Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/06/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Stephen Stills said it 40 years ago after Kent State: " Paranoia strikes deep Into your life it will creep It starts when you're always afraid You step out of line, the man come and take you away " Cheers Jayanand On 6/24/07, Ted Grant <tedgrant@shaw.ca> wrote: > > LUG > Subject: [Leica] please confine your photos to marked tourist spots > > >>>>And you can probably buy a postcard of this building at the drugstore. > Oops, did I type "drugs"?<<<< Quoting a post from the LUG! > > The fact that anyone wishing to do a country harm and requires photographs > of the "hurt them point" can in most countries find post cards at the > local > 1 hour photo shop or "tourist trap area" of any city. > > This whole stupid nonsense of stopping people / tourist / professional > photographers from taking pictures has evolved due to the absolutely > paranoid stupid morons who have no idea what's on the shelves of their own > "super markets, airports, museums, universities, cigar shops and local > news > stands." To name a few locations. > > Besides, by now any "bad guys" wishing to inflict damage on any country, > have already got all the visuals they are going to need. If not they'll > send > a few well dressed looking tourists or business people with photo cell > phones and in a matter of minutes, if not seconds at a location, have all > the imagery they require. > > Meanwhile the paranoid security & government people are still having > coffee > and donuts at their favourite donut shop! > > Paranoia at the moment rules intelligence! And it's so unfortunate because > Freedom is no longer a useful word in many countries.:-) And due to this, > the bad guys have actually won more brownie points than the now so called > "free people of the world!" > > >>>>> [Leica] please confine your photos to marked tourist spots<<<<<<<< > Quite frankly I don't have the damndest idea why this subject is on the > LUG! > > ted > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >