Steve Baker
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Steve baker was arrested for covering a story in the capitol building on january 6 2021 . He did not show up to break windows or poke anyone with a flagpole but he was there to cover the story . He was not rioting or attacking police he's standing there watching what's happening around him covering the story but because baker wasn't wise enough to get a job with the washington post or the new york times or any other news outlet that works for the biden administration .
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among the many thousands of americans who came to the capitol building on january 6 2021 were an
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awful lot of journalists working journalists and they were there because among other things it was
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a news story in progress so they went to what we call cover the story and the overwhelming majority
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of them worked for various organs of state media the associated press reuters the new york times
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the washington post nbc news and their job was to bolster whatever the people in charge claim is true
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but there were also some independent journalists there that day one of them was called steve baker
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he now works for the blaze and he was there for the same reason everyone else is there to watch the
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protest play out and to cover it and like so many reporters that day he eventually moved with the
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crowd inside the capitol building and he did so peacefully to cover the story we're not guessing
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about this he did not show up to break windows or poke anyone with a flagpole he was there to cover
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it as a journalist so we have footage of it of baker in the capitol we're going to put it up now you can
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see he's not rioting or attacking police he's standing there watching what's happening around him covering
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the story but because steve baker wasn't wise enough to get a job with the washington post or
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the new york times or any other news outlet that works for the biden administration the fbi singled
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him out not as a reporter which he is but as an insurrectionist and then they charged him with crimes
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for being there the charges include disruptive conduct and restricted building parading demonstrating
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or picketing in the capitol building and they meant it they weren't joking by the way no one defended
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steve baker none of the free press organizations that exist to defend working journalists stood up
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for him or said a word when baker was arrested at the fbi office in dallas here's video of baker
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turning himself in as you can see he was humiliated they cuffed him behind his back not because he posed a
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threat to anyone but because they wanted to make the message crystal clear to everyone else only regime
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media will be treated as legitimate others will be crushed steve baker joins us now to recount his
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experiences with the so-called justice system steve baker thank you so much for coming on hey um so
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thanks for having me of course when last we spoke about a year ago um there were hints this was coming
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i'll just speak for myself as a middle-aged american man i didn't really believe that they could
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arrest a journalist for covering a story they did ultimately as we just showed arrest you
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were you as shocked as i was probably not as shocked because i had been dealing with this for
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about two and a half years i initially had a threat of prosecution going all the way back to november of 21
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when my attorney received a email from an assistant u.s attorney out of philadelphia in which she said
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your client meaning me with is going to be arrested or is going to be charged within the week
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and so after we did a bit of a uh a bit of a media pushback kind of an offensive against that threat
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then we didn't hear from them again for 20 months now after 20 months i was starting to feel pretty
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good about it during that interim time i actually spoke with you and then uh in august of last year
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uh we received a grand jury subpoena my attorney calls me back says all right we've got a grand
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jury subpoena for your work your actual videos that you took on january 6th we complied uh yet again
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and uh then we didn't hear from them for another four months well during this time i'm now working for
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the blaze and so i was actually in dc as a matter of fact i was sitting in uh representative thomas
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massey's office on december 14th just this past uh december and i i get a text from my attorney
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which is never a welcome thing an unsolicited text from your attorney which he said i think this is
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the one the big one so i stepped out into the hallway there at the rayburn building and called
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my attorney and he said they want you to self-surrender next week in my hometown of raleigh north carolina
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so uh the blaze went into high gear we did another media offensive had millions of views of this
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uh the story that we were telling about me having to self-surrender and they backed off yet again
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they we got another call the next day from the fbi saying that they were going to put that off until
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sometime after christmas once again we didn't hear from them for two months until two weeks ago we got
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the notice that i was going to have to self-surrender this time and this time it was for real they
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actually said that it was only going to be for misdemeanor charges the four basic misdemeanors
