Posted on 01/13/2006 12:21:45 PM PST by freepatriot32
only if they aim the cameras to photograph inside your house.
Love the irony! He should just incorporate his experience into the documentary, probably making it much more interesting.
there is no constitutional protection....on anything these days.
My complaint: What the hell is a V line. There is no such subway as the V -- yet they insist on putting up signs for te V line. As far as I'm concerned, the V is just a cut rate version of the F! Ban the V line!
The other thing -- I don't like those fancy shamncy new subway cars on the 4,5,6 line. Who are they trying to impress, tourists?
oh yeah, bump...
John Adams didn't have to specifically name the camera as something the people have a right to use because the constitution doesn't restrict the citizens it restricts what the government can and cannot do and one of the things the government cant do is stop someone from using a camera on city streets because the government doesn't like it
Do you agree with the mayor using the police force to go into every office building in new york and fine any company that has ashtrays in thier office building for providing tobacco paraphernalia?Or do you think that is unconstitutional even though owning an ashtray is not specifically named in those words as something the american people can own?
yes there is, but let's not be guilty of what the left is - saying that some abstract "privacy" right covers a whole bunch of things it doesn't cover.
where does the constitution say the government can't stop someone from photographing a sensitive location, even if its done from a public street? you are interpreting "freedom of expression" much too broadly. can you walk nude down the street? that is certainly more an act of freedom of expression that photography is.
Where in the Constitution does it guaranty the right to own tobacco paraphenalia? If the legislature can identify a rational basis for regulating tobacco paraphenalia, it can do so, just as it can Constitutionally regulate the sale of virtually anything else. It's not the Constitution that protects you from that. It's the ballot box. If your rep votes to ban the sale of something you want to buy, then you vote against him.
They closed down the 2nd Ave Deli....
I know. it will relocate someplace else, I am sure of it.
I just want to complain. I need to practice for when I'm an old man sitting in the park.
I also don't like the fact that the Coliseum bookstore moved over to 42nd street or they closed the first floor bathroom in the Strand. I saw William Styron go in and use that bathroom. It was a landmark!
I have been stopped from photgraphing food displayed at a buffett in las vegas for similar reasons. not by the government of course, since I was inside a privately owned space, so its not a constitutional issue. I imagine the same applies when inside a mall.
Actually, you can. It's the government that can't. Back when there was only analogue cell phones a lot of people listened to conversations using commercial scanners. Now, you can't pick up phone conversations without very special equipment not commercially available.
on US soil, he has the same rights (the legitimate ones) as everyone else (so long as he isn't an agent of a foreign power doing harm to the US).
I don't know what the rules are now, but in Washington DC it used to be that without a permit you could not use a tripod to photograph any federal monuments or buildings. This was to prevent anyone from exploiting those buildings for commercial purposes. The idea being that professionals would need to use a tripod. Obviously, because of tourism DC can't stop people from shooting film or still pictures of anything in DC and it would seem to me they are a more likely target of terrorists than most buildings in NY.
I don't believe you can legally tap cell phone calls, even as a private citizen.
At one time this would be considered a local matter, one that the local citizens would decide upon.
Those days are gone, but please do not confuse the restrictions placed on the Federal Government with restrictions on the state goverments. The Federal Government should have little control over the what happens in the States. This concept is paid lip service when the Federal Government is forced to bribe the states to pass certain laws.
Actually, you are right. Back when cell phones were analogue you could because already available commercial equipment was out there which could do it passively. They have since passed laws making it illegal to do so, even if you have the right equipment.
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