[Publius6961]

Mayor Rudolph Giuliani issued the order Tuesday because the site is a crime scene, according to a statement from his office. No one was available early Wednesday to explain why the order wasn't issued earlier.
Officer Michael DiFrancisco, standing guard at a barricade, said the ban was also "out of respect for the families and all those concerned."

Now this is disturbing.
Sounds arbitrary and capricious and sets a curious precedent. Aside from that, the "out of respect for the families and all those concerned is a stretch".
It's PC in it's ugliest form during an event that concerns family... every American citizen.

"All those concerned" includes all of us, whether acknowledged or not.
This notion that nanny government has the rights of an individual is really disturbing.

[riley1992]

I agree. If that were truly the case, the order would have been enacted from the beginning.

[texlok]

Had he came out and said "we are starting to find bodies and/or parts of bodies in large numbers, and out of respect for the families we ask that you not take pictures" that would be one thing. But this is another.

[OldFriend]

Just Rudy being Rudy. We see all sides of him, the heroic and the autocratic.

[Brian Allen]

This notion that nanny government has the rights of an individual is really disturbing.

Every piece of the oportunists puzzle shows up right on time -- and is dropped in place.

And notwithstanding that the head general [AKA "Commander in Chief"] has arrogantly illegally, unlawfully and unconstitutionally sent a huge military force off to war without so much as a request to the only arm of our goverment permitted to either raise and army -- or to wage war -- let alone in accordance with its declaration [IE its permission!] -- or that his transportation secretary has arbitrarily issued the largest bunch of the stupidest regulations we have seen in decades of he issue of large bunches of stupid regulations -- last Tuesdays greatest threats to Our Fraternal Republic's underpinninnings haven't even shown up yet -- but are certain to bring down way more than a couple of buildings!

And to threaten hundreds of millions of lives -- rather than just a few thousand.