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I drew this little guy for a friend today. I’m really happy with how he turned out. Hello mister Birthday Owl!I drew this little guy for a friend today. I’m really happy with how he turned out. Hello mister Birthday Owl!

I drew this little guy for a friend today. I’m really happy with how he turned out. Hello mister Birthday Owl!

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Long Beach Harbor Patrol Say No Photography From a Public Sidewalk “…But I think that it went too far when the Long Beach Harbor Patrol ran background checks on us and I think it also went too far when they required us to leave our shoot location. As far as I’m aware there is no law which requires permits in order to shoot the Long Beach Harbor from a public sidewalk. And to kick us off of the bridge that we were legally on was not justified and violated our constitutional rights.We repeatedly tried to argue for our right to shoot at this location for about a half an hour. The entire time the cops were insistent that we were not allowed to shoot there without a permit. David showed the cops in question photos of his on his iPhone in order to share the type of photography that we were after, but none of this seemed to matter. We were on their turf and they weren’t going to stand for that. He just kept repeatedly bringing up 911 over and over telling us that we were going to need to leave…” Read more on his FlickrDigg articleBlog - Latest update, response from Port Authority I read about incidents like this more and more often. Mostly in America but really its happening everywhere. Without any laws being passed, in this age of paranoiia and security theatre, photography itself is becoming a crime. Dont let the little encroachments on your rights slide, stop this crap before those very rights dissapear. Digg, reblog, link. Spread awareness and shine those spotlights.Long Beach Harbor Patrol Say No Photography From a Public Sidewalk “…But I think that it went too far when the Long Beach Harbor Patrol ran background checks on us and I think it also went too far when they required us to leave our shoot location. As far as I’m aware there is no law which requires permits in order to shoot the Long Beach Harbor from a public sidewalk. And to kick us off of the bridge that we were legally on was not justified and violated our constitutional rights.We repeatedly tried to argue for our right to shoot at this location for about a half an hour. The entire time the cops were insistent that we were not allowed to shoot there without a permit. David showed the cops in question photos of his on his iPhone in order to share the type of photography that we were after, but none of this seemed to matter. We were on their turf and they weren’t going to stand for that. He just kept repeatedly bringing up 911 over and over telling us that we were going to need to leave…” Read more on his FlickrDigg articleBlog - Latest update, response from Port Authority I read about incidents like this more and more often. Mostly in America but really its happening everywhere. Without any laws being passed, in this age of paranoiia and security theatre, photography itself is becoming a crime. Dont let the little encroachments on your rights slide, stop this crap before those very rights dissapear. Digg, reblog, link. Spread awareness and shine those spotlights.

Long Beach Harbor Patrol Say No Photography From a Public Sidewalk

“…But I think that it went too far when the Long Beach Harbor Patrol ran background checks on us and I think it also went too far when they required us to leave our shoot location. As far as I’m aware there is no law which requires permits in order to shoot the Long Beach Harbor from a public sidewalk. And to kick us off of the bridge that we were legally on was not justified and violated our constitutional rights.We repeatedly tried to argue for our right to shoot at this location for about a half an hour. The entire time the cops were insistent that we were not allowed to shoot there without a permit. David showed the cops in question photos of his on his iPhone in order to share the type of photography that we were after, but none of this seemed to matter. We were on their turf and they weren’t going to stand for that. He just kept repeatedly bringing up 911 over and over telling us that we were going to need to leave…”

Read more on his Flickr
Digg article
Blog - Latest update, response from Port Authority

I read about incidents like this more and more often. Mostly in America but really its happening everywhere. Without any laws being passed, in this age of paranoiia and security theatre, photography itself is becoming a crime.

Dont let the little encroachments on your rights slide, stop this crap before those very rights dissapear.

Digg, reblog, link.
Spread awareness and shine those spotlights.

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