Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/02/01

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Subject: Re: [Leica] asked for ID?
From: Chandos Michael Brown <cmbrow@mail.wm.edu>
Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2000 13:25:46 -0500

I dunno about this, Pascal.  Perhaps one of our Dutch luggers will speak to 
the issue of IDs in the Netherlands.  The memory of the Occupation seems to 
have shaped attitudes toward privacy that are not caught up in guilt or 
innocence.

Chandos

At 05:40 PM 2/1/2000 +0100, you wrote:


>I agree with this. My opinion is this: apart from unlawful requests and
>obvious abuse of power, those who have nothing to hide do not object against
>a police request to show ID.
>
>I have done some shooting of military airplanes on several airforce bases
>while on official visit and never ran into any kind of trouble but, of
>course, I always asked before actually taking pictures!
>I think this is just a question of common sense.
>
>Next week, I will do the same on a fighter-bomber airbase in Germany.
>
>Pascal
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Chandos Michael Brown
Assoc. Prof., History and American Studies
College of William and Mary

http://www.wm.edu/CAS/ASP/faculty/brown