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Posted by SilverFox on Mon Aug 14 23:02:14 2006, in response to Re: Removed from a train by the NYPD this morning, posted by David of Broadway on Mon Aug 14 19:40:52 2006. I am writing this from a city that is under greater terrorist threat than New York . . . and I will readily poo-poo any notion that it might possibly pose a threat in New York.You know and I know that the act of photography doesn't constitute the problem. It is the action against the infrastructure that does, and it doesn't need to be photographed to be recalled where it is or what its weak points are. So your poo-pooing the notion that photography is to blame is a wasted poo-poo. But it is difficult to overlook the fact that times have changed, and until methods of identifying and dealing with terrorist threats become more streamlined, nearly everything will arouse suspicion in this naive country of ours. That is a fact of life. Not everybody is as enlightened as you or I might be. Maybe Londoners are more fatalistic. Maybe they are more accepting of risk. Maybe they don't have the legal web in place like we do (created by those who feel that everything should be baby-proofed, warned-against and idiot-proofed in order to save people from themselves) that cause our police to be over-cautious and under-effective. Damned if they do; damned if they don't. And damned by you if they should "inconvenience" you in the process of doing their job, maybe a bit overcautiously. I never said that the police were right in any action against rail photographers here. But what I did say is that if the rail photographers accept the "inconvenience" and other negatives, they allow the police officers more rope with which to hang themselves so that maybe they know for next time not to bother us and make them more effective against real threats. I am just as against cops doing the wrong thing as you are, but maybe more than most of you, I accept that their "convenience" is worth quite a bit more than yours. And thank you for taking time out of your vacation to post to us. Usually, vacations are meant to allow you to forget your usual routine for awhile. |
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