Posted on 06/15/2007 10:11:34 AM PDT by kiriath_jearim
You're confusing two concepts.
One is that people have a right to privacy and their speech uttered within the confines of that privacy is theirs to do with what they wish.
The other, however, is that the freedom to speak implies that one can be heard. Those whom you would have hear you, have a right to hear you, without government interference.
To suggest that a policeman has an expectation of privacy when conducting his business which trumps the rights of those for whom he serves to observe that activity, is to provide him with a powerful tool of tyranny.
When you mount a soap-box to speak your mind, the government has no power to deny those who would listen the right to do so. That is part of THEIR protected freedom speech.
100% correct.
So what about the show Cops?....
I never thought those fellows were law enforcement.
I support law enforcement. But sometimes they make it awfully hard. Every time they act like like this, it pushes a few more law abiding people away, and some dark night when a police officer needs a citizen to back him up, nobody is going to be there.
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