The Publisher
11-26-2010, 02:09 AM
A direct quote from the TSA Blog (http://blog.tsa.gov/2009/03/can-i-take-photos-at-checkpoint-and.html?cnn=yes):
"We don’t prohibit public, passengers or press from photographing, videotaping, or filming at screening locations. You can take pictures at our checkpoints as long as you’re not interfering with the screening process or slowing things down. We also ask that you do not film or take pictures of our monitors."
Here is a video of a TSA goon assaulting a newsman, violating his civil rights, and doing both under color of authority, a 3rd crime. Link is cold-linked due to crude language:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeS2KT2JbOk&feature=related
Contrast this with Elliot Back's experience:
Live from the Honolulu International Airport, I bring you the following conversation I shared with the Transport Security Administration about the photography of their checkpoint.
Me: Is there any specific written tsa regulation prohibiting photography?
TSA Captain: Yes there is. Phography is not allowed.
Me: Can I see this in writing?
TSA Captain: I can’t let you see that.
Me: Then how do I know it exists?
TSA Captain: I just told you.
He wisely concludes: "How can anyone be held responsible for violating a regulation they could not possibly know exists?"
Notice how the TSA writes that "we ask that you do not take photos of the monitors."? But they don't say it is illegal.
I suppose that is because images of the systems and the monitors are available online here (http://www.dsxray.com/auto_explv_detect/examinersx.htm) or you can just peak below.
http://www.dsxray.com/i/eXaminer_SX_pp-v2.jpg
"We don’t prohibit public, passengers or press from photographing, videotaping, or filming at screening locations. You can take pictures at our checkpoints as long as you’re not interfering with the screening process or slowing things down. We also ask that you do not film or take pictures of our monitors."
Here is a video of a TSA goon assaulting a newsman, violating his civil rights, and doing both under color of authority, a 3rd crime. Link is cold-linked due to crude language:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeS2KT2JbOk&feature=related
Contrast this with Elliot Back's experience:
Live from the Honolulu International Airport, I bring you the following conversation I shared with the Transport Security Administration about the photography of their checkpoint.
Me: Is there any specific written tsa regulation prohibiting photography?
TSA Captain: Yes there is. Phography is not allowed.
Me: Can I see this in writing?
TSA Captain: I can’t let you see that.
Me: Then how do I know it exists?
TSA Captain: I just told you.
He wisely concludes: "How can anyone be held responsible for violating a regulation they could not possibly know exists?"
Notice how the TSA writes that "we ask that you do not take photos of the monitors."? But they don't say it is illegal.
I suppose that is because images of the systems and the monitors are available online here (http://www.dsxray.com/auto_explv_detect/examinersx.htm) or you can just peak below.
http://www.dsxray.com/i/eXaminer_SX_pp-v2.jpg