A photographer not a terrorist
Well it seems todays “media event” went swimmingly. Sadly I couldn’t make it but a friend did, so photo’s here. Apparently you’ll be glad to hear that we’re all very silly as this wonderful new law will only ever be used in “very exceptional circumstances“. Past experience doesn’t tend to support this, but at least when it is used we’ll all have nice shiny new benchmarks as to what “very exceptional circumstances” actually are. In the meantime even the Metropolitan Police Federation think this law is a bad idea.
Other reports and responses to this new law and the media event can be found from:
- The NUJ (even the MET think it’s crap).
- Douglas Carswell MP
- Old holborn (As always, and who was there)
- Photo’s from Craig Richardson
The Telegraph - Henry North London
- Libertarian party
- Dick Puddlecote
- BBC News
- London Daily Photo
- A round up of press clippings by Marc Vallée
A serving officer comments on the Devils Kitchen that neither they nor their colleagues would have even been aware of this law brought in for their protection if not for the fuss blogs caused about it.
ScepticIsle also has a very good take on the whole situation (also see commentary by Stumbling and Mumbling), also HangBitch and Beau Bo D’Or.
Finally arising from this new regime is the delightful dailypolicephoto.
As an after thought, one has to wonder what the effect of abuses of this law will have the next time the police make calls for photographs from members of the public after some incident or other. Leg Iron suspects not.
