Posted on 09/23/2014 9:28:34 PM PDT by hiho hiho
The U.S. Forest Service has tightened restrictions on media coverage in vast swaths of the country's wild lands, requiring reporters to pay for a permit and get permission before shooting a photo or video in federally designated wilderness areas.
Under rules being finalized in November, a reporter who met a biologist, wildlife advocate or whistleblower alleging neglect in any of the nation's 100 million acres of wilderness would first need special approval to shoot photos or videos even on an iPhone.
Permits cost up to $1,500, says Forest Service spokesman Larry Chambers, and reporters who don't get a permit could face fines up to $1,000.
(Excerpt) Read more at oregonlive.com ...
So, a professional photographer has to pay $1,500 to take a photo of public land.
With the added enticement that there is a good chance you won't get caught at all and end up paying nothing.
The nanny state just keeps getting crazier....
So, if you do find the ‘camp’ they have set up for exterminating recalcitrants, or catch the USFS doing a heavy dope deal, they can put you in the ‘camp’ for taking pictures...?
Ping.
Don’t tell me. The young Smokeys think that if you photograph the trees too much, their colors start to fade. Damn brainless maggots are everywhere!
So, why did the Agency decide to do this now? Strapped for cash?
If any reporter wants to document/evidence Forest Service neglect, he must first pay the FS for permission to do so or face a fine.
I get it. It’s something like not being able to afford Obamacare, or not wanting your personal information spread across the interweb, so you pay them a penalty for not having health insurance.
The list, Ping
Let me know if you would like to be on or off the ping list
Basically, the nonsense from our government must be permanently eradicated, preferably from the top down, but if necessary, from the bottom up.
Allowing government agencies to get away with such absurdities must be stopped. The only problem is, most Americans just don’t care or are not inclined to risk “rocking the boat” to do what is right.
So sad. This country is finished, IMO. All signs point to it.
Free country my ass.
“If any reporter wants to document/evidence Forest Service neglect, he must first pay the FS for permission to do so or face a fine.”
Sounds to me like the makings of a nice lawsuit against the Feds. First Amendment rights and all that and freedom of the press.
“If any reporter wants to document/evidence Forest Service neglect, he must first pay the FS for permission to do so or face a fine.”
Sounds to me like the makings of a nice lawsuit against the Feds. First Amendment rights and all that and freedom of the press.
Indeed.
Soon the only places we will be allowed to live or visit will be the inner cities.
Bottom line: If you want to criticize the kingdom, you must first get written permission from the king's men.
Oh, and that First Amendment? It means only what the king's men say it means.
I was going to take a picture, but I couldn’t see the forest for the trees.
“He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.”
-Declaration of Independence
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