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Terrorists 'sick of being treated like photographers'
“As one member of a Coventry-based Al Qaeda cell explained to us, ‘I resent being treated like I’m some sort of photographer. The officer who stopped me had absolutely no evidence that mere photography was my intention, so what right did he have to detain me and delete my photographs. Photographers are a blight on society, and obviously I damn them all to Hell, but I find the assumption that carrying a camera makes me some sort of photographer insulting in the extreme. I am just here trying to do a job for my cell in finding a suitable target to blow up among all you the godless infidels, but how can I do that when every policeman I see immediately assumes I’m a photographer?’”
Posted 10:18PM, Sat, Aug 07 2010 in Photography · 4 Comments below
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“… I am just here trying to do a job for my cell in finding a suitable target to blow up among all you the godless infidels, but how can I do that when every policeman I see immediately assumes I’m a photographer?”
Man’s got a point. If the target assignment folks in his cell don’t get good suggestions accompanied by recent photographic documentation, he could wind up, aimlessly, in my back yard.
T’ horror. Oh, T’ horror…
Paul, it is good to hear from you! And I never knew you were a NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard)
“…And I never knew you were a NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard).”
Reid, I’d be OK with being blown away by a terrorist in my back yard with a provable personal gripe involving my own world view, or my personal expression thereof. But being taken out, sorta aimlessly, for lack of simple photographic documentation, and potential poor target instructions from a jihadist target specialist that I never met…
Well.
Hell. That ain’t kosher.
What!! Paul Scheele strikes again from the Heart of Darkness! Where you be, dood? I knew a donkey once, who was followed by the FBI; maybe they thought he was a terrorist? But there’s no way they could have mistaken him for a photographer.