I appreciated you sharing your rather uninformed opinion with me but if you don't mind, I will let the courts decide. BUT fyi the Port Authority is indeed public property
"The PATH is a subdivision of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. Whatever restrictions may flow from the status of property denoted as "private," are here wholly irrelevant. The terminal is a building, constructed, owned, operated and maintained by a public authority. It is open to the public, and it is in fact used by thousands of citizens each day as they travel to and from work. THe Court of Appeals of the Second Circuit has held under identical circumstances , that a New York bus terminus of the same Port Authority is a public forum..."
(etc etc mentionin public forum status of Journal Square and Jersey City)
- Moskowitz v Cullman, 432 FSupp 1263 (1977)
Furthermore, the rules in question predate 9/11. In fact the PATH is the only mass public transportation system in the US that prohibits casual public photography - not the MTA subways, not NJT, etc. Incidentally, the only time "terrorists" photographed their target was the
Liberty City 7 case, that was basically laughed out of court (a government informant instigated the hapless "terrorists," including by buying them the camera they couldn't otherwise afford.) Incidentally, there has been a
net decrease in instances of terrorism on US soil compared to the 1970s. It isn't my creative rights being taken away - it is all our Constitutional rights. And this is hardly the first time that we're told that various "threats" require us to give up rights - 200 years ago, Benjamin Franklin said that people who give up a little bit of rights for a little bit of security will have neither. And 2000 years ago, Plato said beware of the tyrant for when he first appears, he comes as a protector.
As for when we'll meet - I'm open!
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