hours for
that. This is jail. There is no fun here. I work here. I am the
law. You are a criminal. I am here to punish you.
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After solitary, and a somber booking photo, I was sent to

see the nurse. She was the first person I met in jail who
treated me like an actual human being. I talked to her about
the jail conditions for a bit, and she agreed they were not
what they should be. The nurse pulled up my file, and I got
my worst shock since the taser. They were charging me with
resisting arrest WITH violence. I felt enraged and confused
and nervous, a hot wave of adrenaline and emotion. Officer
Mallo assured me that I was going to be charged with
resisting arrest without violence, a misdemeanor. Sometime
between my arrival at the jail and my conversation with the
nurse, someone decided to have my arrest trumped up into a
felony. I learned later while volunteering in the Miami-Dade
public defender’s office that “overcharging” to gain leverage
through plea bargaining and/or extract the harshest penalty is
commonplace in the American justice system.
The nurse finished her examination, and I was promptly
brought to a new cell with no cellmates. I asked one of the
jail’s officers for a pen and paper - and was flatly denied. In
the cell, I was cold and miserable and unable to sleep.
Without socks, I was freezing - jails are kept cold to pacify the
inmates - and it was nearly impossible to sleep on the hard
iron-bar bench that served as a bed. Instead of sinking into
despair, I began focusing my thoughts on the present
moment, and praying that the truth of this situation comes
to light.
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A guard spoke to me through the cell peephole in the

morning. “You were on Good Morning America.” I was in
shock again. How big would this story get?
When I had the chance to make a phone call, I called my
parents and spoke to my Dad.
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4
THE MEDIA MYTH MACHINE
FROM THE DESK OF JOEL MEYER
“How’s it going Dad?”

I was relieved to hear his voice.
“They said I have a collect call from an inmate at the
Alachua County Jail”
We both laughed at how ridiculous it sounded. I told him
how I found out about the incident and that it has been the
top news story of the night.
We talked about the incident and his arrest. I told him
Bob Bogen was working on getting me a name of a lawyer, to
get him better representation than the public defender
assigned to the case.
I asked him if he wanted me there for his arraignment,
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because I was supposed to have a colonoscopy in the morn‐

ing. He did not think it was necessary (in my heart I knew
Judy & I should be there). I instructed him to stay cool and let
his attorney speak for him.
I asked Andrew if he was in a holding cell. He said that
after the phone call he would be processed and then taken to
a cell with bunk beds, until morning. At that moment I said to
whoever was “listening,” “if a hair is harmed on my son’s head,
someone will be held responsible.”
Andrew told me that he didn’t know where his video
camera was (he gave it to the female student next to him in
line to tape his questions) and he lost the book he was hold‐
ing. He wanted me to e-mail Greg Palast, the author of the
book he was holding and tell him what happened (Stay
tuned…more on Greg Palast later). Andrew then made a very
intuitive statement, “All John Kerry had to do was tell them to
leave that kid alone.”
I asked him if he was alright and he told me that the
tasering was the second most painful experience he ever had
(the first was on a descending plane and his ears felt like they
would burst from the air pressure). Also, after his arrest the
handcuffs were too tight and cutting off his circulation, but
the officers made no attempt to loosen them.
Andrew said he was in jail the whole day. When I asked
him what took so long for him to call us, he said he was in soli‐
tary for a good while because he smiled for his mug shot.
Well, we did spend a lot of money on his braces.
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Andrew asked “How is Mom doing?” Judy then got on

the phone, told him she was OK and asked how he was. He
replied, “I’m happy this happened actually, this is going to
bring a lot of things to light, that need to be brought to light.”
A recording declares that there are only 60 seconds left.
At that moment I still was not sure if I would be in
Gainesville for the arraignment but told Andrew to call me
immediately afterwards. Time is up.
The house phone rang and it was from a New York area
code. Since I have relatives in NY, I answered it. “Hello, my
name is Matt Glick, I am Matt Lauer’s producer for The
Today Show.”
The President of the Brotherhood of Law

Enforcement Officers from around the state has
written a letter to UF President Bernie Machen.
The Fraternal Order of Police asked Machen to
suspend Andrew Meyer from school and ban him
from campus, because they believe he’s ‘a threat
to society.’
— UNNAMED REPORTER, AS SEEN ON

YOUTUBE VIDEO “POLICE CALL
ANDREW MEYER A ‘THREAT TO
SOCIETY.
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I would not have taken the trouble to write a book

to say to the reader: I have been persecuted for
twenty years by prostitute Journalism. The thing I
am interested in saying is: The prostitution of
Journalism is due to such and such factors, and
may be remedied by such and such changes.
— UPTON SINCLAIR
I was very loudly singing songs in my cell. “LEAN ON ME,

WHEN YOURE NOT STRONG, AND YOU NEED A
HAND, SOMEONE TO HELP YOU, CAAAARRRYY
ONNNNN….” I had slept for maybe 2 hours the entire night,
and boisterous singing was very necessary to cure my
boredom and wake me up. My arraignment was about
to begin.
I was brought to a room with about 40 inmates seated on
bench rows. We were all waiting for the judge’s face to
appear on the video screen. I was seated towards the back,
and while my last name is in the middle of the alphabet, I was
the first inmate called to the stand. Out of forty inmates, I was
one of only two released on our recognizance.
After my arraignment, I was sent to a new empty cell for
another agonizingly long hour until I was finally released.
Freedom! I can easily say that the best part about jail is
leaving. The food stank, the cell stank, some of the guards’
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attitudes stank, and I stank – I hadn’t showered in a day after

the sweaty mess of being roughed up by police. I was given
my possessions back, including my socks and my cell phone.
As soon as I turned my phone on it started ringing.
Unlisted number.
I had an idea who it might be after hearing that my arrest
was the top story on Good Morning America.
“Hello?”
“Hi, Andrew, this is Sandy, from Fox News.”
“Uh, hi.”
“Listen, we’re interested in doing an interview with you.
Are you available to do Fox and Friends this morning? We’ll
fly you out to New York.”
“No thanks.”
Click.
RING.
“Hello?”
“Hi, Andrew, this is Laurie with CNN.”
Click.
RING. RING. RING.
My cell phone didn’t stop ringing for three days, day or
night. A couple times I picked up the unlisted number for the
hell of it. “Andrew, this is Chad with Fox News.”
“Oh, hi Chad.”
“Hey, you know, I graduated from the University of
Florida not long ago.”
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“Oh, wow. You’re a Gator too?”

“Yeah, I remember it used to get pretty crazy down there.
Listen buddy, I’m with Fox and Friends, and if I can get you
up here for an interview, I get a bonus. How about helping a
fellow Gator out?”
“Let me think about it.”
Click.
Outside the jail, five of my friends were waiting for me.
For them to wait for me at the station, I felt much loved. In
the days that followed, the support of my friends and family
helped carry me through. A gaggle of media and photogra‐
phers were also waiting for me outside. My friends walked
with me out to the car where my parents were waiting. I
wanted to get in the car and away from the media as fast as
possible, but I was overjoyed at seeing my Dad, and I stopped
to give him a hug.
In the car, I rode with Rob Griscti and Allison Blakeslee
to Rob’s law office. While I was in jail, two attorneys had
offered their services to me pro bono, but my Dad was
directed to Rob through close family friends.
I think practically the first thing I said in the car was, “I’m
ready for O’Reilly.” I was ready to tell the whole world
exactly what I thought of the war and the hypocrites in
Congress. Allison and Rob just looked at each other. When
we got to the law office, Rob advised me not to walk outside
into the hallway because there were reporters roaming the
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building. The media was everywhere. They wanted their

pound of flesh and they wanted it RIGHT NOW. And it
wasn’t just me they were after.
In the next few days, almost everyone I know had some
run in with the media. Just being listed as my friend on Face‐
book was enough to have a reporter after you. The Wash‐
ington Post wanted to interview a guy I knew named Quigley
after seeing his band’s video on my website. Nancy Grace
contacted my fraternity brother Ryan Campbell. And the
Miami Herald managed to snag an exclusive interview with
my grandma Lucy, who gave them the inside story of my
status as a member of the National Honor Society in high
school.
Sitting in Rob Griscti’s law office, I was at a crossroads. I
wanted to speak out, about election fraud and the case to
impeach Bush and the collusion of the Democrats in wars for
profit - the questions I had asked John Kerry about in the first
place. But I was paralyzed, both by the trial by media that was
taking place, and the bogus criminal charges against me. The
media’s focus on me personally and the inaccurate way they
portrayed my life was stunning. While my parents and I were
concerned with defending against a preposterous felony
charge, I was being prosecuted by the media from the start.
The very first sentence of the Associated Press story on
the incident accused me of being a “well-known prankster.”
The evidence used to prove this fabrication was a video
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posted in the “Sketches” section of my website called “Harry

Dies.” In “Harry Dies,” some guys I knew stood on a street
corner the day the seventh Harry Potter book was released
and video-taped themselves fake-ruining the ending for
people by holding up a sign that says “Harry Dies.” I was not
in this video. I was not even holding a camera. All I did was
post the video on my website.
The media claimed that I was in the video, and used
“Harry Dies” as their evidence to call me a “well-known
prankster” and suggest I should not be taken seriously. My
website, TheAndrewMeyer.com, was and is focused on my
journalism. I find it interesting that my political writing-
easily found on my website - such as “We are [in Iraq] to make
money for Vice President Cheney’s corporation, Halliburton.
We are there for oil.” - was not reported by the media as rele‐
vant background information on me, but comedy sketches
from my website, one of which I had nothing to do with, and a
picture of me at a party in a red pimp hat taken from my Face‐
book account were important enough to be shown on Good
Morning America and CNN.
Instead of airing my actual reasons for questioning John
Kerry, the mainstream media also played clips from a second
video from the “Sketches” section of my website. In a comedy
sketch from my friend Peter’s local television show GTV,
“Beauty is in the eye of the Beerholder,” our friend Matt was
dressed in drag at a bar and turns into a gorgeous woman as
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my character ordered more drinks. That sketch found its way

to Good Morning America.
Also unreported by the media were the weekly column I
wrote for the college newspaper, the Independent Florida
Alligator, and the multiple journalism awards I won in high
school writing for the Sun Sentinel and my high school paper,
The Circuit. Those details, painting an accurate picture of
me as a writer, were omitted by the media.
Instead, the media created a two-dimensional characteriza‐
tion of me as a person - for a purpose. By leaving out the
evidence of my work as a writer and college journalism student,
the media could instead label me a “prankster” - creating a false
controversy about whether my questions to John Kerry were
serious, and brushing aside the issues I raised in questioning
him. Without stirring up a confusing and pointless debate about
my character, the news networks would not be able to distract
their viewers and hide my questions to John Kerry, which are
the type of questions professional journalists should be asking.
The reporters on television could not focus on my ques‐
tions and discuss them, because then the question would
become, “Why don’t CNN and FOX News and MSNBC ask
these questions?” By focusing on my questions and discussing
them, the news networks would have revealed their own lack
of authentic journalism. Those questions also would have
raised the issues that mainstream media is forbidden from
discussing.
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The coverage of “Don’t Tase Me Bro” is the perfect

analogy for how the news networks operate 24/7. The news
media may discuss political candidates or events, but they
rarely focus on the facts of the serious issues involved. When
they discuss elections, news networks typically analyze candi‐
dates’ personalities, not their opinions on important issues.
One reason CFR-news media does this is to hide how much
the Democrat and Republican candidates are typically in
agreement. The media intentionally inflates the minor differ‐
ences between Republicans and Democrats to World
Wrestling Entertainment level proportions, acting as if the
two sides hate each other and are completely opposed, when
in reality the “mainstream” candidates on both sides often
support the same corporations once in office, because they are
paid by the same corporations. However, after listening to the
media hype, voters on both sides of the conservative and
liberal spectrum are ready to vote for the “lesser of two evils,”
because they are so disgusted with the personal issues and
“controversial” politics of the mainstream-CFR candidate on
the other side. Meanwhile, in hyping this imaginary fight, the
news media tries their hardest to ignore the honest and inde‐
pendent candidates altogether.
Forget relevant issues, forget intelligent
debate, this is ABC/NBC/etc. News, and we’re
going Red state vs. Blue state. Forget the
primaries, we’ve already chosen the candidates
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for you! Obama vs. McCain! Hillary in a land‐

slide! Watch our anchors make fun of “loony”
longshots like Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich,
and then we’ll talk about Lady Gaga and Justin
Bieber! This is the mainstream media! We
divide, distract, and conquer. You “decide.”
Dennis Kucinich was one of two Democratic candidates
for U.S. President in 2007 who favored peace, and bringing
American troops home from Iraq and Afghanistan. Barack
Obama and Hillary Clinton both voted for war. Instead of
focusing on the major differences in policy - differences that
would have a huge impact in the world - between candidates
like Kucinich and Obama, the fake news media focused on
minor differences, and mostly the differences of personality,
between Hillary and Barack. By ignoring Dennis Kucinich,
the fake news media created a two-person battle of personali‐
ties where both candidates held the same CFR-approved
opinions! The Republican race is covered the same way.
Voters that didn’t want to “waste their vote,” lined up to
vote for the lesser of two evils in this rigged contest. This is
how news media divides and conquers. They anoint chosen
candidates to defeat the honest candidates who are indepen‐
dent of the system. While everyone lined up to take sides in
Hillary vs. Obama, and Obama v. McCain, the candidates on
both sides were chosen to spend Americans’s money on more
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bombs and bank bailouts while chipping away your civil

rights!
This is why the media ignored my questions. One
CNN report played the entire video of the incident shot
from my camera with the questions edited out. The
fact that I confronted John Kerry with questions aimed at
the false divide between he and George W. Bush was
nowhere to be seen in the national media circus that
followed my arrest. The mainstream media stories, both
print and televised, either attempted to discredit me person‐
ally, focused on the taser, or paid lip service to free speech
while completely ignoring what I said to Senator Kerry in
the first place.
As the fake news media did their worst to frame me as a
villain, the legal system and the university were adding pres‐
sure to an already tense situation. My parents were focused
on getting rid of the charges against me and helping me grad‐
uate. The state prosecutor was threatening me with a felony
charge and the university was looking into disciplinary action.
In my attorney Rob Griscti’s office, both my parents and Rob
advised me to stay away from the media for a while. The
advice made sense, considering saying the wrong words in
public could be used against me in court or lead to my expul‐
sion from the university.
In trying my best to do the right thing, be a good son and
take my college education and the charges against me seri‐
ously, I left myself open to vicious attacks by the media.
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While I stayed silent, both the left and the right were taking
shots at me on television.
Many people in my generation immediately adopted the
opinions of Jon Stewart and the other “comedians” on The
Daily Show. When Stewart described my actions as “student
douchebaggery” on The Daily Show, he turned a large
portion of public opinion against me. At the time, I thought
Stewart was an anti-establishment independent that cared
about ending the wars and demanding honesty from politi‐
cians. Later, when the Obama administration was in power,
Stewart showed his true colors, refusing to seriously question
Obama for bombing Libya and failing to prosecute the
bankers that had caused the financial crisis in 2008. By the
time he left The Daily Show, Stewart was clearly an estab‐
lishment servant and a partisan hack that bowed down to the
Democrats. At the time however, Stewart’s voice swayed
many people, and he used his influence to portray my serious
questions as “douchebaggery.”
On Fox News, I was public enemy number one immedi‐
ately following my arrest. Bill O’Reilly called me the “biggest
wimp in America,” and Greg Gutfeld grossly joked that I
should be killed for saying the word “bro.” You would think
with how much O’Reilly acts like he hates the Democrats, he
would love seeing a college student call them out on their
hypocrisy. Instead, O’Reilly called me “a bad guy,” and a
“pinhead.” With how controlled Fox News is by its manage‐
ment, O’Reilly may have had his opinion handed to him by
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his bosses, but he also may have been furious because I was
exposing the collusion between the parties and revealing how
insignificant and phony the “debate” on his show really was.
On MSNBC, one talking head argued the police should
have used more force on me. More force than a taser? Was he
advocating the police shoot me, or bludgeon me in the head
with a baton for asking a question? On ABC, a reporter
claimed, “Meyer has a reputation for practical jokes,” and
“asked a series of obnoxious questions.”
While the talking heads on TV assassinated my character
in every way they could, the story of the incident exploded
online. I doubt the media would have even covered my arrest
if not for the phenomenon of interest seen online. Only a day
after I was arrested, there were tens if not hundreds of thou‐
sands of t-shirts printed and shipped around the country
bearing a catchphrase I hardly remembered saying.
“Don’t Tase Me, Bro!”
While I was surprised the story went so viral, I was even
more surprised that above anything else, this one line was
what captured the nation’s attention. Not the issue of stolen
elections, the Democrats’ complicity with the Republicans, or
even the issues of free speech or police aggressiveness. For
much of America, one line - “Don’t Tase Me, Bro!” – symbol‐
ized or surpassed all of the issues involved.
My Dad and I often wondered, would the story have gone
as far had I said a word other then bro? “Don’t tase me, man!”
Not as compelling, right? I think that single word, “Bro,”
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helped carry my story around the world for two reasons. The
phrase gave casual followers of the news and hardcore
politicos interest in the story through its wildly contrasting
words, but it also carried an understated message. Don’t tase
me, brother. You are my fellow human being and I have done
you no harm.
My email address was posted on my website, and when I
accessed my inbox, it was full. I had 1,000 emails with
messages from all over the world. Some of them were as nasty
as anything you could imagine. I won’t reprint them here. But
most of them were inspirational, and lifted my spirit.
Subject: You did nothing wrong
Dear Andrew, I am an elderly grandmother, and resent
the way you were manhandled, cuffed and tasered. How dare
the police do that to an American citizen. It is your right to
ask questions. It is a sign of intelligence. You are the future.
John Kerry should have respected that. He owes you an
apology and much more. Also your grandmother, for upset‐
ting her. I have lost respect for Kerry. Is he forgetting it is
people like you, your grandmother and me that pay his salary
with our taxes? I also would like to know why G. Bush has
not been impeached. Good Luck, young man and don't let
anyone intimidate you. Stick up for yourself.
-Grandmom Rita
Subject: YOU ARE AN AMERICAN HERO
The Facts remain: You asked Kerry very good questions
and you let America know that Free speech is not always
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Free. Thank God for youtube, Ron Paul and people like you
asking the important questions.
Thank you Andrew Meyer,
Mark Salom
P.S.: ignore personal attacks, stay focused on the real
issues regarding our freedoms and our liberties.
I also received about a hundred emails from Italy, like

this one:
Subject: Hi there
I read about you in the papers, I'm so sorry, I'm Italian, I'm
so sorry for you and for your country, that is so sad! Let me
know if we from here can do anything for you, protestmail to
the police, or the government, let me know, please! We are
with you!
Fight the fascism in your country! What happened shows
us the reality. You are living in a fascist country.
Free it!
Bye,
Daniele del Grande
It’s been said that that when you look for inspiration from
sources outside yourself, you can hear a million compliments
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yet it’s the negative comments that will still stick. Despite all
the outpouring of support, I was somewhat paralyzed by
reading all the negative comments about me in emails and
listening to the hate on TV. At the time, I cared very much
what people thought about me, one of the biggest mistakes
you can make in life. Even though I knew the people sending
me negative emails were misinformed and didn’t know the
first thing about me, I felt very low after seeing so much hate
directed my way.
An empathetic person often reflects on criticism against
himself. Yet it’s dangerous to take to heart words from people
spewing poison that is often just a projection of their own
psychological issues. Even with hundreds of letters calling me
a hero and a champion, I was letting negative people affect
my self-image with their venomous feedback. Reading too
many positive comments also slowed me down, leading to a
feeling of satisfaction and resting on my laurels rather than
focusing on doing everything I could to channel the attention
I was receiving towards sharing an important message. I
placed the opinions of others over myself, allowing other
people to affect my happiness, and the focus on what other
people thought or would think became debilitating.
While I was busy considering my own character and
weighing the right and wrong of my actions, the mainstream
media was still slinging arrows at me. The initial reporting of
the event had generated sympathy from many in the public
due to the crushing of free speech by overzealous police. The
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media made sure to skew their reporting against me on day

two even more to turn supporters against me.
In a move more despicable than I could imagine, The
Gainesville Sun posted the conversation of my phone calls
from jail to my parents on their website. A clip from that
conversation was taken out of context on NBC, to emphasize
the new fake news talking point: that I planned to get
arrested. “I’m glad this happened,” I heard myself tell my
Mom on NBC. The end of my sentence, “It will bring impor‐
tant issues to light,” was left out of the clip. By playing only
half of my sentence (from a phone call he should have no
access to) NBC reporter Kerry Sanders falsely portrayed me
as an attention-seeker rather than a writer, a journalism
student, and a truth-seeker.
Another media talking point, echoed by John Kerry, is
that I must have done something wrong, perhaps before the
videos of the incident began, that justified the police reaction.
“I don’t know what transpired,” Kerry said. “The police must
have had a reason to make their decision.” To try and validate
this point, CBS News published this lie: “Kerry was speaking
at the University of Florida, when Andrew Meyer, a student,
burst into the room and ran towards a micro‐
phone, attempting to ask Kerry a question.” The fake news
media blatantly lied, claiming I “burst into the room” when in
fact I had been standing in line. CBS was attempting to make
me appear dangerous and the police justified. Even the police
never claimed that I ran towards the microphone. How did
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CBS come to such a false conclusion? The answer is because

the fake news was deliberately lying and misreporting to
make me look bad.
If I had done anything wrong before stepping out of line,
such as “burst into the room,” the ACCENT camera in the
back of the University auditorium, which was set up to record
the whole event, would have caught my actions. As this tape
would have buried many of the media’s lies, my lawyer and I
very much wanted to get a hold of it. Unfortunately for us,
and anyone else who would have liked to examine what really
happened before I started speaking, we were told the
ACCENT camera had mysteriously “malfunctioned” and
their tape of the event was “destroyed.”
What was released to the media, other than my phone
calls from jail to my parents, was a video from inside the
police car on my ride to jail, where I asked the officers if there
were cameras at the jail. In my worried mind, cameras were a
safety net saving me from possible brutality, not my ticket to
fame and fortune. The media seized on this comment as
another means of claiming I was insincere in questioning
John Kerry, and merely wanted attention for myself.
Fortunately, not everyone bases their opinions solely on
what they see on TV. Many supporters emailed me saying I
should sue the school and/or John Kerry, and I strongly
considered the possibility. While many people advocated I
take an aggressive public stand to fight the charges against me,
my attorney and my parents counseled me to stay low-key
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and out of the media to get the charges against me dropped. I

can’t know whether being more vocal for my cause would
have helped me in long run, but in a situation with unknown
outcomes, I respected my parents judgment. The university
and the state attorney made me jump through some hoops,
but both parties dropped their cases against me.
While I questioned whether or not I should sue the
university or the police, the people that most deserved a
lawsuit were the news networks, for smearing my character
and repeatedly getting the facts wrong about me. Winning a
slander or libel lawsuit requires proving “reckless disregard
for the truth.” The media certainly showed reckless disregard
for the truth and damaged my reputation by baselessly calling
me a “well-known prankster.”
At the time, I hadn’t even considered the idea of suing the
media, but I should have. When the media attacks, you need
to compose yourself, stand up, counter their lies and make
them pay.
The media always wants an apology from the people they
demonize. Don’t give it to them. When the media attacks, hit
them harder both with the facts of their false reporting on you
- and on other stories they have lied about in the past.
For example, NBC’s Brian Williams was famously fired
from NBC’s Nightly News after getting caught lying about
being “forced down after being hit by an RPG” while in a
helicopter in Iraq. Amazingly, despite being a known liar,
Williams was later assigned to report the news for MSNBC.
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When NBC was lying about me, I should have called out
their lies, and asking them why their company is willing to
employ known liars as reporters is an excellent question.
The media lies about me traveled around the world while
I was busy dealing with legal issues for weeks. The fake news
is pernicious and destructive, and the only way to deal with
their lies is to stand up and tell the truth. When the legal and
university cases were finally settled, I was ready to face the
fake news live on national television.
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5
WAKING UP IN THE SPIN ROOM
How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and

how hard it is to undo that work again!
— MARK TWAIN
The offers pouring into Rob Griscti’s office for an interview

were from CBS, ABC, NBC, CNN, Fox – and every other
news hustler you can think of, including Larry Flynt.
We decided on NBC for a few reasons. For one, The
Today Show was the biggest morning news outlet in the coun‐
try. With all the false reporting by the media, the chance to
speak live on the biggest outlet was the best opportunity. The
Today Show producers had also been the most persistent, and
offered to print my unedited answers to a separate interview
online before the show.
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We accepted offers from Matt Lauer and Keith Olber‐

mann, turning down all the other news networks. NBC flew
myself, my parents, and my attorney to New York for the
interviews.
In New York, we also arranged to meet with Greg Palast,
the journalist and author of the book I had held up while
questioning John Kerry. Palast had publicly offered me a job
working for him. My attorney Rob Griscti and my parents
were still advising me to be cautious with the media, and we
had arranged a meeting without cameras, just to discuss
things. When we walked off the elevator at Greg’s offices, he
had cameras rolling right away, and was acting as if we had
agreed to record an interview.
My parents were livid, and I personally was shocked.
Palast had deliberately done the opposite of what we had
asked and agreed to. Rob Griscti immediately demanded
Palast stop his recording. While Rob forced Palast to destroy
any recording, I was sitting at a desk, torn. I had come to work
with Greg Palast, as I had great respect at the time for his
journalism. But after a few solemn minutes of sitting and
thinking about it, I realized I could never work with someone
who had completely betrayed me - especially after just
meeting me! With all the disgust I had towards the media,
even I never would have imagined that a journalist I thought
to be one of the good guys could stoop so low. We walked out
of the office and went to the hotel.
The night before the NBC interview, I was restless. My
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attorney had advised me to stay focused on the issues of voter

disenfranchisement, and answering the inevitable questions
relating to the media’s false narrative they had concocted
about me. In the hotel room before the interview, I was torn.
On the one hand, I wanted to maintain my composure and
calmly answer the infuriating questions and lies the media
had ginned up. On the other hand, I considered re-framing
the entire interview by placing the focus on Matt Lauer, and
asking him why he wasn’t investigating the questions I raised,
and why the media failed so often to investigate the real
issues.
In the morning, I found a copy of the New York Times
outside my hotel room door. The Times was promoting the
candidacies of Rudy Giuliani, Hillary Clinton, and Barack
Obama for president. Meanwhile, the only candidate I had
seen people actually excited for on campus was Ron Paul,
who wanted to minimize government power and end the
wars. Paul was nowhere to be seen in the paper, and the
Times was unofficially declaring their CFR frontrunners. I
felt an even greater sense of urgency to help wake people up
to the falseness of the media and their candidates.
We walked over to NBC. My parents and my lawyer
were going on the air with me, and we entered the massive
building that houses the Today Show. That morning Jerry
Seinfeld, Dr. Phil, and number of other famous faces were
scheduled ahead of us. We waited in a guest area, and were
finally brought to the Today Show couch.
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As Matt Lauer introduced me to Today Show audience, a

graphic NBC fixed on screen said “Don’t Tase Me Bro -
Tasered Student Says He’s Sorry.” I couldn’t see this graphic
as I sat there, but I knew Lauer would try to frame the inter‐
view as a referendum on my character, and completely avoid
discussing my questions to Kerry. Lauer opened the interview
with this:
“Let me ask a question that so many people have asked
over the last month and a half or so, and that is, what was your
agenda, why did you go to that forum that morning, what did
you hope to accomplish?”
“I went there with serious political questions that you saw
me asking,” I answered. “My only agenda was to raise the
important issues that the media doesn’t talk about. The disen‐
franchisement of voters, and when I talk about disenfran‐
chisement, I’m talking about voters not having the right to
vote and not having their votes count.”
Instead of asking me a follow up question on what issues I
was referring to that the media doesn’t cover, or about what
voters were not having their votes counted, Matt Lauer asked
a second question to refocus the interview on my character,
not the issues I raised.
Lauer: “When you say you wanted to cast light on that,
shed light on that, had you thought, going into this event
Andrew, that if that means that I have to get a little bit unruly,
and I have to get the attention of Senator Kerry, and the
police, and I have to be arrested, so be it.”
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“Not at all. I mean, I just wasn’t able to maintain my

composure,” I answered. “I went there to try and ask these
questions calmly, but even asking these questions in today’s
environment, it causes a scene. I didn’t intend to create one.”
Lauer: “People say, okay you brought a camera with you,
you brought a video camera, so there was some intent on
making sure this was captured. Was that for your own
purposes or was that for the purpose that we would all be
showing this on national news shows?”
Again, Matt Lauer spends the interview trying to force
me to dispel to rumors that his own program and other main‐
stream media outlets manufactured.
I answered, “I brought my camera to document me asking
these important questions, to put the answers on my website -
not that I thought ‘I’m going to suddenly have a giant news
story.’ This is a big surprise to me that I’m sitting here to be
honest.”
Lauer: “So you didn’t go there thinking, okay I may
arrested, I may get a taser gun stuck in my side, but as long as
I shed on these issues, it’s okay.”
“I wasn’t thinking that at all. I just went there having read
this book. This is Armed Madhouse, the book by investigative
journalist Greg Palast. He works for the BBC. I went there
with this book, trying to raise the issues that he brings up,” I
responded.
With yet another opportunity to ask me what issues I am
talking about, Matt Lauer again re-focuses the interview on
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me personally, with a question highlighting the problems I

faced after questioning Senator Kerry. It seems the unstated
message to the audience here is ‘This is a bad guy, he was
wrong and look how much trouble he got himself into by
questioning the status quo.’
Lauer: “You have since gotten into a lot of legal problems,
you were arrested, you spent a night in jail, you were tasered
as we’ve said, and now in the negotiations with police and
university, you’ve written some letters of apology. Correct?”
“You know, I did step out of line at the forum, I broke the
forum rules, and I want to apologize for that. I also want to
apologize for the negative light this whole incident has cast on
the university. Nothing like this has ever happened at the
university before, nothing like this has ever happened to me
before,” I answered.
Lauer is doing his best here to make me look bad. He
brings up the apology letters I was forced to write, and when I
answered by taking responsibility for the faux pas I made in
breaking the forum rules, Lauer immediately smacks away
my sincerity with a question posed to offer me two bad
choices -
“So wait now let me make sure, were you wrong or were
the police wrong, what’s your opinion on that?”
Lauer has asked me to either trash myself, or blame the
police, both moves which would turn a large amount of
people against me, all the while steering the conversation
away from the questions I raised exposing the false divide
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between Kerry and Bush, and the media’s refusal to cover

these issues.
“You know, I think the police were acting - they were
doing their job, is what they were trying to do. I think that -
I’m here to talk about the important issues, not the sensation‐
alist issues, not the tabloid journalism that the media wants to
cover about the taser, about me personally, I think it’s impor‐
tant that Americans realize that we have an election coming
up, and your vote might not count. You need to realize that
there’s important things in this country that aren’t being
discussed,” I answered.
Ironically, while I spoke about the more important issues
in America and downplayed the taser, NBC was minimizing
my face on screen, and enlarging a video of the police
arresting and tasering me. Yet another dirty trick from fake
news to try and make me look bad.
After I brought up the media’s failure to ask questions
about real issues, Lauer again spotlighted the apology letters,
trying to use them as evidence to discredit me in the court of
public opinion.
Lauer: “And let me make sure, you didn’t write these, and
your lawyer is sitting right across from me, probably staring at
me right now, but you didn’t write these letters of apology to
the university and the police simply to avoid prosecution,
where in your mind you feel something else.”
Of course I wouldn’t have written those letters had the
police and university not demanded them, yet at the same
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time I did apologize sincerely for breaking the forum rules.

But Matt Lauer wasn’t explaining that I only apologized for
minor rule breaking, not for questioning John Kerry, and
certainly not for being dragged away for asking a question.
Lauer was again using the letters to try to discredit me as
either inconsistent, wrong, or a liar.
“No I wrote those letters of apology sincerely. There was
rules in place, I did not follow the rules, and that’s my fault,” I
answered.
Lauer then asked me to speculate on whether John Kerry
should have stopped the police - offering me a chance to trash
Kerry, but on a lower ground than the issues I raised.
“What was Senator Kerry’s reaction to this? When you
get grabbed by the police, were you expecting to hear him
yell, ‘Let him go, he has a right to ask these questions,’ and
what response did you get from Senator Kerry?”
“Well, you know, John Kerry did say that he wanted to
answer my questions, you know I’d love to come back here
with him on this side of the couch and we could go through
my questions and get some answers from him, I would love to
do that.”
Matt Lauer, with no discrediting questions left to ask me,
and certainly not wanting to draw attention to what I asked
John Kerry, moved instead to ask my Dad a question.
“Joel I spoke to you before, when this all happened, I
spoke to you before you even had a chance to talk to Andrew
who was being held in jail. When you saw the tape, when you
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saw what led up to the tasering, were you angry at your son or
were you proud of your son?”
My Dad answered with words that inspire me to this day.
“Well, I was very proud of my son, for standing up for his
rights basically. He was asking a question at a forum, a college
forum, a college setting, where people are supposed to ask
questions. This was a town forum, where people came to ask
questions of Senator Kerry, and he asked the questions that
maybe no one else had the guts to ask Senator Kerry.”
Lauer then asked my Mom a ridiculous question. “And
Judy as a mom, when you heard people say, ‘This is a trouble‐
maker, this is a guy who went there to cause trouble,’ how do
you respond to that?”
“Well I know that that’s not the case, he’s not a trouble‐
maker, he was there to discuss his beliefs,” my Mom
answered.
Turning to my lawyer Rob Griscti, Lauer wrapped up the
interview by asking, “And Robert are you happy that this is all
now behind us, and any other legal action?”
“Of course I’m happy, I’m happy for this family. They’re
a good family. They have stuck together through this. The
case is over. The cases are over. We’re moving on, they’re
moving on.”
You could say Matt Lauer failed to ask me any questions
about what I asked John Kerry. The reality is Matt Lauer
chose not to ask my about my questions, because those ques‐
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tions expose the entire mainstream media for what is: fake
news and propaganda.
We were supposed to do a second segment on The Today
Show where the audience would get to ask me questions.
Lauer even said immediately after the interview, “And
Andrew’s going to answer some more questions a little later.
If you have questions for him, go to our website.”
NBC cancelled the second segment. After I went toe-to-
toe with Matt Lauer, there was no way they wanted to give
me another chance to wake people up to the falsity of their
reporting with an extended and open-ended question and
answer segment.
Rob and my parents thought the interview went so well
they advised me to cancel with Keith Olbermann. I took their
advice, considering Olbermann or his producers could spring
some trap on me after I blasted the media on the Today Show.
At the same time, I was doubtful that I had done enough to
really get the message out there. The media cover-up of real
news was the biggest issue in the country, and I badly wanted
to do as much as I could to wake people up.
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OPERATION MOCKINGBIRD
You don’t need to manipulate Time magazine, for

example, because there are [Central Intelligence]
Agency people at the management level.
— WILLIAM B. BADER, FORMER CIA

