"Camera license"

[cyrus]

Do YOU have a camera license (http://www.boingboing.net/2008/04/17/uk-man-hassled-by-co.html)? What with all them thar "terrorist photographers (http://www.boingboing.net/2008/04/23/nypd-cop-videoing-me.html)" running around...

Big Brother (http://www.boingboing.net/2008/04/21/person-info-from-uk.html), on the other hand, doesn't feel he needs any sort of license.

[Mark Woods]

No offense. But this FEAR propaganda is such bull shit. Anyone who thinks that this USA administration has told the truth, has sipped the Kool Aid. There is no terrorist group that is coming to America. There is no Bin Laden that is coming here. There were no Wepons of Mass Destruction in Iraq. Karl Rove and George Orwell are the winners. Democracy is lost.

A Camera License, get real.

[IanMazursky]

Stupidity seems contagious. One of my friends is forever reminding me that "common sense isn't necessarily common".
I wonder what license i would need for my 12x20? Something signed by the president or pm?

[walter23]

terrorist photographers (http://www.boingboing.net/2008/04/23/nypd-cop-videoing-me.html)"

Haha, that guy was kind of an asshole, but point well made. I'll bet he wouldn't have been such a brave guy if the cop was some fit muscled dude though.

The intervening woman was pretty funny: "because of the terrorism".

Cops work for us, and that's what people forget. I think this was a pretty trite example (compared to something like Rodney King), but video-recording the cops is just one tool citizens have to make sure the police behave, and document when they don't.

[Brian Ellis]

Moderators - Please move this to The Lounge where it should have been posted in the first place. It and the links provided have nothing whatsoever to do with Location and Travel.

[cyrus]

Moderators - Please move this to The Lounge where it should have been posted in the first place. It and the links provided have nothing whatsoever to do with Location and Travel.

HA! Wait until they ask for your "camera license" when you're visiting the UK.

[BennehBoy]

I was recently accosted by PCSO's in England (linked in the comments on that boing boing article above) - here's my blog post about it (if you are interested)... http://benneh.net/blog/index.php/2008/03/18/account-for-presence/

[cyrus]

I was recently accosted by PCSO's in England (linked in the comments on that boing boing article above) - here's my blog post about it (if you are interested)... http://benneh.net/blog/index.php/2008/03/18/account-for-presence/

Ah yes. Gray Hair. Lovely.

Sometimes I wish I could get a refund for my law degree.