When I was running for the  Mayor of Hamilton, MT in 2009 I first encountered Crystal Cox. She called me and  told me she found me from my advocacy on the Internet, specifically my  Bitterroot Rising website describing the judicial hell in Montana.
The Bitterroot Rising Archives Crystal Cox preserved  online:
http://www.michaelspreadbury.com/2012/01/bitterroot-rising-archives-real-news.html
As  it turns out, Crystal Cox used her Internet experience to archive my website,  Bitterroot Rising so the information about the area, blowing the whistle so to  speak would be preserved. I honestly do believe that Crystal Cox's heart is in  exposing the problems most people are too scared to even try to  expose.
Crystal has stood beside me, behind me as I watched my decorated  FEMA career stolen to the old boy network that have direct ties into the Obama  Administration and Senior Senator Max Baucus (Obamacare maker). These  powerplayers need no law, they have ultimate power of Judges, corporations, and  anything else they want.
Crystal Cox supported me as I was falsely  accused of crimes four (4) times as I presented the Montana US President letter  to the public written by Roy P. Pilkey of Montana in 2009. As we asked for civil  rights from the first African American President and ignored, Crystal Cox used  her blog network to support, and spread this important message.
The  Montana US President Letter has been read by approximately 15 million readers,  as well as the presidential scandal (of many) of covering up crime of a  unsupervised law student who prosecuted me outside of several of my established  rights, which in itself is three (3) felony crimes.
The Montana US  President Letter
http://www.montanapoliticalnews.com/2011/06/open-letter-to-president-obama-pleading.html
Information  on the Law Student:
http://www.montanapoliticalnews.com/2011/10/angela-wetzsteon-war.html
While  my character was being bullied by the media conglomerate that now houses the  Associated Press [this award was not a coincidence] in serial defamation of my  character, Crystal Cox stepped up and bought 
www.LeeEnterprisesSucks.com to  portray the problems we as Americans know are ingrained in the corporate United  States press today. Of note, Lee Enterprises got special privileges from the New  York Stock Exchange as their stock was below the $1 minimum for most of 2011 and  even today's price is $1.25 after Warren Buffet invests in it, and a $1B debt is  re-organized in US Bankruptcy court.
For those of you that do not know  what it is like to fight for your life against adversaries that have all the  resources, and have none of the rules, laws applied equally, perhaps then we  should look at Crystal Cox in this light. Emotional Distress did very strange  things to me after I was falsely imprisoned with murders and psychopaths in 19  hour lock downs (yes as a former decorated FEMA officer). As these  corporate-governmental actors feel they can do whatever they want to you, I  challenge any American to have any of their rights upheld in today's  courts.

 
More than 7,000 Occpiers have been arrested against  their established and fundamental right to peaceful assembly. Crystal Cox and I  wrote to Mayors all over the country asking them to uphold the people's rights  and keep their police chiefs in line with the US Constitution. What have  mainstream media journalists done for the US Constitution and Americans rights  in the last year? Why have our police forces throughout the US completely  forgotten what it means to raise your right hand and swear to uphold the  Constitution of their state and the United States?
Free Speech can be loathsome, and many things.
Notice how the Oregon Courts did not let Crystal Cox  speak?
Judge Hernandez defined who she was, instead of an American  Citizen
So this petty idea that Crystal Cox is  an extortionist is the best ploy people who are journalists who have LARGE  student loan debt want to label and cage Crystal Cox. Has anyone considered that  she faced trial as a Defendant for speaking the truth, for millions of dollars  she did not have, and she is not a pro, corporate attorney? Does it not click  that the narrowing of Oregon law, and US Constitutional law to entrap Crystal  Cox by the corporate media as "non-journalist" ever occur to anyone.
As  far as I am concerned, Journalists are nothing more than criminals, and the  Federal case law needs to be updated from 1964 as the last standard was made  based upon fallout from the civil rights era. Well, our civil rights are now  GONE and the "media" are being protected by the courts as blatant defamation is  being caused by THEM. Crystal Cox was never proven to have published known false  information, as is the standard in libel cases. No one seems to be asking why  Crystal Cox was held to a NEW standard. It is because she is a whistle blowing  BLOGGER.
