Question About Photgraphing Gov't Buildings In US

bjorke · Apr 28, 2005

MattCarey said:
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 · Apr 29, 2005

bjorke said:
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 · Apr 30, 2005

"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 · May 19, 2005

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 · May 19, 2005

Uncle Bill said:
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 · May 23, 2005

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

Paul

c6h6o3 · May 23, 2005

Paul Howell said:
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 · May 23, 2005

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

Question About Photgraphing Gov't Buildings In US

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