Quote Originally Posted by CG View Post
I guess that if there's a facility that I really, really, want to photograph from a public road, I'll take the time consuming process of notifying state and local authorities etc and making sure I have the names I talked to so that whan a police car pulls up and starts saying no I can't do this or that, I have his boss's name and number and his boss's boss's name and number too, and a go ahead. But, by that time the light will have changed and...

It makes me feel creepy - knowing that now, nothing is functionally "legal" if someone in authority deems it "suspicious".
C
Yes, and that's called a Chilling Effect of your Freedom of Expression. The fact that you have to look over your shoulder or get gov't permission to exercise a right...

"This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs: when he first appears he is a protector" - Plato