"uw wayne" wrote in message
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On Feb 24, 6:58 pm, "Annika1980" wrote:
I'm bored this afternoon so I go over to the dam to try to get some
pics of the herons flying (they were very uncooperative). I'm also
shooting a few ducks, some cardinals, and the lone falcon that lives
there. The light is terrible, it's about to rain, but hey ... I love
a challenge.
Anyway, I'm minding my own business when I notice there's some rookie
cop standing there beside me asking me what I was shooting. "Birds,"
I told him without even looking up from my 20D and the Forgotten 400 f/
5.6L.

"Show me," he demands. So he makes me scroll through the entire CF
card showing him the photos to make sure I'm not shooting a picture of
little kids or the bridge ... you know, like terrorists always do. So
I'm narrating the pics as I scroll, "Great Blue Heron, duck, falcon,
duck, Presidential Motorcade, me flipping off the Pres, another duck,
me and the old lady doing it ..... "
You know, the usual stuff.

Just kidding about the Presidential pics. Thankfully, I deleted them
from the card before today's shoot. Otherwise, I might be typing this
from Guantanimo.

I was very polite with the flatfoot (since I don't really like jail),
but the more I thought about it after he left the madder I got. At
what point does having a nice camera make one a terrorist suspect?
When did that happen? (I know it must've been in the last 6 years.) I
know Bush (and his gang of crooks) wipes his ass with the
Constitution, but I must've missed it when photography became a crime.

I'm just glad my pal, Kamran, wasnt with me. He's from Pakistan and
he's got a quick tongue. Can you say, "Taser?"

This isn't the first time this has happened to me, either. I think
the next time it happens I will politely ask the officer for a list of
things that I may and may not photograph. If he can't provide such a
list I shall politely ask him to go **** up a rope.

Anyway, here's a crappy pic from today's crappy
shoot.http://www.pbase.com/image/74796772

Does anybody alive really, really think the Constitution has any value
any more?

I gave up on that when NYC (where I was born & raised) took the guns away
from the honest people back in the 30's.........A clear violation of the 2nd
amendment. And when nobody seemed to care that Richard Nixon had to turn his
tapes over to the Supreme Court in the 70's, in clear violation of his 5th
amendment rights...... And then, in the 90's, they tried OJ Simpson twice
for the Nicole-Ron Goldman murders, that didn't help much either.....How
could he be not guilty of committing the murders, but still be liable for
damages caused by them? - Not only has the Constitution been trashed, but
all the logic exhibited by it's framers has been trashed along with
it........