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Subject: [Leica] TSA publishes poster depicting photographers as terrorists
From: photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman)
Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2010 22:50:22 +0200
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You are all terrorist communist islamist scum.That's all the cop or 
rent-a-cop needs to know.

Nathan Wajsman
Alicante, Spain
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YNWA





On Sep 8, 2010, at 10:11 PM, kyle cassidy on the LUG 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
>> http://intranet.med.cornell.edu/research/health_phys/
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