Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/09/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Buzz, You are right. The point of my photo-tale was that this woman clearly was NOT a Nazi or anything. She was a nice lady and a shutterbug herself. The point was that while she was giving me a hard time about taking photos with my new (to me) Leica gear on a regular urban street, she wasn't well equipped to do this job and wasn't even quite sure what her job was in this case. In another instance earlier this year, I had a security guard guy tell me that I was on private property when I was on Federal public property. Sheesh. And in this case, this wasn't her fault, IMHO. It was a fault of day-in-and-out public administration. Train the public servants, publish a pamphlet with the laws clearly stated, verify that I'm a US citizen and then leave me alone - or whatever. From my own experiences and what I keep reading online, we've got lower-level public servants hassling amateur photogs and tourists all over this country and most of these otherwise decent public employees probably have no idea exactly what they're doing, or what they're supposed to do or not do, or how to quickly and easily resolve a non-situation. This is a problem that can be fixed. IMHO, it's not a partisan issue, but it's an important one. Unlike some unfortunate others, I've managed to avoid any really unpleasant conflicts. Still, while I'm a level headed guy, this kind of thing rattles the nerves, especially when it happens over and over again. I'm a guy who has never even had a speeding ticket (really), sponsored local charitable events in the past, and well, you get the idea. Still, yesterday, walking in my own neighborhood, I just couldn't help but look over my shoulder when I heard a siren . I couldn't shake it off. It's just wrong. It sure takes alot of the fun out of using my lovely Leica gear. Scott buzz.hausner@verizon.net wrote: >How is it that this list can turn virtually any thread back to a discussion >of Nazis? I for one hope that we have no further discussion of Nazis or >even crypto-Nazis. I do have a delete button, so it would be nice if >anyone perpetuating this discuission change the subject line to reflect >"Nazi Content." Thanks. > >Buzz Hausner > > > >>From: Slobodan Dimitrov <s.dimitrov@charter.net> >>Date: 2004/09/10 Fri PM 02:39:36 EDT >>To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> >>Subject: Re: [Leica] re: NYPD republicans? >> >>Reminds of a history piece on cable sometime back. >>It was about the Gestapo records from a German city, it might of been >>Dresden, I'm not sure at the moment. Apparently the Gestapo didn't have >>time >>to destroy their records. >>>From it, it seemed that they spent a great deal of time following up on >>neighbors complaining about one another. Of course the citizens were doing >>their best, in the name of national security, to turn in as many of their >>neighbors as possible. From the retelling of some of the cases, it seemed >>that the Gestapo was more often than not putting out brush fires than >>actually working on genuine cases. >>S.Dimitrov >> >> > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >