taking someone's photo has a different quality to it if you're a government agency. They're not journalists or the public, they're investigators.
You're right, but then taking a photo of a license plate number that could expose an investigator to danger has a different sort of quality about it too.
Ways to embrace your federal dossier.
1. Ask the photographer if he'll order double-prints. 2. Sell ad space on your protest sign.
3. Write it off as a "memoir".
4. Grudgingly admit to yourself that it's as close as you'll ever get to being pursued by paparazzi.
The phrase that comes to mind here is "turnabout is fair play". Either she's allowed to photograph the investigator's license plate or the investigator can't photograph her either.
I did start out by saying that I was amused by both sides.
Since the primary purpose of protesting is attention whoring with the complicity of the media, shouldn't investigative agencies be banned from watching or especially recording news programs? No Tivo for you Mr. NSA man!
After all, in order to protect her privacy the ACLU did trot this woman out at a press conference.
I did start out by saying that I was amused by both sides.
Oh, I know. I'm just distracting myself from the mommymonster chronicles.
Since the primary purpose of protesting is attention whoring with the complicity of the media, shouldn't investigative agencies be banned from watching or especially recording news programs? No Tivo for you Mr. NSA man!
Heh. Reductio ad absurdum, anyone?
After all, in order to protect her privacy the ACLU did trot this woman out at a press conference.
Non sequitur. Once they're investigating you, it behooves you to be public about it. She's not complaining because they publicized her event. She's complaining because they're investigating her, which is orthagonal to any privacy issues.
Well dammit, with the price of biomass I can't afford to build a decent strawman any more. I was thinking about CNN in the first gulf war though and how recent a development media access everywhere is. It's even newer than the right to privacy.
But still, not a single use for a federal dossier?
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Date: 2006-01-27 05:41 pm (UTC)You're right, but then taking a photo of a license plate number that could expose an investigator to danger has a different sort of quality about it too.
Ways to embrace your federal dossier.
1. Ask the photographer if he'll order double-prints.
2. Sell ad space on your protest sign.
3. Write it off as a "memoir".
4. Grudgingly admit to yourself that it's as close as you'll ever get to being pursued by paparazzi.
5. A little help here...?
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Date: 2006-01-27 06:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-27 06:52 pm (UTC)Since the primary purpose of protesting is attention whoring with the complicity of the media, shouldn't investigative agencies be banned from watching or especially recording news programs? No Tivo for you Mr. NSA man!
After all, in order to protect her privacy
the ACLU did trot this woman out at a press conference.
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Date: 2006-01-27 07:02 pm (UTC)Oh, I know. I'm just distracting myself from the mommymonster chronicles.
Since the primary purpose of protesting is attention whoring with the complicity of the media, shouldn't investigative agencies be banned from watching or especially recording news programs? No Tivo for you Mr. NSA man!
Heh. Reductio ad absurdum, anyone?
After all, in order to protect her privacy
the ACLU did trot this woman out at a press conference.
Non sequitur. Once they're investigating you, it behooves you to be public about it. She's not complaining because they publicized her event. She's complaining because they're investigating her, which is orthagonal to any privacy issues.
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Date: 2006-01-27 07:09 pm (UTC)But still, not a single use for a federal dossier?