Photographers protest pending subway ban - NY

[dArKeR]

NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE , NEW YORK
Tuesday, Jun 08, 2004,Page 6

At a protest by photographers, you see things like a guy taking pictures of a guy taking pictures of a few more guys taking pictures of each other. There was such a protest on Sunday, but it might take hundreds of pages to describe it, given all the pictures that were taken, each one worth at least a thousand words.

The photographers -- about 100 of them -- gathered to express their outrage at the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's proposed ban on taking pictures in the subway system.

Meeting at Grand Central Terminal, they rode the trains for upward of an hour, shutters clicking, flashes popping, in a filmed rebuke to the idea that photography is somehow a national security threat.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2004/06/08/2003174243

[nolabels]

1. Soon Bushco will ban charcoal cave paintings

[DRoseDARs]

2. I've already alerted the FBI you suspicious character...

...Clearly, you are planning something mischievious regarding our great nation's livestock.

[nolabels]

4. I don't care what you say, I am not eating that veal

http://www.madcowprod.com/index48.html



CIA could have left him a message without incurring international phone charge
(snip)
When we checked with the manager of the Eckerd’s Drugs in Nokomis, he confirmed to us that a Middle-Eastern woman Sarah had been a pharmacist there during 1999 and 2000, just as Frederickson stated.

Thus, in addition to the phone number the Germans gave them for Marwan in the UAE, this new information suggests the CIA could have gotten in touch with Al-Shehhi through his cousin in Venice, without having to go to the trouble of punching-in a country code before the number.

How easy is that?

Frederickson, who worked part-time as a clerk in a convenience store in Venice, also said Atta and his burly sidekick (read bodyguard) Marwan began coming into her store over a year before the FBI says they arrived in America for the first time.

“Atta smoked Marlboros, and he and his buddy came into where I worked a lot in 1999,” she stated matter-of-factly. “They bought candy bars like they were going out of style, and a lot of bottles of wine.”
(snip)

[struggle4progress]

3. Is the Administration planning to torture folks in the tunnels?

[DBoon]

5. No

They are hiding registered Democrats there until after the election.

They figure given the capacity of New York's subways, this will guarentee them a few states.

[gWbush is Mabus]

7. LOL - torture in the tunnels

[2Design]

6. wonder if this has to do with searching passengers that is starting

in Boston.... like the torture...they don't want evidence...in pictures...against the torturers....

[LizW]

8. Geez

When we were in DC back in the spring, we took bunches of pictures in the Metro stations. We're from a backward city with no public transportation to speak of, and the kids loved the subway and wanted to show their friends how cool it was.

Is banning photography really going to stop a terrorist attack? :eyes:

[JM]

9. Here is why...

The subway runs under MSG, the site of the RNC. I am sure the various agencies are going to start implementing security procedures in the tunnels shortly if they haven't already. They don't want pictures getting out since they may inadvertently expose our anti-terror security.

DHS and Secret Service are scared out of their mind over securing this event. A friend is working one of the security details, and has spent a ton of time in DC over the last few months.

JM