[PRCo] Re: OT: Prohibition of photography from trains and police action taken

[Edward H. Lybarger]

And you're right, too!!!

-----Original Message-----
From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org
[mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org]On Behalf Of
Richard Allman
Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2007 8:10 PM
To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
Cc: WEZRail at aol.com
Subject: [PRCo] Re: OT: Prohibition of photography from trains and
police action taken


this nazi-like prohibition of a lawful activity really pushes all my
buttons. the harassment of transit's best friends and advocates, for
specious reasons of "security"-what the morons are saying is that the
terrorists have won the so-called "War on Terror." Public transit
facilities, heavilly tax-supported are just that-public. No military risks,
no security risk, no exposure of nuclear facilities, no exposure of military
facilities, no divulging of trade secrets, no rationale whatever except the
brain dead response "because we say so!" We are as a faternity as un-scary a
group as could ever be encountered. If they want to prohibit entry onto
non-public space-yards, onto tracks, etc-I think they're within their
rights. The energies of the transit nazis would be better expended on
enforcing rules about eating and drinking, disposing of trash, loud radio,
panhandling playing rather than just proclaiming their fascist existence.
Hopefully someone will ask ACLU of St. Louis to enter this dispute about
nonsense. I know that Walter Zullig, whom I don't know personally but whose
commitment to this cause  I much admire might well have some valuable input
into this matter. It's really time to fight back before maybe comes the next
step of this downward spiral of basic rights-confiscation of the collections
that so many of us have asssembled, or forcing existing photos off the web.
The stupidity of the transit agencies is monumental-they should have bigger
things to worry  about. I know one tries to get wins "picking the low
hanging fruit", but in this matter of harassment, they're scraping garbage!
Maybe a forced face-to-face with mangement of the agencies where the
stupidity is so rampant, and en masse "photo-in" like the civil rights
demonstrations of the 60's, or some other way to make them look like the
nudnicks they are! Now I feel better!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Fred Schneider" <fwschneider at comcast.net>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2007 5:57 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: OT: Prohibition of photography from trains and police
action taken


> And have them tax me?
>
> On Nov 20, 2007, at 5:43 PM, Herb Brannon wrote:
>
>> Exercise that First Amendment right........let it be known what is
>> really happening.
>>
>>
>> Fred Schneider <fwschneider at comcast.net> wrote:
>>     2) When I asked for a copy of the law that required me to show
>> identification in order to buy a ticket, the station agent in
>> Lancaster called the policeman over who pulled me out of line and
>> told me that, "there is no law and if you don't like our regulations,
>> you don't need to buy a ticket. You don't have to use the
>> train."
>>
>>   other currencies coming into this country is probably
>> offset by U. S. dollars spent at home by people who are fed up with
>> TSA hassles at airports and have chosen to spend vacations here.
>> If the motel and restaurant owners were making a huge stink over
>> these idiots because of lost business, one might suspect it would
>> stop. On the other hand the President is so determined that he is
>> correct that it might just not stop.
>>
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>>
>> Herb Brannon
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