 | Here is a link to the Deal created page inviting the public to the event. |
Comment History  | Attorney General Olens was there and asked, "What have we got to hide." This is not the first time she was ejected from a meeting( to which the public was invited). This time Olens has advised that the charges be dropped. Earlier Olens brought legal action against the offending parties and the defendants were fined $12,000. Olens and videographer have been through this before. http://www.peachpundit.com/2014/08/26/ag-olens-wins-nydia-tisdale-case/ |
 | As I said before the Republican rally on Burt's Farm was a "public" invited event, even though on private property, it IMO constitutes an "open meeting." I'm not a lawyer but it shouldn't be difficult to verify the nature of the Republican rally. Keep scrapping the scab off Frank and the wound open! |
| Also this was a publicly advertised meeting on Nathan Deal's FaceBook page and the public was invited. Can never be sure of just how law is written but that does make it a public event and if so it is likely recording cannot be prohibited by the landowner. |
 | The Open Meetings laws of Georgia specifically allow the video or tape recordings of all meetings. If they stop you, they are in violation of the law and can be fined. |
| One especially powerful way to show support for Nydia Tisdale at this time would be for a group of people to spontaneously rise up and do the same the same thing that Ms Tisdale was doing in your own community. 2) Acquire a simple video recorder. (They don't cost all that much, now). 2) Attend open government public meetings in your community and simply record them. A good place to start is with the County Commission, City Council, and School Board. 3) Load the unedited video records to a Youtube Channel that you can set which is totally free. 4) Announce to your communty that you are doing this via the free community events column in your local newspaper. We are All Nydia Tisdale Now. |
Original Post | Nydia Tisdale Arrest: Property Rights versus Free Speech Rights
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. |
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