Live Free But Give Up Your Camera

Has it always been this way and we are just now growing aware?  In "Live Free or Die" New Hampshire a local Judge banned cameras from the courthouse after someone had the temerity to ask him a question on the stairs to the second floor, and record the conversation. This incident not only resulted in a false arrest, but in the Judge issuing new rules for "his" courthouse.

No cameras or audio equipment may be used at any time in the court's lobby or anywhere in the public area of the court's leased premises.

I think it is time to consider Impeachment of said Judge.

The Instapundit, a law professor added this comment to his link to the story:

I just reread The Godfather, which I had previously read back in college.  It’s easier for me to understand Don Corleone’s contempt for constituted authority now than it was then.

Ouch!

Regards  —  Cliff