Re: Criminalizing Photography

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When a country has spent $3 trillion on making its citizens believe they are safe from terrorism, making sure the citizens know the government is doing its job is an integral part of ’anti-terror marketing’. After 9/11, enforcement officials displaying outright stupidity became the norm rathe than the exception. I have acquaintances who are in law enforcement and they tell me things which would curl my hair if it wasn’t already curly. 

Yes, we should all be concerned when our country veers into areas which the Nazis championed -- telling on your neighbors and turning in those you believe are suspicious looking without a shred of evidence.


Jan




On Aug 14, 2012, at 7:15 PM, John Palcewski wrote:

From the New York Times a good Q & A about taking pictures on public streets.

Mickey H. Osterreicher is the general counsel for the National Press
Photographers Association and edits the organization’s Advocacy
Committee blog. He spoke with James Estrin. Their conversation has
been edited.


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Q.It seems like photographing in public is becoming a crime.

A.Literally every day, someone is being arrested for doing nothing
more than taking a photograph in a public place. It makes no sense to
me. Photography is an _expression_ of free speech.

Since 9/11, there’s been an incredible number of incidents where
photographers are being interfered with and arrested for doing nothing
other than taking pictures or recording video in public places.

It’s not just news photographers who should be concerned with this. I
think every citizen should be concerned. Tourists taking pictures are
being told by police, security guards and sometimes other citizens,
“Sorry, you can’t take a picture here.” When asked why, they say,
“Well, don’t you remember 9/11?”

I remember it quite well, but what does that have do to with taking a
picture in public? It seems like the war on terrorism has somehow
morphed into an assault on photography.

Link to entire article:

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/14/criminalizing-photography/





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