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.
(Excerpt) Read more at jonathanturley.org ...
Maybe the girls have gotten fatter?
What about the video camera embedded in the frame of my glasses?
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.
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...
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.
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.
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...
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.
Really? Try and sue them. LOL
Every time, steveo ... every time.
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.
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.”
Are they afraid their images won’t show up on film?
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 ...
They used ti say that about Hillary. Staffers would jump into the first open door to avoid her.
I don’t know about others, but the LAST thing I want would be any pictures of the imposter or his family.
See my #25
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?
To sell to Obama fans
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