Re: Britain's new anti-terror law could stop media from taking pictures of police

[Juha-Matti Laurio <juha-matti.laurio () netti fi>]

That is the situation:
'Ex-spy chief Dame Stella Rimington says ministers have turned UK into police state':
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article5750713.ece

Juha-Matti

Martin Tomasek [tomasek () ufe cz] kirjoitti: 
> Blanchard_Michael () emc com napsal(a):
> >  My goodness....  I seem to remember someone getting arrested here in the States for taking pictures of a major 
> > bridge as well...  
> >   
>
> I told someone on the list that you are on way to totalitarian state.
>
> This is similar to the way it was here before revolution. Communists 
> banned taking pictures of "military objects", such as railway stations, 
> aiports, bridges, ... I laughed when united states came up with the war 
> on terrorism. It remembered me of fighting with internal enemy in the 
> days of communism. Internal enemy was someone considered hostile to the 
> regime, but was mostly constructed by propaganda. Similar propaganda to 
> the one you have against terrorists.
>
> The label "beware! the enemy is listening" on military phones and 
> transmitters from that days just popped in my mind... :-)
>
> -- 
> Martin Tomasek

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