[Leica] Homeland security woes, digital cameras,and not using Leicas

[tedgrant at shaw.ca (Ted Grant)]

Don Doryoffered:
> Ted's advice given numerous times is the ticket.  Don't sneak, look at
> authority in the eye, don't challenge, have a reasonable explanation,
> if asked to leave smile, thank the official and leave.<<<<<<

Hi Don,
Thanks for the quote use. :-)

But it's so simple it's a wonder everybody hasn't thought of it or used it. 
It's simple common sense logic, why argue or get in a hissing fit you are 
not going to win when dealing with an overzealous security moron!!

Thank you and move on is much easier and figure out how to circumnavigate 
the person than stand there and loose the fight no matter what you say your 
rights are. Even if the highest court in the land backs you later if you 
wish to challenge! But at the moment of confrontation you are not going to 
win in 99.999999999% of the time, period !

It's just like some moron newsphotographer's who give a police officer a 
hard time because the newsie believes the public has a right to know no 
matter what the police officer says. In some cases for the photogs own 
safety and they still argue! But oh no the freedom of the press and all that 
stuff is yelled in the officers face to the point the photog is placed in 
the back seat of a cruiser without any pictures. While the photog who kept 
his mouth shut and used his brain, moved around and found a better spot to 
shoot from with a longer or shorter lens, get's the pictures and is the good 
guy of the day at his paper.

While numb brain big mouth gets fired because he didn't have any pictures 
and all because he didn't keep his mouth shut and used his head!

It's like this folks, being polite and non-aggressive gets more honey than 
being an asshole big mouth!

And quite frankly I admit to being bad guy in my early days o a few 
occasions. ;-) That is until I learned being Mr. nice guy had far more 
advantages to it than being a big mouth idiot!
Well OK most times. ;-)

ted