Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/04/08

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Cops run amok
From: Eric Welch <ewelch@ponyexpress.net>
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 23:11:50 -0500

At 06:01 PM 4/8/99 -0700, you wrote:
>While I wholeheartedly sympathize, I'm not sure it's the First Amendment
>that protects private individuals from taking a photograph,

Freedom of speech, for one. It certainly isn't freedom of the press. But on 
one's own property, the fifth amendment would have sufficed, I would think. 
But not against Nazis. :-)

Eric Welch
St. Joseph, MO
http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch

I disagree with unanimity.