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From: "Bob W"
Subject: RE: UK: Photographer films his own 'anti-terror' arrest, February
2010
There's an enormous difference between your story about your furry friend,
and the hassle that a lot of people get. In your case a woman reported her
suspicions, the police followed up on the report, clarified that nothing
untoward was happening and the story was done. That's how it should work.
All too often it doesn't work that way. If she had reported me wandering
around with a camera hidden in my jacket the police would have checked me
out, quite reasonably. Having established that it was a camera and not a
Colt 45, do you think they would allow me to go about my business? Would
they buggery! They would try to move me on. I know this because it's
happened before to me and to other amateur photographers. Now, I'm a
middle
class, middle-aged, mild-mannered white guy. How do you think they react
to
young Muslim lads who want to take a few pictures?
Good point. Cotty seems to be trying to treat this as an isolated incident
that has never happened before, rather than part of the pogrom that is
ongoing.
William Robb
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