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Subject: [Leica] TSA publishes poster depicting photographers as terrorists
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2010 08:39:14 +0530
References: <6F76F10E-36E2-437E-B0DA-2809EDBFB90E@gmail.com> <6.2.5.6.2.20100908155203.04353ea8@med.cornell.edu> <3B51E445-AB35-41AE-8E2B-BF0DCD7384A9@gmail.com> <6.2.5.6.2.20100908173743.04928e08@med.cornell.edu>

Chris,
That is brilliant - thanks for sharing.
Cheers
Jayanand

On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 3:11 AM, Chris Saganich <chs2018 at 
med.cornell.edu>wrote:

>
> It is the very definition of sinister.  It is also number 6 of "Fourteen
> Ways of Looking at a Blackshirt" by Umberto Eco.
>
> http://www.themodernword.com/eco/eco_blackshirt.html
>
>
>
>
> At 04:11 PM 9/8/2010, you wrote:
>
>> It just seems like a desperate grasp for a simple solution to a complex
>> problem. I don't think the 9/11 hijackers needed to photograph the WTC to
>> perpetrate their act, nor Timothy McVey, but you feel helpless thinking
>> there's nothing you can do -- but if you invent something that you _CAN_
>> stop, create your own meter, you feel less helpless. Why would a terrorist
>> take a photo on a subway? There's no reason I can think of, but if you can
>> say "we stopped 324 suspicious people on the subway this year" it looks 
>> like
>> you're doing something. And people who look like they're doing something 
>> get
>> re-elected. It's hard to find terrorists, it's easy to find people with
>> cameras.
>>
>>
>> On Sep 8, 2010, at 4:03 PM, Chris Saganich wrote:
>>
>> >
>> > I suppose they couldn't imagine any other way a terrorist could be
>> operationalizing his evil plot.  Their lack of imagination now equals my
>> lack of confidence.
>> >
>> >
>> > At 02:08 PM 9/8/2010, you wrote:
>> >> >From the Strobist blog, TSA fundamentally misunderstands photography &
>> the first amendment, encourages people to call police when they see people
>> taking photos:
>> >>
>> >>
>> http://carlosmiller.com/2010/09/07/tsa-publishes-new-posters-depicting-photographers-as-terrorists/
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
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>> > Chris Saganich MS, CPH
>> > Senior Physicist, Office of Health Physics
>> > Weill Medical College of Cornell University
>> > New York Presbyterian Hospital
>> > chs2018 at med.cornell.edu
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>
> Chris Saganich MS, CPH
> Senior Physicist, Office of Health Physics
> Weill Medical College of Cornell University
> New York Presbyterian Hospital
> chs2018 at med.cornell.edu
> http://intranet.med.cornell.edu/research/health_phys/
> Ph. 212.746.6964
> Fax. 212.746.4800
> Office A-0049
>
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