Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/08/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Questioning authority is one thing questioning hands on in field experience is another. Mark William Rabiner > From: Herbert Kanner <kanner at acm.org> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2012 00:58:38 -0700 > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Times Photographer Is Arrested on Assignment in NY > > This is really a reply to Dr. Ted's post re going to a longer lens. He is > forgetting a law of nature, first formalized by a man named Murphy, which > in > this case says that if you step back and lengthen the lens, a phalanx of > warm > bodies will come between you and what you are trying to shoot. > > Herbert Kanner > kanner at acm.org > 650-326-8204 > > Question authority and the authorities will question you. > > > > On Aug 8, 2012, at 3:20 PM, George Lottermoser wrote: > >> >> On Aug 6, 2012, at 5:08 PM, Phil Forrest wrote: >> >>> What he said, for the most part. >>> >>> Phil Forrest >>> >>> >>> On Mon, 6 Aug 2012 15:06:14 -0700 >>> "Frank Filippone" <red735i at earthlink.net> wrote: >>> >>>> What I said..... if you are doing something lawful by taking >>>> pictures, and the police do not want you taking pictures, they give >>>> you an order to stop. When you do not stop, they arrest you for >>>> disobeying an order, not for (legally) taking pictures. >>>> >>>> They ALWAYS have the last word. >>>> >>>> Except in court...... I am sure more to follow..... >> >> Are you both suggesting that a police officer >> has the authority to "order" citizens to stop doing lawful activities: >> walking, shopping, riding a bicycle, sitting on a park bench, watering a >> lawn, etc. >> and then arrest them if they don't follow those orders? >> >> Regards, >> George Lottermoser >> george at imagist.com >> http://www.imagist.com >> http://www.imagist.com/blog >> http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist >> >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information