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Keep up the fight!

Good work Carlos!

I sincerely doubt you will ever hear anything from them, but if you do, let us know, okay?

Ashevillein,

I was unable to find a specific e-mail address for Mr. Sanders, so I sent this post with an explanation to Wackenhut’s general inquiry e-mail that is on their website.

I will post any response I get.

mr. carlos

they have jobs just like you sir and are following their instructions from management, which is something you do to keep your job. Im sure if this was a police officer instructing you to do this you would keep your fat mouth shut and never say a word about it. get a life sir

You should really take it up with Metro. They are the ones giving improper work instructions to their contractors.

To disagree with Mr. MacDonald, I know of cases where photographers have insisted on their rights with not only security guards, but police officers and even TSA and Homeland Security agents. You obviously didn’t even read this gentleman’s blog — he was arrested by Miami PD under similar circumstances and is currently fighting it out where these cases should be fought — IN COURT, not in the street.

To my fellow guards out there, be polite and respectful. Do your job, document as necessary. Take out your camera and snap a few photos back. Call for a supervisor and/or police if needed.

Do NOT let a muck-raker get your goat. They are occasionally annoying but as essential to liberty as the American flag, the right to assemble and the right to vote.

Good job, Carlos! I had no idea that rally had been going on. Thanks for documenting it.

I have to wonder what with all the surreptitious ways of capturing images/audio today, why guards would even bother a photographer who whips out a camera.

I spent a good amount of my time is the Air Force providing Security for or nations’ ICBM (nuclear missiles). And I can guarantee you, that if you were to start snapping your little photos of our launch sites or any other secured facility, YOU will be stopped/on the ground before you can ask “but why?”. You are NOT allowed to take pictures of certain things, even from public roads/structures.

response to – USAF Security Forces

You need to learn the actual law, not what your ballistical buddies tell you.

those facilities have to be clearly posted in signs in order for it to be protected against photography, thats the actual law.

I’m sure Carlos would see the sign and not shoot the shot.

I think if I was acosted by a security guard on public property I would place him under citizens arrest, meaning we would just wait there for the cop to come by who would do nothing anyway except arrest the guard for false arrest.

Also, – secured facility means nothing , if its visible from the sidewalk and there are no signs posted I can shoot it.

this never comes up because I highly doubt a nuclear testing facility is within view from a sidewalk. !!

And I’m sure that if there had been a legitimate reason for not being allowed to take photographs and he had been told nicely, I’m sure that he would stop nicely. Unfortunately these days, such courtesy is hard to come by.

I was searching for a contact information on how can I complain to the Wackenhut Corp. and I found this page which clear prove to me that most of the wackenhut security guards think that they are allow to mistreat others just because they think they are doing the right thing or protecting their jobs. This morning At 6am I found my self in a very shockin and envaresing position when a wackenhut security guard from the Dadeland North station approched me with a really nasty attitude and stared screaming at me and got really closed to my face and even the people that were around said that the only thing left for this security guard to do was just hit me but that it seems like he had the intentions to do so but he didn’t. When he was done screaming at me and disrespecting me in manny ways he told me just to go, to “keep going” and when i ask for his name he sarcasticly said ” you think thats going to do something” I was so upset by the disrespecfull way i was treated I was crying , my head was heading and it was gueting hard for me to breath but i catch the train to continue on my way to work but a few minutes later my dad calls my cell phone and tells me to come back to the same station that he was going to be there with the cops. I got back and the police officers made a report and the security guard told them he never screamed. but the cops told me to file another complain to wackenhut office. I’m glad i did called the police because i’m preety sure i’ve not been the first person he mistreat and thought he would get away with it. And as I read Carlos blog it makes me happy that i’m not the only person that fight for our rights. And I agree with Scott to find courtesy now a days in any place is really hard and then they are the same people that complaints that they get the same treatment from others also.

Mr. MacDonald, did you read any of the other post’s at all? The Police arent legally allowed to tell you to stop either!
it’s called the first amendment.
In fact the police have to take basic law classes in any Police Academy in America.’They should know better than the security guard as far as the First Amendment goes.

