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Can’t help but feel that you’ve failed in your quest

I’m so wanting to go take photos of Security Cameras, Crash Barriers, ect

How, exactly, do they define “inappropriate”.

Sounds to me like one of those rubber-band stretchable-meaning words that are used to make laws that no one – including the trial judge – can possibly know has been broken until after they’ve been convicted of breaking it.

Ignoring the implications on photography, this is just piss poor guidelines for catching a terrorist. Couldn’t a terrorist casually take video and review the video for details or use google street view or use the thousands of images that already exist online of….everything. I’d be curious to see how many terrorists have been caught because of these guidelines.

JR:

You can never really “win” in a struggle like this. The price of liberty if eternal vigilance. There will always be setbacks but we have to keep up the pressure.
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Bob:

Of course they could, which is why guidelines like this are so damn stupid. Think of how many we pay people in the government to “protect” us with this level of brilliance.

All of this information is readily available online, where a terrorist could access it without exposing themselves. The cry of “terrorism” is the latest mantra in the government’s attempt to grab power. As always, there is a looming threat. When it’s not terrorism, it will be something else.
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I, for one, am relieved that all terrorists are brainless idiots who draw great attention to themselves by photographing their intended targets in broad daylight and make no effort to conceal their actions.

I am deeply concerned that the authorities NEVER manage to stop and detain any of these terrorists.

Maybe it’s just a communications problem and the memos that started all this concern were about ‘tourists’ and not ‘terrorists.’

I think the Home Land Security Department misspell. The title should be Tourist Awareness Guide

Or as Schneir put it so well in If you see something, Say something -

“And, as I’ve written previously, ‘if you ask amateurs to act as front-line security personnel, you shouldn’t be surprised when you get amateur security.’ People don’t need to be reminded to call the police; the slogan is nothing more than an invitation to report people who are different.”
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SchnEier, dammit.
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I feel so safe knowing “Oye Mami-Wassup Dawg” Miami Dade Homeland Security Deparment Cops are Protecting us from you Terrorists.
I thank God and Saint G.W. Bush for having brave and intellectual patriots like law enforcement officials protecting us from domestic threats like you photographers.

More opportunities for cell phone heroes. You know the ones, they are always dialing 911 at anything that looks out of place. They are the real problem with this country. TV dramas are much to blame, as people don’t realize they are fiction.

I feel like holding up a mirror to a surveillance camera and calling in the owner of the surveillance camera.

Binoculars are standard issue tourist gear. And it’s impossible to tell what someone is taking a picture of. Wherever there is something, there is something behind that, or in front of that, or that it is made out of. It’s amazing the attention paid to photographers when the real threat comes from pan flute bands.

Oh dear. My last project of taking close up pictures of security cameras might look a tad bad in this light.

What if I see someone sitting on the grass sketching diagrams of crash barriers, security cameras and entrances? Should I be dialing 911?

An undercover CIA agent within a terrorist cell is marked as a terrorist suspect by the FBI in Overture Films’ upcoming thriller Traitor. Security Surveillance Wholesale

I: architecture student: I sketch, photograph, map, etc. WOW.

Terrorist Funding Suspect ( 04) mail with errorist Funding Suspect as the subject line. Surveillance Cameras Wholesale

Haha What makes me laugh at this kind of crap.
1. Of course a terrorist is going to be obvious and pull a GREAT BIG Canon 1ds MkIV right out and take macro shots of video surveillance cameras. Hahaa.
2. People are getting warned not to take pics of buildings, when you can go on Google earth and get street shots, sky shots, and even plan your getaway path. LOLOLOL.
3. The government will use ‘anything at all’ to hide corruption, weirdness or anything it wants to hide. If someone in government is having sex on government time, and you get a pic of it, you probably can be arrested for it as a terrorist..Or if you get a pic of a government worker with their hand in the till.
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4. If you are taking pics of fall colors in a public park, with no one around, you may be stopped and questioned by the police. I was…and my wife who was with me. Hahahaa.
5. Home of the brave – land of the free.
6. What a bunch of…….

Hi Maria
If you see someone sketching anywhere call 911 or better yet call Homeland Security….especially in sensitive areas like Washington DC. I know I will…;-)
People who study ants could be studying how to undermine the” foundations” of democracy.
Or people who put tracking transmitters on bears could be planning how to control them to attack our government in mass. Oh my. Lets all go back to Salem. Who is the witch with that camera? Hahahaha. Be careful studying those surveillance cams…they’re everywhere. I read there is hardly a place in Chicago that’s not being seen by them…yet if we take a pic…hahaa.
good luck…I’m thinking of making a movie when I get rich enough to buy the stuff, and call it “Home of the Free Paranoid” but of course I’d probably be detained, called a Russian spy and sent Moscow to have a forced sex change, and star in a video shoot. I’d better quit now.

Hi Maria
I mean my comments in support of your post(a good one)

Can we be arrested for having “Photographic Memory”?

#6: the japs? or the reds? or nuclear war? or ho chi minh? Kim Jong Il? Saddam Hussein? People who hate our freedoms?

How about going back to pre 1860s… “those that want to eliminate state’s rights”?

There goes my security camera fetish blog.