Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/08/09

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Subject: [Leica] Times Photographer Is Arrested on Assignment in NY
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2012 16:21:38 -0400

Questioning authority  is one thing questioning hands on in field experience
is another.

Mark William Rabiner


> From: Herbert Kanner <kanner at acm.org>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2012 00:58:38 -0700
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Times Photographer Is Arrested on Assignment in NY
> 
> This is really a reply to Dr. Ted's post re going to a longer lens. He is
> forgetting a law of nature, first formalized by a man named Murphy, which 
> in
> this case says that if you step back and lengthen the lens, a phalanx of 
> warm
> bodies will come between you and what you are trying to shoot.
> 
> Herbert Kanner
> kanner at acm.org
> 650-326-8204
> 
> Question authority and the authorities will question you.
> 
> 
> 
> On Aug 8, 2012, at 3:20 PM, George Lottermoser wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On Aug 6, 2012, at 5:08 PM, Phil Forrest wrote:
>> 
>>> What he said, for the most part.
>>> 
>>> Phil Forrest
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Mon, 6 Aug 2012 15:06:14 -0700
>>> "Frank Filippone" <red735i at earthlink.net> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> What I said..... if you are doing something lawful by taking
>>>> pictures, and the police do not want you taking pictures, they give
>>>> you an order to stop. When you do not stop, they arrest you for
>>>> disobeying an order, not for (legally) taking pictures.
>>>> 
>>>> They ALWAYS have the last word.
>>>> 
>>>> Except in court...... I am sure more to follow.....
>> 
>> Are you both suggesting that a police officer
>> has the authority to "order" citizens to stop doing lawful activities:
>> walking, shopping, riding a bicycle, sitting on a park bench, watering a
>> lawn, etc.
>> and then arrest them if they don't follow those orders?
>> 
>> Regards,
>> George Lottermoser
>> george at imagist.com
>> http://www.imagist.com
>> http://www.imagist.com/blog
>> http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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