Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/06/29

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Subject: [Leica] Well, this is a huge step backward.
From: bd at bdcolenphoto.com (B. D. Colen)
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 22:08:21 +0000
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Perfect outfit!
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From: Jeffery Smith <jsmith342 at gmail.com>
Sender: lug-bounces+bd=bdcolenphoto.com at leica-users.org
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 17:06:59 
To: Leica Users Group<lug at leica-users.org>
Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
Subject: Re: [Leica] Well, this is a huge step backward.

Metairie has been on a "family friendly" crusade for the past few years. 
That's fine if that's what they want to be, the anti-New Orleans (they 
earned that reputation when their levees DIDN'T fail, but their parish 
president decided to flood his cities during Katrina by turning off all of 
the pumping stations).

Photograph a building, and you're a terrorist. Photograph a female walking 
in a mall, and you're a video voyeur. I got stopped by the police in 
Plaquemines Parish in 2002 while trying to photograph a great blue heron. 
Got accosted again in Hahnville while trying to photograph an old cemetery. 

Is their a "best disguise" that one can wear to be allowed to photograph 
something in public? For me, a Hawaiian shirt, Bermuda shorts, and black 
wingtips with white socks seems like the winning combination.

Regards,

Jeffery
_________________
Jeffery Smith
Irish Channel, New Orleans, LA
www.400tx.com



On Jun 29, 2012, at 4:37 PM, Phil Swango wrote:

> Lew Schwartz wrote:
> This is just NOLA sexual paranoia/hypocrisy stuff, taking advantage of
> some poor schmuck who has other problems to score points with their
> bigoted constituency. The problem is that, if they get away with it,
> they will start chipping away at everyone else's freedom. They need to
> outlaw eyes, memory and Mardi Gras  to be consistent.
> ==================================================
> 
> It is pretty ironic, given the city's well-deserved reputation for open
> debauchery and its penchant for exploiting it to promote tourism.  I happen
> to love the place and was just there a year or so ago on family business,
> partaking in the merrymaking myself.  I didn't visit any Metairie malls
> though -- that's where the *real* hardcore stuff goes down.
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Phil Swango
> 307 Aliso Dr SE
> Albuquerque, NM 87108
> 505-262-4085
> 
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In reply to: Message from pswango at att.net (Phil Swango) ([Leica] Well, this is a huge step backward.)
Message from jsmith342 at gmail.com (Jeffery Smith) ([Leica] Well, this is a huge step backward.)