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Secret Service confiscates cell phones of tourists near Obama
WTKK radio | 8/24/09

Posted on 08/24/2009 1:10:09 PM PDT by pabianice

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To: pabianice

Geez Buffy, I was under the impression that there was no “riff raff” on this island!


41 posted on 08/24/2009 1:39:58 PM PDT by kempster
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To: Lazamataz

Justification my ass.


42 posted on 08/24/2009 1:42:22 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: taildragger
...They do not want his proximity known IMHO...

How's that work when he's at the White House? It's not a big place.

43 posted on 08/24/2009 1:42:26 PM PDT by FReepaholic (Jump You F**kers!)
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To: Lazamataz
there might be justification ...

um ... a cell phone is less 'dangerous' private property than say a gun which was allowed in the One's presence.

44 posted on 08/24/2009 1:42:59 PM PDT by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: pabianice

Obvious the problem was CAMERAS. Most phones have cameras, so they were taken from anyone in sight, or even close thereto, along with all non-phone cameras.


45 posted on 08/24/2009 1:43:27 PM PDT by ctdonath2 (flag@whitehouse.gov may bounce messages but copies may be kept. Informants are still solicited.)
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To: SeminoleSoldier

“I wonder why they didnt simply jam cell phone and other frequencies if they were worried about a remote bomb.”

Yup, they could have used a “Mr. Wizard” to make sure you couldn’t transmit, and then people could keep their phones.

This is a first amendment violation, plain and simple.


46 posted on 08/24/2009 1:44:01 PM PDT by RinaseaofDs
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To: KarlInOhio
I hope the chef used his world famous sun brewed mayonnaise on the burger

LOL - my father was a bacteriologist - he said that during WWII when they couldn't get supplies of the medium normally used for growing bacteria, they would use Hellmans/Best Foods mayonnaise. He said it was probably the best natural growing medium for all sorts of bacteria. If we left a jar of mayonnaise open for 10 minutes, he threw it out, and he wouldn't eat anything with mayonnaise in it unless he knew how the stuff had been stored and handled. Seemed weird at the time, but he'd seen a lot of salmonella in his work. Curiously, he liked rare meat. But, he was fastidious about how it was handled and stored. We had surgical/antibacterial soap in the house long before it was commercially available.

47 posted on 08/24/2009 1:45:19 PM PDT by CatoRenasci (Ceterum Censeo Arabiam Esse Delendam -- Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit)
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To: Lazamataz

Cell phones can be used for remote detonations, so.... there might be justification.


This had nothing to do with phones hidden in pockets, it was all about photographing the jerk.


48 posted on 08/24/2009 1:46:21 PM PDT by Atlas Sneezed (Typical "Rightwing Extremist")
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To: GOPJ
Yeah - I’m OK with the Secret Service protecting President Obama - it’s what they should be doing.

Actually!I think the Public Needs to be protected from Obama and his goons.

49 posted on 08/24/2009 1:47:35 PM PDT by puppypusher (The world is going to the Dogs.)
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To: taildragger
They do not want his proximity known IMHO.

How can anyone NOT know where a President is? Especially when he's out "in public". I mean he only travels with a hugh entourage. The line of black SUV's and SS agents is a dead giveaway.

50 posted on 08/24/2009 1:49:31 PM PDT by AFreeBird
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To: CatoRenasci

Your Dad was right - back in my own path lab days (thirty years ago) that’s exactly what we’d use. I won’t touch the stuff to this day.


51 posted on 08/24/2009 1:50:06 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: MissDairyGoodnessVT

Yes, but it also looks exactly like Yul Brynner playing the pharaoh in “The Ten Commandments” with Charlton Heston.


52 posted on 08/24/2009 1:51:08 PM PDT by TheOldLady
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To: AFreeBird

THink...Leaky Leahy and what he said about Osama....


53 posted on 08/24/2009 1:51:33 PM PDT by taildragger (Palin / Mulally 2012)
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To: pabianice

They don't want any more of these kind of photos which cause people to comment on Aunt Esther's sloppy appearance and speculate whether she has five or six toes.

54 posted on 08/24/2009 1:51:49 PM PDT by Zakeet (I get wee-wee'd over ObamaCare)
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To: Dumpster Baby

Wee Wee’s Big Adventure.


55 posted on 08/24/2009 1:57:12 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (There is no truth in the Pravda Media.)
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To: pabianice

All POTUS’ have taste testers of food but the confiscating cell phones is elitist.

BTW: Isn’t 0bama always going on about eating healthy?

PETA needs to know he ate hamburgers.


56 posted on 08/24/2009 1:57:45 PM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid! (Obama, the first ever 3 in a half year, lame duck TOTUS)
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To: Lazamataz
Cell phones can be used for remote detonations, so.... there might be justification.

I have to disagree with you Laz.
I'm sitting in a hamburger joint, enjoying my burger, and suddenly some guy in a suit with a badge demands that I turn over my phone. Screw that!

57 posted on 08/24/2009 1:58:08 PM PDT by Jean S
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To: Zakeet

she looks like Oprah with no make-up.


58 posted on 08/24/2009 1:58:36 PM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid! (Obama, the first ever 3 in a half year, lame duck TOTUS)
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To: indylindy

“This makes me sick. Gawd, I hope we aren’t treated to ‘chelle in a swimsuit.”

You don’t get that junk in the trunk from eating lettuce.


59 posted on 08/24/2009 1:59:28 PM PDT by Gabrial (ObamaCare: The efficiency of the Post Office, the compassion of the IRS, the costs of the Pentagon)
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To: Lazamataz
Cell phones can be used for remote detonations, so.... there might be justification.

The Secret Service confiscated all cameras too.

60 posted on 08/24/2009 1:59:28 PM PDT by NautiNurse (Obama: A day without TOTUS is like a day without sunshine)
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