[TrueBeliever9]

Not outrageous at all! I have attended many conferences, seminars, and speeches in which recording is strictly forbidden! Most organizations request that their forum not be recorded! This organization certainly had that right and the media should have respected it!

[tet68]

This organization certainly had that right and the media should have respected it!

Had said policy been announced in advance, then perhaps so.
In this case no.

[SauronOfMordor]

1) The policy was not specified in advance, so there was nothing wrong about the reporters recording up to the point that the policy was announced

2) Once the policy was announced, the response should have been limited to telling the reporters to either stop recording, or leave

3) Grabbing somebody's private property was a no-no, IMHO

[steplock]

Not outrageous at all! ???

Yes it is outrageous - and illegal - immoral - and he deserves full impeachment for this travesty.

Who does he think he is? Czar? Clinton? Reno? or Bush?

Time to re-enact what our forefathers did for their freedom and re-create the United States of America - a REPUBLIC.

I have lived in communist dictatorships and I have no desire to live under a fascist dictatorship.

[jaime1959]

> I have attended many conferences, seminars, and speeches in which recording is strictly forbidden! <

By public officials?

[jaime1959]

> I have attended many conferences, seminars, and speeches in which recording is strictly forbidden! <

By public officials?

[kenth]

The difference is that Justice Scalia ordered a federal marshal to confiscate the tape, made during a personal appearance. When was he given this sort of power?

[Paleo Conservative]

jaime1959
but this is outrageous. The policy itself (not allowing tape recording of public speeches) is unjustifiable, but to forcibly seize and erase recordings??!

TrueBeliever9:
Not outrageous at all! I have attended many conferences, seminars, and speeches in which recording is strictly forbidden

While Scalia has every right to prohibit audio or video recordings of his speeches, it is inappropriate for US Marshals to enforce it. The US Marshals are there to protect his life not to run errands like some praetorian guard.