[Leica] Billingham bags banned from u.s. domestic flights

[schroter at optonline.net (schroter@optonline.net)]

'Course if they did make the Cassidy-Billingham connection it would be all 
over with!!! Such incindiary a combination, 'twould do well to drown them.

----- Original Message -----
From: Seth Rosner <sethrosner@nycap.rr.com>
Date: Monday, March 14, 2005 9:20 pm
Subject: Re: [Leica] Billingham bags banned from u.s. domestic flights

> What fools these Homeland Security people are! White does Whatel 
> know? 
> Billingham bags were used 70 years ago to facilitate the escape 
> from Das 
> Dritte Reich of Erwin Piscator, founder of the Berliner Volksbuhne 
> that was 
> closed by the NSDAP 10 years later. The photos were taken not by 
> Cassidy but 
> by an assistant of Piscator in the 1920's. They led in part to the 
> closing 
> of the Volksbuhne.
> 
> Piscator left for the Soviet Union in the 30's from whence 
> emissaries of 
> Josef Goebbels sought to persuade him to return to Berlin instead 
> of which 
> he went to Paris, thence to New York where he and his wife, Maria 
> Ley 
> Piscator, started the Actors' Studio program at the New School for 
> Social 
> Research (Marlon Brando, Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward and a dozen 
> or more 
> great hall-of-fame actors.
> 
> Besides, Homeland Security has failed to establish any connection 
> whatever 
> between Billingham and Leica, let alone between Billingham and 
> Cassidy. Not 
> that they need such an excuse.
> 
> ;-)
> 
> .........for the record, that's a BIG wink.
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Kyle Cassidy" <KCassidy@asc.upenn.edu>
> To: <lug@leica-users.org>
> Sent: Monday, March 14, 2005 3:31 PM
> Subject: [Leica] Billingham bags banned from u.s. domestic flights
> 
> 
> > Washington -- March 14, 2005
> > The U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced today that 
> camera bags
> > made by the Billingham Photographg Luggage company (Nasdaq: 
> LENS) would be
> > barred from all flights whose origion or termination was within 
> the 
> > borders
> > of the United States. The bags are popular with oweners of Leica 
> Cameras> (OTC: LEICF.PK) which have recently been barred from U.S. 
> flights. "It has
> > come to our attention," said Homeland Security spokesperson Thad 
> Whitel,> "that Leica cameras are manufactured in Germany -- a 
> country which is not
> > and never has been our ally. If they choose to side with the 
> terrorists, I
> > see no option but to remove their products from our flights to 
> protect the
> > safety of Americans in the air." As evidence of the dangers of Leica
> > cameras, Whitel produced several examples of scandelous 
> photographs 
> > recently
> > taken by American photographer Kyle Cassidy. "You won't need any 
> further> examples than these," Whitel said, producing enlargements 
> of the photos. 
> > The
> > photos were all taken within the past 30 days:
> >
> > http://www.asc.upenn.edu/usr/cassidy/temp/moon8.jpg
> > http://www.asc.upenn.edu/usr/cassidy/temp/coral1.jpg
> > http://www.asc.upenn.edu/usr/cassidy/temp/moon1.jpg
> > http://www.asc.upenn.edu/usr/cassidy/temp/coral2.jpg
> > http://www.asc.upenn.edu/usr/cassidy/temp/moon2.jpg
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