On 2/27/2010 2:43 AM, William Robb wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "Ken Waller"
Subject: Re: UK: Photographer films his own 'anti-terror' arrest,
February 2010
My advice is to stock up on collectible spoons while you can...
Or move to Canada.....
A friend of mine here has been hassled twice by the police for
photographing while being a paraplegic.
It'a quite appalling actually.
The first time, the police wanted him to get out of his vehicle, so he
asked the officer if he would mind getting him his wheelchair from the
back of the van.
The cop went away.
The next time, the police came to his door and questioned him fairly
severely. He voluntarily showed them the contents of his computer, and
they went away.
This was caused by people getting their shorts in a knot because they
saw a large camera in public.
The train has left the atation here as well.
The trend is to take big cameras off the street, not all cameras.
Anyone who says the world changed after 9/11 should be prepared to
justify exactly what sort of threat the big camera represents that a
cell phone camera or P&S camera doesnt.
Why do we still allow cars to drive through the downtowns of our
cities? Any one of them could be a car bomber looking for a nice
office tower to blow up.
Why is that not looked upon as a threat, but the hobby photographer
with an SLR is?
I submit, most respectfully that it is a propoganda campaign as evil
as any that we've ever seen, and anyone that buys into it is just not
thinking very hard.
William Robb
The world did change after 9/11 but it didn't make governments any less
stupid.
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