Nydia Tisdale Arrest: Property Rignts Violation or Free Speech Violation?
Property rights is not the most important issue here as some seem to think. The property rights issue is placed center stage just to divert people from the real issue.
The real issue is "why did the Republican operatives at the event target Ms Tisdale"?
She was NOT the only one in the room with recording equipment.
Sitting two rows behind Ms Tisdale was the reporter for FetchYourNews located in Gilmer, Pickens, and Fannin Counties. That reporter audio recorded everything and he captured the still photos that you see of Ms Tisdale being dragged away by the cop. He sat there and witnessed the whole thing and published a report about what he saw. Go to Fetchyounews.com to see his many excellent reports on the event.
There were other is the room with recording equipment. We live in the Internet Age and many folks probably were recording parts of the event on their SmartPhones as routinely occurs now.
The Republican operatives did NOT eject the Fetchyournews reporter. They did not tell the public to turn off their SmartPhones.
The key question is why did the Republicans deliberately target Ms Tisdale?
In an earlier post on AJC.com, long-time Georgia political pundit Jim Galloway gives his opinion about this.
Jim Galloway said that Ms Tisdale was specifically targeted because she had a reputation for video recording events and them just posting the whole thing unedited and without any comentary on Youtube for the whole wide world to see. Galloway said that certain Republicans knew what she was going to do and felt a need to stop her because letting unedited videos of their rally could be damaging publicity.
For more information go read Mr. Galloway's post on AJC.com on 'how a plan to keep a GOP Rally off the Internet went astray".
The private property issue is just a diversion to distract people away from the real issue.
In a way Ms Tiisdale was providing a free service to the Republicans. She was getting their unedited message out for them to the whole wide world without it costing them a thing.
What could really be wrong with that?
Nydia Tisdale has an archive of over 600 unedited videos of open public meetings and other events of general interest. Most of her work is done in Forsyth County Georgia where she is "notorious". Her Work is on display at the NydiaTisdale Channel on Youtube. Go and see what she does for yourself. Ms Tisdale is a great advocate for free speech and open public meetings in our time. She is totally politically nonpartisan.
Here is the shocking Nydia Tisdale Arrest where she is stopped from videotaping a Republican Campaign Rally in Georiga and dragged into a room where an off-duty police officer forced her to submit and he then legally charges her with Felony Obstruction. The confrontation starts 14:00 into the video.
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