INTELLIGENCE OFFICER, BRIEFING
MEMBERS OF THE SENATE
INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE
The Agency's relationship with [The New York]

Times was by far its most valuable among
newspapers, according to CIA officials. [It was]
general Times policy ... to provide assistance to
the CIA whenever possible.
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— CARL BERNSTEIN
After leaving New York, I went back to Gainesville to finish

my degree. I was already disillusioned with journalism before
the whole John Kerry incident thanks to my classes at the
journalism college and the books I read outside of class.
We were taught cliches like “if it bleeds it leads,” and
provided with The New York Times as if it were the standard
in journalism. The journalism college taught students how to
report in the style of professional journalists, but did nothing
to prepare students for the reality of the industry. I always
saw journalism as discovering important stories affecting
communities and getting the story out. As many of my friends
in media today can attest, that type of journalism was nearly
non-existent in the workplace they were about enter. The
newspapers and local news stations hiring graduates from the
journalism college largely assigned reporters to cover triviali‐
ties, or repeat and repackage the agenda of the people that
owned the station. For most students, the journalism college
was merely a propaganda training ground.
The New York Times, held in such high regard at the
journalism college, is owned largely by Wall Street and is
used like most other mainstream newspapers as a tool to influ‐
ence the public on behalf of its owners. A 2011 report by
Harvard’s Nieman Lab asked and answered the question:
Who owns America’s newspapers?
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The report listed JP Morgan, Wells Fargo, Merill Lynch,

and other Wall Street banks and hedge funds owning large
equity stakes in NYT Co., McClatchy, Scripps, News Corp.,
and others - the companies that own The New York Times,
USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, and dozens of other
“mainstream” newspapers.
This Wall Street ownership explains why the CIA has
had such pervasive influence in the mainstream media. In
1977, Carl Bernstein published “The CIA and the Media,”
after six months of investigating the ties between the press
and the CIA. Bernstein revealed that top executives from
CBS, Time, the New York Times, and staff at many other
news agencies, including ABC, NBC, the Associated Press,
Reuters, Newsweek magazine, and the Miami Herald were
in cooperation with the CIA. Bernstein reported that more
than 400 American journalists had secretly carried out
assignments for the CIA, including editors, publishers,
reporters, TV executives, columnists and TV
commentators.
The CIA itself has largely been a Wall Street controlled
organization, and there is a ton of evidence that suggests the
CIA was created to serve the interests of investment bankers.
For example, former CIA director Allen Dulles, a Wall Street
attorney, sat on the board of United Fruit Company. In 1954,
a CIA operation deposed democratically elected Guatemalan
President Jacobo Arbenz, whose policies threatened the
profits of United Fruit. It is this type of influence that former
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U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned against in his

historic farewell speech, where he said:
“In the councils of government, we must guard against
the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or
unsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential
for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will
persist. We must never let the weight of this combination
endanger our liberties or democratic processes.”
This is far from the only CIA engineered overthrow.
After nationalizing the oil industry in Iran, Prime Minister
Mohammad Mossadegh was overthrown in a coup orches‐
trated by the CIA and British intelligence. This incident
changed the course of Iran’s history, and eventually what was
a burgeoning Western-style democracy turned into the dicta‐
torial theocracy we see today. There are many such cases of
unfortunate CIA intervention.
Before his untimely assassination, many claim at the
hands of the CIA, President John F. Kennedy famously said,
“I will splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it
into the wind.”
To build support on Main Street for its criminal opera‐
tions benefitting Wall Street banks and military-industrial
complex corporate owners, the CIA created Operation Mock‐
ingbird. Operation Mockingbird was the CIA operation of
deliberately manipulating public opinion using CIA opera‐
tives in the media. Many claim Operation Mockingbird is still
in effect today. Most famously, CNN anchor Anderson
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Cooper spent two summers interning at the CIA. The CIA

also notably has a $600 million contract with the owner of the
Washington Post, Jeff Bezos. In 2014, German journalist and
editor Udo Ulfkotte said in an interview with Russia Today:
“I’ve been a journalist for about 25 years, and I was
educated to lie, to betray, and not to tell the truth to the
public. But seeing right now within the last months how the
German and American media tries to bring war to the people
in Europe, to bring war to Russia — this is a point of no return
and I’m going to stand up and say it is not right what I have
done in the past, to manipulate people, to make propaganda
against Russia, and it is not right what my colleagues do and
have done in the past because they are bribed to betray the
people, not only in Germany, all over Europe.”
Ulfkotte has stated that the CIA and their German coun‐
terparts bribe journalists to write pro-NATO propaganda
articles, and that failing to write such articles will result in
being fired. While we don’t know how many members of the
media work with the CIA today, the ownership of the media
by Wall Street and CFR members ensures the media is little
more than propaganda.
It was this media environment that I stepped into after
my graduation. I looked around, and saw only the chance to
work as a parrot for the warmongers on Wall Street. I moved
down to south Florida and lived at my parents house for a
short while thinking about my next move.
The Miami Herald reached out to me for an interview
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shortly after I moved down. The premise of the article was an

update to my story on what I was doing after graduation. I
arranged to meet with their reporter at a park. I was ready for
this interview, and to ensure my words were not twisted or
taken out of context and spun into a lie, I brought an audio
recorder to record the interview.
The Miami Herald reporter arrived, and before we began
the interview, I pulled out the recorder and told her I was
going to record the interview. She told me she could not do
the interview if I was going to record her. She called her
editor, told him I was going to record the interview, and they
cancelled the interview. I guess without the ability to lie
about what I said, the Miami Herald wasn’t interested in the
story anymore.
The mainstream media has a whole bag of dirty tricks to
ensure only their version of reality sees print or makes the
airwaves. Another media trick is the “pre-interview,” where a
producer or anchor will interview a person before putting
them on air, reviewing whether that person’s content matches
the story they want to sell, and then refusing to put a person
on TV if that person’s words don’t match the pre-arranged
narrative the TV producers intended to sell. In this way, any
credible person harmful to the media’s predetermined narra‐
tive is filtered from reaching the masses.
The TV networks claiming to employ objective “journal‐
ists” never mention that they screen those disagreeing with
their point of view. Networks like CNN famously blackball
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and cut “hostile” guests off the air for talking about informa‐
tion the network doesn’t want reported. News reports on a
person the networks want to smear may also feature unset‐
tling music over footage of the person’s face, associating
displeasure in the viewer’s mind with that person. The
network may also use unflattering camera angles to make
someone look bad, and then add in false reporting and/or
negatively charged narration over the footage.
It is impossible to overstate how far the fake news is
willing to go to smear their target. In 1993, NBC News
admitted to blowing up a truck for a fake news story making
General Motors trucks appear dangerous. The NBC report
“Waiting to Explode” claimed that the General Motors
Chevrolet C/K-Series pickup trucks exploded upon impact
due to the poor design of fuel tanks, and featured footage of a
low-speed truck accident with the fuel tank exploding. In
reality, NBC producers rigged the truck's fuel tank with
remotely controlled model rocket engines to initiate the
explosion. NBC later admitted they “put incendiary devices
under the truck.”
For those the fake news want to make look good, the
networks are also willing to go to incredible lengths -
including completely fabricating positive stories for dictator‐
ships. Former CNN reporter Amber Lyon said CNN was
often paid by the US government and foreign governments to
omit stories and even falsely report on certain events. In
covering the government of Bahrain, Lyon found that Bahrain
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tortures journalists, doctors, and patients, and abused pro-

democracy protesters. Lyon’s report was never aired on CNN
International, and Lyon left CNN and revealed the network
was taking money from the government of Bahrain!
The fake news on TV and in print is completely untrust‐
worthy, and it’s fair to assume every story being talked about
is part of some agenda. Former CNN anchor and CBS
reporter Sharyl Attkisson has listed CNN, NBC, Jon Stew‐
art, New York Times, Politico, and other mainstream outlets
as “astroturfers.” Astroturfing is how corporations and special
interests fake support for their cause - or fake popular outrage
at their target - by using their pawns in the fake news to
spread the story.
Perhaps the most dangerous example of astroturfing
relates to the perversion of what is scientific fact. Attkisson
sounded the alarm on “blogs that use words such as ‘science’
and ‘skeptic’ in their titles or propaganda in an attempt to
portray an image of neutrality and logic when they are often
fighting established science and serving pro-pharmaceutical
industry agendas.”
Even medical journals, according Dr. Richard Horton,
editor-in-chief of the Lancet, one of the most well respected
peer-reviewed medical journals in the world, have “devolved
into information laundering operations for the pharmaceu‐
tical industry.” According to Horton, “The case against
science is straightforward: much of the scientific literature,
perhaps half, may simply be untrue. Afflicted by studies with
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small sample sizes, tiny effects, invalid exploratory analyses,

and flagrant conflicts of interest, together with an obsession
for pursuing fashionable trends of dubious importance,
science has taken a turn towards darkness.”
Despite corporations like Merck paying tens of millions
of dollars in settlements after selling drugs they knew to be
lethal, the mainstream media often ridicules people for “ques‐
tioning science” for challenging the validity of ‘science’
conducted by corporations with an interest in the outcome.
The media routinely fails to print the evidence on both sides
of a scientific debate. Instead, the media typically advocates
the perspective of the advertisers in their political club, such
as the pharmaceutical companies.
In 1997, Merck funded a study by Garret FitzGerald of
the University of Pennsylvania. FitzGerald found that
Merck’s drug Vioxx interfered with a hormone that thins the
blood and relaxes blood vessels. Merck asked FitzGerald to
alter his findings, and when FitzGerald did not comply,
Merck conducted follow up research without Fitzgerald. In
their literature promoting Vioxx to doctors, the amount of
heart attacks that occurred during Merck’s study of Vioxx use
was drastically reduced from what actually occurred.
After lying to doctors about the health risks and spending
$160 million in advertising, Vioxx made Merck billions of
dollars - and killed over 60,000 people. In a settlement,
Merck was forced to pay $4.85 billion to victims and their
family members.
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Despite the fact that Merck has paid billions for killing
tens of thousands of people, the media often forbids and
ridicules any discussion of whether pharmaceutical compa‐
nies like Merck could have created harmfully manufactured
vaccines. Merck for one has faced multiple lawsuits for its
shingles vaccine Zostavax, which has allegedly killed 80
people. Instead of asking the question of whether a vaccine
like Zostavax has caused damage or Merck committed malfea‐
sance in their manufacturing, the media conflates the issue
with the idea that an outlier group of people are against all
vaccines.
Focusing on fringe groups that believe all vaccines are
dangerous allows the mainstream media to obscure the facts
that like other pharmaceutical timebombs such as Vioxx,
certain poorly manufactured vaccines have caused deaths. By
ginning up outrage over people who are against all vaccines,
the media aids the pharmaceutical companies in evading
public anger even after defective and recklessly produced
vaccines are exposed.
To distort the heart of the issue and make the claim that
“science” is on the side of their advertisers, the media turns to
pro-pharma “experts” that Attkisson refers to as astroturfers.
Named by Attkisson are ScienceBlogs.com and “vaccine
inventor Dr. Paul Offit of The Children’s Hospital of Phil‐
adelphia who earned an undisclosed fortune from Merck
pharmaceuticals.”
“The language of astroturfers and propagandists includes
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trademark inflammatory terms such as: anti, nutty, quack,

crank, pseudo-science, debunking, conspiracy theory, deniers
and junk science,” Attkisson wrote. “Sometimes astroturfers
claim to ‘debunk myths’ that aren’t myths at all. They declare
debates over that aren’t over. They claim that ‘everybody
agrees’ when everyone doesn’t agree. They aim to make you
think you’re an outlier when you’re not.”
One idea dismissed as “quackery” by the fake news media
and their “science” cohorts is the allegation that fluoride in
the water is harmful to humans. However, Dr. Dean Burk,
PhD, who worked for 34 years at the National Cancer Insti‐
tute, said, “In point of fact, fluoride causes more human
cancer death, and causes it faster, than any other chemical.”
Why aren’t more public debates held with credible
experts on both sides of a question of science? There are
many areas of science where the media portrays reality as a
“consensus” of scientists agreeing on an issue, when in fact
credible scientists exist on both sides of more issues than the
public is led to believe even exist. For example, why aren’t the
ideas of the doctors and scientists that claim to have cured
cancer given a fair public hearing by the mainstream media?
Several Nobel Prize-winning scientists and many doctors
have put forth the ideas that we already know the cause - and
many cures - for cancer. The “medical establishment” calls
these doctors quacks, but the “quacks” allege that the medical
establishment is not interested in cures - only profits.
Nobel Prize-winning physiologist Dr. Otto Warburg said,
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“Nobody today can say that one does not know what cancer
and its prime cause be. On the contrary, there is no disease
whose prime cause is better known, so that today ignorance is
no longer an excuse that one cannot do more about
prevention.”
Another Nobel Prize-winner, chemist Dr. Linus Pauling
said, “Everyone should know that the ‘war on cancer’ is
largely a fraud and that the National Cancer Institute and the
American Cancer Society are derelict in their duties to the
people who support them.”
Pauling wrote that high doses of Vitamin C could treat
and prevent cancer and a number of health issues. Physician
Max Gerson also developed a therapy to cure cancer based on
nutrition, prompting Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Dr. Albert
Schweitzer to say, “I see in Dr. Max Gerson one of the most
eminent geniuses in the history of medicine.” Yet the Amer‐
ican Medical Association drove Dr. Gerson’s practice out of
the United States. “The knife of the AMA was at my throat,”
Dr. Gerson said in 1956.
It is difficult to discern whether the discoveries of the
scientists claiming to have successfully cured cancer are true,
but the media’s treatment of these scientists deserves a closer
look. The fake news media, in bed with pharmaceutical
companies and the “medical establishment,” seems to always
take sides against innovation, labeling even Nobel Prize
winners like Linus Pauling as “quacks.”
The medical establishment’s auto response to the idea of
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cancer therapies like those of Pauling and Gerson are that

they are unproven and unsafe. Meanwhile, there are studies
done every years on the efficacy of cancer drugs. In fact,
chemotherapy and other accepted cancer treatments often
lead to death. The medical establishment cries “quack,” yet
refuses to investigate and study the work of potential pioneers
in cancer research - while no effective cancer cure is estab‐
lished and thousands and thousands of patients do not
survive chemotherapy. For the media to weigh the evidence
fairly, the failure of the medical establishment to test alterna‐
tives must be mentioned.
“Most cancer patients in this country die of chemo‐
therapy,” wrote Alan Levin, M.D., in his book The Healing of
Cancer. “Chemotherapy does not eliminate breast, colon or
lung cancers. This fact has been documented for over a
decade. Yet doctors still use chemotherapy for these tumors.
Women with breast cancer are likely to die faster with chemo
than without it.”
Why does the mainstream media fail to question the
medical establishment or present both sides of such a fasci‐
nating topic? Some the media call “conspiracy theorists”
argue it is because the same banking family that created the
media overlord Council on Foreign Relations - the Rocke‐
fellers - also gave millions to establish the American Medical
Association as the overarching authority on medicine. Sadly,
the American Medical Association (AMA) has been found
guilty of acting more like thugs than a benign board of objec‐
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tive doctors. In fact, in 1987 the AMA was found guilty after
conspiring to drive chiropractors out of business, in what was
described as ''systematic, long-term wrongdoing and the long-
term intent to destroy a licensed profession'' by the court. The
AMA accused chiropractors of being ''unscientific cultists''
or worse.
The AMA’s long-established willingness to destroy an
entire profession begs the question of what other medical and
scientific practices and discoveries might the AMA and the
“scientific establishment” have destroyed through name
calling with support by the fake news media.When doctors
and Nobel Prize winning scientists are saying things like,
“We have a multi-billion dollar industry that is killing people,
right and left, just for financial gain. Their idea of research is
to see whether two doses of this poison is better than three
doses of that poison,” as oncologist Glenn Warner, M.D.,
once wrote, and the mainstream media refuses to investigate
the claim, something is very, very wrong.
Journalists and activists that discover the claims of these
doctors and scientists and write or talk about them are called
“conspiracy theorists” by the mainstream media. The media
wants to equate presenting both sides of a story and asking
questions of the establishment as a crazy thing to do, when
asking those questions is exactly what an objective, unbiased
media should be doing.
In fact, the term “conspiracy theorist” itself was propa‐
gated by the CIA as a “psychological operation” to discredit
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those who questioned the government. The plan was hatched

by the CIA and published in an internal dispatch following
the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
While the fake news media focus on stories and issues
designed to distract and divide people, those who questioned
open government and corporate collusion - like the legal
protections for pharmaceutical companies and billions in
corporate welfare given to companies like Exxon Mobil - have
inevitably been smeared as conspiracy theorists by the
CFR media.
Graduating college, all I wanted to do was talk about real
issues and expose the reality of the fake news mind control
millions of Americans were tricked into believing. Living in
south Florida, I saw no mainstream media outlets willing to
investigate the government or their corporate masters. With
nowhere for someone with my mindset to find work in sight, I
set out to build a megaphone big enough to reach the masses.
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WE ARE CHANGE
Smart people don’t learn because they have too

much invested in proving what they know and
avoiding being seen as not knowing.
— CHRIS ARGYRIS
When the power of love overcomes the love of

power, the world will know peace.
— JIMI HENDRIX
You’re the guy that got tasered?

Standing on the street corner in Miami, I was handing out
flyers for my website. For me, sharing messages of truth was a
necessary act. I printed a bunch of flyers for my website and
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handed them out at music festivals, book fairs, art festivals,

you name it. In truth, writing about politics is far from my
favorite pastime. I love to write about sports and music, and
create stories and events. I know more about the NBA than
most of the professional analysts on TV, and for years talking
about sports is what I thought I might do for a living. As I
passed out my flyers, I saw the world had given me a different
purpose.
People were excited to talk to me, and through meeting
me learned about politics in ways they almost certainly never
would have otherwise. The world provided me with a plat‐
form to help reach people, and I couldn’t focus on just writing
about sports or promoting music when I saw the world
controlled by warmongers and thieves ruining people's lives. I
felt I had an ability and responsibility to wake people up by
writing about politics.
Most people want world peace I believe, but the media
has clouded the minds of mankind and created enemies out
of people that have been tricked into fighting each other.
One big story mostly unreported by the mainstream media is
that the U.S. under Bush and Obama funded and armed the
terrorist groups in the Middle East, including al-Qaeda and
ISIS. These terrorist groups likely would have few recruits if
the U.S. had not bombed the Middle East for decades.
While importing to western nations millions of Middle
Eastern migrants that grew up despising the west for
bombing their homelands is no solution, peace is possible -
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especially if the U.S. ends the cycle of war for oil in the
Middle East.
Unreported by the media which had spent their time
stalking my friends and calling me a prankster, I spent time
shortly after the John Kerry incident registering students to
vote. In 2007, I promoted both Dennis Kucinich the Demo‐
crat and Ron Paul the Republican because they were against
the wars and independent of the establishment. There was
significant evidence of media bias against both Kucinich and
Paul, which reinforced for me that they were truly indepen‐
dent candidates. Both were crushed by the mainstream
media’s lack of attention and name calling. Paul was called a
“longshot” and a “kook” and excluded from the New Hamp‐
shire primary debate on TV despite higher polling numbers
than other Republican candidates. Kucinich was criticized for
his appearance, called an “elf” and also labeled “crazy.”
Even with no media support, Paul went on to win a
number of Republican straw polls. When he lost in 2007
amidst evidence of election fraud, I had hopes he would come
back strong in 2011 with a bigger base as his movement grew,
and fight the fraud the second time around. In the 2011
primaries, there was again a ton of evidence Paul was being
cheated by election fraud. One Paul supporter was even
arrested after being legally elected as a GOP committee
chairman in Louisiana. When Paul took no significant action
to fight the cheating, I began to lose hope in politics.
We needed a candidate against the wars, not controlled
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by Wall Street, that was still well known enough to make it on

