Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/04/06

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Subject: [Leica] WikiLeaks
From: steve.barbour at gmail.com (Steve Barbour)
Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2010 06:56:42 -0700
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On Apr 6, 2010, at 6:31 AM, George Lottermoser wrote:

> "absolutely nothing to with?"
> 
> Surely, Geoff, you can see that
> your post of two years ago
> does relate in some important ways
> to the original subject: the wikileaks video;
> as well as what you expressed.
> 
> 1) In your post re: the wikileaks link you expressed a form of censorship 
> of the subject similar to the authority in both instances.
> 2) While the show of force in your experience was certainly less lethal;
> the lack of communication, interest in, or understanding of reality 
> regarding people's intentions on the part of authority was quite similar 
> in both cases.
> 
> In my opinion - these matters of authority's active censorship of the act 
> of photography, whether by amateurs or professionals, whether using simple 
> hassle techniques or lethal force, deserve to be discussed on a 
> photographic email list. This subject carries far more importance to the 
> future of photo journalism than discussions of full frame sensors or 
> filter threads.

certainly true, right here. onlist, as serious, to be fully contemplated, 

and not sent to an idiot, terminal, trash can list like the LUG Forum,


Steve


> 
> Regards,
> George Lottermoser
> george at imagist.com
> http://www.imagist.com
> http://www.imagist.com/blog
> http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist
> 
> On Apr 6, 2010, at 1:58 AM, Geoff Hopkinson wrote:
> 
>> Off list please Steve if you want to disagree with me. It looks like you
>> have searched the archives and taken this from a post I made two years ago
>> about petty local restrictions on photographers in a railway station here.
>> Since it was my post, I'll snip it for brevity in this response.
>> It has absolutely nothing to do with anything I expressed in commenting
>> earlier.
>> 
>> Geoff
>> 
>> 
>> On 6 April 2010 16:14, Steve Barbour <steve.barbour at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> On Apr 5, 2010, at 7:41 PM, Geoff Hopkinson wrote:
>>> 
>>>> In my opinion this is inappropriate for the LUG.
>>> 
>>> and this...?
>>> 
>>> Folks, some more pictures and a tale. While waiting to collect my child
>>> from
>>> school I walked along a footpath adjacent to a railway station
>>> photographing
>>> some clouds over the wire fence surrounding the property. .........
>> 
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Message from steve.barbour at gmail.com (Steve Barbour) ([Leica] WikiLeaks)
Message from hopsternew at gmail.com (Geoff Hopkinson) ([Leica] WikiLeaks)