Re: Photographer Arrested For Taking Pictures Of Vice President'S Hotel
jet wrote:
At 20:48 -0500 2002/12/07, Myers W. Carpenter wrote:
http://www.2600.com/news/display/display.shtml?id=1441
PHOTOGRAPHER ARRESTED FOR TAKING PICTURES OF VICE PRESIDENT'S HOTEL Posted 5 Dec 2002 06:03:48 UTC
One major issue is these days, the laws have become so incredibly complicated that the average citizen isn't confident in their knowledge of the law, let alone most that enforce it. They know that the average citizen is going to want to 'do the right thing' and comply with any requests, whether or not any laws were broken. And let's face it, even if you or I know our rights to the letter it doesn't make a bit of difference until after the fact in a courtoom. Police generally won't sit and debate with you about it on the spot.
At 03:07 PM 12/08/2002 -0500, Mark Renouf wrote:
jet wrote:
At 20:48 -0500 2002/12/07, Myers W. Carpenter wrote:
http://www.2600.com/news/display/display.shtml?id=1441
PHOTOGRAPHER ARRESTED FOR TAKING PICTURES OF VICE PRESIDENT'S HOTEL Posted 5 Dec 2002 06:03:48 UTC
One major issue is these days, the laws have become so incredibly complicated that the average citizen isn't confident in their knowledge of the law, let alone most that enforce it.
There are a couple of laws that are universal. One of them is "Don't Annoy The Cops". While occasionally you can violate this by accident, because there's some thing the cops are doing that you didn't expect, or because their paranoia or grouchiness levels have recently increased, but usually you know when you're going to violate it. That doesn't mean that you shouldn't do it, just that you shouldn't be surprised.
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