delkaetre_ni ([info]delkaetre_ni) wrote,
@ 2008-03-06 16:10:00
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Calling all photographers...
... and blokes with cameras, and anyone that has a camera lying about, and anyone who might be persuaded to pick up a camera at some point.
You are now classed as terrorists, according to the Met!

If someone with a camera looks odd or seems to be doing odd things (and let's face it, photographers fit both of these most of the time), then they should be reported to the police as possible terrorists. It is now my desire to get a camera of my own and take lots of pictures of industrial complexes, train stations, police stations, passport offices, hospitals, airports, CCTV cameras, important landmarks with large crowds of people at them, etc.
Oh, by the way... the other two posters on the Met's site? The one about strange activity in a house near you and the one about having multiple phones? Yes, that *does* mean that students, night shift workers, people with a work phone and a general phone, people who need a spare phone in case their SIM dies, people who like to go for late night strolls or have to take the dog out at unreasonable hours, people with insomnia, tech junkies and so on are also all terrorists.
Welcome, my dear friends, to the future. We're watching you.
I had more stuff to rant about, but the camera thing is just so hilarious-yet-faintly-worrying that I had to put it all aside in favour of the camera thing.



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[info]strawberryfrog
2008-03-06 04:50 pm UTC (link)
BoingBoing had some great parodies of that photography nonsense up yesterday. The link is here

Edited at 2008-03-06 11:38 pm UTC

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[info]_pyromancer_
2008-03-06 07:08 pm UTC (link)
Welcome to Police State UK.

The really scary thing isn't the poster itself, but rather the mindset of the people who thought it up and approved it. The fact that it exists proves that there are senior figures in the Met who genuinely believe that this kind of "spy on all your neighbours" business is actually a correct and proportionate way to go about things.

And that's really scary.

Never mind sleepwalking into a surveilance society, we are rapidly sleepwalking into a totalitarian state.

There's also the "let trained officers deal with it" thing. Presumably the same trained officers who ordered an armed patrol to shoot a Brazilian electrician several times in the head for the crime of being on a tube train. Or the pair of clowns-in-police-uniform who told me a complete pack of lies and stopped a mud photo shoot on the Humber half-way through, claiming that it was illegal to be there and that a £5000+ coastguard call out had been caused, all of which turned out to be, when I wrote to their force about it, entirely false.

Much as I love this country, I really do fear for the future.

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[info]_pyromancer_
2008-03-06 07:13 pm UTC (link)
Actually the house one is even scarier.

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[info]arlandria83
2008-03-06 08:22 pm UTC (link)
Oh Lord - My friend Lee is doomed!
Nobody acts weirder than him!!

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[info]shadow_red_eyes
2008-03-06 08:47 pm UTC (link)
And i second the motion....He's a real nut job.
But i'm currently taking a camera course and my currant home work is to take photos of buildings.....Joy good thing i have a magazine article that says what my rights are as a photographer. Why is it us with a camera that are getting penalized all the time? you can't take pics of your kids of friends kids in the park because your labeled as a 'passable' pedo and trust me I've gotten more then my fair share of nasty looks for taking photos of matches playing in the park, i got a few choice ones the other day taking pics of my brother. and now this? Well its not gonna stop me taking photos and if they arrest me for it, it is against the law for them destroy any of my images. I have a 3 page article here on my rights seems i best photo copy it and put it in my camera bag.
Oh and just so you know it is illegal to take photos of certain buildings, as i said i have a list if you like i can get the list for you.

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[info]delkaetre_ni
2008-03-07 02:55 pm UTC (link)
If you could provide a link to that article or something, that'd be great. I have a few photographer friends and contacts, and I don't want them getting in trouble by accident.
All trouble should be deliberate.

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