Next: the clones! Wheee!

(Shirt / hat artwork will, naturally, be available under a Creative Commons license once they’re done.)

Nazi Wonders of the Future…Today!

As far as aircraft images I take I have found that in MY city of Kenner, LA there are too many cops on the beat with nothing better to do than to hassle people taking pictures well away from airport fences and from public and private property.

Your vision may not be too far off. If they start criminalizing eccentricity in the UK, they’ll have to lock up half the country.

Good idea but photographing “Idiot Cops” would almost be like photographing “Wet Water”. 8)

Isn’t it much more likely that a photograph taken by a private citizen be used for good and not bad. Haven’t more private pictures and videos been used to solve crimes than to perpetrate them. Since the vast majority of people taking pictures are not terrorists then the vast majority of pictures are being taken for good and a subset of these pictures will be used to fight crime not commit it.

If the majority of terrorists arrested were caught with photos and videos of their targets and no private photos were ever used for good then the govt might have a case. But lacking any evidence that terrorists use photography and overwhelming evidence that photography is almost always a good it seems that banning it will cause the public great harm.

I have heard Ron Rivest make the argument that it is for the greater good to allow dual use technology like encryption if it is used for protecting us from criminal acts much more than it is used to perpetrate them. The example of a protective technology that everyone can understand is gloves. Gloves protect us from the cold, microorganisms and sharp objects. They also protect a criminals fingerprints from being discovered. Yet we do not outlaw them.

Photography should be viewed as the same. A technology that serves the greater good and is even protective in cases where it helps solves crimes. This good far out weighs the extremely rare (and still unproven) case where a terrorist uses photography to plan a crime.

-Chris

Simply make the ownership and use of private and/or unlicensed photographic equipment illegal. Then these problems will go away.

See how easy?

yes, I still have my original rulebook… and the gamesmasters screen… and Hill Sector Blues… and several cast figurines…

Then, “helpful” civilians might refrain from
reporting him to authorities and authorities,
when they do see him, might figure “what kind of
self-respecting terrorist would wear this day-glo
orange vest?)

Still, it’s a long way to have to go in order to
snap a picture.

“I can deal with the fact someone might think I’m a terrorist, but when they start saying you’re a paedophile it really hurts.”

Culture of fear much?

Bunch of cowards, the whole lot of them.
(This has also been a problem for railfans / trainspotters. They’ll come for you too.)

Gone are the days i can wonder off into the woods/fields to do some macro photography because as far as the public are concerned, im a suspect pedo.
Sure ive gone out with a f*ck them mentality, but its just not enjoyable anymore.

Media frenzy + Thick public = bad news

This as well as many other reasons has made me loathe a country i once loved.
Im planning to leave. The sooner the better.

What if I’m an author and I describe the buses in explicit detail in a novel or short story?

Also, my visual memory is pretty good, so should I refrain from staring at said buses?

http://www.thisisgloucestershire.co.uk/gloucester/BUS-spotter-hang-camera-paedophile-terrorist-accusations/article-194852-detail/article.html

never even bothered to correctly attribute the story…

blatant plagiarism really annoys me…

Hi, UK. Just so you know, you are not going to get any of my tourist dollars.

That’s OK, dollars are pretty much worthless now.

xo!