Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/03/31

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Subject: [Leica] Real patriots don't take pictures
From: bruce at ralgo.nl (bruce)
Date: Fri Mar 31 08:01:24 2006
References: <NEBBJDFBIKOBILIKPPBNAEIKEDAB.red735i@earthlink.net>

If that bothers you, Frank, imagine what they get-up-to from outer/ 
inner space (satellites) ................ Google, but far more  
efficient + telephone listening etc. etc.

B.

On 31-mrt-2006, at 17:54, Frank Filippone wrote:

> I get hassled all the time with a 4x5 view camera.  Why would any self
> respecting honest to goodness no-good-nik ever use a 4x5, on a  
> tripod, with
> a dark cloth, taking 10 minutes to shoot 1 piece of film of a  
> sensitive
> subject?
>
> If I were a no-good-nik, I would use a digital camera from a moving  
> car to
> minimize my exposure.  What is wrong with the official idiots  
> acting as our
> protectors?  How many times I have been chased off shooting a  
> public place
> with my 4x5, to watch some tourist go up and happy snap the same  
> image?  Why
> is one more subversive looking than the other?
>
> If taking pictures is not approved of, what do our elected  
> officials think
> of the thousands to millions of pictures already taken of the  
> building?
> Amateur pictures, professional pictures, printed pictures,  
> newspaper images,
> even building plans.... they are all public already...
>
> Maybe it speaks to the relative brightness of our officials versus the
> brightness of the bad guys.  I have yet to hear of a terrorist cell  
> getting
> caught because they took a picture of anything.......
>
> Frank Filippone
> red735i@earthlink.net
>
>
>
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