Posted on 08/24/2011 6:43:47 PM PDT by GreaterSwiss
A congressman from Ohio had cops grab the cameras of constituents during a town hall meeting. Steve Chabot, a Republican, had cell phones and cameras confiscated in order to “prevent an embarrassing Youtube video from making the rounds,” according to Carlos Miller, who runs a blog documenting efforts by the state to stifle the First Amendment rights of photographers. Police said the cameras were taken “to protect the constituents.” A local television station, however, was allowed to videotape the meeting and the brazen move by Chabot and the cops.
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all camera were put on the Chabot Staff table. The police were acting as Chabot’s hired goons.. Corrupt to the core..
Yes and you couple that with the fact that the State is increasing IT'S use of surveillance cameras everywhere.
Details here:
Was being setup big time, but won’t do it again. Still, not a good move.
That’s what I was thinking. Why would anyone comply with this? Pathetic sheep. Unfortunately they deserve what they get.
Chabot was NOT BEING SETUP. Chabot asked the police to do this and stood by as it was being done! He GOT CAUGHT!
featuring U.S. Rep. Steve Chabot, video cameras owned by two Democratic activists were seized by a Cincinnati police officer at the direction of Chabot’s staff.
A Chabot spokesman said the had the cameras seized “to protect the privacy of constituents” at the event, although there were at least two media outlets at the North Avondale Recreation Center filming the meeting.
Tim Burke, the chairman of the Hamilton County Democratic Party, has written a letter to Cincinnati City Solicitor John Curp asking for an explanation of “the legal basis for the seizure and the enforcement by Cincinnati police of rules created by the Congressman.”
From my link above:
“David Little, a Cincinnati Democrat working with ProgressOhio, a liberal organization, and Liz Ping, a Democrat who ran unsuccessfully for the Ohio House last year, were taking video at the event. Little was using an iPhone video camera while Ping, who was taping the meeting for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, was using a flip video camera mounted on a stand. About 100 persons were present – most of whom were clearly not supporters of the 1st District Republican congressman.”
Sounds like a setup to me.
Still it ‘comes with the job’...
WTF?! This was illegal.
He’s their congressman. It’s a public event. I see no problem with them videotaping him.
Would you be ok with a Republican videotaping a democrat or a person videotaping the police or is that a setup too?
All the while HAVING cameras for security reasons.
Bunch of GD traitors if you ask me.
Fire them? How has that worked out with the thug cops attacking camera users seen here almost weekly> Any of them even get a stern rebuke that anyone has heard of?
Didn't think so. This seems to be the new modus operandi when a cop sees a camera aimed at him.
Chabot voted for the increase in the debt limit and is having police go after citizens. That’s not the work of a conservative.
Dont you think 16 yrs is too long to be a congressman? It shouldnt be a lifetime job.
I think I know what this is about. I mentioned this situation before.
Democrats and liberal independents been showing up at these meetings chanting “Raise taxes on the rich to create jobs” and recording them and putting them on youtube. Republican News Channel (FNC) is not reporting it, but Democrat News Channel (MSNBC) has been showing them daily with glee. That is why many here dont even know about it.
What concerns me is that there are no contrary videos showing Democrats being yelled at over taxes, certainly none on FNC. Like we lost the activism juice when Republicans took the House.
It was a Dem Union Goon set along with Soros front groups.
Look at the video and all the Union Goons in T shits .
Read the post the Soros/Union front groups were planning a scence.
You seem to WAY TOOO eager to trash the guy.
Who do you work for ??????
I see. And you side with the 'rat shyster against republican Chabot. Might have known. Adios MoFo .
It was a huge UNION GOON Set Up.
Who cares if it was some setup. Everything would of been caught on camera. If the situation was reversed you would be pissed off.
Why are you in favor of losing rights like being able to videotape public events?
I have been illegally threatened by a police officer for asking his name when getting a seat belt ticket (when I had it on). If I had a camera on me, I would of been protected.
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