World: "Dark Days Are Looming..."

[two_truths]

Seriously;
The world has gone wrong when a man is committed of sex offences for videoing a beach with children playing on it, whilst an award-winning photographer is held without trial for 19 months by US security forces, UPDATE in England, police ban a photographer from taking photos of the Christmas lights being switched on.
Whatever your fears

Comments

[dirtylaundry]

i bet women photographers never have problems like this....

[two_truths]

Perhaps not being accused of pediophilia - but - you are just as prone to being suspected of terrorism.

[spacelem]

Judges usually aren't entirely block-headed, and there may well be some extra circumstances here that we don't know about, but on face value, yes this does seem pretty retarded.

As for the American thing... they should be forced to implement some sort of charge, like "suspicion of terrrrist [spelling intended] activities". At least that way they guys would know what they were in for. Pretty much everything the American gubbmint does these days is just designed to make sane people tear their hair out.

I doubt that photography is going to creep back into the dark ages though, as there are still plenty of non-children related photographs to be taken.

Also, I see this as photography being a casualty of our current obsession with nanny stating everything, and being so cautious we can't do anything rather than being a direct attack on photography.

[two_truths]

I certainly do not think either is a direct attack against photography!

This is not the only case of a man committed of "sex offences" by the Scottish courts; see here for a story more humorous yet still quite frightening