I would be tempted to state my rights and ask which law I was violating. As they arrested me, I would threaten them with a suit for false arrest. And of course I would be very sorry afterwards because of all the trouble I was put through. I guess in these matters discretion is the better part of valor, but it would be nice if someone actually stood up for his rights., just to remind the idiots that are running things that we are still supposed to have those rights.
The most annoying aspect of all this is that there is no evidence whatsoever that preventing people from taking pictures of federal buildings from a public location is at all helpful in preventing terrorism. A terrorist casing such a facility could either use a small hidden camera or just observe and remember. Presumably the important things for the terrorist to find out would be traffic flow and how the building was used over time, not architectural details which are in plain sight. It makes as much sense to arrest people for looking at a building as for photographing it.
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