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Re: Photographing the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge Posted on: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 15:46:19 -0400

sanity wrote:
>> snip<
>
>> But on the whole, as a tax-paying legal citizen of the United States
>> of America I have the right to take photos of anything, from anywhere,
>> as long as I am still on PUBLICally accessible property that MY TAXES
>> - and OUR taxes - pay to upkeep.

The bridge is probably paid for by tolls.

>> 9/11 is OVER. The circumstances dictating events that terrible day
>> will NEVER EXIST AGAYNE!!!! Because such circumstances were not
>> dictated by desert dwellers or millionaires in Saudi outposts.
>
>> Time to move on . . .
>
>> -CC
>
> And as an American and a taxpayer does that give you the right to shout
> 'fire' in a public theater?
> There are safety or security reasons for these signs. During World War 2
> they had police stationed
> on the Brooklyn Bridge and 'no cameras allowed' signs all over the bridge.
> US Navy ships used to pass
> under that bridge to get to the Brooklyn Navy yard and they didn't want
> anyone recording movements of the ships.

There's a balance maybe, but once people are off the bridges, it's
nobody's business who photographs. If you're *on* the bridge, then
whatever authority controlling the bridge arguably has authority to
regulate.

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