Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/01/04

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Subject: Re: [Leica] RE: Luftwaffen Leica - Help with Identification
From: "James Harrison" <leica@wf.net>
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1999 19:38:45 -0600

Per the new California law:  are they going to have a 5 day wait before you
can pick up a M6 or R8??  jh

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Member of Mensa since 1985,,,uh I think
- -----Original Message-----
From: Jim Brick <jimbrick@photoaccess.com>
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Date: Monday, January 04, 1999 7:36 PM
Subject: [Leica] RE: Luftwaffen Leica - Help with Identification


>Boy... the subject line sure fits the discussion???
>
>Jim
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>At 06:37 PM 1/4/99 -0600, you wrote:
>>>topic, what's the new law in California (!) about it being an
>>>invasion of privacy to stand on PUBLIC soil and "invade" privacy
>>>with a camera?>  anybody heard this?  the so-called "papparrazi"
>>>law?  Oh, well, as usual, such ideas originate in CA and spread
>>>like leprosy over the country.......
>>
>>It's going to eventually be proven unconstitutional, but most
photographers
>>are afraid of the lawyer costs to get it to the Supreme Court. Hope the CA
>>court is all the higher it has to go.
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>>You probably have to be using a telephoto lens to get arrested. That's how
>>poorly it's written.
>>
>>It is the dark side of political correctness, press bashing and left-wing
>>cow-towing to celebrities. It ends up penalizing not only those sleazoids
>>known as paparazzis, but legitimate photographers as well. Technically
>>anyone can be arrested for using a telephoto lens in public places. That's
>>how poorly written it is.
>>--
>>
>>Eric Welch
>>St. Joseph, MO
>>http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch
>>
>>Out of my mind.  Back in five minutes.
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