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that all the low level january 6 offenders get uh and because i'm happen to be working here in dallas
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right now where blaze is headquarters we decided to go ahead and do my self-surrender here at the fbi
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field office so they didn't raid me they didn't come out to my hotel or to the blaze studios
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uh we went down to the fbi field office and submitted myself uh the interesting thing tucker
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is that in the notice from the assistant u.s attorney to my my lead attorney is that they
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wanted me to show up at the field office and i quote wearing shorts t-shirt and flip-flops
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and i knew what that meant that meant that they were probably going to change me into the orange
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jumpsuit and that i would then be leg shackled because the plan was for the fbi to process me
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there at the the field office put me in a car take me downtown to the courthouse where they would hand
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me over to the u.s marshals and then i would wait in a cell until i was marched before the magistrate in
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front of the um uh the in front of the whole court and so what ended up taking place is that
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my attorney negotiated with the two fbi agents in advance of me surrendering i did not have to get
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into an orange jumpsuit i showed up with a jacket tie slacks dress shoes they made me take off my
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shoelaces my belt my tie and then hand my jacket over to my attorney uh then they took me they allowed
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me to wear my own shirt my own trousers uh they handcuffed me fingerprinted me marched me out to
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the car which has been seen on camera took me to took me to the courthouse handed me over to the u.s
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marshals and that's where they put the leg chains the belt chain belted my wrist uh chained my wrist to my
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stomach and then sat me in a jail cell with a meth dealer
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would help in the grip visa and mastercard have on us every time you use your credit card they charge
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you a hidden fee called a swipe fee and they've been raising it without even telling you this hurts
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consumers and every small business owner in fact american families are paying eleven hundred dollars
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in hidden swipe fees each year the fees visa and mastercard charge americans are the highest in the
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world double candidates and eight times more than europe's that's why i've taken action but i need your
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it's hard to believe any of that's real a couple of questions one what's the name of the assistant
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u.s attorney who did this adam dreher out of dc yeah adam dreher i hope becomes famous it's not a
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threat but i think we deserve to know who is doing this i mean the state of texas has more than a
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million uh illegal invaders in it right now um there are also an awful lot of murders in the state
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of texas and so this is what they're spending their time doing i have to ask did any of the fbi agents we
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always hear that you know the line agents are good guys any of the u.s marshals say to you you know
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i'm embarrassed that i'm chaining you uh to you know chaining you to your own stomach on a misdemeanor
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charge for something that isn't actually a crime did anyone betray any acknowledgement that this is
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like all a farce the the two agents that processed me did not do that i have received messages from
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retired whistleblowing uh agents all over the country apologizing to me for the behavior of the
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uh the once the agency they were once proud of i will tell you that while they were patting me down
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and going through the process uh i did chat with them and i asked them point blank i said so how often
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do you do this to misdemeanor defendants uh the first time there was a little bit of mumbling
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and then i kind of reiterated i said is this is it is it normal or do you get you do in process
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misdemeanor defendants on a regular basis as they're patting me down uh they went they were
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dead silent and of course that's because we know the answer tucker yeah how about how about speak up
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son i pay your salary like how dare you treat me this way as an american citizen seriously they didn't
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answer your question yeah in the hundred year yeah in the hundred year history of that agency
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hundred plus year history of that they never processed misdemeanor defendants of any kind
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particularly non-violent misdemeanor defendants uh it's that's not what they do i mean every single
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fbi agent will tell you that when they joined the the uh the agency they were told that they were
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they were on this uh planet and in this country to go after the whales not the tiny little minnows
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but why don't they quit that's what i don't understand i mean i i've always respected law
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enforcement on principle and fbi agents i guess on principle but if you're participating in a system
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that's just political tyranny which is what it is it's not a it's not there's nothing justice related
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about any of this it's joe biden putting his critics behind bars how can you live with yourself
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like isn't at a certain point at their responsibility too i've been analyzing that the answer to that
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question for quite some time now and the only answer i have is that we're now into a generation
