Big Bother
“The relationship between photographers and police could worsen next
month when new laws are introduced that allow for the arrest – and
imprisonment – of anyone who takes pictures of officers ‘likely to be
useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism’.”
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The National Union of Journalists (NUJ) has teamed up with Mark Thomas (writer, broadcaster, comic and political activist), Chris Atkins (BAFTA nominated director and writer of the feature film documentary Taking Liberties), The British Journal of Photography and others for a “media event” outside New Scotland Yard on Monday 16 February 2009. The plan is simple, turn up with your camera and exercise your democratic right to take a photograph in a public place.
16 February 2009
11:00 – 12:00
New Scotland Yard
Broadway
London SW1H OBG
Note: This is NOT a Protest. It is just photography.
Words not weapons, but that is a great place to put your watermark!
I didn’t do anything! That’s my sideline in munitions and firearms manufacture..
So stupid, laws like this are totally open to interpretation and manipulation. They basically justify the arrest of any photographer and, no matter what the judge down the line thinks, the damage has been done, police can use this to do whatever they want on the scene. That seems to be its sole purpose.
‘likely to be
useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism’.”
I mean, how moronic is that?!?!?!?