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To: DJ MacWoW
You're talking about government buildings. There's a difference between safety and ego. This was a public restaurant.

You don't have a "right" to be on private property (restaurant). Get up, get a doggy bag, walk out.

Neither of us (you or me) know whether or not it was a safety measure. If the Secret Service says "yes", then it may be "yes".

Is it inconvenient if you are there having dinner? Yes, but guess what? Your plane will be delayed when Air Force One lands and takes off, and you'll sit in traffic if the President is in the area. Neither are "unconstitutional".

These people didn't lose their phones. They lost temporary access to them because the Secret Service thinks it's a good idea.

Kennedy, Reagan, McKinley, Lincoln and Garfield were shot. A man tried to kill Kennedy with a dynamite rigged car. Presidents Ford, Franklin Roosevelt and Truman were shot at. A man attempted to hijack a plane to assassinate Nixon. Someone tried to hit the White House with a plane to harm Clinton. Someone else fired at the White House to harm Clinton. President Bush has a grenade thrown at him. I'm sure that's not a complete list. It's just the ones I can recall off the top of my head.

All this leads me to think that if the Secret Service thinks cell phones are a problem on private property (which a restaurant is). I'm taking their word that they know what they're doing. Don't like it? Walk out.

188 posted on 08/24/2009 3:31:05 PM PDT by mountainbunny (Mitt Romney: Would you buy a used car from this man?)
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To: mountainbunny

Sorry dude. Not buying it. This was an ego trip for Obama. Nothing more.


193 posted on 08/24/2009 3:33:49 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (Make yourselves sheep and the wolves will eat you. Ben Franklin)
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To: mountainbunny
Assuming this story is true, which seems hard to believe...

"...cameras from everyone in and near the restaurant so..."

I guess your next round of reason is "if you don't like your private property confiscated because you are guilty until proven innocent, then just swim to one of the Elizabeth Islands nearby."
227 posted on 08/24/2009 4:43:15 PM PDT by rollo tomasi (Working hard to pay for deadbeats and corrupt politicians.)
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