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Subject: [Leica] Well, this is a huge step backward.
From: jsmith342 at gmail.com (Jeffery Smith)
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 18:13:56 -0500
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Cross-dressing is okay down here, but I don't want other people to take 
pictures of me. I do have a beard and a shaved head.

Regards,

Jeffery
_________________
Jeffery Smith
Irish Channel, New Orleans, LA
www.400tx.com



On Jun 29, 2012, at 5:14 PM, Tina Manley wrote:

> It helps considerably to be a female ;-)
> 
> Tina
> 
> On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 6:06 PM, Jeffery Smith <jsmith342 at gmail.com> 
> wrote:
> 
>> Metairie has been on a "family friendly" crusade for the past few years.
>> That's fine if that's what they want to be, the anti-New Orleans (they
>> earned that reputation when their levees DIDN'T fail, but their parish
>> president decided to flood his cities during Katrina by turning off all of
>> the pumping stations).
>> 
>> Photograph a building, and you're a terrorist. Photograph a female walking
>> in a mall, and you're a video voyeur. I got stopped by the police in
>> Plaquemines Parish in 2002 while trying to photograph a great blue heron.
>> Got accosted again in Hahnville while trying to photograph an old 
>> cemetery.
>> 
>> Is their a "best disguise" that one can wear to be allowed to photograph
>> something in public? For me, a Hawaiian shirt, Bermuda shorts, and black
>> wingtips with white socks seems like the winning combination.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> Jeffery
>> _________________
>> Jeffery Smith
>> Irish Channel, New Orleans, LA
>> www.400tx.com
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Jun 29, 2012, at 4:37 PM, Phil Swango wrote:
>> 
>>> Lew Schwartz wrote:
>>> This is just NOLA sexual paranoia/hypocrisy stuff, taking advantage of
>>> some poor schmuck who has other problems to score points with their
>>> bigoted constituency. The problem is that, if they get away with it,
>>> they will start chipping away at everyone else's freedom. They need to
>>> outlaw eyes, memory and Mardi Gras  to be consistent.
>>> ==================================================
>>> 
>>> It is pretty ironic, given the city's well-deserved reputation for open
>>> debauchery and its penchant for exploiting it to promote tourism.  I
>> happen
>>> to love the place and was just there a year or so ago on family business,
>>> partaking in the merrymaking myself.  I didn't visit any Metairie malls
>>> though -- that's where the *real* hardcore stuff goes down.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Phil Swango
>>> 307 Aliso Dr SE
>>> Albuquerque, NM 87108
>>> 505-262-4085
>>> 
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> 
> 
> -- 
> Tina Manley, ASMP
> www.tinamanley.com
> 
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