{"id":43851,"date":"2014-07-25T21:25:41","date_gmt":"2014-07-26T03:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/25\/taking-pictures-is-legal-but-also-harassable.html"},"modified":"2014-07-29T13:21:05","modified_gmt":"2014-07-29T19:21:05","slug":"taking-pictures-is-legal-but-also-harassable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/25\/taking-pictures-is-legal-but-also-harassable.html","title":{"rendered":"Taking pictures is legal, but also harassable"},"content":{"rendered":"
Talk to the official management, and they are quite clear that taking pictures of these government buildings is legal. Which it is.<\/p>\n

Actually go there and take pictures? \u00a0Yeah, security, and security's managers, and other managers who talk to the security people, kinda think otherwise.<\/p>\n

Quoth one security guard: "Be smarter next time, and don\u2019t take any more photos here."<\/p>\n

("Nice Freedom of the Press you got here. Be a shame if something were to happen to it.")<\/p>\n

Dear Security Apparat: If your ability to thwart Evil Terrorists is dependent on nobody being able to observe your building from the outside (or, at least, nobody being able to take obvious<\/i> photographs from the outside), then your security is crap and will not, in fact, thwart anyone.<\/p>\n

Reshared post from +George Wiman<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

"We're in a post 9-11 world," they said…<\/p>\n

Apparently, at building after building, just taking a picture gets you into hot water. Even if you are a reporter with credentials. That is not a free society.\ufeff<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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Why You Should Not Take Photos Of The 7 Ugliest Buildings In D.C.<\/a>
\n Unless you like getting your camera taken from you.\n <\/p>\n

View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Talk to the official management, and they are quite clear that taking pictures of these government buildings is legal. Which it is. Actually go there and take pictures? \u00a0Yeah, security, and security's managers, and other managers who talk to the security people, kinda think otherwise. Quoth one security guard: "Be smarter next time, and don\u2019t … Continue reading “Taking pictures is legal, but also harassable”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,133,17,83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-censorship","category-homeland-security","category-media-photography"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1589,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2001\/12\/06\/a_right_sneaky.html","url_meta":{"origin":43851,"position":0},"title":"A right sneaky old elf","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 6-Dec-01 10:19pm","format":false,"excerpt":"A gent who has traditionally gone Christmas shopping whilst dressed in a Santa suit has been booted out of a St. Louis area mall. 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