[Leica] TSA publishes poster depicting photographers as terrorists

[chs2018 at med.cornell.edu (Chris Saganich)]

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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