but this is outrageous. The policy itself (not allowing tape recording of public speeches) is unjustifiable, Have you heard the justifications ususally given and reject those, or you is this a one-sided rejection?
but to forcibly seize and erase recordings??!! What is so unusual about this? You have a private contract --- say, a car loan from a bank. You violate the contract, the wronged party ceizes the car.
to be Who the F does he think he is? I don't know. But who do you think YOU are to use such language in public?