PV Alert: Can I Take Photos at the Checkpoint and Airport?
#151
Join Date: Mar 2008
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Absolutely right. Safety first! People who think that they have some right to take pictures just pave the way for terrorists who are searching for weaknesses in our security so that they can kill us by the millions. If you can take a picture, then so can terrorists, and they can use that picture to kill people! What's more important, people? Get with the program, please.
Bruce
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#152
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We could have a picture of the prophet willingly undergoing a search by the TSA. That would show everyone that they aren't too good to be searched -- and safe! Thank you, TSA.
Bruce
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#153
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#154
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My workplace, a data center for a large banking company, has the same sign. It was a rule implemented by the security department. They don't want people casing the joint and getting significant details photographically. Makes complete sense to me. Given the power of telephotos, I'd think you'd pretty much tell people to keep their cameras in the cases. I suppose its a bummer for travelers who want to show airports their friends'll never see, but when it comes right down to it, the global security threat has to take precedence sometimes.
Blame the conspirators if you need to place blame, not the people fighting them.
Blame the conspirators if you need to place blame, not the people fighting them.
ISP said that TSA wanted the signs up and TSA said the signs were up before they were there and it was solely up to ISP to make the decision about the signs. When no legal support was found to exist, ISP made a good decision in removing the signs.
Perhaps we should review the saying that many relate to First Amendment issues: I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. Evelyn Beatrice Hall, under the pseudonym S. G. Tallentyre in her 1906 Voltaire biography "The Friends of Voltaire".
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Bruce
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However, that being said, there is no federal law that bars photographing a TSA checkpoint in an airport. See this post on PV.
Now, if the local laws have that ban, then post signs with the statute citation and be done with it.
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I hope the tewwowists dont know about Google image search!
Search term: airport checkpoint, results 193,000 images.
Search term: airport checkpoint, results 193,000 images.
#161
Join Date: Apr 2008
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Given that, along with the tiny size of some modern digital cameras, and the fact that some people just remember what they've seen really well, I'd think you'd pretty much assume that if people can see it once, people will see it again, and get over the ridiculous notion that banning photography of something in a public place will keep information about the appearance of that thing out of the hands of the people whom you'd prefer not receive that information.
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Well, it's obvious to me that anyone who remembers things that well has undergone terrorist training, probably in Iraq, which we all know attacked us on 9/11/01. You probably support that First Amendment thing, too. Isn't safety more important?
Bruce
Bruce
#163
Join Date: Apr 2008
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cross-reference related posts
see also:
- 2009-11-28: "TSA Agent order me to stop filming"
- 2009-11-16: "Flyer `Processed' (Arrested?) in NM After Declining to Show ID" (reportedly, that flyer was also photographing and/or video-recording at the TSA checkpoint prior to the arrest)
#164
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cross-reference related FT post
see also:
#165
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Phil,
I was looking through the list of airports and I did not see Cleveland Hopkins on the list. I'm flying out of there in 34 days and was wondering as a tourist am I allowed to take pictures out of that airport?
Thanks
N1Hawk
I was looking through the list of airports and I did not see Cleveland Hopkins on the list. I'm flying out of there in 34 days and was wondering as a tourist am I allowed to take pictures out of that airport?
Thanks
N1Hawk