Photographers becoming a security concern.

[adrianspeeder]

QUOTE: Originally posted by BNSF railfan.

QUOTE: Originally posted by adrianspeeder

Yeah, so?

Adrianspeeder

Railfan Photographing will be "NO MORE"!
No more Railroad Pictures on the Internet.
We are all prisoners in our country because of our POWER HUNGRY GOVERNMENT!!!!!!!!!!

Again I post:

Yeah, so?

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by BNSF railfan.

QUOTE: Originally posted by adrianspeeder

Yeah, so?

Adrianspeeder

Railfan Photographing will be "NO MORE"!
No more Railroad Pictures on the Internet.
We are all prisoners in our country because of our POWER HUNGRY GOVERNMENT!!!!!!!!!!

BNSF Railfan:
1. Read miniwyo's post. I couldn't have said it better unless I was a 1st Amendment Lawyer!!!!! [^]
2. Our Government is a reflection of the people in this country, just look around and see how greedy & power hungery we all are!!! [}:)] [}:)] [}:)]

[mudchicken]

If we get any more knotheads like the one UniHead (of ILK) encountered in Houston, I hope they get fined and thrown in the clink. I continue to see boneheads (railfans and surveyors) try similar stunts here and I am not the least bit bashfull about telling them how stupid they really are.

[miniwyo]

It s anyone right to take a picture of anywhere or anything, as log as they are on public property. It falls under the first amendment in the freedom of the press clause. Therefore, I will take a picture of basically anything I please from public property, or on private property with written permission .

[Anonymous]

Sensitive? Hah. How about that Ammonium Nitrate Loader in sometown West some state in several of my MR books. I deliberately left out precise info. But if a terror group read the same books or mags we do then they already know about it.

The only really sensitive installations are Missile Bases and associated security. And other bases vital to National Defense.

There are many buildings in the civilian world that can be identifiable. For example there is a Telephone exchange in one town of maryland that would not be too hard to truckbomb out of comission. That one exchange controls a great deal of traffic.

Sensitive. Hanh. There are important areas we take care to avoid and overly sensitive people should be careful about calling authoritys down on those they dont like the looks of.

[locomutt]

Well in that case,I guess I'd better be expecting a knock on the door
like Larry is. Although most of mine aren't on the "Coffee Table".

And that is a very good analogy for the times.

(psssstt,I almost forgot,I've got some sensitive "post cards"over here,
what city do you need them for ?)

[tree68]

"News" Item: Tourist arrested for purchasing postcards of "sensitive" buildings and structures during vacation in [insert name of city]. Police said that the tourists choice of postcards, all of well known structures within the city, aroused the attention of the clerk at the tourist trap where the postcards were being purchased. The clerk then called police, voicing her concern that the 'tourist' might be gathering data for a possible terrorist attack.

QUOTE: Originally posted by BNSF railfan.
Railfan Photographing will be "NO MORE"!
No more Railroad Pictures on the Internet.
We are all prisoners in our country because of our POWER HUNGRY GOVERNMENT!!!!!!!!!!

I expect a knock at the door any day now as they come to confiscate my collection of "coffee table" railroad and fire department books...

Buffalo Springfield had it right:
"Paranoia strikes deep,
Into your life it will creep."

[grandeman]

QUOTE: Originally posted by lincoln5390

I wonder what the security man would do if he saw a railfan set up a stool and easel and start painting a picture of a railroad yard or locomotive on his canvas.

Nothing if he was wearing a turban... That would be un PC.

[Anonymous]

I wonder what the security man would do if he saw a railfan set up a stool and easel and start painting a picture of a railroad yard or locomotive on his canvas.

[grandeman]

I hopr the two guys in the story that were harrassed and got $2500 each in settlement buy new photography gear and hit it with a vengence... [:D]

[Anonymous]

there was a page long article in time magazine about this about a year back....

[grandeman]

Typical knee jerk over reaction by "the authorities".

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by adrianspeeder

Yeah, so?

Adrianspeeder

Railfan Photographing will be "NO MORE"!
No more Railroad Pictures on the Internet.
We are all prisoners in our country because of our POWER HUNGRY GOVERNMENT!!!!!!!!!!

[adrianspeeder]

Yeah, so?

Adrianspeeder

[Anonymous]

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyid=4705698
There is the correct link.