TV and win the debates despite being opposed by the media.
I pinned my hopes on Jesse Ventura, who had proven he
could get on TV and win the debates, and was clearly
opposed by the media. MSNBC had once signed Ventura to
host a news show - and then cancelled the show, silencing
Ventura’s anti-war voice with contractual “golden handcuffs.”
As the candidates began to announce for the 2016 elec‐
tion, I knew Rand Paul was against the wars and hoped he
was still against the establishment, but doubted he could
make a big enough impact on TV. Ventura didn’t appear to
be running. I saw Bernie Sanders speaking against the
banks and the wars, but I was not a fan of his socialism, and
when I saw two young women jump on stage at a Sanders
rally and take over his microphone, I knew he would not
fight the inevitable cheating in the Democrat primary.
When Donald Trump announced his candidacy, I was
curious.
Trump had called the Iraq War a mistake, and in his early
speeches he made a point to say the bankers on Wall Street
would not be happy with him. Was he truly an independent?
As the campaigns rolled on, the media left little doubt
that Donald Trump was an enemy of the establishment.
Trump was smeared as a racist, a sexist, a homophobe, a xeno‐
phobe, a misogynist, a narcissist, a clown, and every other
insult you could think of. The New York Times ran a false
story on their front page claiming Trump had abused a
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woman he dated, Rowanne Brewer Lane. Ms. Brewer Lane

was on TV the next day telling people the story was false.
I came to the conclusion that the media hated and
attacked Trump because he was truly not willing to wage war
for oil and military-industrial complex profits - and he was
popular enough to win. Unlike Hillary Clinton, Marco
Rubio, Jeb Bush, and the vast majority of Republicans and
Democrats running for President, Trump was not paid for by
Goldman Sachs and other criminal Wall Street banks. He
had not accepted millions from Goldman Sachs, the bank
ripping off the American public for decades. Goldman Sachs,
once described as the “giant vampire squid” wrapped around
America, has drained the life out of the country through
frauds like the one depicted in “The Big Short,” where
Goldman sold the mortgage-backed securities it knew would
fail to investors across America. When Goldman and other
Wall Street criminal banks nearly imploded the economy in
2008 with their fraudulent actions, they were not jailed like
the other criminal bankers were in Iceland, but rewarded by
Congress with trillions in bailouts. Unlike the other candi‐
dates, Trump might actually police these criminal bankers.
As Senator Durbin admitted in 2009, “The banks - hard
to believe in a time when we’re facing a banking crisis that
many of the banks created are still the most powerful lobby
on Capitol Hill. And they frankly own the place.” As the
banks also own the media, I always take a close look at the
candidates ignored and attacked by the media. The media
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picks “frontrunners” that their Wall Street owners want to

win. To this day, criminal banks have paid for far too many of
the politicians in Congress, and both Bush and Obama staffed
their Cabinets with former employees of Goldman Sachs.
When the mainstream media admitted Rubio and Clinton
were “establishment candidates,” this is what that term really
means.
With the knowledge that a real candidate for the people
could actually win, I took the position of Editor-In-Chief at
We Are Change in early 2016. We Are Change is one of the
largest independent media outlets in the world, with an audi‐
ence of over half a million on Facebook and nearly half a
million subscribers on YouTube. The site, founded by
legendary journalist Luke Rudkowski, is nonpartisan and
strives for fairness. As the editor-in-chief, I managed a staff of
over 20 writers, meme makers and social media contributors.
Our staff also included Cassandra Fairbanks, a supremely
talented independent journalist and writer.
Within our staff, we housed Jill Stein supporters, anar‐
chists, libertarians, and a few Trump supporters. Whatever
stories arose, I strove for us to write only the truth and never
to slant our reporting. When Trump met with globalist envoy
Henry Kissinger, we called it out as a sign of potential nega‐
tive influence. When Trump proclaimed his support for
auditing the Federal Reserve, we covered that and explained
why that would benefit the country. While some on the staff
said I was too pro-Trump because I openly supported him on
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social media, when we would discuss the issues their prob‐

lems with my coverage of Trump lacked foundation. The
blowups of some former We Are Change staff that hated
being wrong and despised Trump were epic, and mirrored
that of the growing mass of unhinged Trump haters across the
country.
What the whole We Are Change staff did see eye-to-eye
on was that Hillary Clinton was a dangerous warmonger.
Clinton was funded by Wall Street and threatened to invade
Syria, criminalize her political opponents by having the
government declare their words “hate speech,” and poten‐
tially start World War III by attacking Russia.
Yet the media was not calling out Hillary on her destruc‐
tive policies at all. And no wonder - not only did the media
bosses take orders from the same Wall Street bankers Hillary
did, but some media commentators were actually being paid
by Hillary. Stephanie Cutter, for example, appeared on
multiple networks to discuss Hillary, and was often intro‐
duced as a former campaign official for President Barack
Obama. What the networks failed to disclose was that
Cutter’s consulting firm Precision Strategies was paid at least
$120,049 by the Clinton campaign.
The media was so incredibly biased against Trump and
for Hillary, that one of ABC’s head reporters on the election
was George Stephanopoulos, the former White House
Communications Director for Bill Clinton. ABC actually
allowed Stephanopoulos to interview Donald Trump on
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multiple occasions, even when Hillary was Trump’s only

remaining opponent in the race, without disclosing to their
viewers that Stephanopoulos used to work for the Clintons!
When Bernie Sanders was eventually screwed by the
Democratic Party in the 2016 primaries in favor of Hillary,
the mainstream media refused to cover the story until Wiki‐
Leaks revealed leaked emails that DNC chairwoman Debbie
Wasserman-Schultz was actively working to elect Hillary and
crush Bernie. After the election, when Democrat Party
lawyers argued that the DNC has the freedom to determine
its nominees by “internal rule” rather than voter interests, the
media still largely refused to cover the story.
While I was no fan of Bernie Sanders, the absolute under‐
mining of democracy by the DNC was a major story, and We
Are Change was on top of it while the media looked the
other way.
Ironically, the Washington Post listed We Are Change as
“fake news” and “propaganda” in an attempt to smear the
independent media after Hillary lost the election. The Wash‐
ington Post printed a list of sites alleged to be spreading “fake
news” that was aiding Russia. The Post’s completely farcical
article “now bears a humiliating editor’s note grudgingly
acknowledging that the core claims of the story were fiction,”
as journalist Glenn Greenwald put it. The Washington Post
also had to retract a second fake news story about Russia
shortly after that, where they claimed that Russia hacked the
U.S. electrical grid. This second fake story - ironically after
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the Washington Post tried to label some of the best indepen‐

dent journalists as “fake news” - helped forever stick the “fake
news” label on to the Washington Post and the rest of the
lying mainstream media.
Once President Trump was elected, it seemed there was
no limit to the lies the mainstream media would tell. When
President Trump referred to MS-13, a central American gang
that rapes children, as “animals,” the mainstream media lied
and said Trump was referring to all migrants. When CNN
reported Congress was investigating alleged wrongdoing
involving President Trump’s then advisor Anthony Scara‐
mucci and a Russian hedge fund, a subsequent investigation
of the story resulted in CNN deleting the report and three
CNN reporters being forced to resign. When ABC’s Brian
Ross claimed Donald Trump had directed his eventual
National Security Adviser Michael Flynn to contact the
Russians while running for president as a candidate, that
report turned out to be false and Ross was eventually fired.
The way the media has covered the allegations of Russian
election interference is the perfect example of how the media
doesn’t play by their own rules and tries to limit what’s
acceptable to discuss. “Conspiracy theories” like alleged
Russian collusion were acceptable for the mainstream media
to obsess over for two years, but stories that suspect establish‐
ment politicians are taboo.
In May of 2017, the mainstream media and independent
outlets were discussing two very different stories, each that
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centered on a conspiracy theory. While the mainstream

media was discussing Russia, many independent outlets
focused on Seth Rich, the former DNC employee who was
murdered in the middle of the 2016 election, and who may
have been the source of the leaked DNC emails to Wiki‐
Leaks. Stories were breaking with claims that Rich did in fact
send the DNC’s emails to WikiLeaks. For years, many have
discussed the phenomenon of a number of “coincidental”
deaths surrounding the Clintons, such as the alleged suicide
of former Clinton attorney Vince Foster, who was shot in the
back of the head before he was scheduled to testify against
the Clintons. The murder of Seth Rich had been reported by
NBC and the mainstream media as "a robbery" - even though
none of Seth Rich’s belongings, not even his wallet,
were taken.
Whether or not Seth Rich was the source, the leaked
DNC emails proved the extreme bias in the mainstream
media, and helped destroy Hillary’s campaign. One email
revealed a secret meeting between Hillary’s advisors and
reporters from ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, CNBC, MSNBC,
NPR, Reuters, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Los
Angeles Times, Washington Post, Huffington Post, Politico,
Bloomberg, People, Buzzfeed and more. Another email chain
revealed Politico’s chief political correspondent Glenn
Thrush was sending the Hillary campaign articles for review
for approval before publishing. In an email to Hillary’s
campaign chairman John Podesta, Thrush wrote, “Because I
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have become a hack I will send u the whole section that

pertains to u. Please don't share or tell anyone I did this.”
When this email came to light, the mainstream media offered
ZERO outrage that a so-called journalist was colluding with
the Hillary campaign. After the election, Thrush wasn’t fired
- he was rewarded with a new position at the New
York Times.
CNN’s Donna Brazile was even exposed giving Hillary
Clinton debate questions in advance by a leaked email. If the
mainstream media had learned that Donald Trump was given
a debate question in advance from FOX News, do you think
that story would be been blasted nonstop for months by
CNN, MSNBC, and the like? When Brazile finally admitted
(after no pressure from the mainstream media) that she gave
Hillary debate questions, again there was deafening silence
from the fake news.
In fact, the mainstream media never reported the
contents of many of the leaked emails in the first place. CNN
anchor Chris Cuomo even discouraged people from reading
the leaked emails on air, falsely claiming - “Remember, it’s
illegal to possess these stolen documents. It’s different for the
media. So everything you learn about this, you’re learning
from us.”
While the independent media was buzzing with specula‐
tion and reports on whether Seth Rich was the source of the
bombshell DNC email leaks, the mainstream media was
again refusing to talk about Rich at all. Instead, the paid-for
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media focused on yet another anonymously sourced Wash‐

ington Post story about Trump colluding with Russia, this
time by claiming Trump gave classified intel to Russia.
The fictional Trump-Russia stories began with the Demo‐
cratic National Committee (DNC) claiming its email system
was hacked by Russia. This claim was later refuted, but real
journalists asked the question: If the DNC was hacked by
Russia, why didn’t the DNC let the FBI examine its email
server? And why didn’t the FBI examine the server regardless
of whether the DNC objected?
In reality, the entire Russia hacking story was invented by
the Democrats to try and sink Trump, and to take attention
away from where those leaked emails really came from. In the
book “Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed
Campaign,” Jonathan Allen reports that within 24 hours of
Hillary losing, her campaign head John Podesta hatched the
plan of blaming Russian hacking. After the election, Podesta
went to work for….The Washington Post.
By creating and focusing on the latest Trump-Russia
hysteria, the mainstream media ignored yet again the highly
questionable death of Seth Rich, and fabricated a means with
which to attack President Trump. If an RNC staffer turned
up dead after possibly leaking Donald Trump’s emails,
imagine how much scrutiny the media would give the story.
Yet when WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange offered $20,000
for information leading to the arrest of Seth Rich’s killer, the
mainstream media was shockingly quiet. And there in the
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Washington Post newsroom, the staff reportedly cheered the

