Question About Photgraphing Gov't Buildings In US

[bjorke]

One of my old professors liked to tell the story of a visit to (then) communist Poland...

When I was at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), a student made a documentary film about his home in communist Poland. He brought movie cameras, sound equipment, and shot for three weeks. Then he tried to leave with lots of information-collecting gear all stamped with the initials of CalArts: C I A

He was detained for another two weeks while they processed all his film and listened to every tape....

(but they let him and the film go eventually)

 

[chuck94022]

When I was at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), a student made a documentary film about his home in communist Poland. He brought movie cameras, sound equipment, and shot for three weeks. Then he tried to leave with lots of information-collecting gear all stamped with the initials of CalArts: C I A

He was detained for another two weeks while they processed all his film and listened to every tape....

(but they let him and the film go eventually)

Did they bill him for the processing?

 

[WarEaglemtn]

"This year I will not be visiting. I refuse to be fingerprinted like some kind of criminal at customs."

Just fly to Mexico, rent a car & drive in through San Diego, CA. That is how the Columbians do it when they get denied entrance at the normal Visa checkpoints in the airports.

 

[Uncle Bill]

It Makes me sad to hear this

Being from north of the border (read Canada) I am on the outside looking in to the American dynamic. Now being confronted for taking a photo of a Government building of both historical and architectural signifigance, makes me sad that some people have given into fear of terror that much. To my knowledge there is no law in the US on a Federal level and I know for certain in Canada that its against the law to shoot a goverment building. Unless it has become a copyright issue.

Bill

 

[John Bartley]

Being from north of the border (read Canada)....snipped.... I know for certain in Canada that its against the law to shoot (photograph) a goverment building. Unless it has become a copyright issue.

Bill

Bill,

Is this what you meant to type? Is there (proveably) a law against photographing government buildings in Canada?


cheers

 

[Paul Howell]

In today's (5/23/05) edition of online Christian Science Monitor there is a very good review of this issue.

Paul

 

[c6h6o3]

In today's (5/23/05) edition of online Christian Science Monitor there is a very good review of this issue.

Paul

http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0523/p11s01-ussc.html

Nothing new here. Same ol' apology for the suppression of liberty to protect us from the bogey man.

Frankly, I thought the article to be utter pablum.

 

[Flotsam]

I thought that Professor Kobre's comments were a good reality check.