Vegans is terrorists, right?

[serene]

Thanks,
supergee.

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[baerana.livejournal.com]

good to know, I always knew there was something about you vegan types!

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

Corruptin' yer wimmin and childrens for fun and profit!

[surelars.livejournal.com]

I'll make a point of eating a ham sandwich next time I pass thru' immigration. Don't want to be mistaken for one of them vegans, now, would I?

Oh. Wait. No furriner meat allowed into the US of A. So that sandwich wound probably be classified as terrorism. Damned if I do, damned if I don't.

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

Just so you know, vegan ham is foul, yucky stuff.

[rsc.livejournal.com]

Only if they're actually from Vega.

[misanthropoid.livejournal.com]

I'm amused by both sides of the argument.

*Flash*

"You took my picture."

"Yes, but you're protesting in a public place."

"No, you can't do that...."*Flash*

"You took a picture of my license plate"

"Yes, but it's displayed in a public place."

All protesters should wear hoods to protect their identities, right? Oh, wait...that's been done.

Well still, tofurkey is a weapon of mass destruction.

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

As I'm sure you're aware, Bob, 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.

[misanthropoid.livejournal.com]

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.

5. A little help here...?

[flippac.livejournal.com]

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.

[misanthropoid.livejournal.com]

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.

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

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.

[misanthropoid.livejournal.com]

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?

[surelars.livejournal.com]

I'll remember to stay well clear of that.

[surelars.livejournal.com]

All protesters should wear hoods to protect their identities, right?

That's illegal where I live.

[misanthropoid.livejournal.com]

It makes sense, if you can't see the overwrought, anguished faces of protesters you might just as well use wooden posts to support the poorly-crafted cardboard signs.

Of course, taking that step frees up the protesters to go congratulate one another on their respective social consciences over lattes somewhere nice, but not too nice.