Are photoghraphers really a threat?

[Christopher Walrath]

I'm not a threat. Unless you're between me and my chili cheese dog.

[gr82bart]

The war on photography (not to mention diplomacy and civility) continues ... this article, if true, angers me the more I think about it.

http://www.episcopalcafe.com/daily/w..._diplomacy.php

Regards, Art.

[gr82bart]

The madness continues ... I'm waiting for the little red book to be passed out to each citizen to turn in their neighbours who have photographic projects.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/20/ar...EA&oref=slogin

Regards, Art.

[gr82bart]

Even the Aussies have adopted the madness ...

http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/s...87-952,00.html

Regards, Art.

[gr82bart]

Hmm ... when the economy is this bad, do we really want to harass tourists by equating all of them to terrorists?

http://www.memphisflyer.com/memphis/...id=oid%3A41348

Regards, Art.

[walter23]

Since 9/11, there has been an increasing war on photography. Photographers have been harrassed, questioned, detained, arrested or worse, and declared to be unwelcome. We've been repeatedly told to watch out for photographers, especially suspicious ones. Clearly any terrorist is going to first photograph his target, so vigilance is required.

Sometimes I wonder if this isn't a matter of the FBI and CIA and such powers confusing photographers with terrorists as much as willful and diabolical preludes to the stifling of photojournalism and the press. A test run, so to speak, for someone's fascist plans. Just the paranoiac in the corner of my mind speaking here, but it makes some amount of sense. Look at how photographers have been treated by police departments lately, for example, and imagine a hypothetical scenario whereby police are mistreating some individual and the press is trying to photograph it.

[gr82bart]

Well, it's official according to the US Coast Guard, we're all to be reported for suspicious activity ... the little red book on the net?

http://www.uscg.mil/d5/sector/delawa...s_Activity.htm

Regards, Art.

[gr82bart]

Originally Posted by walter23

Look at how photographers have been treated by police departments lately, for example, and imagine a hypothetical scenario whereby police are mistreating some individual and the press is trying to photograph it.

Maybe you aren't paranoid after all. One photographer fights back ...

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/htm...rapher09m.html

Regards, Art.

[gr82bart]

Well, now this is just comedy if true ... http://www.sportsshooter.com/news/1833

Regards, Art.

[gr82bart]

What can I say? http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...1.html?sub=new

Regards, Art.