Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/08/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]OFF TOPIC Political comment My country is reported to be placed around the same area as the USA in country rankings regarding a free press. Here it is also forbidden to photograph inside a railway station and due to the same absurd excuse. I was stopped by a hurrying official for merely pausing on their footbridge momentarily to photograph the clouds and trees outside. My official complaint thereafter was ignored. Our minority centre left government currently only has the support of around 30% of voters but, in alliance with the Greens is also pushing ahead with a new super authority to *regulate* the media (parts of which report unfavourably on their actions to their embarrassment and discomfort).The excuse in this instance is the mess with the British tabloid media in which ours have had no part nor parallel actions whatsoever. Cheers, Geoff http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman On 17 August 2012 05:57, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> wrote: > In Communist countries, including my native Poland, photographing railway > stations was also illegal, not because of terrorism but because they were > considered part of the military infrastructure... > > Nothing new under the sun. > > Cheers, > Nathan > > Nathan Wajsman > Alicante, Spain > http://www.frozenlight.eu > http://www.greatpix.eu > http://www.nathanfoto.com > PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws > Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ > > > YNWA > > > > On Aug 15, 2012, at 5:51 AM, Jayanand Govindaraj wrote: > > > It is called PARANOIA! It is happening all over the world. Here in India > > they banned photographing in railway stations - as if a potential > terrorist > > will come with a honking big DSLR to case the joint when he can > > surreptitiously do it far more efficiently with a camera phone - which > the > > brain dead authorities can never control anyway. Madness! > > Cheers > > Jayanand > > > > On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 9:15 AM, <tedgrant at shaw.ca> wrote: > > > >> Sorry I just read this and I see it as nothing more than the idiocy of > >> over the top officialdom gone comepletely crazy! They are all brain > damaged > >> unfortunately and watching to many Hollywood movies about terrorism! > >> > >> Not one iota of common sense, logic or anything of a normal mental > state! > >> Basically it's nothing more than a form of simple paranoia and lack of a > >> reasonable mental state! > >> > >> Oh well that's life in some countries! > >> > >> cheers, > >> Dr. ted > >> > >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeffery Smith" <jsmith342 at > >> gmail.com > > > >> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> > >> Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2012 8:34 PM > >> Subject: Re: [Leica] Criminalizing Photography > >> > >> > >> > >> I guess we will have to go out on our shields. Do they have a compendium > >>> of terrorists using a camera in public? > >>> > >>> Sent from my iPad > >>> > >>> Jeffery L. Smith > >>> New Orleans, Louisiana > >>> USA > >>> > >>> On Aug 14, 2012, at 22:20, scleroplex <scleroplex at gmail.com> wrote: > >>> > >>> from the New York Times - > >>>> http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/**2012/08/14/criminalizing-** > >>>> photography/?_r=1&pagewanted=**all< > http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/14/criminalizing-photography/?_r=1&pagewanted=all > > > >>>> > >>>> ______________________________**_________________ > >>>> Leica Users Group. > >>>> See http://leica-users.org/**mailman/listinfo/lug< > http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug>for more information > >>>> > >>> > >>> ______________________________**_________________ > >>> Leica Users Group. > >>> See http://leica-users.org/**mailman/listinfo/lug< > http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug>for more information > >>> > >> > >> > >> ______________________________**_________________ > >> Leica Users Group. > >> See http://leica-users.org/**mailman/listinfo/lug< > http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug>for more information > >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >