Mastermind and the road to Damascus

[Roland Perry]

In article 
<a9f4d96f0902241431j28bfa8ecia9bdef06e0e8d9cd@mail.gmail.com>, John 
Wilson <tugwilson@gmail.com> writes
>This is a really stupid thing for the government to do. Senior
>officers in the Police plainly don't want these powers, it will be
>lower level officers and PCSOs (who don't actually have this power)
>who get involved photographic disputes with the public out of
>annoyance or ignorance. The people they will be tangling with will be
>white, aged 30-60, middle class, educated, informed and self
>confident. If I was the commissioner of the Met (heaven forfend!) this
>is a demographic I'd rather not piss off.

So you'd rather they'd repealed the existing power from the 2000 Act 
about [terrorists] taking photos, rather than introduced a new power in 
2008 that's not obviously about photos at all (but lots of people seem 
to think it is)?

Alternatively, this is a good opportunity for the photojournalist 
industry to do some useful education/awareness activity, so the sort of 
problems you describe happen less often?
-- 
Roland Perry