----- Original Message ----- From: "Gonz"
Subject: Re: Today I Was Stopped by the Police While Photographing
The law is good. It means that I dont have to go to jail for beating the crap of some creep for harrassing my kids, I can just call the cops, bye bye creep.
I am sure there were already laws in place regarding harrassment of citizen by citizen. The law in question is one that allows harrassment of citizen by police officer.
That is not a good law. >I'm not gonna call the cops just because there's a
photographer at a football game taking pictures of the cheerleaders.
You may not, but apparently someone did, and someone else's life may well be made into hell because if that, and the bad luck he had of having a rope a knife and some porn in his car at the same time.
You mentioned in another post "In this case, the greater good of society takes precedence." with regard to driving. I consider taking out of circulation Jeffrey Damler types good for society. Even if it means that occasionally an innocent photographer is asked what he is doing.
Lets at least wait until they commit a real crime before ruining their lives. Presumption of innocence and all that implies is one of the founding precepts of your country, if I remember my high school social studies correctly.
