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Dwight Stewart wrote:
"Jer" wrote: Well, what I need to do is to being mollified, go ahead and start a fight, force it into the courts, get a news hound interested so I can get my name in the lights, thereby providing but one more example of my constitutional rights under attack by someone that desperately needs to know about them All of them. Well, since I wasn't able to find any great number of cases (at least not described on the internet), it appears photographers being unfairly stopped or arrested by police is relatively rare. It does happen, as the links show. And, if one believes the anecdotal stories, it may be happening more often today. Interestingly, this appears to be a greater problem in the UK. While I didn't actually count while I was searching, it seems there were ten cases in the UK for every one I could find here in the USA. Stewart One of the big (and significant) differences between the U.K. and the U.S. is the U.S. has a constitution which explicitly defines what a citizen's "rights" are. To be completely correct, the word is "inalienable", which according to my pedant, means these rights are not transferrable to another, which means they cannot by usurped by law. Now, history has shown that the U.S. courts will refuse to uphold one's access to a "right" if one doesn't care enough to complain when a "right" has been violated. I complain because people have been put in the ground trying to protect these rights, and I, for one, will NOT allow the memory and respect of those before me to be dashed upon the uncaring rocks of todays' society. Now, this is not to say I don't think other people's issues aren't important - they certainly are - but they also need to realize there are constitutional issues that sway over their personal sensibilities as to whether someone is snapping a shutter at someone elses visible panty line. I'll also go on record right here and now by saying that I think anyone that abuses a child deserves a properly tied noose around their scrawny neck in the town square at sundown. The courts decide what is and isn't abuse - not me, not them, nobody but a judge and jury. I'm intimately familiar with what my rights are, I wish everyone was. I'll defend my rights from any assult regardless of who assaults them in three ways - hard, fast, and repeatedly - no exceptions. Anybody who wants to be buried in legalese and related paperwork for the next ten years is welcome to bring it on cuz I'm your guy, and I've got a ton of money. IOW, don't fxck with me cuz I'll fxck back in ways one cannot imagine. If one is concerned about political incorrectness when they meet me, then hang on to your visible panty line when you meet my attorney, cupcake, cuz the ride gets a bit rough tomorrow. Myself and my attorney get along rather well - we both firmly believe in a scortched earth policy where the defense of my rights are concerned. Yes, I'm the guy your attorney warned you about, and for all the right reasons. One other thing... I work best in the background, and I suspect a lot of photographers faced with these issues don't want a lot of publicity surrounding them when they're trying to work. I don't argue with that, that's their call. As a consequence, I suspect a lot of these issues don't get a lot of ink on them, but that doesn't mean they don't happen, it only means we're not aware of the event. -- jer email reply - I am not a 'ten' |
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Dwight Stewart wrote:
Well, since I wasn't able to find any great number of cases (at least not described on the internet), it appears photographers being unfairly stopped or arrested by police is relatively rare. It does happen, as the links show. And, if one believes the anecdotal stories, it may be happening more often today. Why would they be described on the internet as a matter of course? The incidents rarely result in arrest; even while they're harassing you, they know they have nothing on you. So the only way the story would "get out" is if the victim goes and tells people about it. -- Jeremy | |
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Dwight Stewart wrote:
Well, since I wasn't able to find any great number of cases (at least not described on the internet), it appears photographers being unfairly stopped or arrested by police is relatively rare. It does happen, as the links show. And, if one believes the anecdotal stories, it may be happening more often today. Why would they be described on the internet as a matter of course? The incidents rarely result in arrest; even while they're harassing you, they know they have nothing on you. So the only way the story would "get out" is if the victim goes and tells people about it. -- Jeremy | |
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On Thu, 07 Apr 2005 06:07:05 GMT, "Dwight Stewart"
wrote: "Jer" wrote: Well, what I need to do is to being mollified, go ahead and start a fight, force it into the courts, get a news hound interested so I can get my name in the lights, thereby providing but one more example of my constitutional rights under attack by someone that desperately needs to know about them All of them. Well, since I wasn't able to find any great number of cases (at least not described on the internet), it appears photographers being unfairly stopped or arrested by police is relatively rare. It does happen, as the links show. And, if one believes the anecdotal stories, it may be happening more often today. Interestingly, this appears to be a greater problem in the UK. While I didn't actually count while I was searching, it seems there were ten cases in the UK for every one I could find here in the USA. Stewart That's to be expected; the UK as an Official Secrets Act, which, AIUI, basically says, if we (the gov't) didn't give you the right to see it, listen to it, record it, or know about it, if you do any of those things, it's illegal. In the US, it's basically the opposite of that; it's illegal if they tell you it is. If they don't tell you it's illegal, it isn't. Basically. -- Bill Funk Change "g" to "a" |
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On Thu, 07 Apr 2005 06:07:05 GMT, "Dwight Stewart"
wrote: "Jer" wrote: Well, what I need to do is to being mollified, go ahead and start a fight, force it into the courts, get a news hound interested so I can get my name in the lights, thereby providing but one more example of my constitutional rights under attack by someone that desperately needs to know about them All of them. Well, since I wasn't able to find any great number of cases (at least not described on the internet), it appears photographers being unfairly stopped or arrested by police is relatively rare. It does happen, as the links show. And, if one believes the anecdotal stories, it may be happening more often today. Interestingly, this appears to be a greater problem in the UK. While I didn't actually count while I was searching, it seems there were ten cases in the UK for every one I could find here in the USA. Stewart That's to be expected; the UK as an Official Secrets Act, which, AIUI, basically says, if we (the gov't) didn't give you the right to see it, listen to it, record it, or know about it, if you do any of those things, it's illegal. In the US, it's basically the opposite of that; it's illegal if they tell you it is. If they don't tell you it's illegal, it isn't. Basically. -- Bill Funk Change "g" to "a" |
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Big Bill writes:
I'm clearly talking about those people who *insist* on their "rights", when it's not necessary, and only being done to make a point thjat doesn't need to be made. Yes, many people in public places are like that. Often they don't even have the rights they claim to be trying to defend. Hogwash. You know that's just not true, or you're not the photographer you think you are. Unfortunately, it _is_ more and more true. -- Transpose hotmail and mxsmanic in my e-mail address to reach me directly. |
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Big Bill writes:
I'm clearly talking about those people who *insist* on their "rights", when it's not necessary, and only being done to make a point thjat doesn't need to be made. Yes, many people in public places are like that. Often they don't even have the rights they claim to be trying to defend. Hogwash. You know that's just not true, or you're not the photographer you think you are. Unfortunately, it _is_ more and more true. -- Transpose hotmail and mxsmanic in my e-mail address to reach me directly. |
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Big Bill writes:
And what happened? Did the fears come true? Yes. They can't have, if the same fears are still being expressed, can they? Societies tend to oscillate between great freedom and zero freedom. -- Transpose hotmail and mxsmanic in my e-mail address to reach me directly. |
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Big Bill writes:
And what happened? Did the fears come true? Yes. They can't have, if the same fears are still being expressed, can they? Societies tend to oscillate between great freedom and zero freedom. -- Transpose hotmail and mxsmanic in my e-mail address to reach me directly. |
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In article ,
Big Bill wrote: That's to be expected; the UK as an Official Secrets Act, which, AIUI, basically says, if we (the gov't) didn't give you the right to see it, listen to it, record it, or know about it, if you do any of those things, it's illegal. I think you have that a bit backwards. The purpose of the OSA is to prevent people from *revealing* sensitive information. If someone in posession of an official secret was to reveal it to me, as a member of the public, it would be they who have broken the act, not me. |
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