Kate Day's Blog :: New law making it an offence to photograph a policeman should worry us all
It seems not a week goes by without some infringement of our rights to photograph and record our world being restricted or removed.
This insightful article from Daily Telegraph reporter Kate Day gets to the heart of the matter.
Of course, we could take the line "if you've done nothing wrong, you have nothing to fear" but that's just it. We do have too much to fear. Our legal code presumes innocence. If by taking a picture of a policeman you are guilt of a crime, then now it presumes guilt.
We all have a choice, we can quietly and peacefully resist the banal silliness of such legislation or "go gently into the night".
It seems not a week goes by without some infringement of our rights to photograph and record our world being restricted or removed.
This insightful article from Daily Telegraph reporter Kate Day gets to the heart of the matter.
Of course, we could take the line "if you've done nothing wrong, you have nothing to fear" but that's just it. We do have too much to fear. Our legal code presumes innocence. If by taking a picture of a policeman you are guilt of a crime, then now it presumes guilt.
We all have a choice, we can quietly and peacefully resist the banal silliness of such legislation or "go gently into the night".
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