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Subject: [Leica] OT embarrassing and stupid action against public photography
From: douglas.sharp at gmx.de (Douglas Sharp)
Date: Mon Sep 3 04:14:32 2007
References: <000701c7ee1a$3ad88fe0$6401a8c0@asus930>

They should have been asking the German tourists if they'd built it 
right - theirs held for 40-years ;-)
Douglas


G Hopkinson wrote:
> In case it may be of interest. This post is not in any way meant to 
> reflect any political opinion.
>
> Sydney Australia is very shortly to host APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic 
> Cooperation) meetings. There are 21 heads of state and numerous
> officials as well as presumably an international press contingent. There 
> is very considerable disruption and inconvenience to Sydney
> and fears that some protests may end in violence and destruction. Police 
> have been granted extraordinary powers which are a matter
> of some local controversy. 
>
>  This week Police officers required that a party of German tourists delete 
> from their cameras, pictures taken of the temporary
> security fencing that encloses some of the CBD. This is an ugly concrete 
> and steel mesh 2.8 metre high barrier extending for 5 kms
> within the CBD. 
>
> Presumably if they had been wielding good German film Leicas, they would 
> have had the film confiscated. I have a mental image of law
> enforcement officers sifting through five or six multi gigabyte memory 
> cards for each tourist to ensure that no evil images remain.
>
> This same fence of course has been looked at since its construction by 
> hundreds of thousands of people and featured prominently on
> national television and other media. Greater Sydney has more than four 
> million people. 
>
> I can not think of any action more futile or foolish than requiring that 
> those couple of visitors delete those photographs.
>
> Sorry, visitors, most of us are friendlier than that. My favourite pub to 
> visit in Sydney is even within the exclusion zone.
>
>  
>
> Hoppy 
>
>
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Replies: Reply from mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner) ([Leica] OT embarrassing and stupid action against public photography)
In reply to: Message from hoppyman at bigpond.net.au (G Hopkinson) ([Leica] OT embarrassing and stupid action against public photography)