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Re: (rshsdepot) Madison, NJ
Will someone please tell me what the security reason is for this aversion to
photography? It seems rather senseless. I can't think of almost anywhere
where anyone needs a picture to figure out where it is...after all what
would a picture of the twin towers have been needed for when they flew jumbo
jets into it....and they knew where the Pentagon is, as a matter of fact
there is no real reason...I can see if someone was walking through the
subway tunnels supposedly looking for "soft spots" but what would that be,
the entire system would be a soft spot (for anthrax let's say, since no one
was ever caught who killed by mailing it, but it is so much more important
to stop pictures of rails in New Jersey...
I think it is paranoia to the extreme and totally pointless....satellite
photos on the internet I can understand, they actually could be used for
positioning for long range attacks, but photographing things beside Newtown
Creek when anyone can see it all from the BQE is stupid and pointless and an
intrusion....after all there is a 250 million gallon (or is it barrel)
underground No. 2 oil leak under Greenpoint, Newtown Creek and Long Island
City...if they really wanted to do something about security maybe they would
force Mobil or Exxon ( I forget which is responsible for the decades long
leak since probably a match could light up most of that area, the BQE and
maybe the LIRR tunnels included...) but then they would actually have to be
thinking about such things,; I also don't give the terrorists much credit
for intricate knowledge of much, after all they used box cutters and in
Oklahoma a bomb made of fertilizer was used....
OK I will stop raving, there are probably enough paranoid people who think
it is a good thing to be beyond overly cautious, paying attention to the
unimportant and pointless rather than the actual and possible...anyway at
least you will respond to this..
- ----- Original Message -----
From: <Deraildh2_@_aol.com>
To: <rshsdepot_@_lists.railfan.net>
Sent: Sunday, July 11, 2004 12:40 PM
Subject: Re: (rshsdepot) Madison, NJ
> of course, we will all be arrested for taking pictures of it, or if we get
> away with taking said pictures,then we will be arrested for showing them
to our
> friends, not to mention family, unless of course, we have a permit to
> photograph from NJT.
>
> Doug
>
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> The Railroad Station Historical Society maintains a database of existing
> railroad structures at: http://www.rrshs.org
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The Railroad Station Historical Society maintains a database of existing
railroad structures at: http://www.rrshs.org
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