Footage of a confrontation between security guards and a photographer

[KLaban]

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[Rob C]

http://boingboing.net/2012/01/27/scunthorpe-photographer-faces.html

You just can't get the staff anymore...

;-)

Rob C

[mediumcool]

Give somebody a little power, and, worse, a uniform, and there it goes …

The Travel Fascists in the US are probably the supreme exemplars of this.

[markadams99]

Where's the Spanish Inquisition when you need them? The Pythons could distil this down into a classic. 

[mediumcool]

Where's the Spanish Inquisition when you need them? The Pythons could distil [sic] this down into a classic. 

Brits (and Australians) used to take the piss out of this sort of petty bureaucracy; now we are all up there with the world leaders. I blame YouTube, meself.

Let them wear red!

[Rob C]

Beautiful fashion shot, those three! Who's your agent?

Rob C

;-)

[Kerry L]

See what a limited education and a green vest will do for someone.

Good for him in standing up to these clowns, who evidently didn't understand the little red RECORDING light.

[mediumcool]

Good for him in standing up to these clowns, who evidently didn't understand the little red RECORDING light.

Video-recorders, whether dedicated, or in a phone, are a force for good in that they can show stupidity, arrogance and criminality for all the world to see.

[Deardorff]

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/aclu-asks-appeals-court-to-prevent-future-prosecutions-for-recording-public-conversations-with-police-129740968.html

Sounds interesting but, as he link above shows, you may be in danger of criminal prosecution if you record the audible portion of an encounter in some jurisdictions.

Just think, you get a Rodney King type video and end up spending 15 years in prison for recording the cops threatening to kill the guy.

http://www.dvafoto.com/2010/06/three-us-states-make-recording-police-activity-illegal/ 

This link gives more information and is one to be concerned about if you live in or visit these places. Shades of Nazi German and Russia!

[mediumcool]

… you may be in danger of criminal prosecution if you record the audible portion of an encounter in some jurisdictions.

… a Rodney King type video and end up spending 15 years in prison for recording the cops threatening to kill the guy.

Shades of Nazi German and Russia!

The US is becoming more and more totalitarian, simple as that (the primary catalyst and subsequent continuing rationale being the Twin Tower attacks of eleven years ago); the terrorists clearly managed to engender a paranoiac siege mentality, if primarily on the right.
But the same tendencies are present elsewhere. Technology moves faster than the speed of bureaucratic thought (if you can call it that), so wild thrashing about (ban it! make it illegal!) replaces reasoned discussion and action.

The existence of the US Constitution seems to make little difference as the carriers of bulked-up amygdalae slash and burn their way through human rights.