Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/02/23

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Subject: Re: Leica-Users List Digest V1 #369
From: dmorton@journalist.co.uk (David Morton)
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 12:23 GMT0

Marc James Small wrote:

>
> If we give into fascism, we are fascists.  The only 'terror' in the US
> is
> that which we bring on ourselves.  Fight back!  Ignore the jerks.
>
> At the '36 Olympics, the Gestapo raised the roof with news photogs
> using the
> very Telyt and Sonnar lenses Goebbels had demanded of Leitz and Zeiss,
> as
> they "seemed" to be firearms.
>
> If the police pummel you for having a 'machine-gun lookalike', suggest
> they
> take a long walk off a short pier.  I'd be damned before my photography
> was
> affected by the anal-retentive fears of some "security" officer.  As to
> the
> public, I suggest they watch less TV and get a life.
>
> Marc
>
> msmall@roanoke.infi.net  FAX:  +540/343-7315
> Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!

Fine principles indeed, now let's see how long they last down the Falls
Road...