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Subject: [Leica] Taking photos of police officers could be considered a crime
From: s.dimitrov at charter.net (Slobodan Dimitrov)
Date: Sat Feb 14 17:54:43 2009
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Hubris!
sd


On Feb 14, 2009, at 4:43 PM, Steve Barbour wrote:

>
> On Feb 14, 2009, at 5:31 PM, Gerry Walden wrote:
>
>> As a UK photographer who has often photographed the police on riot  
>> control etc. I find this proposal frightening. Whilst I am in  
>> favour of anything that stops a terrorist carry out any of their  
>> actions, it does mean that anybody who photographs a police  
>> officer can be guilty of an offence because any image showing a  
>> police officers face (or any other identifiable mark) could be of  
>> use to terrorists, and their have already been instances of  
>> photographers being arrested, questioned and having their cards  
>> wiped. The mere fact that you are arrested means that they can  
>> fingerprint you and dna test you in this country, which already  
>> has the greatest number of cctv cameras per head of population of  
>> anywhere in the world.
>
>
> I think we must all reflect on the outcome of terrorist actions on  
> your country and mine,
>
> and ask simply,
>
> "how in the world all of this has come about...?"
>
>
> Steve
>>
>>
>> Gerry
>>
>> Gerry Walden
>> +44 (0)23 8046 3076
>> www.gerrywalden.co.uk
>> www.stockuk.co.uk
>>
>> On 15 Feb 2009, at 00:04, Walt Johnson wrote:
>>
>>> Sounds like the beginning of the end to me....
>>>
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In reply to: Message from s.dimitrov at charter.net (Slobodan Dimitrov) ([Leica] Taking photos of police officers could be considered a crime)
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Message from kididdoc at cox.net (Steve Barbour) ([Leica] Taking photos of police officers could be considered a crime)