NJlawmaker: criminalize taking pix of power plants

We live in a mindless time with mindless leaders. That said, I recently visited the Hoover Dam and while in the power room with the generators we were allowed to take all of the Dam photographs we wanted. How about that Dam freedom? Of course the tour guide for the Dam place said they had to beg the Homeland security to get the tour in the powerhouse reinstated. We were the first.

I never liked the name "Homeland Security". It's as stupid as B..h. It's WWIIish. I don't like Fatherland or Motherland either. Then there is FEMA, or should I say Feeble. Go see feeble in homeland he's down by the dock painting the water line on a boat in the water.

Maybe they don't want all of those Kodaks taking pictures with all that foreign film it it. Wait until they prohibit telephone poles in photographs. Hey grand dad what's that? Oh in the Fatherland before Homeland security and Fema we could have telephone poles in the pictures. I've got to hide that one; Oh my, I hope they are listening again we could go straight to Gitmo.

Whenever a law or Governmental ruling is passed for a stated reason, you need to ask who the law is actually benefitting. In not being able to photograph power plants and similar polluters, for example, the environmental movement loses a tool for documenting abuses while the polluters win. Those passing much of the so-called anti-terrorism legislation have ulterior motives or hidden agendas for their actions. Banning photography doesn't make us any safer against terrorism but does keep us less informed.

Honestly Though...Does this surprise you coming from the People's Republic of NJ ?

I was trying to shoot a scene of a Con Edison plant in Queens, NY with the Manhattan skyline behind it and was told I'm not allowed to. Worse, I was shooting in Manhattan with a MAMIYA C330 ON A TRIPOD WITH A CABLE RELEASE and was harrassed and ASKED FOR ID by ISRAELI security guards because I was shooting 1 block away and across the street from their consular compound. Luckily we people from The Bronx know exactly what to say in such situations, followed up with "Does THIS look like a spy camera to you?"