Finally a use for a Pink Floyd song:
Paranoid Eyes
button your lip don't let the shield slip
take a fresh grip on your bullet proof mask
and if they try to break down your disguise with their questions
you can hide hide hide
behind paranoid eyes you put on your brave face and slip over the road for a jar
fixing your grin as you casually lean on the bar
laughing too loud at the rest of the world
with the boys in the crowd
you hide hide hide
behind petrified eyes
you believed in their stories of fame fortune and glory
now you're lost in a haze of alchohol soft middle age
the pie in the sky turned out to be miles too high
and you hide hide hide
behind brown and mild eyes
Now to upset things some more Jacqui Smith is absolutely correct in her comments.
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‘Also, as you will be aware, there is no presumption of privacy for individuals in a public place.’
Appears to be a comment about the police taking photos of people taking photos which is perfectly legal.
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‘Decisions may be made locally to restrict or monitor photography in reasonable circumstances. That is an operational decision for the officers involved based on the individual circumstances of each situation.
Its just another of those things that authorities world wide have the ability to do should the need require it, these laws have been in effect for god knows how long (certainly since WW1) and for the most part are not enacted or enforced.
3) ‘It is for the local Chief Constable, in the case of your letter the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Force, to decide how his or her Officers and employees should best balance the rights to freedom of the press, freedom of expression and the need for public protection.’
Long may it remain so.What you seem to have over looked here in an effort to dig up a conspiracy is that this is a response to a letter about the police taking photos of people taking photos in public places and stating that there is no presumption of privacy in public places ie they are entitled to do it.
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I note that the U.S. Forestry Service (the people who patrol, amongst other things, our national monuments) have been harassing people for taking pictures. Screw ‘em, the jumped-up little gauleiters.]
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Yep and the second one of these national monuments is destroyed or damaged you will be here blaming the media, liberals, communists and "anti-gun" campaigners for the failings of society.
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Yeah, it’s inconvenient for government. So is the prospect of an armed populace. But the thought of millions of eyes and ears standing watch with their Nikon Coolpix cameras over our government and their actions is as important to our liberty as the thought of millions of firearms lying in readiness in our closets.
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An no post is complete without a mandatory gun sales pitch no matter how unrelated it is to the topic at hand.