Here we are in 2008 a poster issued by the Police warns the public to call the anti-terrorist hotline if they see a photographer who seems a bit odd. People in Britain are being stopped and questioned by Police for, guess what... taking photographs of buildings, bridges or industrial sites. As was pointed out in the Gurdian newspaper recently, the 9/11 terrorists, the London Transport bombers, the Madrid bombers, the attempted 'liquid bombers', the Oklahoma bomber, the Unabomba and Richard Reid the shoe bomber did not use photographs to plan their attacks. Nor did the IRA and nor do middle eastern suicide bombers. In short, terrorists aren't photographers.
Meanwhile, people are paying 3 times the price of my 'new' Nikon for Soviet era Lomos... Did we loose the plot somewhere??
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Yes, yes and yes... we've lost our way. What's happened to our world? Where are our freedoms? Why have we, the citizens, allowed these people to treat us this way? What do we fear? Have we forgotten that the elected serve at our discretion?
It makes me sad.
A couple of links for you:
www.carlosmiller.com
http://nycphotorights.com
I'm sure there are more...
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