frank theriault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>On 11/17/05, P. J. Alling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Railroads are surprisingly easy to sabotage.
>
>Well then they should make it illegal to put bombs near railroad
>tracks.  I can't believe that photographing them has ever lead to
>bombing them.
>
>I wonder if Osama's boys took piccies of the WTC before they flew into them?

Supposedly they did. The real question is "If they had been *prevented*
from taking pictures, how would that have helped us or hindered them?" 
Whenever I hear of photographers being hassled because they might
terrorists I think, "OK, suppose I *am* a terrorist. Now I have a
picture of the Brooklyn Bridge! (for example) Hooray! Now I can... well,
I can.... I mean I'm gonna... erm, ahh... give it to a voodoo witch
doctor to stick pins into?"
 
 
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Mark Roberts
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