traffic their latest Trump-Russia concoction was getting as
they moved national attention away from the death of Seth
Rich yet again.
For those that think a conspiracy theory like the death of
Seth Rich is not fit for to be discussed on network news, it’s
important to note that CNN is willing to engage in specula‐
tion of this exact type with even less foundation. When
Washington Post op-ed writer Jamal Khashoggi was report‐
edly killed in a Saudi embassy, CNN allowed former Obama
administration official Joaquin Castro to claim that President
Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner was partly responsible for
arranging Khashoggi’s death.
Should a guest on CNN suggest that Hillary Clinton was
involved in the death of Seth Rich that guest would be cut off
the air immediately. Castro was allowed to elaborate. The
media is perfectly happy to air conspiracy theories, as long as
the target is an enemy of their outlet.
As famed Dilbert cartoonist and emerging political
analyst Scott Adams wrote about the Russia allegations,
“Would it be equally accurate to characterize it as a series of
stories manufactured by the media, none of which have been
confirmed to be a big deal?” The entire 2016 election and
2017 news cycles look very different as viewed through the
lens of Adams, a trained hypnotist and student of the
psychology of persuasion. In a series of columns on his blog,
Adams explained to the world how Donald Trump was using
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persuasion techniques to win the election, including “pacing

and leading” his audience, sticking “linguistic kill shots” like
“Crooked Hillary” on his opponents, and making voters
“think past the sale.” On the other side, the media used their
own psychological tactics to make people afraid of Trump.
Besides comparing Trump to the Nazis, at one point the
media en masse began describing Trump’s actions as dark,
because, as Adams explained, many people have a subcon‐
scious fear of the dark dating back to childhood.
Many of the people that consume mainstream media are
convinced they are well-informed, when in actuality they
have been expertly manipulated. The trouble is, once a
person believes he is well-informed and believes fake news,
whatever the subject, it is incredibly hard to convince him he
has been fooled. People are prone to cognitive dissonance,
viewing reality through the lens they started with in the face
of conflicting information and justifying their current posi‐
tion, rather than adjusting their opinion and admitting they
were wrong.
The stereotypical discussion between a fake news
consumer and a truly well informed person has often ended
with the refuted fake news consumer projecting insults on to
the other person. The fake news consumer’s point of view
can’t withstand the scrutiny of facts, and he or she will
usually resort to anger and insults. Most people can’t with‐
stand the pain to the ego in finding out they have been fooled,
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especially when they are proven wrong in public, and so they

will lash out instead.
Many in the mainstream media themselves were the perfect
example of this phenomenon. During an interview on CBS’s 60
Minutes, reporter Scott Pelley tried to call the reporting of inde‐
pendent journalist Mike Cernovich “fake,” especially because
Cernovich had reported extensively on Hillary’s illnesses, while
the mainstream media had claimed Hillary was in good health.
“She had a seizure and froze up, walking into her motor‐
cade,” Cernovich accurately argued, referencing Hillary’s
complete collapse at a 9/11 memorial event.
“Well, she had pneumonia, I mean -” Pelley pleaded.
“How do you know? Who told you that?” Cernovich
retorted.
“Well, the campaign told us that,” Pelley answered,
exposing which of the two men was “fake news.” While
Cernovich questioned politicians, Pelley sat there uncritically
repeating whatever a political campaign told him as the truth.
“Why would you trust the campaign?” Cernovich asked,
visibly stunning Pelley, and striking a devastating blow
against the mental stranglehold that “trusted news” like 60
Minutes held on the minds of many.
The fact is, the mainstream media and their corporate
owners are scared that real news is breaking through to
people on a mass scale. The internet and social media has
allowed people to bypass the corporate gatekeepers, and the
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military-industrial complex is fighting to shut those gates

again.
FA C T C H EC K ERS A N D SOC IA L MED IA
When independent media debunked mainstream media lies

during the 2016 campaign, mainstream media consumers
often looked to “fact-checking” websites for assurances.
Unbeknownst to the mainstream media consumer, websites
like Snopes and Politifact are exactly as objective and truthful
as the mainstream media they try to defend - that is to say, the
“fact-checkers” are also completely biased and willing to lie.
When Donald Trump said Hillary Clinton wants “open
borders,” PolitiFact deemed the statement “mostly false,”
despite the fact that Clinton admitted in a 2013 speech to a
Brazilian bank, “My dream is a hemispheric common market,
with open trade and open borders.” Snopes “fact checker”
Kim Lacapria describes herself as “openly left-leaning” and a
liberal. Lacapria once tried to contradict the former Facebook
workers who admitted that Facebook regularly censors
conservative news, dismissing the news as “rumors.”
In fact, Facebook was forced to fire employees that
curated their “Trending” news tab after their bias against
conservatives was revealed. Then, in order to shut down the
independent media, Facebook hatched a plan to use “fact-
checkers” like Snopes and Politifact to label stories shared on
Facebook as “fake news.” Facebook has repeatedly taken
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down pages like “God Emperor Trump” and “Disdain For

Plebs” that supported Donald Trump. We Are Change found
ourselves censored in various ways as well, with our stories
limited in reach so that only a tiny fraction of our 500,000+
followers initially saw our posts.
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg was famously caught
collaborating with German prime minister Angela Merkel to
shut down the speech of Facebook users that spoke about the
dangers of the two million Middle East migrants Merkel
brought to Germany. It’s no wonder that Facebook cut the
advertising completely for another page I started working on
that discussed the criminal migrant crisis.
After shedding light on so many issues for We Are
Change, I was hired to make memes, write articles, and host
news broadcasts for Mike Cernovich’s Facebook page. As the
host of Cernovich News, one issue I often reported on was
the epidemic of rape and violence caused by migrants in the
Middle East. For daring to report on this forbidden subject,
Facebook cut our ability to profit from their built-in “Instant
Articles” advertising platform.
Facebook and the other mainstream social media compa‐
nies are globalist-controlled tools that work to shut down
“hate speech” and independent media. Twitter banned jour‐
nalist Milo Yiannopoulos, ostensibly for insulting and causing
his followers to harass actress Leslie Jones. In reality,
Yiannopoulos was banned for becoming incredibly popular,
and influencing people to reject corporate media narratives
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and support Trump and independent media. Jones herself

faced no punishment when she actually incited her followers
to harass someone on Twitter, writing “Get her!” Twitter
used Jones as a pretext to ban Milo, and establish its right to
censor those it doesn’t agree with. When Twitter later
banned several other popular Trump supporting accounts,
the social media monolith barely pretended they needed a
reason.
Twitter also has a history of removing trending hashtags
that put out messages that contradict the mainstream narra‐
tive. When Seth Rich trended on Twitter for example,
Twitter removed it. Twitter, like the mainstream media,
wants people to focus on anti-Trump stories like the fake
Russian scandals.
YouTube, which actually paid popular independent
media outlets that allowed advertisements on their channels,
quickly changed that policy after the election. Independent
news analysts like We Are Change, Paul Joseph Watson, and
Mark Dice swiftly saw our channels almost completely
demonetized, in an effort to bankrupt independent media.
YouTube ostensibly took their cues from a Wall Street
Journal campaign that warned advertisers like Coca-Cola that
their brands were being associated with “racist” videos. More
likely is that Wall Street and the corporations in the CFR
hatched an excuse to hurt the staying power of independent
media by ginning up the “racism” charge eventually launched
by the Wall Street Journal. The mainstream media and their
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owners do not want competition, especially from channels

that offer an independent view of the news.
Even entertainers like Pewdiepie were not safe from the
Wall Street Journal’s fake news attack. Pewdiepie was the
first channel accused of bigotry by the WSJ, which tried to
label him a Nazi. Why? Because even independent enter‐
tainers are a threat to the military-industrial complex and
their media. It’s well known that Wall Street and the CFR
propagandize Americans through entertainment, and the
CIA even has an official agent in Hollywood called the
“Entertainment Industry Liaison.” Pewdiepie has the poten‐
tial to persuade his 55 million subscribers into following a
message unapproved by the mainstream media. That makes
him, and YouTubers like him, a threat.
Over on the massively popular news and entertainment
site Reddit, the Trump supporters posting real news on their
dedicated subreddit The_Donald were continuously under‐
mined in many ways. The Reddit site administrators changed
the site’s algorithm to prevent posts from The_Donald from
reaching the front page of the website and converting even
more Reddit users into part of the growing community and
populist uprising building in The_Donald. The_Donald and
Trump supporters on social media were one of the biggest
driving forces behind the Trump campaign, behind the
spread of real news and authentic grassroots movements.
Most of all, The_Donald spread memes.
The viral memes and high art made by meme makers out
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of videos like Donald Trump body slamming a wrestler

labeled CNN, are in fact a shot across the bow of the military
industrial complex and their mainstream media pawns.
Entertaining pictures and videos promoting Donald Trump
were not just memes – but a highly effective memetic warfare
salvo.
Meme warfare, as it came to be known in 2016, is no less
than the front line of the newest generation of war - informa‐
tion warfare. In fact, “4th generation warfare” is defined as
conflict characterized by a blurring of the lines between war
and politics, combatants and civilians. Canadian professor
and visionary Marshall McLuhan, who predicted the inter‐
net’s creation almost 30 years before it was invented, said
“World War III is a guerrilla information war with no divi‐
sion between military and civilian participation.” No wonder
Google and Facebook and the rest of the globalist Big Tech
corporations are trying so hard to shut freedom of speech on
the internet.
I was watching a live video from the White House in
November of 2018 when I saw something that blew my
mind. During a press conference, CNN reporter Jim Acosta
was told “that’s enough” by President Trump after Acosta
had asked several questions. Instead of giving the microphone
to a young female White House intern who approached him
and reached for it, Acosta pushed the young woman’s arm
down in what many called an assault. Leaving aside that
Acosta was not tasered for asking questions, I was shocked at
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the CNN reporter’s conduct. Physically pushing off a young

female aide was clearly over the line behavior, even for a
CNN hack.
In light of this incident, did Jim Acosta or CNN issue an
apology? No. Instead, Acosta actually claimed he didn’t even
touch the young female intern. “Obviously, you know, I didn’t
put my hands on her or touch her as they are alleging,” Acosta
said on CNN. “And it’s just unfortunate that the White
House is saying this. You know, we all try to be professionals
over there and I think I handled myself professionally.”
This incident proved once and for all the media is willing
to lie to our faces - even when hundreds of thousands of
people were watching live video of the event. When millions
more people watched the replay of the incident, the media
doubled down and told another lie, claiming Paul Joseph
Watson of Infowars had doctored the video.
Without the power of free speech on the internet and an
independent media pushing back against lies like this, the
corporate media would have the power to make up anything
they wanted and declare it as truth. As Malcolm X once said,
“If you aren't careful, the newspapers will have you hating the
people who are being oppressed and loving the people who
are doing the oppressing.”
With the power to say whatever they want, the media
could even cover up for the theft of elections. This ultimate
power, and the challenge that popular online personalities
present to the media’s monopoly, is the real motivation
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behind Facebook banning hundreds of independent media

pages and Google rigging political search results.
In 2018, when irrefutable evidence appeared that elec‐
tions were being stolen in Florida, independent activist Ali
Alexander started a Twitter hashtag #StopTheSteal. His goal
was to protect the integrity of elections by informing millions
of people that Broward County elections supervisor Brenda
Snipes was taking illegal actions to try and steal the Senate
and Governor races in Florida. Republican candidates Rick
Scott and Ron DeSantis had defeated Democrats Andrew
Gillum and Bill Nelson. Gillum even conceded. But the day
after election day, Broward County elections supervisor
Brenda Snipes somehow “found” an additional 46,000
ballots, enough to flip both races. Three days after the elec‐
tion, Snipes was still “finding” ballots and illegally counting
thousands more votes.
Worse still, an affidavit filed by a Broward elections
employee provided eyewitness testimony that Broward elec‐
tions staff were filling in blank ballots. When this was
reported, the employee was fired and told not to come back.
In 2016, journalist John Cardillo also had proof of election
fraud in Broward, including a sworn affidavit from an eyewit‐
ness who saw ballots changed.
In a separate scandal, Brenda Snipes was found by a
judge to have illegally destroyed ballots after the Democrat
primary race in 2016 between the corrupt Debbie
Wasserman Schultz and grassroots challenger Tim Canova.
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In 2018, Canova shared on social media a tape of people

