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and the bullshit continues!
i really want to know how the fuck that they are getting away with what seems to me, to be attacking the mainstream media! why is this not headline news by now! are they all spineless, gutless wonders?

the police are creating the LAW as they go and it seems that no one gives a SHIT! I wonder if "U.S. Park Police" read any of this!

well.... :D "U.S. Park Police" KMA!!!

The media is being swallowed by your corporate overlords. There is nothing you can do about it. The same people screaming about the constitution, are the same people who want to cut funding to some of the only non corporate news. PBS.

You are SO right about PBS, they are just a toned-down version of all the rest of the main stream media.

Pacifica Radio network (100% listener funded) is about as free and open as it gets when it comes to broadcast media.

I wonder whether it's just ignorance on the part of police or something else. You never get the whole story on policy. For example, there are no ticket "quotas" though cops get criticized or worse for writing enough tickets. There are "ear only" policies and grudges and murky, murky thinking - I think it's obvious that - from my years of experience as both a journalist and before that as a long haired teenager - that cops, like most other people, do what is convenient. Cops and control, and their submissiveness to the bureaucrats above them and the desperation to get into the middle class and the stress and the many who are alcoholic, come from alcoholic families and have identity issues... And as for the media. As long as I can remember cops have been asking me for ID. They want to know you are park of a big group like them. PIO's have saved me hassle because they are communicators and are trained to acknowledge others. - Back to the subject at hand: They were probably told by someone to hassle press or ''un-official'' press, etc.

As I understand this meeting happened in a public building. Does that mean access is unlimited, as with a public place?

I simply don't know, so I'm asking.

Is this site insanely slow for everyone, or is it just me?

Yes. Painfully so even with a fast connection. Promises have been made to improve it.

yes its very slow. john howard, its so slow, when people post they think its not going thru or something, click one more time or so, and posts get duplicated like that.
as far as i am concerned, all public meetings are just that and are legal to record. it aint public if it wasnt legal, would it be?
not everyone is able to make it to the meeting and everyone should have access to it thru some other way, i say all of them should be taped for this very reason. "everything in the sunshine" for all to see and hear!
number one on that list needs to be piggies!

we ole timers have a saying for this sort of thing. you cant have it both ways, they want to record us, but for us to not record them.
["either shit or get of the pot"]

I say this is all very simple, if its illegal for us to record them, then its got to be illegal for them to record us, ever!