Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/09/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]They should have been asking the German tourists if they'd built it right - theirs held for 40-years ;-) Douglas G Hopkinson wrote: > In case it may be of interest. This post is not in any way meant to > reflect any political opinion. > > Sydney Australia is very shortly to host APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic > Cooperation) meetings. There are 21 heads of state and numerous > officials as well as presumably an international press contingent. There > is very considerable disruption and inconvenience to Sydney > and fears that some protests may end in violence and destruction. Police > have been granted extraordinary powers which are a matter > of some local controversy. > > This week Police officers required that a party of German tourists delete > from their cameras, pictures taken of the temporary > security fencing that encloses some of the CBD. This is an ugly concrete > and steel mesh 2.8 metre high barrier extending for 5 kms > within the CBD. > > Presumably if they had been wielding good German film Leicas, they would > have had the film confiscated. I have a mental image of law > enforcement officers sifting through five or six multi gigabyte memory > cards for each tourist to ensure that no evil images remain. > > This same fence of course has been looked at since its construction by > hundreds of thousands of people and featured prominently on > national television and other media. Greater Sydney has more than four > million people. > > I can not think of any action more futile or foolish than requiring that > those couple of visitors delete those photographs. > > Sorry, visitors, most of us are friendlier than that. My favourite pub to > visit in Sydney is even within the exclusion zone. > > > > Hoppy > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >