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Sec.Service Warns Public That They'd Confiscate Any Cameras Used to Take Pictures of First Family
JonathonTurley.org ^ | 03/22/10 | Jonathon Turley

Posted on 03/22/2010 1:14:50 PM PDT by OldDeckHand

This story on the First Lady taking the kids to a Broadway show in New York has an interesting element: a warning by the Secret Service that anyone taking their picture would have their cameras confiscated. Perhaps the Secret Service General Counsel could point us to where in the Constitution and federal law the Secret Service has the authority to ban photographs by the public and the confiscation of cellphones and pictures to enforce the ban.

Michelle Obama – with Sasha, 8, and Malia, 11, and about a dozen other people in tow – attended the matinee performance of “Memphis” Sunday. After the block was cordoned off, the large group entered the theater. Secret Service members did not like all of the pictures being taken that issued the warning. If the First Family wishes to avoid pictures, they may want to watch the play on video rather than confiscating cellphones and cameras of citizens. I find it outrageous that the Secret Service would consider it within its authority to confiscate phones to avoid annoyance to the First Family. The Secret Service at times seems to view itself as a Praetorian Guard rather than a public law enforcement agency.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 1stamendment; broadway; communism; donutwatch; fascism; jackbootedthugs; lolalphabets; michelleobama; rapeofliberty; seriousbusiness; ss; tyranny; whysoseries
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To: OldDeckHand

Maybe the girls have gotten fatter?


41 posted on 03/22/2010 1:25:56 PM PDT by roses of sharon (I can do all things through Him who strengthens me. Philippians 4:13)
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To: OldDeckHand
Since she's the new fat czar she can't have her fat ass photographed and plastered on the net now can she?

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42 posted on 03/22/2010 1:25:57 PM PDT by CajunConservative (Shut Up Mary!)
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To: OldDeckHand

What about the video camera embedded in the frame of my glasses?


43 posted on 03/22/2010 1:26:04 PM PDT by RobRoy (The US today: Revelation 18:4)
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To: OldDeckHand

It’s OK! We don’t need or want to see any more pics of “Bubble Butt”, anyways. Use already broken cameras...hundreds of people, hundreds of image capture devices.....they would never get all the functional units.


44 posted on 03/22/2010 1:26:41 PM PDT by Birdsbane ("Onward through the fog!" ... Oat Willie)
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To: OldDeckHand

Michelle Obama has placed her children squarely in the middle of public policy through her efforts to reduce childhood obesity. She has used her own children as part of that effort. Therefore, the appearance of those children is of legitimate public interest.

I wish it were not so. I wish that Michelle Obama had respected the boundries and not placed her children in this position. Unfortunately, that is not the case.

She has sown the wind...


45 posted on 03/22/2010 1:26:51 PM PDT by Haiku Guy (If you have a right / To the service I provide / I must be your slave.)
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To: OldDeckHand

Jonathan, they are just following orders from Her High Beltness - as I recall, zero has a bunch of security guards working with the USSS to provide his security. How do we know the ones threatening to take the cameras away were official USSS agents? They sure don’t mind pimping their daughters out for photo ops for political reasons.


46 posted on 03/22/2010 1:27:22 PM PDT by Citizen Soldier ("You care far too much what is written and said about you." Axelrod to Obama 2006)
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To: OldDeckHand

Raise your hands if you think Obama is an American. Looks like the birthers aren’t so crazy after all. If it looks like a commie and walks like a commie, it’s a commie.


47 posted on 03/22/2010 1:27:31 PM PDT by Sir Gawain
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To: OldDeckHand

Well, there is no wide angle lens in existence that would capture the first “ladies” ample buttocks from a distance of less than one mile, anyway...


48 posted on 03/22/2010 1:29:07 PM PDT by dashing doofus (Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber)
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To: The Hound Passer; MozarkDawg
"You have to give Turley props for putting this out there among his liberal fans."

I read about 30 legal blogs each day. Turley's is one of them. He is a liberal, but he's not a reflexive liberal who will defend anything they libs do, unlike most. He did take a reasonably principled stand during impeachment, and he spoke out against the use of the "slaughter rule" more recently.

49 posted on 03/22/2010 1:29:08 PM PDT by OldDeckHand (USA - b. July 4, 1776 / d. March 21, 2010)
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To: SWAMPSNIPER
The secret service is subject to the Bill of Rights too!

Really? Try and sue them. LOL

50 posted on 03/22/2010 1:30:14 PM PDT by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: steveo

Every time, steveo ... every time.


51 posted on 03/22/2010 1:30:17 PM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
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To: The Sons of Liberty
"Under what authority do they seize personal property?"

Like in too many other areas, they have more and bigger guns along with the ability spend you into oblivion even if you are legally correct.

52 posted on 03/22/2010 1:30:47 PM PDT by Truth29
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To: The Sons of Liberty

Ain’t you heard? “There ain’t no rules here, we’re trying to accomplish something. . . .All this talk about rules. . . .When the deal goes down . . . we make ‘em up as we go along.”


53 posted on 03/22/2010 1:31:10 PM PDT by LibWhacker (America awake!)
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To: OldDeckHand

Are they afraid their images won’t show up on film?


54 posted on 03/22/2010 1:31:22 PM PDT by Just Lori (I used to be a democrat. Now, I'm an American.)
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To: OldDeckHand

Right - but it was Ok during the Bush administration to take as many pictures as possible esp. Bush in an embarrassing situation. I’m also wondering where are all these stand-up comics trashing Obama the way they did Bush and Cheney ...


55 posted on 03/22/2010 1:32:05 PM PDT by SkyDancer (If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed)
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To: Dinah Lord

They used ti say that about Hillary. Staffers would jump into the first open door to avoid her.


56 posted on 03/22/2010 1:32:48 PM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: OldDeckHand

I don’t know about others, but the LAST thing I want would be any pictures of the imposter or his family.


57 posted on 03/22/2010 1:32:55 PM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: Just Lori

See my #25


58 posted on 03/22/2010 1:33:30 PM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
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To: OldDeckHand

The problem with First Families attending Broadway shows is that even if they pay for their own tickets and dinners, we’re paying thousands upon thousands of dollars for transportation. Now they don’t even want American citizens to photograph them in public. How are taxpayers supposed to get some of their money back if they can’t sell a First-Family-on-parade photo?


59 posted on 03/22/2010 1:33:58 PM PDT by skr (May God confound the enemy)
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To: CarolinaGOP

To sell to Obama fans


60 posted on 03/22/2010 1:34:41 PM PDT by skr (May God confound the enemy)
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