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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BackdoorArts" data-source="post: 434149" data-attributes="member: 9240">At issue, in my case, is that they had no basis to stop and question me.  Nothing I did was in any way illegal, even if I had been taking pictures of any humans, children or otherwise.  There is no law that states that I need to carry identification.  There is no law that states I cannot take pictures in a public place.  There is nothing about anything I did that justified being stopped and questioned.  The bitch of it is that because I didn't continue on, assert my rights and make them either charge me with something or be on their way my name is now on record as a "suspect" in an investigation that potentially identifies me with child abusers.  What's my problem with that?  It's that we're already living in a society that hunts down people on sex offender lists and drives them out of town.  It's that the next time I get stopped for anything my name comes up with this incident attached to it.  It's that shoot first and ask questions later asshats could care less about truth if they can somehow justify in their feeble minds that I somehow pose a threat.  And why does that matter?  Because if you bothered to read the article that I posted at the very beginning of this mess, asshats with guns are threatening good and decent people for no reason whatsoever.  If the f*cking wild west out there.  So no, sir, you're absolutely mistaken when you say I have the pedophiles to blame for this.  I do not.  My blame lies squarely on the shoulders of a country that has given up true freedom and liberty to a government that asked them for it in hopes that they can protect them from something that they cannot.  As Benjamin Frankin said, "Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one."  I, for one, don't plan to stand idly by while this continues to happen, and neither should those of you who are deluded enough to think otherwise.This came out of the horror of WWII:First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Socialist.Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Trade Unionist.Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Jew.Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.I sat idly by while I heard about the injustice that was "Stop and Frisk" in New York City, where walking down the street were stopped day in and day out, questioned and actually frisked because they simply caught a cop's eye.  Thank God that's been stopped, at least for now - but from what I'm reading here there's a bunch of you who somehow think that's some kind of good idea.  Wake the hell up!!  Because if you don't, they'll eventually be coming for you too.</blockquote>

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