I have worked for the Wackenhut corporation in the past, and did notice a certain level of discontent, however, it would also be wise to keep in mind that all places have flaws, from back-alley, under-the-counter jobs, to a functioning member of the US senate. No one place is perfect, or free of criticism worthy events. I do, however agree, that all security and law enforcement officers, reguardless of company association, (or rank, for that matter) should be aware of every citizens rights, and suggest you start a petition to enforce such awareness. Still, there will always be a select few, especially those involved in policing the actions of others that CAN and WILL abuse the power given to them often times by the very citizens they choose to harrass.

Keep in mind that security guards are employees of the installations they are instructed to guard, just as much as they are part of the corperation they represent; that the flaw may not be within the hired corperation itself, rather the company that hired them, from whom the, perhaps misconstrued, orders orriginate.

Take care in choosing your target, before pointing the finger, if you truely hope to change things for the better.

-Best of Luck-

Carlos,

May I suggest you edit a little tighter? Keep your 1st photo (maybe crop out the platform and roof?), 2nd photo, and 6th photo. You’re only as strong as your weakest frame. Good luck and good shooting.

these are ball-bustin’ union-jerkers from way back. they use quasi-ties to ex spooks and feds to bully anyone, including ex-employees, at the behest of slime-ball corporations who don’t like dirt on their fingers. have heard numerous unattractive stories about long-term loyal guards caught in career-terminating because they inadvertently stumble on improprieties, or question outright what they perceive to be something “not-quite-right”. remember, at WACKENHUT, the spooks never sleep. they will toss-and-load your work files with garbage, or terminate for no apparent reason at all( THINK J. EDGAR HOOVER!).it was a regrettable choice i made working for them for thirteen years in MIAMI….can i have my years and reputation back,PLEASE!

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USAF Security Forces #7 “You are NOT allowed to take pictures of certain things, even from public roads/structures.”

Google Earth Street View did at 47.257541, -111.277181, south of Great Falls MT. But I wouldn’t recommend climbing fences when you see signs saying “Use of deadly dorce duthorized” http://www.flickr.com/photos/williscreek/2680627918/in/photostream/

Typo: dorce = force.

IT WAS INEVITABLE THE CORPORATE ARROGANCE OF THE WACKENHUT CORPORATION WOULD BE CHALLENGED-NO MATTER WHICH AMALGAMATED MONIKER SKIRTS THEY HIDE THE NAME BEHIND. SANDERS SAW “THE GHOST OF JACOB MARLEY”,FOR SURE. THE ECONOMY SQUEEZE, THE INTERNET FACTS MADE PUBLIC-AND OF COURSE-THE FRUITS OF POISON CORRUPTION–ALL MAKE THE CASTLE TILT!the company used spooks-illegally-to jam my butt-and anything I do —–pales into insignificance compared to the civil-rights violations they have consistently engaged in over the years!ONE CEO’S TOKEN JUMP-OFF IS NOT WHAT WE SEEK-WE SEEK A PURGE AND ORDERLY SCRAP RENDERING OF THE ENTIRE CORPORATE STRUCTURE-AND IT WILL BE DONE-MAKE ABSOLUTELY NO MISTAKE ABOUT IT!

annonymous of 2008-hey-guy-you don’t have the years, the wisdom, or the agenda steam to push change in the industry! I can wager a bet you damned-sure aren’t employed by WACKENHUT by this date in 2010-maybe the NAZIS came a-knockin’ on your door already-ehhh! THESE FOLKS ARE VILE-AND YOU ARE A BILE-PRODUCING APOLOGIST FOR MANAGEMENT! There is nosaving grace working for these people-and you know better then to perpetrate such a position. I AM THE AUTHORITY WHO WAS INSIDE-THE SPY-THE GUY THEY FEAR MOST. I SAY “GIVE THEM THE BURN NOTICE”! KNOWING THAT THEY ENGAGE IN ABSOLUTE SWILL AND CORRUPTION, AND WILL NEVER CHANGE-AND NEVER RESPECT YOU-SHOULD SAY IT ALL! UNLESS YOU ARE AN ABSOLUTE MASOCHIST, DO NOT APOLOGIZE TO A RAPIST ORGANIZATION. GAWWWS-ALMIGHTY-STUPIDITY ABOUNDS!