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i am sure carlos will correct me if i am wrong, "town hall meetings" that public officials have, are by their nature, open to the public and its legal to use cameras...etc. and be a photographer there, and film, video, take images of anyone that happens to be there. privacy!!! i do not think so!!!
even that idiot senator should know that. i am looking forward to seeing the update to this story.

The congressman missed a wonderful opportunity to convert his distracters. He obviously forgot that he is a public figure. With the public stage comes public responsibility, the key difference between public leaders and backroom entertainers.

Is it not obvious? Because they are doing something wrong. Violating civil liberties. We have been slowly losing our civil liberties since the Patriot Act and now that the general public is starting to catch on they are becoming more brazen. Incidents of police state style arrest, raids and threats have been increasing dramatically in recent years.

(With a face like his, it would be easy.) Take a look at the scar on his chin.I wonder how that happened...a right hook?A Pipe? Looks like he`s been wrong before..

Johnny Troll insists cameras are weapons to hurt or kill police. Although he can provide no proof. And Johnny Troll will insist police have special rights. He will argue this officer acted well within his rights. (Whatever those may be) Than he will dodge all reasonable thought.

What Johnny Troll doesn't say is that cameras are really a weapon for the common man to expose corruption at every level within our government. A weapon to expose the the Police for the criminals they are. A weapon to break through the Thin Blue Line Johnny Troll likes to say doesn't exist. A weapon to expose the enemies of the Constitution like good old Congressman Steve. A weapon to expose the TSA for the fraud it is.

Asshats brought down by cheap phone cameras and Youtube... Gotta love it.

If it is a private speaking event then the congressman has the right to implement whatever rules he wants. He could have had everyone wear red hats denied entry or only allowed people in that had a harmonica. This includes forbidding people from recording.

However I think this was a public meeting and I don't think he had the right to restrict cameras. The police certainly should not have been confiscating them. Police can't enforce "house rules".

I remember once after a natural disaster my city opened up a Red Cross shelter and police were assigned to provide security. The Red Cross had all kinds of rules such as no eating in the sleeping area, no use of the computers after 9 pm, no playing ball inside the main assembly area, and so on.

The Red Cross workers constantly wanted us to be the heavies and to enforce these rules. We had to constantly remind them that we are here to keep the peace and that's it. They were told that they had to inform the people of the rules and if the people refused to listen all the police could do would be to remove them from the premises. However the Red Cross didn't want to be the bad guy and they certainly didn't want to throw people out of the shelter. It turned into quite the mess with the workers being very resentful that we wouldn't do their bidding.

Oh and hamhock, I am still waiting for you to acknowledge that you agree with the fact that the police do have the right to protect themselves. Should I repost your quote where you agree with me?

Well, I wouldn't mind seeing him arrested, but he didn't violate anyones civil rights. The cops did that.

“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Firefox 3 ?? You should get out of the cave more often :)

Works fine for me w/ Mac OS 10.6.8 and Firefox 6.0 (and also Chrome). You do have to close the ad overlay first, which isn't as obvious if you're running AdBlock or similar.

The Communist Judges,if someone pay`s them,will set the cop free of any charges including Murder,and Rape...just find the right Judge,and you`re off.

I had one drone with a gun and a badge tell me to my fact that he didn't give a shit about any constitution or conspiarcy stuff. All he cared about was getting his pay check and going home. This was word for word.
These Nazi drones are out of control across this country and it's time for the sheeple to wake up and starft taking care of business.
Good luck huh?

You are right about the sheeple. One very simple and legal way to handle this would be to leave the meeting and immediately hold a LEGAL AND PEACEFUL protest at the RESIDENCE of either the congressperson or mayor whoever you blame more. Peaceful and legal protests at the residence of elected officials have been done throughout the nation including protests at the Bush ranch when Bush was President.

Indeed. I think I would have stood on my chair and made damn sure everyone in the place was aware of what was happening.

If given only the choice of submit or be arrested, we have to stand our ground and not submit.

Alex Jones is a fruitcake and a half, but this is one of those rare articles where he actually sounds reasonable.

I let the phone ring for about 3 minutes. I never even got to a machine. I think they have given up on this one...lol