18 Arrested in Wisconsin Assembly for Using Cameras; Guns Still Allowed

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Published on Thursday, November 3, 2011 by PRWatch.org

18 Arrested in Wisconsin Assembly for Using Cameras; Guns Still Allowed
by Brendan Fischer


Eighteen people were arrested Tuesday for using cameras in the Wisconsin Assembly gallery, including the editor of The Progressive magazine, Matt Rothschild.

Rothschild and others had gone to the capitol to protest a series of arrests in recent weeks of individuals who carried signs or took photos or video in defiance of an Assembly ban.

"We ought to have a right to take a picture," Rothschild said.

Guns, Yes. Cameras, No.
The protest was organized through a Facebook event called "Concealed Camera Day at the Capitol!" The event coincided with the implementation of Wisconsin's new concealed carry law, which allows residents to carry a concealed firearm -- including inside the Assembly gallery. .........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/11/03-3

[MADem]

1. Someone needs to make a camera that looks like a gun! nt

[bainz]

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[bainz]

2. Cameras were not allowed?

How many were using guns? If they were allowed to use guns and police didn't respond, now THAT would be a story.

[barbtries]

4. the country's gone insane.

just off the rails. things don't make sense.

[Enthusiast]

6. We need to amend the constitution to include the

right to bear cameras. I'm serious.

[midnight]

5. My first response is no good will come of this.. And then I wonder....

Who needs to take a gun into the State Capital? It's not like a Baby Bottle. You can't even fly with those the last time I heard....

[tcaudilllg]

7. We should applaud this bill

Walker is setting the stage for his own, probably inevitable, assassination.

"Huey Long" is written all over him.

"I'LL BE A MARTYR, IN THE END...!"

[bulloney]

8. This country's so obsessed with its Second Amendment rights,

it's oblivious to how the First Amendment's been systematically trashed.

Can't speak my mind. Don't have a press that's worth a crap. But by god, don't you take away my guns!