The pro-life activists are charged with criminal conspiracy to invade privacy and 14 counts of filming people without their permission in Los Angeles, San Francisco and El Dorado counties.
Pair who secretly filmed Planned Parenthood facing 15 felony charges
By Bradford Richardson
Tuesday, March 28, 2017
David Daleiden, Sandra Merritt charged in filming at Planned Parenthood
By Bradford Richardson
Tuesday, March 28, 2017
David Daleiden, Sandra Merritt charged in filming at Planned Parenthood
Hollywood’s movie producers film people without their permission all of the time. Those people you see walking by in a street scene are not asked for their permission nor are they paid. Every day television, especially news shows, use pedestrians passing by on the street without first getting their permission. That is why I always said that producers should have to hire, and pay, extras for every person they show in a film.
Better still, people who are filmed without their permission should be allowed to sue film makers of every stripe for an invasion of privacy. Whenever you see a camera pointed your way you should immediately tell the film maker not to use your image and demand the tape. At the very least you should negotiate pay and benefits for your services. It goes without saying: GET EVERYTHING IN WRITING.
The best part is that everybody who objects to being filmed can count on broad support.
Labor unions certainly object to working without pay.
The criminal class vehemently objects to being filmed. They alone make up a large constituency; maybe the largest when you add in illegal aliens.
Trial lawyers see a rosy future filing invasion of privacy lawsuits.
Supreme Court justices are small in number, but their influence will definitely come out against cameras. The Nifty Nine will not have cameras filming the proceeding for the same reason criminals object to having their mug shots hanging in post offices.
Incidentally, people in primitive cultures might have it right. They believe being photographed steals their soul. So I will close by reposting my favorite joke about photographs:
An anthropologist in search of lost tribes led an expedition up the Amazon. He was sure he hit the jackpot when he found a hitherto unknown tribe of pygmies. After a few weeks he could speak the simple language well enough to communicate. In an attempt to find out exactly how far removed from the outside world the pygmies were he showed the chief some photographs he had brought with him for just such a test.
When the anthropologist showed the pygmy chief a photograph of President Eisenhower the chief shook his head no. The scientist got the same reaction when he showed the chief photos of Winston Churchill, FDR, Stalin, and Mao. Then he showed the chief a picture of Mickey Mouse. The chief’s face lit up like a kid taking a test who finally got one right. Smiling from ear to ear he said “I know him. That’s Disney’s rat.”