Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/06/23

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Subject: [Leica] please confine your photos to marked tourist spots
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Sat Jun 23 23:21:12 2007
References: <1be504db0706232049i6893b4ecp2a8a8bef4cd9c601@mail.gmail.com> <0JK400KYSHBMGJF0@l-daemon>

Stephen Stills said it 40 years ago after Kent State:

" Paranoia strikes deep
Into your life it will creep
It starts when you're always afraid
You step out of line, the man come and take you away "

Cheers
Jayanand

On 6/24/07, Ted Grant <tedgrant@shaw.ca> wrote:
>
> LUG
> Subject: [Leica] please confine your photos to marked tourist spots
>
> >>>>And you can probably buy a postcard of this building at the drugstore.
> Oops, did I type "drugs"?<<<< Quoting a post from the LUG!
>
> The fact that anyone wishing to do a country harm and requires photographs
> of the "hurt them point" can in most countries find post cards at the
> local
> 1 hour photo shop or "tourist trap area" of any city.
>
> This whole stupid nonsense of stopping people / tourist / professional
> photographers from taking pictures has evolved due to the absolutely
> paranoid stupid morons who have no idea what's on the shelves of their own
> "super markets, airports, museums, universities, cigar shops and local
> news
> stands." To name a few locations.
>
> Besides, by now any "bad guys" wishing to inflict damage on any country,
> have already got all the visuals they are going to need. If not they'll
> send
> a few well dressed looking tourists or business people with photo cell
> phones and in a matter of minutes, if not seconds at a location, have all
> the imagery they require.
>
> Meanwhile the paranoid security & government people are still having
> coffee
> and donuts at their favourite donut shop!
>
> Paranoia at the moment rules intelligence! And it's so unfortunate because
> Freedom is no longer a useful word in many countries.:-) And due to this,
> the bad guys have actually won more brownie points than the now so called
> "free people of the world!"
>
> >>>>> [Leica] please confine your photos to marked tourist spots<<<<<<<<
> Quite frankly I don't have the damndest idea why this subject is on the
> LUG!
>
> ted
>
>
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>
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In reply to: Message from pswango at att.net (Phil Swango) ([Leica] please confine your photos to marked tourist spots)
Message from tedgrant at shaw.ca (Ted Grant) ([Leica] please confine your photos to marked tourist spots)