BA to fingerprint domestic passengers

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>> Meantime here's the latest spiral of the descent;
>> http://www.met.police.uk/campaigns/counter_terrorism/ct_camera_2008.pdf
>> When the police start asking you to report people for taking pictures, 
>> you *really* know we're in trouble.

Hmmmm.  I often take pictures of buildings in London, at all 
times of day and night. Really often, thousands of times in the 
last few years.

I have just once been talked to by the police for doing it. 
There have been a lot of police around Waterloo station for the 
last few months, many of them armed. In December last year a 
policewoman came up to me in Waterloo just after I had taken one 
of those pictures: 
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nephrops/tags/stations/  and asked 
what I was doing. I said that I liked the way the light came 
through the roof (which happened to be true) and she tried to 
warm me not to take photos saying that some people don't like 
having there picture taken and asked me to stop.

But then in 1990 I was visiting a Texas office of the American 
company I worked for then and attempted to take a picture of the 
outside of the building and the car-park attendant told me not 
to.  Which I took seriously because he had a gun