seemingly caught on tape loading ballots into a rented truck.
While Broward County was still illegally counting votes in
2018, Congressman Matt Gaetz visited the Broward elec‐
tions office and, “was told it was ‘unsafe’ for me to video
trucks moving things in and out of the Broward SOE office.
Then, they block court-ordered access. It’s a banana republic
down here.” In court, lawyers for Nelson and Gillum actually
argued in Palm Beach that a ballot by a non-citizen should be
counted!
When a box of ballots was suspiciously discovered in the
back of an Avis rental car at the Fort Lauderdale airport, the
Democrat Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel reported the
finding as a “suspicious package” and sent a bomb squad to
the airport. When independent journalist Laura Loomer
proved the “suspicious package” was a box of ballots left
behind by a man that had been pictured with the Democrat
candidate for governor, the media failed to report on what
really happened. The Democrat Sheriff Scott Israel covered
up for some kind of attempted election fraud or cover-up by
illegally calling in a bomb threat to an airport!
With all of this information being spread on Twitter with
the hashtag #StopTheSteal, CNN’s Chris Cuomo claimed
the Stop The Steal hashtag was being promoted by Russian
bots. The false idea that a grassroots hashtag in support of fair
elections is the doing of Russian bots is journalistic malfea‐
sance and borderline fraud. Instead of reporting the informa‐
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tion on Snipes’s known scandals, CNN mischaracterized the

protests of American citizens as the work of foreign intelli‐
gence agents. Others in the media, including my old friend
Greg Palast, falsely reported that the Stop the Steal efforts -
which were led by black conservative Ali Alexander - were
being run by a white nationalist.
The possibility that America’s elections could be stolen
with no real reporting done by the media that claims to report
the news is an assault on the legitimacy of the government.
When the media protects fraudulent elections officials by
failing to disclose criminal actions, they allow discontent with
the system of government to brew on both sides of the aisle.
In this case, should Snipes’s schemes have succeeded in
overthrowing elected officials, many Republicans would view
the government as an illegitimate, unelected power. On the
other side of the aisle, with the media reporting the Democrat
narrative that “all votes must be counted” and presenting a
one-sided view of Democrat votes being suppressed, should
Snipes’s illegal scheme fail, many Democrats will view the
government as an illegitimate, unelected power. That is
dangerous territory. Thanks to the media failing to properly
report the known illegality of a corrupt election supervisors, a
large amount of voters will be extremely hostile to the govern‐
ment, no matter who wins.
With dishonest reporting like that, how can we expect
people to have faith in government or trust the media?
Real journalists demand answers to these kind of ques‐
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tions, and millions of people have taken to social media to ask

these questions. The fake news doesn’t ask real questions.
Instead, presstitutes manufacture false stories designed to
create outrage and hysteria - dividing the people on the left
and the right in America, who would find enormous common
ground if only their minds weren’t consumed with the poiso‐
nous propaganda emanating from Wall Street newspapers
and the TV.
I questioned John Kerry because like most Americans, I
want a candidate that wants peace - not to pillage impover‐
ished nations through warfare. The reality is Wall Street can
afford to hire hundreds of phony actors and false champions
to run for office and pretend they care about the American
people. A candidate's positions - and whether he truly means
them - are what really matter. Even Hillary pretended like
she would police Wall Street when Bernie was beating her,
but if a candidate is taking millions from Wall Street like
Hillary did, you can be sure her stated positions are pure
fiction. Politicians are not going to stand up and tell you, "I'm
lying about my identity and what I would do in office!" The
mainstream media is not going to expose the candidates they
are paid to promote. You have to figure out the game yourself.
Obama was funded by Wall Street. John Kasich worked
at Lehman Brothers. Yet millions of people were fooled by
the words and demeanor of Obama and Kasich and others,
failing to see Wall Street’s puppet strings moving their lips.
The U.S. economy has big problems that can only be
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solved by America uniting. Wall Street bankers and their

cronies in Congress have created an environment completely
hostile to growing a small business. Manufacturing has been
outsourced to slave labor in China, while the U.S. has wasted
trillions on endless wars.
Miraculously, Donald Trump defeated the fake news
media in 2016 and won the White House for the people. The
revolution long expected in America has arrived, but only We
the People can make it grow. We can not expect Donald
Trump or any one man to bring peace to the world.
We must do the work ourselves, each man doing his best
to create a free world. Share the word about the independent
media with your friends. I keep a list of the best real news
sources on the sidebar of my website, TheAndrewMeyer.‐
com. With a truly free press, perhaps for the first time in over
a hundred years, we can make America the shining defender
of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness that it was origi‐
nally intended to be.
We can wake people up from the spell of the fake
news media.
We can elect honest representatives of the people to
Congress.
Thank God, we can end the wars, and usher in world
peace.
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AFTERWORD
When the “Don’t Tase Me Bro” incident was making head‐

lines worldwide, I never wanted to use the infamy for
anything other than to make a real change in the world.
While Stephen Colbert and Dave Chappelle and others
delivered their take on my questions to Senator Kerry, I
deeply desired to wake people up to the horrors of senseless
war and the many atrocities covered up for by the media.
Being made into all kinds of memes and jokes was surreal and
fascinating, but also horrifying because of the utter disregard
the media showed for my honest questions. While the media
spun a narrative that I was a “prankster” and an attention
seeker, I turned down many offers to appear on mainstream
media, and even a book deal, because these offers would have
hurt my chances to deliver an authentic message to the world.
The media has an appetite for war that ignores the
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horrors visited upon the majority of the population that

endures such Hell on Earth. The calls even today for war or
sanctions on countries like Syria and Iran fail to take into
account the deaths of family members and starvation that has
happened to innocent people abroad because of the blood‐
thirsty cheerleading of our media. Human consciousness can
evolve to a level of loving for each other, but not when we are
consumed by illusions cast by the most evil men in the world,
using the media as their puppets to divide us.
In writing this book, I have had to discard entire sections
that included ideas I held for a decade, because research
showed me that they were false. I find it to be a terrible
tragedy that there are so many kind, brilliant individuals in
the world who believe their political views are humane, when
in fact reality has been hidden from them to make them
support the most demonic evils. To that end, my goal for this
book was to help people understand how they have been
tricked by real life criminal masterminds, the sort that most
people only allow themselves to believe exist in fictional
movies about superheroes.
Right now, there are people donning black outfits with
the goal of hurting their fellow man because they have been
fed disinformation. Media operatives like CNN’s Chris
Cuomo have praised the violence by comparing so-called
“antifascists” to American World War II veterans. The media
is fueling a mindset of war that led to the shooting of
Congressman Steve Scalise. The shooter was an avid viewer
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of corporate “liberal” media, and intended to shoot an entire

field full of Republican congressmen.
The “liberals” in America do not comprehend much of
the arguments of the people they oppose. This is by design.
While the media teaches “liberals” that their opponents are
too evil to be listened to, globalist tech companies like Google
and Facebook have essentially monopolized different sectors
of the public square online and use algorithms to keep people
divided. The tech companies themselves have often referred
to themselves as a public utility, similar to a phone company.
Their repeated attempts to ban independent media and
anyone that opposes the mainstream media should be
prevented by antitrust law, the way phone companies are not
allowed to regulate speech.
Politicians on both sides of the aisle have blocked reforms
such as this that would help unite Americans, because politi‐
cians on both sides of the aisle do not care about the public
good. People must raise awareness of the real issues in the
country without devolving into taking sides as if either polit‐
ical party is blameless. Most importantly, people must care
about their neighbors, and let that care drive them to only
vote for candidates within their own party that actually stand
for good.
Not everyone can be reached with messages of good.
Some people are lost in their victim mentality, and you would
only waste your energy by trying to interrupt their process.
For those that have at least somewhat of an open mind, it is
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crucial to speak with them generously. Avoid fighting with

your friends and neighbors that are open to listening to what
you have to say, and you just may help change their minds.
I want to thank my spiritual teachers Benny Halfon, Rav
Berg, and my Kabbalah Centre family that has helped me
grow so much in the last ten years. I also want to thank Mike
Cernovich, Luke Rudkowski, and Carlos Miller for the
opportunity to work with them and their guidance through
the field of independent journalism. Special thanks are also
due to Jack Posobiec, Ali Alexander, Laura Loomer, and so
many others for amplifying my voice, and for the amazing
work they do to enlighten people and raise their awareness.
Lastly I must thank my father, who wrote sections for this
book before he passed away, and always encouraged me to
write and follow my passions. God has given me many gifts,
and none are greater than my wonderful parents.
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Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those

He apparently asked several questions - he went

The day was September 17, 2007 – Constitution Day.

Afghanistan, and in 2004, Senator John Kerry was the man

Madhouse. The facts inside its yellow cover raised serious

“I first and foremost want to thank you for your

million Americans were denied the right to vote because of

election of disenfranchisement of black voters in

Kerry promises every vote will count

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — John Kerry said Sunday that a

may or may not be bringing challenges publicly in the course

In fact, Senator Kerry knew before the election that voter

formation spread by political operatives, this means

Judge: Mr. Curtis, are there programs that can be used to

So how easy is it to implant an undetectable program that

“So amidst all these reports of phony, bogus

“thousands of lawyers” failed to contest George W. Bush’s

tured the intelligence claiming Saddam Hussein and Iraq’s

the “banksters,” whatever you want to call them, have

John McCain received

John Kerry and George W. Bush were also heavily financed

by people from these banks during their 2004 campaigns. In

blowers at a record rate, and broke what many considered his

On NBC’s Meet the Press, Tim Russert asked both John

August 31, 2003:

SEN. KERRY: Not much, because it’s a secret.

Besides most of the “mainstream” Presidential candidates

the first place? The media, of course. Coincidentally (or not),

Time Warner (owned CNN)

Basically, the CFR is a business club that has hugely

international banking. Here is another list of CFR corporate

With the help of their puppet politicians and news

questions to Senator Kerry and placing people’s attention on

THE TASER HEARD ROUND

After asking the question, the man would not let

— EXCERPTS FROM THE POLICE

Truth is treason in the empire of lies.

The event was advertised on campus as a “Town Hall” forum

In the weeks before the town-hall forum, I had been

So when I went to see John Kerry, I was upset. But I

to be scripted softballs planned in advance by the event

years-old, had just had my image of America shattered, and

“You know, I’ve been waiting here for two

Most of the viral YouTube videos start here, when I begin

the officers are grabbing me after I asked my questions, you

“What is going on here? I want to stand and

cers have control of the situation. Let’s see how they

fied. In my young mind, if the police were willing to taser me

FROM THE DESK OF JOEL MEYER

“I have a collect call from Andrew Meyer, an inmate at the

It is after 5:00 pm on Monday, September 17, 2007 and I had

We both looked at each other with quizzical expressions on

Disturbing the Peace

She told me that Andrew’s arraignment was the next morning

I’d like to start off by saying that prison is truly a