October 15, 2004
Picture me confused
Earlier this week, I blogged about my paranoia when making an abortive attempt to photograph the Iraqi embassy.
Now Citypaper has decided to test the limits of tolerance for photography and have found those limits to be fairly restrictive. As it turns out, there are a lot of humorless rent-a-cops who don't think you're allowed to photograph feredal property.
Of course, it would be one thing to be banned from taking pictures on government property, since they are the landowners and have the right to set restrictions on what you do on their land. But photographing buildings from the middle of the street ought to be legal, even if it does let the terrorists bosses back in Tora Bora know that most major federal buildings have Jersey barriers in front of them (duh). If there's really something to hide about the building itself, why not call in Christo:
Posted by rj3 at October 15, 2004 1:31 PM
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