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of special agents and even special agents in charge that came in after the patriot act that came in during
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the obama administration that came in after the politicization was overwhelming at the top in
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the leadership and in fact now the you know in most of the field offices those in charge are are political
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operatives by by and large tucker and so that's the answer now we'll tell you this when i got to the
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courthouse one of the uh u.s marshals processing me down there he actually looked at my paperwork and he
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said point blank this is bullshit yeah and he's right he's right and good for him yeah and i said
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yeah and then he said and he said i will tell you what else is bullshit he said we process a lot of
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these he said you guys you know you j6ers and he said i think that uh former president trump should be
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paying for every one of your legal fees i agree with that too i i do agree with that yeah and i think
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it's yeah i strongly agree with that um so yeah i mean i think you should be afraid to behave like
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this if you're an fbi agent um i think you should be afraid of it you can't act like that toward your
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fellow citizens and you can't be the instrument of political tyranny and get away with it um so did
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anyone is there anyone to appeal to so you you work with glenn beck who is really taken up and good
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for him he's a good man your your cause but did anyone with official power step in to try and help
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you uh no one with official power i mean we've had quite a few people speak out on my behalf uh we've
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had some congressmen speak out on my behalf we've had uh current presidential uh uh nominee or uh nominee
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apparent as well as those a couple of others that were running ramaswamy uh desantis and then in
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addition to that we've had a host of other friendly media but as you can probably surmise
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and as you obviously stated earlier nobody from the mainstream media has come forward yet and said
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hey you know we probably better stick up for this guy even though he's not necessarily one of us
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because pendulum swing right and more important more importantly tucker pen whether the pendulum
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swings or not if it continues to swing far into the tyrannical left they purge themselves eventually
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if you've read a history book they will take out the factions of the factions first yes well but such
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a thing as principle exists i mean some things are just wrong because they're wrong racial discrimination
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putting people in prison because you don't like their political views these are just wrong it doesn't
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matter who they're happening to they're just they're just wrong uh on their own terms um did it ever
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did part of you think well maybe i just won't participate you know i've spent my whole life in
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this country paid taxes believed in the system this is not justice this is not the justice system
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this is a tool of political repression and maybe you just say come and get me i'm not i'm not well
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playing along well for for two and a half years yeah for two and a half years i didn't have to set my
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alarm clock because every morning at six o'clock i would wake up because i've been following these cases
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i've been following these trials i've followed hundreds of these cases there's over thirteen
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hundred and fifty of these arrests so far uh all manner of defendants for uh january 6 most of them
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of course are non-violent and i've been following these cases and believe it or not many i mean far far
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too many to even uh recount of the simple misdemeanor uh defendants including other independent
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journalists have been swat raided at their home some of them have been imprisoned and did nothing
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more than walk around in the capital with a big camera rig no painting parading no picketing no
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chanting usa usa or anything else of the nature and um they they did their job professionally and when
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they got back home they were swat raided by 20 agents with the red dots on their chest and on their
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wife and on their children and then hauled off uh convicted sent to prison for months independent
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journalists it's beyond it's so what happens next in your case uh i have uh in two days i have a dc
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hearing it's uh it's one that i can do by zoom uh it's simply not much more than a repeat of what we
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did in dallas because this was an out of district hearing so now i've got to do it before a dc
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magistrate so it's a magistrate so it's just basically the same thing without the leg change this time
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and then we start the process of our strategy uh with my with my legal team to determine how we're
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going to proceed and part of that process was learning who our judge was and that's pretty
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interesting i'm revealing that to you for the first time uh judge christopher cooper is also the exact
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same judge who held uh katherine harridge in contempt two weeks ago yeah i'm very aware of that it's
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unbelievable steve baker i appreciate your taking the time to update us on what has happened to you
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again it's tyranny i know you know that but it's shocking to see it good luck