With the advent of cellphones as a standard device carried by hundreds of millions daily, the ability of citizens to film police and politicians in public settings has increased accountability for those holding positions of public trust.
Unfortunately, a growing trend of judicial tyranny could curtail a person’s right to access their phone to suddenly film an event unfolding before them in a public setting.
First Amendment rights advocates argue that the right to film public events should never be abrogated, given the protections of the U.S. Constitution.
But with the judiciary having more statist judges in place, it’s become more challenging to protect these most basic rights.
In the federal Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals in Missouri, a recent ruling has struck down the right to film public officials in a public setting. On the next page, learn how the dispute may have to head to the Supreme Court to get resolved.
They are civil servants payed by the people. Tax dollars. Politicians have lied, sold us out. They should all be ashamed but once the big money was flowing freely, they forgot to PROTECT THE ONE THING THAT MATTERED. THIS COUNTRY AND THE CONSTITUTION. GREED IN WASHINGTON POLITICS HAS ALWAYS BEEN THERE. BUT THEY HAVE GOTTEN SO USTA BEING BOUGHT OUT FOR PROFIT. ITS NOT WORK ANYMORE, IT IS IN YOUR FACE CORRUPTION . TREASON IS WHAT ITS CALLED. POLITICIANS HAVE NO CONSCIOUS.
Well I call B******T
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I will film them anyway, they won’t know it
Bull
That’s a bunch of c**p ! All politicians have to be transparent to the public so they can we how they are being represented!
B******t
Hard to lie when some one has it on video.
B******t
Ha Ha