Photographing Dams

[Tim May]

On Tuesday, October 2, 2001, at 06:04 PM, Steve Furlong wrote:

> Tim May wrote:
>
>> I know that I if I am ever stopped for photographing a dam or a bridge
>> I hope I'll have the courage to tell the cop to fuck off.  If arrested
>> on such a bogus charge, things will escalate dramatically and I would
>> be forced to Plan B.
>
> Strong suggestion: don't phrase it quite that way. Don't give the
> jack-booted thug any real grounds for arrest, or even "detention".

Fuck that.


> It might be even worse for you, as a Californian, than for most
> Americans. Isn't California one of the states which requires all
> citizens to "cooperate" with police? With cooperation presumably defined
> as "whatever the pig wants you to do".

No. You really have been reading too many of the "Happy Fun Court is Not 
Amused" arguments and not enough about probable cause, the Fourth 
Amendment, the Fifth Amendment, and the C. in general. There certain is 
no "requirement to cooperate."

Where to do otherwise intelligent people pick up these bizarre ideas?


--Tim May