Once again an Illinois Citizen has been arrested for having the audacityto film Police Officers on Private Property. This time the arrestoccured the day after a woman uploaded a video recording police officerswho were hired to escort a pair of Smart Meter installers who jumped alocked gate to install the electronic spy device at her neighbors home.The homeowner in this video is clearly distraught because she is aninformed parent with genuine concerns for her ill daughters health whichmay be negatively affected by the high frequency electromagnetic wavesthat Smart Meters are well known to put out.What'spuzzling about the Police Officer's decision to return to thisneighborhood after their Departments discovery that this video wasuploaded to the internet is that the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals made aruling last year that blocked the enforcement of the law on the groundsthat it was unconstitutional.The irony of citizens beingarrested for supposedly "eavesdropping" on cops in public where there isno expectation of privacy, while simultaneously the government forciblyinstalls devices on people's property that really do eavesdrop on themin total violation of the 4th amendment, is staggering. Remember -- thisis a state that threatens to send people to prison for life forrecording police officers.Bendis filmed her friend'sconfrontation with city workers and police but at no time attempted tointerfere in their actions. The video clip shows an officer askingBendis not to film him, an order with which she immediately complies.However,the Chicago Tribune reports that Bendis was arrested and "Charged withtwo misdemeanors — attempted eavesdropping and resisting a peaceofficer."The state of Illinois is still directing its police officers to enforce a law that has repeatedly been found unconstitutional.Asthe PINAC blog notes, "Bendis was charged with misdemeanoreavesdropping which indicates they may have kept the law intact butreduced it to a misdemeanor from a felony. Or more likely means thenewspaper wasn't very clear in their reporting," adding that theIllinois legislature introduced a "technical change" to the law a daybefore the incident, but that no one seems to be aware of what exactlythe change is.In May 2012, the U.S. 7th Circuit Court ofAppeals blocked the enforcement of a law that made it a felony to filmpolice officers in the state of Illinois. This followed a case involvingIllinois resident Michael Allison - who at one point was facing life injail for recording cops."The Illinois eavesdropping statuterestricts far more speech than necessary to protect legitimate privacyinterests; as applied to the facts alleged here, it likely violates theFirst Amendment's free speech and free-press guarantees," wrote JudgeDiane Sykes.