On Apr 5, 2013, at 10:28 PM, Bipin Gupta wrote: > Hi John, Stan, Bob and many other good PDMLers, I agree with you folks > that we should not publish, depict, post or spread hatred on a Public Network. > I have lived in many parts of the world, including my native Bangalore India. > In some places I find the Police very haughty, high handed, loud and with > an intimidating body language / swagger. They hand cuff people for petty > misdemeanors, even when they are not violent. > > Here in India or in Muscat, Oman and in Dubai, the UAE, I have never > seen Police handcuffing people except in homicide cases or violent > crimes. In fact I was surprised to find the Royal Oman Police very kind, > helpful and humane.
About two months ago the Santa Clara police very politely handcuffed me because someone thought that my camera was a gun. > > > I have seen such street art on a paid photo walk in San Francisco. > Worst still we found folks absolutely naked on the streets of San Francisco, > Castro District I think, with the dingle-dangle and all in full > public view. And > there were children, women, tourists in the area. > > I must say I am confused by the moral & social values in the Americas. And what harm was caused to anyone from seeing someone's dingle dangle? There are other places where it would be just as shocking for a woman to show her hair, or her face. Do what thou will, as it harms none. -- Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est -- 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.
