Photographers protest UK terror law

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Source: CNN

By Agnes Teh, for CNN
January 23, 2010 -- Updated 2233 GMT (0633 HKT)

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... Waving placards with the message, "I am a photographer, not a terrorist," about 2,000 photographers called for more leniency from the British police.

The slogan is the name of a group set up to campaign against certain sections of Britain's Terrorism Act 2000, which was designed to give police greater powers to fight terrorism.

Photographers say they have been unduly targeted by Section 44 of the Act, which allow officers to stop and search people, regardless of whether they have reasonable suspicion of wrongdoing ...

"Everyone, if they haven't been stopped already, knows someone who has been. This is becoming a problem. People stopped over sunsets at St. Paul's, chip shops, roundabouts -- it's getting a bit crazy ...


Read more: http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/01/23/photography.protest/

[midnight]

1. People stopped over sunsets... That says it all....

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2. When Does Obama Unstick the Orange-o-meter

......Im tired of orange...I want some bannanas....

[fascisthunter]

3. England has been turning into a police state for some time

[Jkid]

4. And their politicans are embracing 1984.

Oh wait, 1984 has already arrived. All that needs left is a totalitarian-style government.