----- Original Message -----
From: "Cotty"
Sorry but that guy was being a total dick. he was adversarial by nature
and got what was coming to him - because the police can. It's not the
same as it was only a few years ago, we live in a different society -
admittedly not an ideal society but whose fault is that...
Net result, they have his details and he spent 8 hours detained, so
where is his victory?
If 99 innocent snappers get asked for their details (with nothing to
hide) and the 100th turns out to be a nutter casing the joint, or a
peado or whatever, then my tax money is working. I don't want to live in
fear on the street as I might elsewhere in the world.
Sorry Cotty, but that is a crock of shit.
The police are living in a Hollywood fantasy world where people with big
cameras are bad people.
Rewind 40 or so years and the Hollywood fantasy was people with Eastern
European accents.
Going after SLR camera users is the police bullying the few to making it
appear to the many that they are actually doing something.
Here's a question for you:
Since so much child pornography is shot on video cameras, and you are known
to walk the streets with a video camera, how many little boys have you
molested?
What age are they the most fun?
Should we be calling child services to interview your own kid?
You must be a pedophile, you use a big camera.
The police have ben told time and again that photography is not a crime.
They have been told that photography unto itself is not a suspicious
activity, but theycontinue to harrass people using SLR cameras.
Why is it that the SLR user is centered out but the P&S user is allowed to
do whaever he does with impunity?
Do people who buy big cameras have more of a tendency to be child molesters?
You should have some insight, you use a big camera.
Or is it possible that the person with the camera is now the Leper, or the
Jew, or the Nigger or the Commie or the Boogyman that has haunted societies
through the centuries.
Authorities like to have someone to point at to say "be afraid of this
person, they are bad people."
The result of this, and societys' buying into it, is gas chambers, leper
colonies, segregated schools and water fountains for whites only, Indian
reservations, Cold Wars, and campfire stories that make little kids stay
awake at night.
Enjoy living in the Fourth Reich, because the train has left the station,
and you are one of the bad people who will be rounded up and put into a
cattle car when it arrives.
William Robb
--
PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List
[email protected]
http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow
the directions.
