Sign of the Times
May 27, 2013 20:24:48 #
A few weeks ago, I was photographing a visiting tall ship in the local port and I noticed a homeland security sign that warned against suspicious photographers. I was back in the port today so I took a second to take a photo of the sign.
Here it is.
Here it is.
May 27, 2013 21:11:12 #
Samuraiz wrote:
A few weeks ago, I was photographing a visiting tall ship in the local port and I noticed a homeland security sign that warned against suspicious photographers. I was back in the port today so I took a second to take a photo of the sign.
Here it is.
Here it is.
Here we used to be able to go to the lock and dam and go in the small open air observation tower as barges came thru the lock , alas no more ,is all locked down to a restricted area .
Really sucks what has happened so now we can't even go out and have a enjoyable day shooting photos of interesting stuff to share with our friends who may never get to see such sights .Whats next???? A background check and a open carry permit for photographers !!!!!!
May 27, 2013 21:13:58 #
Pretty soon the free American will not be able to do anything because the government will have something to say or do about it.
May 27, 2013 22:23:44 #
May 27, 2013 22:53:12 #
FredB
Loc: A little below the Mason-Dixon line.
Idiotic. It's amazing how much freedom we've lost protecting our freedom. Why bother? Big Brother tells us to report suspicious looking photographers and then some a**hole blows up a bunch of innocent people with a freakin' pressure cooker full of nails. If I didn't know that most feds are too freaking incompetent to tie their own shoes, I'd think it was all a grand conspiracy.
May 27, 2013 22:55:20 #
May 27, 2013 23:09:03 #
FredB wrote:
Idiotic. It's amazing how much freedom we've lost protecting our freedom. Why bother? Big Brother tells us to report suspicious looking photographers and then some a**hole blows up a bunch of innocent people with a freakin' pressure cooker full of nails. If I didn't know that most feds are too freaking incompetent to tie their own shoes, I'd think it was all a grand conspiracy.
Well this is sorta off track but still along the same lines.
Few months back I was at the city park and mini golf course taking photos of the waterfalls there as i wanted to attempt moving water shots and the attendent came out and told me to please put the camera away as there were children present .
Now I was patiently waiting until no one was present and going to be in the photo, so I calmly put my stuff away and left.
So much for being a public facility.
May 28, 2013 01:24:20 #
Hate to tell y'all this, but we are become big brother. Most of us actually were happy when they passed the patriot act after 9/11 because we've grown to lazy to take care of ourselves and want government to do so! Now we either must learn to live with it, or quit sending the same idiots back to the Congress. The people are the problem!
May 28, 2013 02:58:19 #
Samuraiz wrote:
A few weeks ago, I was photographing a visiting tall ship in the local port and I noticed a homeland security sign that warned against suspicious photographers. I was back in the port today so I took a second to take a photo of the sign.
Here it is.
Here it is.
Ah yes, the times, they always are a changing.
May 28, 2013 03:55:05 #
SharpShooter wrote:
Ah yes, the times, they always are a changing.
When I first started travelling to the US on business (way before 9/11) I was always struck by the simple patriotism coupled with unimpeachable personal freedoms enjoyed by ordinary people that I did not really recognise at home in England.
The UK is a mass of regulation ostensibly designed to keep one safe and look after us but in fact which only serves to restrict what you can do in public - all for the greater good of course.
I now see this more and more in America. It's all done very carefully of course. Just a teeny bit here (not important), a little bit there (not important), a trivial bit somewhere else (not important). Add them all up and you can see what you have lost may be significant.
You are not up with the UK on CCTV yet or local authorities prying into people's personal affairs, but I bet it will come. And over it all I hear, "If you've nothing to hide, you've nothing to fear" - the cry of despots and dictators throughout the ages.
It's all very sad.
May 28, 2013 06:10:28 #
Brings to mind the things we used to read about East Germany, the USSR, Cambodia, and China. Maybe its no wonder that Homeland Security and the Social Security Adm have bought (still buying???) all the ammunition they did. They don't want those of us who remember to have it.
May 28, 2013 06:21:38 #
Samuraiz wrote:
A few weeks ago, I was photographing a visiting tall ship in the local port and I noticed a homeland security sign that warned against suspicious photographers. I was back in the port today so I took a second to take a photo of the sign.
Here it is.
Here it is.
I've seen amusing signs on gov't buildings, but I was afraid to take pictures of them. Sign of the Times, indeed.
May 28, 2013 06:25:19 #
ziggykor wrote:
Hate to tell y'all this, but we are become big brother. Most of us actually were happy when they passed the patriot act after 9/11 because we've grown to lazy to take care of ourselves and want government to do so! Now we either must learn to live with it, or quit sending the same idiots back to the Congress. The people are the problem!
They must have formed a committee to come up with that name. How can anyone object to something called "The Patriot Act"? It would be like objecting to apple pie or baseball or the flag. Looking back in history, it's not unheard of having citizens report on each other.
May 28, 2013 06:28:07 #
The irony of this whole situation is that more pictures are taken with cell phones than with cameras.
Try banning cell phones in restricted areas or where children are present?
Yet to come...the Google Glasses and their spin offs.
Try banning cell phones in restricted areas or where children are present?
Yet to come...the Google Glasses and their spin offs.
May 28, 2013 06:30:34 #
jba1 wrote:
Yet to come...the Google Glasses and their spin offs.
Imagine driving a car with them on, browsing the net and reading email.
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