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I'm very sorry, but the solution is to tell the police and everyone else involved to leave you alone. The railroads have every right to keep any non-employee off their property. I support this, and do not trespass. They nor the federal government have no right whatsoever to say anything to anyone about photographing or watching their operations from public property. The idea that merely photographing a train is somehow dangerous to national security is so pathetic it would be laughable if weren't so frightening. I was watching the Today Show on NBC the other morning. Katie Couric had on retired USAF General Barry McAffery. They had a big map of the Iraq area. General McAffery proceeded to tell Katie on live national TV all about where our troops, ships, and planes are, how many, where they were most likely to attack Iraq if there is a war, when the war might start, what tactics they would most likely use, what sorts of weapons they have, etc. He pointed it all out on the map. And WE'RE a threat to national security taking pictures of trains from public property? Come on. We are kidding, right??? If terrorists want to blow trains up, there are a million places to watch them first from well out of view of any security agency, and not from lineside with a camera. Shall we chase people out of malls, churches, and restaurants too? Arrest the photographers at the ballparks this summer? This is not about national security. This is about an overzealous, ignorant federal agency sticking its nose where it doesn't belong. It is about people in the railroad industry who for whatever reason have never liked the railfan community using post 9-11 jitters to pay the fan community out. If I am asked to move from public property I will politely refuse, and politely and unresistingly accept being arrested. Then I will produce the Honorable Discharge from the US Navy I have including service in the last Gulf war. Then I will retain an attorney and sue the crap put of the US Government and any other agency involved in my false arrest and the violation of my rights under the US Constitution, rights for ALL Americans I swore to protect and fought to defend. Do not allow yourselves to be intimidated. What is happening is illegal, immoral, and unconstitutional, and as loyal American citizens we have a moral duty not to allow the Constitution to be subverted. Paul W. Burgess Homewood, IL
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