Brazil, anyone?
London’s metropolitan police launches anti photography propaganda campaign: “If you suspect it - report it.”
(via Thomas Hawk, click illustration for more info and quite a few comments)
My opinion? I guess I am lucky to live in a country where terrorism is something we read about in the papers but never experience first hand, but being an amateur photographer who is trying her best to get out there and use my camera in public more than I do now, I can’t help but think of the poem “First they came..”. Oh, and the title of this entry is not about the country, it’s about the Gilliam movie.
On March 6th, 2008 at 4:41 pm, Jem said:
I saw this advert in my local paper the other day - I don’t even live in London or anywhere near it - and it actually made me quite angry. I take pictures all of the time myself; am I to expect to be held up by armed police purely for practising my skills?
It reminds me of a story I read on The Register (theregister.co.uk) about a guy who was held up by armed police, detained in a cell overnight and fingerprinted/DNA tested all because an hysterical woman thought his cell phone was a gun.
We might as well all get in line to be tagged and tracked. No hope of personal freedom any more.
On March 6th, 2008 at 4:42 pm, Jem said:
Correction, it wasn’t a phone mistaken for a gun, it was an mp3 player. You can see the story here: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/13/mp3_gun_swoop/
On March 6th, 2008 at 5:05 pm, Birgit said:
That’s just swell.