I would gladly do all that but the incident was over a year ago. I bet that mall cop isn't even there anymore. Maybe I will go back and see if I can stir up any trouble again. Wanna Come?
Help me support Autism research! Join my team! http://www.walknowforautism.org/stlouis/blubiconsbuddies http://stampmine.blogspot.com/http://samsphotopage.blogspot.com/ --- On Thu, 12/17/09, John Sessoms <[email protected]> wrote: > From: John Sessoms <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Photographer arrested at mall > To: [email protected] > Date: Thursday, December 17, 2009, 11:33 AM > From: Sandra Hermann > > The mall cop said because other children were on the > Carousel it was > > illegal. I didn't believe him, but didn't wanna take a > chance either. > > The mall cop is, as my grandmother was wont to say, "full > of sawdust and slough water." I won't say what I think he's > full of. > > It's another of those power trips. "You can't do that > because I said so." > > Little, by little our freedoms are eroded. First they take > away our right to photograph our own families in a public > space ... then what? > > Is there a local chapter of the ACLU? I'd suggest > contacting them and asking if they'd be willing to write a > letter of complaint to the mall's management. > > Might not hurt to contact whatever local TV/Radio yellow > journalists you can find in your area, and see if they'd be > interested in asking the mall management "Why are your > security guards threatening to arrest a mother for > photographing her own child on the mall carousel?" I'm sure > there's some station that has a "troubleshooter". > > Good theater if they can set up an ON AIR interview in > front of the carousel. Better theater if they interview YOU > in front of the carousel and then ask the mall management to > explain just what kind of idiots they are. > > I realize this is making a mountain out of a molehill, and > you'd probably rather just get on with your life, but you > keep piling one molehills on top of one another and > eventually you do have a mountain. > > Besides, I'm a born troublemaker. It's my god given right > to be an asshole for the First Amendment. > > > > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link > directly above and follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
