From today, if the police catch you with a camera in a public place taking a photograph, you will at best be stopped and questioned under anti-terrorist legislation and at worst will be arrested, thrown into a cell and your camera and / or images damaged or destroyed.
There is only one answer to this outrageous affront to innocent activity; guerrilla photography.
From our office windows, or using telephoto lenses, or over a busy road across which they can't run, today is the day we start snatching shots of policemen. It will be a snap and run campaign - one shot, then merge into dense crowds, or duck into a department store.
I have no doubt that the native wit and ingenuity of the British people will produce before long a magnificent crop of forbidden photographs and shame this useless law into desuetude.
6 comments:
Surely the answer is a mass protest.
We should all take pictures of policemen all the time. Video, mobiles, cameras large and small...
Start today! Snap a copper!
You know it makes sense.
Well, I'm going to try, anyway.
Results will be posted on here as they occur.
I feel a Flickr Group coming on.
Lets see if we can a photo of every copper in the country
I took some pictures of cops on horses last week and the fuckers didn't mind at all.
R - I am planning exactly the same thing
As soon as you get your mobile 'phone out they will be able to be ' suspicious ' that you may have or intend, to take a photo of them.
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