Kashmir Hill  (with NYU journalism debt) has been very critical of Crystal Cox
it is most likely the keyboard envy due to  the freedom of topics Crystal Cox can write on while Hill must favor the  establishment to pay off her debt to the corporate world at  Forbes.

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So don't judge Crystal  Cox so harshly Cash Hill of Forbes (an orgy of corporate influence), and others.  The real question is how would you react as your reputation, and standard of  publishing on the Internet is critiqued by people who could very well be sitting  in a terry robe instead of being ganged up upon by journalist and bloggers  alike, with the bloodsport of corporations wanting to scare the crap out of  every blogger on the Internet with the capabilities to expose more of the  problems Crystal and I have been thrown into (in my case) without my tacit  approval.
Marc Randazza and Crystal  Cox 
should realize that work towards more First Amendment  coverage
means working together.
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As for Marc  Randazza, I found this "civil rights" lawyer based upon a communication he wrote  for a client published on the Internet. I arranged the phone "meeting" between  Mr. Randazza and Crystal Cox. I did not like the pushy nature that transpired,  but we were searching for representation with respect to a first amendment  issue, and Mr. Randazza's reputation was that of a leading attorney in this  area. As I spoke of the Emotional Distress [predicated by being falsely accused  of a crime] that Crystal Cox was under, the mix of Cox and Randazza (sorry,  couldn't refuse) was beyond blood and water as two very driven, directed people  who don't take crap for a living.
It is unfortunate that Crysal Cox and  Mark Randazza decided to make war instead of seeing the common cause of first  amendment freedom of speech. To be very honest, I think Marc Randazza was a bit  humbled that Crystal Cox approached him as prospective counsel, reflecting in  him probably prematurely declaring he was representing Crystal Cox prior to the  initial view and acceptance of the case as was my understanding at the  time.
For all the people calling Crystal Cox "unhinged" I challenge you  to wear her war bonnet for a day. I dare you to challenge a journalist  profession that is such a bitch to corporations and governments that they are  literally told what to write, and even the headlines (this is NOT made up). All  of a sudden these "professionals" on a leash who are neglecting to do  investigative journalism to expose corruption and fraud are jealous of bloggers  like Crystal Cox. Whether they admit this or not, this is the truth, Crystal Cox  sits at her keyboard without deadlines, expectations, advertisers, or a boss. As  these journalists are tied into their corporate debt from "Journalism School"  and are on a leash that Crystal Cox is not on. The jealousy is readily apparent  in the attacks of Crystal Cox who is under tremendous emotional distress due to  the allegations of wrongdoing, and the court never even had the Plaintiff in the  Oregon case prove the false statements, merely crucify Crystal Cox as a  non-journalist.
Bless me St. Joe, but what can a journalist do now that  nothing can stop the industrial-military complex from invading countries without  cause, or degrading my neighborhood with a Government NIH lab without adequate  protection from Ebola, and other infectious agents? Journalists have become an  impotent class of individuals screaming 
I still matter as they  are spoon fed "news" they have to write at a six grade level to ensure  comprehension of the American public.
Why Americans are dumbed down Corporate Slaves
By Lee Camp (Rated R; 6min.)
So in response to this letter about  my background, I obtained decoration from FEMA including a national security  clearance, and have had my "protected" information raided, falsely published by  counsel for journalists and find that when you are someone like Crystal Cox,  court rules, established rights are slighted. Am I saying that Crystal Cox nor I  are perfect, no way. We would not know each other if it weren't for a common  cause that she has been instrumental in giving me a world audience, for which I  am forever thankful.
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Walk in another's  shoes, including the work of Crystal Cox prior to judgment which transcends many  eastern and western religions. Even if you object to Crysal's methods on the  internet or in the blogging sphere, she has a right as an American to speak  without threat, or known false statement. If you think there is justice in the  federal or state courts, or corporations are equal parties in lawsuits, you have  already bought the pension plan of journalists, yep the one that doesn't exist.