Posted on 03/07/2015 6:47:19 PM PST by SWAMPSNIPER
Los Angeles has agreed to pay a $50,000 settlement to three photographers after they were detained by LA County Sheriffs while taking pictures in public places. As part of the settlement, the city will also teach its sheriff deputies that photography is not a crime.
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There is a YouTube video of a man open carrying his gun in Philadelphia. He had the proper permit and he knew the Pennsylvania law. The cops assaulted him, threatened to kill him, and arrested him.
My question is this: What do you do about a person who is photographing locations you might consider to be a possible target of terrorism ..??
Should we report such photography to police or FBI, etc.?
I have read of several incidents where it was discovered after an attack that some person had been taking pictures of the site.
I think this is a big concern .. seeing as how we are being infiltrated by terror cells.
“My question is this: What do you do about a person who is photographing locations you might consider to be a possible target of terrorism “
If you love America, not a damned thing. America has always meant anywhere you could legally stand, you could take a photo. The USSR and dictatorship nations have LOTS of places you cannot photograph things you can plainly look at.
I once had a foreign guest. She kept asking if it was allowed to take a photo, here, there,, etc. I mean in clearly public places.
I would be utterly ashamed of America for that answer to sometimes become “no you cannot take a photo of THAT building, THAT bridge”, etc.
This is utterly UNAMERICAN.
“I have read of several incidents where it was discovered after an attack that some person had been taking pictures of the site.”
I call BS. Which ones? Which terror attacks did that?
Barbra Streisand’s house, and the whole Calif. coast has been photographed.
http://www.californiacoastline.org/streisand/lawsuit.html
The idea a terrorist might photograph a site and therefor we must ban photography is a path to slavery to the government. Besides which any terrorist can use Google maps street view to see any public place.
The training will consist of teachings on how to not get caught.
Like a refinery?
Most targets like that and the Pentagon etc have been photographed/mapped/imaged many times and most can readily be pulled up with little effort.
I’ll refer you back to the article.
I used my cellphone to record the aftermath of a car accident. The lady made a turn to fast and hit a stop light signal and knocked it over. She tried to leave the scene but her SUV was so damaged that her back wheels were smoking as she revved the engine to speed out of there but literally the SUV could not move. She tried 3 times before the 2 police officers showed up in their vehicles. One of the officers was looking right at me as if I were a problem while the other 2 dozen or more people were witnessing this. I have some neat footage of her. She had more tattoos then the lady at the carnival.
He was wearing shorts and a police vest. Was he on bicycle patrol as punishment for misbehaving elsewhere?
I think this is one of the Long Beach refineries.
Install GOOGLE EARTH,see what you think about that.
If it looks suspicious, report it. The "possibility that one may be doing something illegal" is not reason to suspend Freedom of the People. I'll bet you don't make the same correlation when deciding whether the IRS is good to go when it locks/confiscates accounts because someone is making transactions of under $10K because "they might be trying to hide something from the all powerful government confiscators".
This is one of those cases where we can see how those who purport to believe in the Constitution can be fooled into making decisions that are quite contrary to the Constitution because something affects their sensibilities/reasoning/logic and because it's apparently "for a good and just cause".
I'll bet that you have seen and agreed with Ben Franklin's comment about how those who will give up freedoms for security deserve neither.
Please understand that I am not slamming you - just trying to nudge your mindset back into alignment because I have no doubt that most unconstitutional activities by "officials" rile you as bad as they do me, but like me, you can be fooled into buying into something that seems to make perfect sense until the right synapses make connection.
“I think this is a big concern .. seeing as how we are being infiltrated by terror cells.”
Well, lets hope they never learn about Google Earth.
Or Google Street View.
“Install GOOGLE EARTH,see what you think about that.”
You beat me to it. Earth Pro is free now.
Wow ..!!
I’m speechless.
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