Scalia apologizes for recording erasure...But I don't Accept!

OK, get this...US Supreme Court Justice Scalia speaks at a Hattiesburg, MS High School--about the constitution and free speech of all things.

Well, the press is there and he gets a U.S. Marshall to grab 2 reporter's equipment and ERASE their recordings of his PUBLIC SPEECH!! all because he wanted no recorded version of his speech.

This is EXACTLY what the 1st amendment was designed to protect against. this is the FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT of the free press under the 1st amendment. The only more basic right we have is voting!

think bout it. a judge gives a public speech here anyone could hear--not a private conversation--and finds out a recording is made. He then gets a Fed. law enforcement officer to seize the reporter's recording/work product and destrotys/erases it. He was BREAKING the most fundamental right we have next to voting.

This is the FIRST amendment...the FIRST rule protecting us...and our Own Supreme Court Justice does not hesistate to violate it himself in the VERY basic method it was to fight. For me, this shocks the conscience.

Know what pisses me off most of all. the local paper, the Hattiesburg American had NO COMPLAINTS about them taking the tapes and erasing them. It was OTHER media outside of Mississippi carrying this story. The Jackson Paper, the Clarion Ledger, wasn't even there to cover the event, let alone the controversy. they didn't even report that he was here. when they finally did cover it, they did so as an AP WIRE STORY!!!

Not their own reporter. Right here, a major 1st Amendment issue and they pull it from the AP like they were 1000 miles away. i mean JESUS. this is BIG. its in your back yard and you're pulling it off the WIRE?

That's pathetic.