Tourist or Terrorist?
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A man walking through Tom Lee Park pauses to snap a photo of the iconic Hernando DeSoto Bridge. Another man shoots pictures of numerous downtown buildings.
Many would assume the men are tourists taking in the city’s sights, but law enforcement officials say they could be terrorists staking out possible targets.
The scenarios were described at an anti-terrorism town hall meeting last week hosted by the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office. The meeting, held at Cordova’s First Assembly of God Church, was one of four public meetings that occurred in conjunction with Operation Sudden Impact, a new local anti-terrorism initiative.
“You may think a guy is just shooting pictures, but if you report it to us, we’ll send it on to the FBI and they may have four or five other reports of the same thing,” said Richard Pillsbury with the Tennessee Fusion Center, a collaboration between the Department of Safety and the Department of Homeland Security.
And that’s because taking pictures is a common thing for people to do, you fucking moron. What’s next? Calling the FBI for people leaving their garbage at the curb, worried that it might be a roadside bomb?
The best thing to do here is call the police -every- time you see someone with a camera. Every single time. No exceptions. TV new crew? Call it in. Teenagers with cell phone cameras? Call it in. Red light camera? Well, it’s a camera, best to call it in - what proof do you have that it wasn’t set up by a terrorist to monitor that intersection? Like the article says, it’s not your job to think, just call it in and let them sort it out.
I visited Paris last September, and in 3 days I took about 1000 pictures (about 400 was discarded later.). I must have been suspicious taking about 12 pictures of the guards in front of the home of the President.
And we know that terrorists sometimes have meetings, so we should report when we see more than 1 people standing and talkng - maybe they are plotting something.
And of course people talking on phones are suspicious too.
Don’t forget that most phones have camera’s, so we should ban them all. Also, people can look at the guards, so we probably should require everybody to start wearing blindfolds all the time, just to be sure!