“One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors”

ATTRIBUTED TO PLATO

Welcome to the Republican-ruled Georgia Senate! Where we are more equal than you, puny citizen!

We do not allow common citizens who sit in the gallery to use cameras to record what we do in our Chamber, including to track our unrecorded votes. Camera use in the Senate Chamber is reserved for us only!

And don’t come into the Senate Rules Committee with the intention of recording video from the front of the room. We don’t like that either. You may get too much information. Prepare to be sent to the back of the room, and out of microphone range. Don’t like it? We will call lots of police to make you comply! Resistance is futile!

Photos below: “Welcome to the Georgia Senate” rules for visiting the Senate gallery: Cover and contents.

Three state Senators, two taking pictures on the Senate floor. Left to right: Senators Jeff Mullis, John F. Kennedy and Blake Tillery (AJC).