Victims to tell their stories in Fox News special...“Censored in America”

Wisconsin Watchdog ^ | 10-9-15 | M. D. Kittle 

MADISON, Wis. – Targets of Wisconsin’s political John Doe investigations will share their stories of government-stifled speech on an upcoming Fox News special.
“Censored in America,” as reported by John Stossel, airs at 7 p.m. Central Time Saturday.
“America is the first country to say to its people: all of you have a right to speak. But today speech is under siege,” Stossel writes in a blog promoting the special.
In it, he tells the stories of several people who have lost that right to speak, suffering varying consequences for doing so.
Stossel includes the story of John Doe targets Deborah Jordahl and her son, Adam.
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On Oct. 3, 2013, Jordahl, a political strategist, and her family were forced to watch law enforcement root through and seize their possessions in predawn, paramilitary-style raids – all over an alleged campaign finance crime. She and the other targets of the probe were never charged with any wrongdoing, and the state Supreme Court in July found the investigation unconstitutional and ordered it shut down.
During the raid, Jordahl, her husband, and her teenage children were confined to the home’s family room, guarded by a Dane County deputy sheriff.
“At one point early on, I started to get up from the sofa,” Jordahl told Wisconsin Watchdog in July. “I told the deputy who was guarding us that I wanted to call my lawyer. She backed me down on the sofa and told me I could not call anyone.”
“I felt completely helpless in my own home.”
Stossel examines the John Doe secrecy orders, which has effectively held targets, subjects and witnesses as speech prisoners for years, prohibiting them from talking about the investigation to anyone.
“Authorities confiscated their computers and cell phones, and ordered them (and their children!) not to speak to anyone about the raids,” the Fox Business Network reporter writes in his blog.” Targets faced jail time and hefty fines for violating the gag orders.
“Recently Wisconsin’s Supreme Court revoked the speech ban, saying prosecutors ‘employed theories of law that did not exist.’ But by then, Republican activists had been silenced for 5 years,” Stossel writes.
The special also will feature Eric O’Keefe, long-time conservative activist who has fought back against the investigation and its enforced secrecy, filing lawsuits against the probe’s prosecutors and the state speech regulator integrally involved.
And “Censored in America” will tell the stories of censorship on college campuses, and of the high-profile Americans who lost their livelihoods because of the things they said – or once said.
Part 260 of 258 in the series Wisconsin's Secret War