{"id":14405,"date":"2022-09-19T17:49:13","date_gmt":"2022-09-20T00:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=14405"},"modified":"2022-09-19T18:41:27","modified_gmt":"2022-09-20T01:41:27","slug":"kidnapping-is-a-federal-crime-will-desantis-be-held-accountable-for-it-bradcast-9192022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=14405","title":{"rendered":"Kidnapping is a Federal Crime. Will DeSantis Be Held Accountable for It?: &#8216;BradCast&#8217; 9\/19\/2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/BradCast_RonDeSantis-MassachusettsRefugeBenefits_091922.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">Well, that was a lively <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><i>BradCast<\/i><\/a> today. Especially the caller segment! Please tune in! [<i>Audio link to full show follows below this summary.<\/i>]\n<p>Among the stories covered on today&#8217;s program&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Despite a bizarre, very much <a href=\"https:\/\/aaronrupar.substack.com\/p\/trump-youngstown-rally-qanon-music-gesture\">Nazi-like rally<\/a> in <b>Ohio<\/b> held by our former President over the weekend, mainstream corporate media are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2022\/09\/19\/trump-ohio-rally-qanon-media\/\">still pulling their punches<\/a> in calling out the Republican Party for having gone full bore authoritarian at this point under their far-right MAGA cult leader <b>Donald Trump<\/b>. Democracy itself is now very much at stake in this nation, and we <i>really<\/i> need a professional media corps which isn&#8217;t afraid to start acting like it, calling it out, and reporting it to the American people. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>While the death and <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/queen-elizabeth-ii-funeral-bfe59d9c8f31d339f2cec2f8479cc3ce?utm_source=homepage&#038;utm_medium=TopNews&#038;utm_campaign=position_1\">funeral<\/a> of <b>Queen Elizabeth<\/b> in Great Britain has received virtual wall-to-wall coverage from outlets such as CNN since her death 11 days ago, three major climate change-fueled hurricanes made landfall over the weekend. <b>Puerto Rico<\/b> had its power knocked out island-wide by <b>Hurricane Fiona<\/b> (almost 5 years to the day since Hurricane Maria did the same), with as much as 30 inches of rain falling catastrophically in some areas. In <b>Alaska<\/b>, remnants of <b>Typhoon Merbok<\/b> resulted in the state&#8217;s most intense storm in 50 years, leading to widespread flooding across a thousand miles of coastline. And, in <b>Japan<\/b>, over the same weekend, <b>Supertyphoon Nanmadol<\/b> resulted in widespread flooding and power outages, while clocking in as the fourth most intense typhoon to make landfall in the nation&#8217;s history.  As Desi Doyen reports today, all of those storms were super-charged by our warming climate and all seemingly quite newsworthy. Then again, Queen Elizabeth died 11 days ago, so&#8230;ya know.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>As you have heard by now, <b>Ron DeSantis<\/b>, <b>Florida<\/b>&#8216;s ambitious Republican Governor, has taken credit for coercing 48 migrants from Venezuela, who were lawfully seeking asylum in San Antonio, <b>Texas<\/b>, onto to two chartered private jets to Martha&#8217;s Vineyard, <b>Massachusetts<\/b>. Neither the people of Martha&#8217;s Vineyard, nor even the state&#8217;s Republican Governor, were notified in advance before the migrants were left stranded. While DeSantis claims the migrants boarded the planes &#8220;voluntarily&#8221;, a brochure, <a href=\"https:\/\/popular.info\/p\/the-smoking-gun-in-marthas-vineyard\">obtained by Popular Information<\/a> today, citing &#8220;Massachusetts Refugee Benefits,&#8221; appears to have falsely informed the migrants that they would be eligible for &#8220;8 months cash assistance,&#8221; &#8220;assistance with housing,&#8221; &#8220;food,&#8221; &#8220;clothing,&#8221; &#8220;transportation to job interviews,&#8221; &#8220;job training,&#8221; &#8220;job placement,&#8221; &#8220;registering children for school,&#8221; &#8220;assistance applying for Social Security cards,&#8221; and more in MA. That brochure, according to attorneys for 30 of the 48 migrants, is now evidence of a crime &#8212; specifically, as former life-long Republican <a href=\"https:\/\/keithdb.medium.com\/florida-governor-ron-desantis-and-kidnapping-by-deception-7260fb1dbb00\">attorney Keith Barber describes<\/a>, the federal crime of kidnapping (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/uscode\/text\/18\/1201\">18 U.S.C. \u00a7 1201<\/a>).