[IP] more on Department of Photo Security--Redux

[Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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Subject: Re: [IP] Department of Photo Security--Redux
Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2006 13:32:10 -0800
From: Lars Poulsen <lpoulsen@afar.net>
To: dave@farber.net

> From: Richard Forno <rforno@infowarrior.org>
>
> ... a Maryland woman who was stopped by police and questioned
> after commuters saw her taking photographs of the wrought-iron
> lampposts at the Odenton train station.

In the 1960's, 1970's and 1980's, Americans were feeling high
and mighty when comparing the USA and the USSR. "In the Soviet
Union, you can get arrested just for taking pictures in the
public areas of a train station. Apparently they consider it a
military secret what their train stations look like."

The few people who traveled to Russia were cautioned about how
"normal" behavior was dangerous in that atmosphere of a country
rules by the military and the secret police.

Oh, how times have changed.

/ Lars Poulsen



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