Comments on: Photographs like this may soon become illegal! http://fotdmike.com/2008/11/05/photographs-like-this-may-soon-become-illegal/ A clueless and confused enthusiast's photographic exploits and thoughts Sat, 21 Jan 2012 10:27:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: forkboy http://fotdmike.com/2008/11/05/photographs-like-this-may-soon-become-illegal/#comment-922 Thu, 06 Nov 2008 16:22:11 +0000 http://fotdmike.wordpress.com/?p=517#comment-922 And that pleases me to no end.

]]> By: fotdmike http://fotdmike.com/2008/11/05/photographs-like-this-may-soon-become-illegal/#comment-921 Thu, 06 Nov 2008 03:58:53 +0000 http://fotdmike.wordpress.com/?p=517#comment-921 Maggie: Its actually a shot from 2006 which I took at the “Sack Parliament” demo in London, and its already been picked up by a coupla websites and (bizarrely) by an “alternative” rock group for an album cover.
And you’re right, there’s definitely something adrift when the cops make free with taking photos of legitimate protesters (who, be it noted, for the most part haven’t committed any criminal act and have no intention of doing so) yet seek to curtail the rights of the public to “return the compliment” as it were.
Most of the “troubles” or “incidents” that occur at demos, or at least most of the ones I’ve witnessed, happen as a direct result of police provocation or the confrontational tactics used by them!

forkboy: Something along very similar lines is in fact already being discussed in… ah… “certain circles”. ;)

]]> By: forkboy http://fotdmike.com/2008/11/05/photographs-like-this-may-soon-become-illegal/#comment-918 Wed, 05 Nov 2008 23:52:09 +0000 http://fotdmike.wordpress.com/?p=517#comment-918 Sounds like it has become time for all Britain’s to arm themselves with cameras and start photographing every copper they see. 24/7/365.

]]> By: maggiescamera http://fotdmike.com/2008/11/05/photographs-like-this-may-soon-become-illegal/#comment-915 Wed, 05 Nov 2008 22:21:48 +0000 http://fotdmike.wordpress.com/?p=517#comment-915 Great action shot. Put it somewhere for ten years and then pull it back up, and it could go in a history book.
That law doesn’t seem right. They take pictures of regular citizens rioting and publish those but they are calling publishing pictures of police officers committing wrong act wrong? Its hypocritical.

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