Mastermind and the road to Damascus

[Roland Perry]

In article <20090224221322.51c17135@peterson.fenrir.org.uk>, Brian 
Morrison <bdm@fenrir.org.uk> writes
>While I see what you are driving at, I still feel that the ability to
>frustrate the immediate intention of photographers by arresting them
>will be used on occasions that could show the police in a poor light.

It's the case that lots of police activity *could* show them in a poor 
light, especially if they started trying to enforce things that the law 
doesn't actually say (or indeed things it does, but which they normally 
ignore - like people parking [driving] on the pavement).

>No amount of supplementary questions are going to make it clear that
>such behaviour will not be tolerated.

The person answering the question would be the Home Office spokesperson, 
so an unambiguous statement that there has to be suspected *terrorist* 
activity associated with the taking of the photo. They could also repeat 
what they've already said, which is that the photo-taking issue has been 
in place since 2000, and that the police should not be expecting to 
suddenly be doing anything different as a result.
-- 
Roland Perry