William Robb wrote:
----- 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.
Yup, and that's one of them.
The law in question is one that allows harrassment of citizen by police
officer.
Nope, it penalizes harrassment of citizens on other citizens with their
cameras.
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.
It didnt mention cheerleaders at all in the stories.
Police officer: "Sir, we got a complaint that you were taking
inappropriate pictures"
Photog: "Umm, no. You wanna take a look at the pics?"
Police: "Hmm, nothing here inappropriate, just a couple of cheerleaders,
sorry for the cheerleaderus interruptus"
Photog: "OMG, my life is ruined"
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.
Yeah, lets wait until he rapes and kills a few before we take notice.
I guess its better to sacrifice a few citizens than to irritate an
innocent photgrapher.
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.
If he is taking inappropriate pictures, then lets find out if he's
innocent or worth a deeper look.
