Topic: Queen Michelle

[matrsnot]

http://www.nypost.com/seven/08072009/gossip/pagesix/burger_watch_183423.htm

 
Patrons of the Good Stuff Eatery in D.C. had their cellphones temporarily confiscated to prevent pictures from being taken while Queen Michelle had lunch.

WTF? This is America. Just because some b**ch comes in while I'm eating lunch, I gotta give up my cellphone?

There must be a lot of wussies out there (OK, I know there is), but not one of them stood up and told them to stick it?

[CriTTer]

http://www.nypost.com/seven/08072009/gossip/pagesix/burger_watch_183423.htm

 
Patrons of the Good Stuff Eatery in D.C. had their cellphones temporarily confiscated to prevent pictures from being taken while Queen Michelle had lunch.

WTF? This is America. Just because some b**ch comes in while I'm eating lunch, I gotta give up my cellphone?

There must be a lot of wussies out there (OK, I know there is), but not one of them stood up and told them to stick it?

  head up to the courthouse and try to go through the gate to the courtroom with a cellphone....not allowed there either

[blissfullybusy]

I dont understand what legal basis do they have for that?

[♥♣ ~Maynard~♣♥]

  head up to the courthouse and try to go through the gate to the courtroom with a cellphone....not allowed there either

CriTTer at one time I respected you but lately some of the brash statements you make are way out of line.
Now your comparing an eatery with a courthouse?
 

[CriTTer]

CriTTer at one time I respected you but lately some of the brash statements you make are way out of line.
Now your comparing an eatery with a courthouse?

a eatery who the secret service had to protect the 1st lady of the USA.  and a couthouse who has to protect.....uhm........hmmmmm       maybe colin dont like his picture taken?

[♥♣ ~Maynard~♣♥]

a eatery who the secret service had to protect the 1st lady of the USA.  and a couthouse who has to protect.....uhm........hmmmmm       maybe colin dont like his picture taken?

Yep it's all about Colin
Have you ever presided over a courtroom?
Try having cell phones going off while court is in session with a nasty rapper jingle.
Use that brain that God gave you.
 

[CriTTer]

Yep it's all about Colin
Have you ever presided over a courtroom?
Try having cell phones going off while court is in session with a nasty rapper jingle.
Use that brain that God gave you.

  o now you down on rapper jingles....would a nice jim nabors ring tone make a differance?

[♥♣ ~Maynard~♣♥]

  o now you down on rapper jingles....would a nice jim nabors ring tone make a differance?

Now that would be funny.
Now i'm going to have to hurt you.
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[tpgunbiz]

Im afraid that if I was already in an eatery,and som jagoff tries to take my phone after im already there....IM OWNING SOME GOVERNMENT.They need to set that stuff up in advance and make sure the place is clear beforhand, Not clear out everyones property
 

[What_The?]

This type of thing is happening for the VERY FIRST TIME!

I have to cry fake tears of outrage, because I am so shocked that for the VERY FIRST TIME EVER this is happening!!!



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlvMl6R3rJQ&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fjustgetthere.us%2Fblog%2Farchives%2FWe-Are-Change-Reporters-Unlawfully-Arrested-at-Laura-Bush-Event-Over-Exercise-of-Free-Speec&feature=player_embedded

[matrsnot]

She and the other elitists require "special treatment".  Sorry.  I am the same as Tpgnbiz.  She is not so special that the SS can deprive people of their property.  Cell phones?  Give me a break.  What was the threat?  The Queen needs to get a life and quit disrupting others lives with these kind of antics.Different when the antics are from left wing liberals?  They broke the man's camera when they assaulted him.  Cute.  Keep inmind, YOUR example was of an area set up ahead of time.  The queen walked in off the street and everyone is expected to bow and scrape.  Big difference here.  BTW, the President was not with them.

[darrellmaurina]

I dont understand what legal basis do they have for that?

That's actually a very good question, Blissfully.

Because it's a private business, the owner can establish whatever rules he/she wants for patrons who want to visit his/her restaurant. It is my understanding that the Secret Service has a series of routine protocols that private property owners have to follow if a VIP is going to visit their private venue that is open to the public. It's actually easier, legally speaking, to protect a VIP in a privately owned venue open to the public because it's not the Secret Service or a local government official giving orders to the public, but rather a private business owner exercising legal rights to control patron conduct.

For example, years ago when a certain presidential candidate was going to visit a certain church I knew well, the list of preagreed rules was extremely long, and not having electronic devices in the building without prior screening was just about the least of the concerns. At another church, the board of elders cancelled the visit before it was publicly announced because they would actually have had to install an extra door in the building for security reasons. The cost for the door in a fairly small rural church would have been paid for (I suspect by the campaign fund, not by the Secret Service) but there were concerns about alternations to a historic building and those concerns couldn't get worked through by the elders and the deasons in time to accomodate the planned visit by a man who by that time was a sitting president. My recollection is that the board of elders received a nice note later from the president expressing his understanding of their concerns about the disruptions that are unavoidable with a presidential visit to a church, and he ended up going somewhere else to church that Sunday.

I need to add something else here. I make a point of not paying attention to force protection issues more than I have to. As a reporter, I'm sometimes in a position to observe things that I don't think it serves any good purpose for me to know about, so when I see something "interesting" in that category, I don't mention it until long after the information could be of any value to anyone beyond being an interesting anecdote. (An example would be when a personal protection method or force protection method is common knowledge in the law enforcement community, or has been publicly discussed in print by somebody else in a wide-circulation publication.) But what I can say is that I have been consistently impressed with the professionalism and level of training that our Secret Service and other agencies have. My family saw some of that up-close decades ago back when Gerald Ford was president, and while things were already good back then, our methods have gotten so much better since then that we can have full confidence in our security procedures to protect our senior officials. That is a good thing.