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>So, what will or should be done about DeSantis&#8217; apparent political stunt that actually appears to have been a pretty straightforward federal crime?  Will he be held accountable by MA&#8217;s Democratic Attorney General or by the U.S. Dept. of Justice? <b>Callers ring in<\/b> with their thoughts (several of whom, by the way, support DeSantis&#8217; crime!), on today&#8217;s very lively program!&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\".\/Images\/Speaker_Icon_24.png\" style=\"width: 24px; float: none; vertical-align: middle;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px; line-height: 18px;\"> <b><i><a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/audio\/BradCast_BradFriedman-QueenElizBuried-TrumpOHRallyMediaFailure-DeSantisMigrantKidnapping_Callers_091922.mp3\">CLICK TO LISTEN OR DOWNLOAD SHOW!&#8230;<\/a><\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><center><b>* * *<\/b><\/center><i>While we post <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><\/i>The BradCast<i><\/a> here every day, and you can hear it across all of our great affiliate stations and websites, to automagically get new episodes as soon as they&#8217;re available sent right to your computer or personal device, subscribe for free at <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-bradcast-w-brad-friedman\/id803467610\">iTunes<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pandora.com\/podcast\/the-bradcast-w-brad-friedman\/PC:1000025838\">Pandora<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/The-BradCast-with-Brad-Friedman-p477565\/\">TuneIn<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.google.com\/feed\/aHR0cHM6Ly9icmFkYmxvZy5jb20vcG9kY2FzdGdlbi9icmFkY2FzdC9mZWVkLnhtbA\">Google<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-BradCast-w-Brad-Friedman\/dp\/B08JJRN86R\/ref=sr_1_1\">Amazon<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/podcastgen\/bradcast\/feed.xml\">our native RSS feed<\/a>!<\/i><\/p>\n<p><!--BB-DONATEPITCH-START--><\/p>\n<div style=\"background:#f5f0e0; border:2px solid #6b5a2e; border-radius:6px; padding:10px 14px; text-align:center; font-family:Georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"display:block; margin:0 0 8px 0; color:#3a2e0e; font-size:0.95em; line-height:1.5;\"><strong>The BRAD BLOG<\/strong>, <em>The BradCast<\/em> and <em>Green News Report<\/em> are all 100% independent and 100% listener and reader supported!<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/Donate\" style=\"display:inline-block; background:#6b5a2e; color:#ffffff; padding:6px 18px; border-radius:4px; font-weight:bold; text-decoration:none; font-family:Georgia,serif; font-size:0.9em;\">Please CLICK HERE to help support our work today!<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!--BB-DONATEPITCH-END--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, that was a lively BradCast today. Especially the caller segment! Please tune in! [Audio link to full show follows below this summary.] Among the stories covered on today&#8217;s program&#8230; Despite a bizarre, very much Nazi-like rally in Ohio held by our former President over the weekend, mainstream corporate media are still pulling their punches [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,101,89,675,543,19,223,479,548,261,473,477,188,125,15,775,300,1238,47,549],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-14405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountability","category-alaska","category-media-appearance","category-bradcast","category-climate-change","category-cnn","category-dept-of-justice","category-donald-trump","category-extreme-weather","category-immigration","category-japan","category-kpfk","category-mainstream-media-failure","category-massachusetts","category-ohio","category-puerto-rico","category-republicans","category-ron-desantis","category-texas","category-uk","bb-type-bradcast"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14405"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=14405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}