On Tue, 2 Oct 2001 mmotyka@lsil.com wrote:

Aren't there cases of persons having had their film confiscated for photographing federal installations from public rights of way or is that the stuff of urban/net legends? Is does sound hokey to me.

Believe it. Happened to me in 1989 at Wright Pat AFB in Ohio. Although, to be perfectly candid, I am not *certain* that I was on a public street at that point - I was however, outside the guard gate. -- Yours, J.A. Terranson sysadmin@mfn.org If Governments really want us to behave like civilized human beings, they should give serious consideration towards setting a better example: Ruling by force, rather than consensus; the unrestrained application of unjust laws (which the victim-populations were never allowed input on in the first place); the State policy of justice only for the rich and elected; the intentional abuse and occassionally destruction of entire populations merely to distract an already apathetic and numb electorate... This type of demogoguery must surely wipe out the fascist United States as surely as it wiped out the fascist Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The views expressed here are mine, and NOT those of my employers, associates, or others. Besides, if it *were* the opinion of all of those people, I doubt there would be a problem to bitch about in the first place... --------------------------------------------------------------------